The End AND The Start of Something New!

Hello!
It's been a little while I feel, so apologies! Let me start filling you in on the news:

***Michelle Park flew to Florida Today!***

As I write this at 12.30am, she is at the mall, and it's 90 degrees out there. Gosh I'm so happy that her day has finally arrived, I really wish her the most amazing year. Same goes for all the June 9th people!

In the mundane life of me, UNIVERSITY IS OVER FOREVER!!!!!! Yep, the end came after a rather gruelling 4hr exam on June 1st and now I'm free! I also have no purpose to my life...if only I had a job in Florida waiting for me... No such luck!

So, although the end of Uni means a new start, it also means lots of confusion and a ridiculous amount of debt! Que sera sera, I guess. Well, time to start taking the advice of graduate recruitment agencies and take a gap year lol. Unfortunately they also require funding.

On the bright side, the Grad Ball is on Wednesday and promises to be an extremely awesome night. We get driven to the country-estate venue, have a 3 course meal, enjoy the party with performances by The Streets and DJing by Scott Mills, enjoy a funfair including rides and vendors and get a lift home again. For that I had to pay £59 - which burnt a serious hole in my pocket - but I'm hoping it'll be well worth it!

There seems to be a couple of birthdays coming up soon: Nikki and Kathryn, so a variety of festivities to look forward to! Not to mention it was my Mum's birthday this weekend and we had a great time in Salisbury.

Plans for the summer are also shaping up too. Keswick 11-18th July (travel on the 10th to overnight with Ruth), GRADUATION on the 20th, Issac and Becky's Wedding on the 4th July, Momentum the 22nd-27th August and then I'm staying in Soton that weekend to attend James and Emma's Wedding! Whooop. Plus I'll be working too obviously!!

Anyway, I am pleased to report that yours truly will indeed be recieving a BA (Hons) degree in History at 2:1 level on that fateful day in July, having got 65 for my dissertation and 67 for my exam (which I was convinced I'd messed up)! So excitement all round, now I'm almost certain that the job is done!

I go home to Hastings for good on the 25th June and go to a Keswick Training Day on the 27th, so not long before I have to put the last 3 years of my life back in to boxes! Hmmmm, a sad day that shall be indeed. Then it's back to being tied to the maternal apron strings and under the maternal thumb... ...
Ummm I'm shattered so I'll leave you with this brief and vague semblance of a blog - which I may or may not update soon.

**UPDATE THE NEXT DAY...**

Welcome to Tuesday. Today has been bewildering. I'm just wandering from idea to idea about what to do with my life and not sure that anything is right for me. Now a job at Disney... Well, that would be perfecto!! Gosh I dislike decision-making.

Suffice to say I am currently considering a gap year. Where? How? When? By what means? With whose money? I do not know. Some things seem the right thing to do, others don't seem so good on second glance... Who knows? All I know is that if I go and live back home for good then I may as well have never gone to college, let alone Uni, for all the good I'll do.

Hastings is not a good place to be attempting to establish a graduate career, that much is clear to me. I love Hastings. It is - and always will be - home. But I can't go back there right now. Well when I say right now, I know that I'll be there for the rest of 2009. 2010 though? That's different. I want to get out and about. If Southampton broadened my horizons this much, then how much more, would time abroad benefit me...

Enough pointless rambling from me. Michelle and the others move in to their apartments in a matter of hours, which excites me greatly! Here in Southampton, the very real temptation is to put the heating on! In June :-(

I can't think of anything else to write. Ooooh, I must just record my excitement actually...I set up my 30 day free trial to LoveFilm.com today and have a lovely stack of films waiting for me to watch over the next couple of weeks, including Aladin and WallE!!