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G'evening people, your Mia here :D

@ the Freshers' fair I managed to acquire many a wall calender and pocket diary along with; condom dispenser, mints + mint dispenser, a frisbee, dvd on behaviour management (will be needing that!), lip balm, pens, keyrings and bags plus more random shabizzle. I also put my name down to receive information about becoming a scout leader (looks like they have a lot of fun!) and signed up for both the hockey and womens' football team. I've missed playing sport! :(

Some girls tried to convince me to sign up for netball, but I told them I found it too restrictive xD

So yeah, hoping to get back into the swing of the whole fitness thing.. back at the gym on Monday! :D I've made myself a routine aswell, so will be trying to stick to it this time!

This is where the two years of doing sport and fitness at college comes in handy :P

Uni is going well at the moment as you may have guessed. Did an English exam the other day. Everyone seemed to have been slightly worried about it, but personally, I love them :D

Strange I know! O_O

I'm in the uni mood and have stuck lots of planners on my walls and timetables along with all the photos of friends and it's really looking like a uni student's room now, walls were too bare before! :)

Aswell as all the random activities and social stuff planned, I'm really looking forward to seeing Kelly Clarkson at Wembley with Melissa, I know it will be brilliant! Oh, and sidenote - I'm getting a new phone tommorow, so you'll all be able to contact me and visa versa without being replied to with 9's from my possessed phone :D Woop! However, as I'm studying to be a teacher the lecturers are encouraging us to carry a diary with us which I think makes sense, so I will be carrying around my filofax with me aswell as my phone, although I seem to be used to organising everything and saving reminders etc. electronically.

Well that's enough from me for now.. I'm off to sleep! :)

Here's my chosen photo of the day:

This is one of the cathedrals in Bath, Avon. Will be visiting there in November. Definitely going to check this place out. I'm always in awe of cathedrals like this, also like the Coventry cathedral. Simply amazing..

100th blog post anniversary!!!

I think this blog deserves a big clap! xD

This is my 100th post from Sept 08 - Sept 09

From all the teen angst in the beggining it's been strange and quite a journey looking back on everything. I can't believe how much I've developed and changed as a person, but I guess that's called growing up, and with more life experience usually comes more wisdom :)

I'm so happy. I'm on the right path. I'm happy with myself and where I'm going. I have more 'get up and go', I'm travelling more, meeting more new people and have suddenly got this burst of energy and confidence. I can safely say things are falling into place. I never expected things to be going so well. I'm doing a teaching degree, having so much fun and getting to where I want to be at the same time. I have no worries about people anymore, I've accepted people move on just as I have and I wish everyone the best of luck with whatever they choose to do in life :) I have the most brilliant friends in the world, the nuttiest family and lots of ambitions. No one's going to bring me down ;)

Just applied for a job within the MoDA museum which consists of being an Art and Design workshop leader. I got really excited when I heard about the post because if you know me, you'll know I absolutely adore art and want to specialise in it (aswell as p.e) when I'm fully qualified so this will be a great opportunity and good experience as part of my training. Fingers crossed I get it! I'm optimistic :D

Today I went to the museum with my new class (it's in another uni campus linked with us) we played more group games to get to know eachother better, sang nursery rhymes to the class in groups and did the actions (well funny!), looked around the museum and then made a big dragon in our group of 4 out of bamboo sticks which we had to work with to get them to be circles, make the structure then covered it in paper mache and decorated with sugar paper. It was pretty impressive as we only had under an hour!

So yeah, as you can tell i'm having the time of my life, I get to relate everything back to my childhood (which I loved) and basically put myself in a child's shoes again, but also be more mature as I'm going into teaching. I have to watch my language (which isn't a problem anyway), had to make a more professional email address and be good at remembering names, which again isn't a problem for me. I've gone up to so many random people and just asked for their names :D Everyone's brilliant!

I'm doing a degree, been driving for over 3 years now, have brilliant friends, a steady direction in life, a great social life and (i hate to admit this) an amazing family.. I don't think I could ask for anymore. Everything is falling into place and i'm on a constant high, I'm buzzing! & I realise even from this post it seems i've had a few too many red bulls! It's great :D

I'll leave you with a song I'm addicted to atm to conclude! :)

University Start

Well, well..

What can I say? I am having a blast!
Today was my first day at uni, already met some brilliant people and it's only intro week :D

The majority of the people on the teaching course are girls, with the exception of about 5 guys. Everyone seems pretty down to earth and fun, basically my kind of people :) Already planned to go to lots of freshers stuff and meet as many more new people as possible!

