Growing Up

Dear Readers,

I finally have the time to pursue this interest of mine more fully due to the lack of other activities in my life. On 23rd May 2014, I officially ended my school career due to finishing my exams (I do or have done the IB). This is one sentence that I did not envision myself writing. As I have said in previous blog posts written as part of my on going procrastination schedule (see below), I have not imagined my life after school. I can't even imagine myself at university.

However, I have reached the summer of a lifetime where all students are meant to celebrate their lives in that limbo period before entering into the world of seriousness. To be perfectly honest, it started off with a bang! Going off on the traditional student holiday which was absolutely amazing. I definitely lived through all the experiences you are meant to have, or at least witnessed them! Another way to describe it without giving any details away is that it was not as disastrous as the Inbetweeners movie or a Jack Whitehall description, even though there might have been a few similarities!

The past few days however have not followed suit. I have been stuck in my room cleaning, throwing away junk that has built up over the two years since I last had a proper clean out. It just has been incredibly dull - I even found myself cleaning out the car voluntarily! I guess I have officially entered the world of becoming the responsible adult.

Therefore, I write this blog post to pledge to myself that this summer will not continue like this. It has to get better and top all the memories I have from the first week. I am going to make more amazing memories and respond this post at the end to prove it!

I wish everyone good luck with their exams - they will soon be over! But, I do challenge you to make sure you live every second of this summer to it's full potential!

Much Love,

Harriet

P.S. I will be doing more blogposts in the coming weeks to try and release my creativity spirit! I still have lots of ideas that I hope to share! Watch this space! (I know, cheesy but I couldn't think of anything else!)

xxx

A world without technology

Again, I know. I am meant to be doing economics revision but I thought this opportunity was too good to miss. Whilst scrolling through my facebook feed, I found this video:

It is a video that suggests that technology has become a burden on our society, an invention that is diminishing in returns (economics revision is working!!). We are losing our social life in the real world to a social life obsessed with likes, views and screens; not real people. For me, I know that I am completely guilty. The amount of time that I have spent procrastinating watching YouTube videos, checking Facebook and scrolling through twitter is unimaginable and this video just brought that home to me.

Therefore, I am going to set myself a challenge: to allow myself only an hour of free time on any technology or device a day. No more wasting my time of phones or computers. As said in previous blog posts, my exams in fact start on Monday so there isn't a better time to start taking on this challenge. After typing this, I have just realised how hard this is going to be, but I am up for it. Let's try this for at least three weeks and see what happens...

Disclaimer: I do not count looking up economics terms as "free time".

So, now there is no excuse for me to decide to write more blog posts as part of my procrastination activities. See you on the other side of this experiment!

Please share or join in yourself!

Much love,

Harriet

xxx

How to deal with goodbyes

I know I said I would be back after exams, but I am on a revision break. Writing a blog post can also count as English revision as well as text type revision for Spanish. There is my declaration over!

Well, I decided to write this blog post because tomorrow is my last official day at school as my exams start on Bank Holiday Monday (UK holiday only, thanks IBO!). So while the whole country is having a day off, the IB students of the UK have to come in a sit an exam. Yes, I am bitter. However, getting back to the end of my school career.

This week, I have finally come to terms that the time spent with my amazing IB cohort is coming to an end, which is one of the most saddest things that I think I have had to come to terms with. Today, for example, I said goodbye to one of them who I won't see before exams finally start - it turned into an emotional mess. However, it has hit me that the reason why I am so emotional and sad about these two wonderful years coming to an end is because they were wonderful. Even if other parts of life were not going that smoothly, I still had an amazing support group at school which I am incredibly thankful for. If they were not wonderful, I would be happy to walk out the door and this goodbye would be so much easier.

Therefore, I am saying that hard goodbyes have their downsides, but they are not necessarily permanent due to the fabulous invention of the internet and trains. They also mean they are so very very special people, and you were lucky to have them in you life in the first place.

I thought I end this emotional blog post with something my friend tweeted me that sums up what I want to say but far more eloquently, there are always positive sides.

I will talk soon after exams.

Much love,

Harriet

Dear readers,

I am very sorry that I have not posted in about 5 months. I have just re read my last blog post which was written before my driving test about nerves (which I past!). It got me thinking about how I have missed just typing and sharing my views on anything I want. Unfortunately, the IB and revision have some how got in the way of pursuing this interest more, but I promise that as soon as these exams are over, blogging will become part of life once again. I have so many plans!

So, in the past five months a lot has happened but the major one has been university. I firmed by place at university to study International Relations. This is a huge step in life and something that I had never really dreamed of happening, not that I thought I wouldn't go but because I never thought time would keep going and i would grow up. Over the past month and since turning 18 (again after the last post!), I have realised that I have not thought about my life after this point. I have never questioned what life is like after the security blanket of school and parents and home-cooked food - I just thought it existed and took it for granted which I now regret. But, when you start to apply for accommodation at university, you realise that this part of your life is over, and it literally is an end of an era. Do not get me wrong,  I am not an emotional person who clings onto the past, I think a change is good, but  have realised that a big change and moving environment is a little different in my head. Therefore, I have sort of been having that 'I am getting old and I don't want too' phase.

However, the point of this blog post was to say hi and I am coming back to blog about things I want to talk about. I am sure that the whole transition of moving from home to another place, getting results, a look back at my school career and other things that I have got on my list will start to happen, just you wait!

Anyway, thank you for reading as always. I will be back soon!

Much love,

Harriet