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