Life Update: I am Cinderella.

So I'm just incredibly excited at the minute and I needed to share it somewhere and there isn't enough with 140 characters on Twitter!

 

So this afternoon, myself and 4 friends (3 from my uni course, the other a flatmate of a course friend) finally found and signed for a house for September! We decided to live together not long before Christmas and started house hunting a few weeks back and after seeing some awful houses, we found a really nice one today in the Woodhouse area of Leeds.

I'm really really excited about moving out, and as daunting as it seems, I'm doing it with 4 of my friends and I know it's going to be one of the best and most memorable experiences of my life! Everyone says that the friends you make at uni are the friends you'll have for the rest of your life, and we're a bit of an odd bunch, but when have I ever been in with an average crowd? I love my housemates! (that could have changed within a year though!)

 

I feel like I've grown up so much since starting uni! I was thinking about this on my way to uni today on the bus: a year ago I was being taken to and picked up from 6th form and had my life controlled basically, but now I'm free to do whatever I please and left to be more independent so what else is there to do other than move out? It'll be the last transformation to becoming a young adult in the world! Kind of like Cinderella before she went to the ball!

 (Yes I'm comparing myself to Cinderella...)

 

Honestly though, at 6th form, I thought that I was really mature and independent and could look after myself, but university is such a life changing experience! I realise now that I was wrong and growing up has yet to come! I'm starting to be ridiculously cheesy now, but it really changes you so much! Maybe not so people can notice it, but I feel different in myself. I don't really know how to explain it! A year ago I knew I wasn't really ready to move out; the thought of it terrified me, but now I'm so excited! I'd move out next week if I could! I guess now I get the bus everyday on my own and have to look after myself really! It's just the little things like paying for yourself and like I said, getting the bus... It's weird how things that seem so small can make a big difference in your life.

 

I'm only at the start of my second semester of my first year at uni and I'm already having the best time of my life! If you follow me on Twitter you may have seen me tweet about uni and how I've found my people and place in life, and I really have! I've always felt like a bit of an outsider. I've always been a bit weirder than everybody else and just never felt like I fit in as much as I do at uni! I've met so many like minded people and I've gained so much more confidence in myself because of the experiences I've had (although it has made me a tad lazier...). I often felt like I was never appreciated and like no one ever wanted to listen to me but there's always someone with ears open for whatever it is!

 

Uni is an amazing experience and I do encourage people to go! I don't know what I want to do when I leave but I'm just enjoying my life and youth! Because when are you going to get to do it again?

 

 

I realise the title of this post is 'life update' and it's just turned into a rant about uni, but there's not much different going on in my life right now besides that! I bought a kindle yesterday? I've found my liking for reading on the bus so I figured it'd make life easier... I'm really happy right now! Not much besides that! I've had a roller coaster 2012 and 2013 is off to an amazing start! I'm definitely happier than I was a few months ago. I'm finally settled and life's looking up!

The most cheesiest thing I've ever written but I needed to get it out!

 

Ciao for now!