As a student, I’m practically obliged to love freebies. I mean, you’re trying to balance your priorities between spending money on a good time and boring necessary things like food and groceries – if someone hands you free stuff, you’re not going to turn it down, are you? That’s why Freshers’ Fair is amazing! It was held in the sports hall and there were loads of clubs and societies there, as well as local organizations and groups who wanted to recruit us. I signed up for the Am-Dram society and the choir, and I think somewhere along the way I got distracted by freebies and also became a Christian, a Pagan, a bingo player and a Conservative, but I can’t be sure – I definitely have the freebies that would suggest so.
I also have pizza hut vouchers, subway vouchers – I’m wearing my “Zombies – Eat Flesh!” t-shirt today,which they seemed to like), vouchers for the shops in the shopping centre, notepads from various organizations, lollipops and sweets, I won a teddy bear!, and lots and lots and lots of leaflets and other cute little bits and pieces like lanyards, keyrings, pens etc, which are all now spread out on my desk so I can sort them out. Looks like free pizza for dinner tomorrow and Friday!
We also enrolled today, which was a long and tedious process, but on the bright side I now have my ID card – and the picture isn’t too bad – and I’m definitely enrolled on the course, which is always good! There’s no ifs or buts, tonight is definitely a night in for me – I’m exhausted. In a couple of hours I’m going to head down to McDonalds and have my first chips since I got here – yes, I have willpower! – and use their wifi to get a couple of books for my Kindle. Then tomorrow, I have my IT induction and course induction lecture, and after that, I’m done and just got to wait for lectures to start on Monday! It’s a really exciting, busy time but I’m trying to make sure I set some time aside to write this blog.
I went to Waterstones yesterday – I could spend all day in that shop! – and bought a fantastic book, which I’ll be reviewing when I get a chance. It’s called “If I Stay”, by Gayle Forman, and it really is very good! I’ve bought the sequel on Kindle, but don’t have wifi – only wired internet – at halls, so it’s a trip to McDonalds with their free wifi for me, to have something to eat and start reading. I could go to Starbucks, I guess, but I think going there and getting a caramel frappuccino (my favourite!) and whipping out my Kindle might seem a bit pretentious – only less so than writing my novel there and talking about it loudly for everyone to hear, a la that Family Guy sketch.
So, plenty to come – I’ll keep you all updated on how uni is going and I’ll get back into the swing of writing and reviewing things, starting off with that book. If you haven’t read it yet, I really do recommend it – it’s touching and sweet but quite upsetting at the same time. I hope the sequel lives up to expectations!
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