The head of department gave a really good speech about the course and the outcomes and it's left me feeling really positive. One thing that stuck is her telling us to make ourselves familiar with places in London as one day when we're teachers we could be the ones that introduce

children to their first view of say, modern art in a gallery. I would actually love that :)

If you know me you'll know i've been on such a high the past month, i've found myself being much more confident in my direction in life and everything else. I know this is my path and I couldn't be happier! I plan to pass with a first class degree as they call it, but also party as much as possible and experience new things :P Happy times :)

I was for a while thinking about something and it was confusing for a bit, but now that my mind's occupied and i'm busy with new adventures, it doesn't seem like anything anymore because i'm happy as it is and i'm going with the flow. I'm young and free and i don't need to be worried. Life's too short! Whatever's meant to be will be, in the meantime i'm being realistic until i'm proven otherwise :)

Hope everyone is good, I'm going to try and get some sleep tonight as I have to be up for a nature trail in the woods at uni to 'familiarise' :D Although i'm so full of energy it's going to be tough. I really need to channel it into something constructive! :P

Above is the mansion house, one of my favourite parts of the uni.. so much more to the uni than meets the eye. Has an interesting feel about it, very historic :)

Honesty is the best policy

If this is true why do so many of us feel the need to lie and pretend to save face or avoid what's really going on? Fear? Hmm.. But t'is true, being honest and open is so much better than not saying anything at all, even if you do make yourself look like an idiot for it. xD No worries from now on :)

Coventry Adventure!

Goo' Evening :)

This is going to be a long one, hope you're comfortable :) It goes a bit like this..

Originally Miss Liah was meant to come down to London for the weekend, however circumstances changed and we were invited up to her flat in Coventry instead. Me and Chris said we'd see what we were going to do, so on Saturday after I finished work I went straight to Chris's place with my packed bag. We then went into central London and booked a coach (very comfortable one with leather seats) to Coventry. On the coach we sang random songs (hey there delilah, standing in the way of control etc.) haha :) and we had some good chats too about how we both love travelling.

So, two hours later - 11pm, yes, took us 6 hours in total to get to Coventry because of the lack of planning :D We met Liah at the coach Station in Coventry.

Initial

impressions were good! So much more space in Coventry compared to London, everyone just seems to be more spaced out.

From then we went back to Liah's flat, luckily there was no one there apart from us so that was a bonus. We sat down, chatted and chilled for a bit, drunk and stayed up 'till about 3am, well 4 after :P

Woke up the next day, went to see the Cathedral which is literally a five minute walk from Liah's accomodation.. and all I can say is WOW. On the outside was amazing

, and when we went inside I think I can safely say we were all in awe of the place.. The amount of amazing architecture and design in there is something brilliant, you really should go visit it if you haven't already.

After this Liah introduced me and Chris to her local Spiritual church. Chris and Liah are already practicing mediumship, but for me it was all a bit daunting, well in the beggining. We sang some hymns (very traditional service) and prayers along with a minute of silence. After this 2 mediums, one woman and one man, stood on the podium and gave out readings. Suprisingly Chris's grandmother came through, with an accurate description of everything which was nice as it was our first time in

the church. Me and Liah were both pleased about this :) Straight after the man picked up on my grandad and described things that he couldn't possibly know. One being the fact that my grandad was burried with a pocket watch in his shirt, and described it exactly. This brought back a lot of memories for both me and Chris, but made us feel somewhat peaceful after hearing that we had someone there for us. Such a great experience and will definitely be practicing mediumship now that Chris and Liah have explained the concept and i've seen for myself what it involves. I've always believed in spirit, but just never really considered anything like this before yesterday.

The next day we went into the town centre (witnessed parents queing up with their children for a cute baby competition), me and Liah got checked out by fr

eaky people in KFC and Chris got checked out by some (and i quote) pre-teen girl. We went back to the flat after hitting the mall (sounds so American xD) and then went to a spiritual circle that Liah belongs to - The same church we were at the day before. I can safely say we were the youngest in there, everyone was over 35 for sure, the majority looked in their 50's +. We did some meditation, materialisation and then went around the circle describing

what we saw. A lot of people didn't get much, but me, Chris and Liah managed t

o give descriptions out which someone took. I expected Chris and Liah to do well at this, but not me.. but suprisingly I saw quite clear images which was nice. According to the guys I now have a spirit guide :)

After that relaxing evening, back to the flat where we had champagne and strawberries, all of us got drunk (and naughty) played a few games out of Liah's naughty book and the sexy dice xD Involving neck kissing, body sucking and lip teasing amongst many others. That was another fun night and the last of 3 up in Coventry for now.

..(missing out naughty parts here)

Will definitely be going back. Was just a really nice place to be, and the cathedral tipped the scales :D The 3 of us took some time out to sit and think in the church, was just really relaxing and I haven't felt so peaceful in a long time..

