Just a Creative Scorpion

So the inevitable happened. I forgot to post for so long that it has almost been a month! I should start by apologizing, but to be honest I don't really feel the need to do it. It must be understood that I have my own life and sometimes I just can't find enough time to post on here. Moving on, today I will start by speaking about getting involved. I joined a society in my university, it is like an organisation - Enactus - that helps communities and therefor will help me feel better about helping people. The only downside to this is that it makes it difficult to find time for yourself. If you join a society make sure it will be one that will allow you to keep on studying and everything. Not only did I join this, I finally started to get behind on homework. I am really enjoying this project and I have only gone to two meetings so far. If you want to join but don't want to go alone, grab a friend and take them with you (that's what I did) and it will be easier for you...

No matter how rich you are, at some point in your life you will be looking for a job. Simply having money does not satisfy most people in the world and the need to go out and do something will always prevail. So you are going to be making your CV, trying to match what your future employers are looking for and which of those skills you have. As a student from another country, it is nearly impossible for me to live in England and not have a job. Not only I don't want to ask my parents to sacrifice themselves, but I also like being independent and getting money for myself. Through my first year I worked in a McDonalds close enough, but I decided to quit during the summer and try to find something else for my second year. It was a decision that I took and I do not regret it. So imagine this, you are starting your second year and find yourself making your CV time and time again, trying to make it look good. You go around and give it away to all the establishments near you who are re...

One of the things that I was looking forward to the most was going back to classes. I didn't realise just how interested I was in all the optional units I'm taking until I it was 5 minutes before they started. I honestly wasn't expecting to be so excited about them, but I'm glad that I was. As a second year student, I have two core units: Poetics: Research into Writing and Creative Writing: Research into Writing and so fair they seem interesting, especially the Poetics unit. I only had one lecture and one workshop of each of them but they seem to be mostly about the same. How to take research and apply it to the story, though in Poetics  you try to understand the process of why you chose to research that and what that saying about you. I was expecting them to be quite boring actually, but so far they turned out really interesting and actually made me think of how I do research, if I'm searching for the correct things and how I'm showing the new knowledge I got...

One of the best things of University is getting to know people. As you go out and start letting go of yourself and have fun, everything becomes much easier and you just don't give a shit about what happens. During my first year, I didn't go to the fresher's parties (except one, in which my flatmate took me and that was how we became friends) so I didn't get to know people. I ended up only knowing a bunch of people from my course and my flatmates. Which was good, because I managed to have a strong bond with the people I really had to know in order to have a good time at home and at class. But this year, I already know my house mates (same people as last year) and I already know my classmates, so by the end of last school year I decided that 2nd year would be different, I would hang out more and get to know more people. So far, I managed to keep my promise. I find it easier to deal with strangers and no longer feel as weird about being with people I don't know. I...

Every time that I try to keep a blog, I either end up losing my password or I simply lose interest in it and let go of it completely. This time, I'm hoping it will be easier to just keep the words flowing and help myself stay organised throughout the school year. So here I am, trying to convince myself that this is a good idea and that I will actually go through with this plan and actually write on this page. All things aside, I feel the need to introduce myself. *Waves* Hi there! I'm Sofia, 19 years young and Portuguese. I love watching TV shows and I get too excited when I read books. I'm studying Creative Writing in UK, Luton to be exact. I thought about creating this blog on my first year of Uni, but there were so many new things in my life last year that I thought I would just get lost and not even attempt to write the first post. But this is a new year, and therefor a new me. I'm ready for whatever may come and I'm really happy that Uni is about to start ag...