So many forms...

As I said in my last post, I got into University and yesterday my Freshers Pack came through. Exciting stuff..

BUT.. there are soooo many forms to fill out, it's ridiculous. I've written my name, email address and course out so many times for various different forms from a Room Allocation Questionnaire to Mentor Forms to Emergency Contacts.

I've also got to get 8 passport sized photos too which should be fun.

Despite all the tedious form filling out, I am excited for uni and hopefully soon I'll be doing an IKEA trip! Which are always a fab day out. I am currently doing some online shopping too so if I get a decent haul I might put up a Uni Wardrobe type post.

Speak soon!
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I'm Going to University!

Hi!

So at the moment I am extremely happy because it is Results Day here and I have got into my first choice university which is Durham University! I am going to be studying Chemistry and I would like to do a year in industry in my final year.

I was so nervous this morning that I woke up at 6:30 panicking that I had failed completely but as 8 o'clock came around, the time when UCAS Track opened, I was feeling a little calm. I managed to log on early at 7:45 and was thrilled when this message came up:

I went in to collect my results from school and chatted with my friends and some teachers (who are now insisting I call them by their first names which is really weird for me) and then I had to have my photo taken for the local newspaper which was interesting.. Not to mention totally embarrassing.

4 of us walked up to Tesco and got a chocolate Swiss roll to share which we ate on the park and it was lovely. We chatted a bit more then all headed home as we are all meeting up later to celebrate the end of A-Levels and our results which have landed us in universities all over the place.

I will be moving into Trevelyan College at Durham at the end of September and I will be sure to give you some updates on that.

I will post again soon but for now it is goodbye :)

Keep smiling
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Summer Nights Film Festival

Hi!

I should've posted this almost a week ago but I've been really busy with work and things so I have only just got around to it. So here's what happened on Saturday at the Derby Summer Nights Film Festival..

First things first, a bit of context. One afternoon, I was really bored so due to a lack of better things to do, I decided to Google my home town (Derby, East Midlands) and it pulled up a load of websites as Google does and I saw one that caught my eye. It was a festivals page and I saw on it one for the Summer Nights Film Festival (SNFF from now).
I clicked onto the page and found that this was basically a festival where they showed different films at various country houses in Derbyshire. I saw that at Kedleston Hall they were showing Gravity so I spoke to my friends and 4 of us got together and decided to go.

When the SNFF finally came around (our date to go anyway), we packed my tiny car with picnic stuff and chairs and set off to Kedleston Hall, really strugglling up any hills due to the distinct lack of power Peugeot 107s have. But we eventually got there at around 7:40 and we handed our tickets in and found a spot to set up.
The film was not due to start until the sun had set giving us 2 hours to sit, chat, eat and take some photos. After a few angry mutterings when a large family decided to plonk themselves right in front of us and shifting around so we could all see, we had some of our food (we had all bought far too much) and settled in to our chairs ready for the film to start.

Compulsory selfie before the film started

We had an introduction to the film from 2 radio DJs off Smooth Radio (clearly this festival is not particularly aimed at youth although we were perfectly welcome) and then Gravity started.
About half an hour into the film, a few big spots of rain fell causing everybody to start panicking and putting their rain macs on and the odd brolley even went up. After the kafuffle had died down, it stopped raining. As none of us had rain macs with us, we were very glad it stopped and found it hilarious because everyone had gotten so panicked over about 10 spots of rain.

Gravity was a really good film but shorter than I expected it to be although looking back, you could see that if they had dragged it out for much longer it would've been boring and same-y so it was good that they ended it when they did.
With what seemed like a grand total cast of 3 plus the odd extra, it was well held together with the plot and was generally scientifically correct with the exception of the end which obviously had to be done as it was for dramatic effect but it irritated the scientist in me because in real life, it couldn't have happened.
But other than that, the plot was excellent, the characters were well thought out if a little thin on the ground and the effects on the film were ace so all in all I would definitely recommend it.

If there is something similar to SNFF in your area, I would definitely go to it because it is something different and something you will remember because of that.

Speak soon :)
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