See what I did there? Christmas Day has now been and gone and I'm about to bombard you with some photos! First things first, the tree! The tree was up and decorated when I returned home from university and the presents slowly gathered. We only opened a few on Christmas day - our tradition is to try and make them last as long...

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It's been a week since I posted so I thought now was the time to let you all know I got home safely - even though it took me over half a day! I experienced Birmingham alone (which I hated), a creepy bloke looking for attention on the bus (only had to tolerate him trying to stroke my leg to Bristol) and finally...

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It's finally here, though it has flown by. It's the end of the first semester with just exams to look forward to in January. I'm so happy to be going home. Unlike most people, I haven't been home or seen a single member of my family or any of my friends since I started univeristy, so I'm seriously excited. Especially after this week, it's...

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Before you arrive at university you'll be told plenty of things that you'll either find out to be true or a total lie. Here, I uncover what I've found out during my time at university: If you kiss someone you live with, it'll be awkward forever - Not always true. There's plenty of things that can happen at uni, especially when you're living...

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Although I'm only in my first year and I've got it pretty easy in comparison to how it'll be in the second and third year, I'm still getting stressed over the assignments I have to do. As a Lit student, I don't get tonnes. I've done three close readings - where you analyse a section of a novel in depth - a presentation...

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So, we're on the edge of entering week 11 and I honestly can't believe how fast it has flown by! In two weeks time I'll be making my eleven hour trip back to Cornwall, ready for Christmas and hopefully ready to start work at Sainsbury's again - which also means I still won't be graced by some lovely home cooked dinners because I'll...

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I recently let you know that my relationship was over in this post. I also talked about whether or not me and my ex boyfriend would actually be friends like we said we would, and after a planned and prepared for conversation today, I can't imagine we won't be. It was a really nice catch up, no awkwardness or anything. It was nice just to...

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For the past 9 weeks I've let my readers into the student life of little old me and most of the tales I've told seem to have involved alcoholic beverages, but there's more to student life. We're like an episode of Big Brother or I'm a Celebrity (I apologise for making a reference to these but it makes sense)  - you only hear/see snippets of...

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I haven't joined in on one of Kate Takes 5's listography's for a while now, and I thought it was about time I did! 1. What was the first song you ever bought? It seems ridiculous considering I'm only 18, but I honest to God can't remember. Where on earth did my memory go?  2. What song always gets you dancing? If I'm...

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Since I moved to Keele, into my lovely little room M26, it's barely been clean; let me quickly invite you inside my room... My Mother would be truly appalled with me right now! However, in my defence my room back home was far too small to make a mess in, you can have a peak at my bedroom at home in this post. It...

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It's almost the end of week 7 now and I've come to realise how much me life truly has changed. I came here in a relationship, and now I'm happily single and really enjoying myself. I came here with a bunch of strangers, now they're my family. I came here having been no where in the country, now I live in a different...

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He'll probably never read this, so I really don't mind posting it... Back in September I posted that I was now in a long distance relationship, and I thought it seemed only right to let all my readers know that this is no longer the case. We've spent a good seven weeks apart and it put a real strain on our relationship, we...

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As hopefully all of you know it was Halloween this week. Our kitchen was decorated a good two weeks ago and it seems pretty weird we were sitting in the kitchen saying it was far too early to decorate and now Halloween has been and gone! With the Halloween spirit came a new member to the family; I'd like you all to say...

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In October I took part in my sister - CupcakeMumma's - Mug Swap! The idea is you get paired up with a person you don't know, and you have to use their blog to find out things about them that can help you get them the perfect mug. I was paired up with the lovely Kat - I had a bit of a hand...

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As you all know I'm in shared accommodation here up in Keele with the most wonderful bunch of people, a large block with 30 rooms and currently only 26 people - we think!  We share one kitchen amongst the 26 of us, there's three cookers, five fridge freezers and one sink. Then we have the dining area - which we spend most of our time...

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I truly realised this weekend how much I love being at Keele. And, if anything, how lucky I am. My friend and I went to Manchester this Saturday with the intention of having a night out with three of her friends from Sheffield, this was more than unsuccessful. We were both wilting before we even got on the train, wilting even when we...

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For the first time since I moved to Keele, today, I feel truly homesick. I wanted to go for a walk but the country lanes around here aren't Cornwall. I just imagined all the routes I'd take back home when I needed some head space and instead took an hour long walk along a big road and just sat in a field thinking...

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It's been another wonderful and unusual week in Keele thanks to my block, my lovely lecturers, oh and the shot bar. I'm actually starting to get work to do now - a proof reading exercise, two short papers and a written exercise. Some I have plenty of time for, others not so much but I'm sure I can keep on top of it....

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Yesterday I did my first presentation for my Reading Film seminar group! I'd been paired up in the first week with the person sat at the other end of the table I was sitting at with the awkward two seat gap between us. Fortunately, he turned out to be a really nice guy. We both admitted we weren't particularly good public speakers -...

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Excuse my lack of posts since I've arrived at Keele, as it's only the third week I appear to spend my life doing one of five things; sleeping, eating, drinking alcohol, shopping or reading. As a student, I have no time for anything else! (I'm joking, I also do a little bit of exercise - drunken dancing). I spent my first real week reading...

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So far I can say that I pretty much love every thing about university and student life, except one thing - washing. I despise washing so so much, it stresses me out to an incredible extent. The machines eat your money and decide they'll be the ones that break today, the dryers are just as stubborn. And even complaints don't seem to get...

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It's my third weekend at Keele and we're still trying our hardest to live like we did during freshers week. We cough and announce we're 'dying', but we stay up late and continue to visit the infamous SU shot bar. I make life as a student seem pretty easy going - drinking this much is far from glamorous but it sure is fun. In the thick...

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As you all know now I've been at Keele Uni for 1 week and 3 days. I've spent a bit too much money so far, but that's not an irregular thing during freshers - if you've just had your freshers I'm sure you'll agree. My first shop came to just over £50 and this was kindly paid for by the bank of Mum...

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So, it's been a long forgetful week of Freshers and we've all come out of it alive, with colds (some heading towards flu), and still up for another drink. The drive up was good fun with my sister, Mum and Dad. We got me enrolled and arrived at Hawthorns block M (after mum freaked out about the directions to it). Unpacking a very...

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