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The Awkward First Post

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 again.

I have so many memories from last year, from the moment I first met my flatmates to the moment we said 'See you soon,' at the beginning of Summer. Just today I was reminiscing with one of them, we met exactly one year ago yesterday. We could hardly believe how far we went and how close we got. Had I told my one year ago self how I would be right now, I would have laughed and walked off. I would never believe how much I grew and how many things changed over the course of the year. But it did happen. I did change. Life changed. They changed me. Had I known about this, would have I made the decision of doing it all over again? Hell yes. I would never give away the amazing opportunity that is living with people from so many different countries and work and go to uni. The responsibility was what made me so proud of how much I changed. I became more liable and responsible.

As the new Uni year is about to start, I thought I'd list the things that I'm looking forward to the most:

  • writing more often and finishing stories.
  • learning about some of the new modules, my optionals are Horror and Dark Fantasy and Scriptwriting, I can't wait to see what both of them will bring me.
  • doing my assessments, last year I kept putting them off and I had so much trouble to finish them on time for the deadline that I never want to do it on top of my knee.
  • hanging out with my friends, they definitely make the course more enjoyable than it already is, their company brings back the memories of our lunches together in McDonalds between classes and just random conversations about our crushes.
I hope this year will go easy on me. That it won't sprint past me and make me wonder how it is to be a 3rd year student and thinking back on how my second year was. Please, don't pass me by too fast. I want to savour every moment of this year.

So yeah, this is the awkward first post in which you just got hit by a truck of information about me and I hope you're alright. I will try to update the blog as often as possible, both with updates on my course and how the student life is treating me.

See you soon <3
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