The nights were always fun! Chris complaining about the noise all the time without us girls

realising (sorry! :D) and here I am, sitting with a hickie or two, but laughing because I know Liah's are worse, hehe :P According to Mr Dez - Liah's good friend and workmate anyways, who I must say seemed like an awesome guy, very down to earth! We all met in Liah's car on the way to the condom factory, what a story! Coventry University are definitely the best shag promoters! Haha, I mean.. over 3300 condoms for free? Jammy!

So, i'll conclude by just saying I've had the best time I've had in ages and realised a few things about myself whilst I was in Coventry and was nice to have peace and quiet. We all learnt something. I guess we're just an awesome trio :D I didn't manage to get any photos due to lack of camera, but the ones in this post are what we saw, enjoy :)

Why?

Why does everything fuck up?

I feel in a strange mood today.. Happy but also confused and frustrated and I can't quite work out why.. All I know is that i've been craving cuddles! Haha.. How messed up is that? Finished watching Season 3 of Skins, It's amazing.. Definitely something I can relate to!

Sleep on it.

G'afternoon :)

Erm yeah, about the last post.. Just one of those things really. I'm okay today, laughing about everything actually :) Enjoying summer still, more than ever to be honest. Start uni as a 'fresher' in a few weeks, aaah!

Apart from the hard work, i'm quite looking forward to everything else uni related xD Although work will be my priority (i'm being good) I intend to go to as many parties/get-togethers as possible :D Have some fun and meet new people :) They say uni is meant to be the best time of your life, and I intend to live up to that :D

I'm happy that recently I've built closer bonds with a lot of my friends by talking to them 1-1. It's amazing how much you can find out about someone by talking in private and develop better friendships. Communication is definitely the key.

I've also come to learn over time that for every thing that you're thinking of wanting/doing you're pretty sure that the other person you're around is thinking the same, chances are that you both want the same thing and to not wait, just take a risk. A bit abstract but interpret it as you will :)

Frustration

It's nearly 1am and the one time I actually want to get a moderately early night, I can't because I'm feeling down about something. It's actually pretty minor, but is still managing to hurt. The one time i'm trying so hard to be open and honest without being defensive, and it feels like it's not getting me anywhere in helping someone to trust me and not jump to conclusions. I'm actually trying really hard..

I don't know what's going on at the moment, it's all pretty crazy, but i just wish we were closer so we could talk properly instead of getting confused/frustrated over msn. Maybe it's too much to ask? Maybe I should be defensive again like before? I really don't want that. I didn't think I needed to be, hope i'm proved wrong :( I want things to be different/new. It's mad how certain people can mean so much..

Night all.

Thoughts

Good morning all :)

So, going to the travel agents today to book a holiday to Ibiza for next year with the girls (such a generic thing to do) but i'm going to be with amazing people and we're going to have lots of fun *thumbs up* :D There are certain things that will probably be interesting and new, but then again, it's next year, anything could happen by then, I'll just see how it goes.

Aside from this I've been trying to get to know someone, and it seems like time is flying. Everything has happened so quickly, and there's already petty arguments in the mix :P

I have to admit, it is funny :)

Last but not least is a little rant I have. Yep, that's right. It's a rant about a guy who seems to be becoming my best mate. (I've read your posts, I always do) Stop putting yourself down!

I just want you to know that i'm scared about letting people get close too, we both know what it's like when it comes to trusting people (which i think has probably drawn us closer lately).

You've been through a lot and deserve to be happy. I'll be seeing you soon :) P.s Don't be worried about not being a good friend, t'isn't even an issue. If you shout at me, I'll just shout back :D

Turn of fate!

Hey, good evening.. good week? Ha, I really have no idea what I'm writing tonight, but have had a strange urge to post something impulsive, so here goes..

This week/month has been very mental.. I can safely say there's not been a day without drama/new issues, but this is not your normal, annoying drama.. Just new revelations, experiences.. some more intense than others, but all unplanned and appreciated..

I've established who I am.. (finally) I was lost for a while, but now I feel as if I can be totally myself. Those of you who are close enough will know what/who contributed to me feeling like this. I can't say I knew this would happen all so quickly, but it has and it's been overwhelming, exciting, scary and new.. but I wouldn't have it any other way :)

There's lots to look forward to, and lots to be discovered. I've gone through probably every feeling possible in the past few days, and it's been full of ups and downs, but hey, what's life if you don't have to fight for anything? Well to be honest, it would bore me.

I just feel so lucky to know such amazing people, and for every friend I've lost, i've gained one up. My close circle of friends are BRILLIANT. I seriously couldn't have chosen better.. And by close friends I mean those who I tell everything to without feeling like I can't be myself.

Bring on the rest of the year, and the ones to follow. I'm ready to take on whatever life has to throw :D

:) Chase what you want in life.. Don't be scared to step out of your comfort zone, or else you'll never experience any new feelings :)