Birthday Celebrations/Exciting News!

Today is 26th October. How the hell did that happen? This month has flown, and now the day's are getting shorter, the night's are getting longer and the weather's getting colder.

But let's not get into that. Far too depressing.

Quite a lot has happened since I last wrote so it's most definitely time for an update. I am a year older since my last post, as it was my birthday last weekend! Two of my best friends came down to visit and we had such a brilliant few days together. We went to the zoo (an obvious choice if you know me well enough), failing to forget that it rains on my birthday every year with no exceptions. It's a slight understatement to say that it was 'muddy' at this zoo, but it was a great little place with loads of animals and a lemur enclosure which you could go in and let the lemurs jump all over you. I also held a snake round my neck, which I was pretty proud about, but I drew a line at the tarantula.

We went to Nandos in the evening, which is a given for any occasion. My incredible housemates surprised me with a big chocolate birthday cake and sang in front of everyone in the restaurant - it was slightly embarrassing but lovely of them all the same.

The next night was the party, which had an 'N' and 'K' (my initials) theme, so each person had to dress up as something beginning with N or K. There were some fantastic creations; we had nerds, a Nan, a Native American, a newborn baby, a ninja, Noddy, a nymph, a New Age hippie, N-Dubz, a nun, a kitten, a king, Kermit the frog and an incredible looking Katie Price...and I was a nurse! We had an amazing night, got very drunk and two of my housemates met Fatboy from Eastenders. Success.

And I'd like to finish with some exciting news - I have recently been appointed this year's News and Current Affairs editor of my University newspaper, UNIfied! (Follow us on twitter at @CCSUUNIfied - cheeky plug). The next edition is expected to be released in a couple of weeks so everything is going to be a bit hectic but I'm looking forward to it being finished and all pieced together.

Enjoy the rest of your October, it'll fly past you before you know it...

Nats. X

October News

Happy October! We're finally getting in to my favourite part of the year and I'm so excited! My Dad's birthday was during the week, still to come we have my birthday on Sunday, Halloween, Bonfire Night, Christmas and New Year! So much going on that it's hard to keep up with it all, but so much to look forward to.

I've been back at Uni for nearly 3 weeks now and still loving it. Getting back into work and routine etc. was a tiny shock to the system but one I'm sure I'll adjust to. I'm pretty lucky that most of my classes start at 1 in the afternoon or later this year, but this is sadly supplemented with the fact that two nights a week I don't finish till 7pm. My course modules so far have been a mixed bag, with some seminars being quite boring and others been absolutely brilliant. When I get more into the year I'm sure it'll get much better.

Other things that have been happening lately....I went to see my housemate in a musical last night which was a lot of fun! He played the main character so that was great to see him up there performing like a pro. Afterwards we went to the pub to see another of my housemate's friend's band play live and that was also incredible! The band is called 'Ghouls', if you haven't heard their stuff before you should definitely have a listen: www.facebook.com/ghoulsuk or @GhoulsUK on twitter.

My parents drove up to see me today - I love it when they come and visit. I accidentally left quite a few of my clothes at home when I came back to Uni because I'm a total idiot, so they dropped those off for me and then we went out for lunch. Also have my Grandparents visiting in two days time and then my best friends after that, so it's going to be like Piccadilly Circus at my house for the next week.

Also... as some of you might have realised from my last blog post, I write for my University's newspaper but haven't been doing it for too long as they aren't issued on a regular basis. It's for the reason that I haven't really hit my stride with it yet and have been struggling to come up with ideas. I'd like a regular feature which I can continue with every issue, but I'd also like my writing to be topical. The only problem is that there's quite a big gap between the time you send your finished article off and the time it gets published. So if I were to write about, for instance, the recent news story about Jimmy Savile, by time the article was published, that story might have completely turned on it's head and the points I have written might no longer be relevant. Am I making sense?

I'm interested in hearing what other people think about this and what you think the student population of Canterbury, or even just UK students, would like to read about in newspapers - topics or issues which you want people to be aware of. This is your mission. Please help! Either leave a comment at the bottom or message me on facebook/twitter etc and anything you suggest will be hugely appreciated.

I think that's probably about it, sorry this post was a bit of a rubbish one. Must try harder next time.

Nats. X