1 Month today!

One month in and I thought it's about time for an update!

I honestly still can't quite believe I'm a University student. I often wonder when will it actually sink in?

Life is great, The workload is heavy and my house is a mess. I'm eating shedloads of junkfood and slacking on the exercise.  Actually the food is something I'm really surprised about and I keep harping on about it to anyone that will listen, so now I'll harp on about it in here too.

Students are generally young, broke and pretty damn unhealthy. So what do the uni's do? Stick expensive vending machines all over the place that charge 70p for a bag of crisps or £1.20 for a bottle of coke. Even the teeny tiny undrinkable cups of vending machine slop are 70p a shot. The kiosk in our building sells overpriced crap as well, sausage rolls, chocs and pasties at petrol station prices. Not a healthy, brain building snack in sight.....and I can't get over that despite fees of almost nine grand a year they still try to make a profit out of us..Gits.

Ok, rant over back to the happy stuff....

I had a few adventures in the last month and met some fab folk. the crazy bunch on my course get better and better the more we get to know each other. I try to ignore the fact that I'm the oldest full timer by a decade ad I'm hoping that they do too....The tutor asked the other day 'who was born in the 80's?' he received blank stares and looked quite despondent until I shouted up that I was a 70's child...It turns out the rest of the full time bunch are 90's children....like my own daughter...*shudder*

So what have I learnt so far?

That I look like an Umpah Lumpah when kitted out in full Kiln safety gear - Leather apron (down to my ankles), Gauntlets (up to my elbows), Full face protective visor and scarf. Especially when stood next to another student who stands at six and a half foot tall (His apron only reached his knees).

Dumpity dooo.

That being left handed has it's perils, mainly when opening library turnstyles with my ID card; I swiped the card last week on my first visit to the uni library and then watched the adjacent turnstyle open instead of the one I was standing at.....and of course I then had to run round like an eegit to enter through the open turnstyle rather than keeping my cool and just trying once again to open the one in front of me.

 Muppet.

That I thoroughly enjoy student discounts.

Oh yes.