Hello, It's Me | UPDATE

It's hard to believe that a year and a half ago I posted a blog about whether or not I was going to go to university. The course I said I was going to apply for was Television Production and I am glad to say that I have officially finished my first year of that course. But first, let's look back at my last blog post, and uncover the reason why I have been M.I.A.

 

January - June [2015]

 

Top of the Rocks Building | New York

I spent these 5/6 months studying for my A2 levels - the last year of sixth form - and completing coursework for the courses I was taking. Going back to school, after the Christmas holidays, was so stressful and time consuming that I found no time to blog for enjoyment. I had a blog for my media course, but that was classed as coursework and not something I would usually do in my spare time. I also went on a trip to New York in February, so I spent a lot of time preparing for it, but also remembering my memories from that week.

Year 13 was one of the most stressful school years of my life. I had stress from the vast amount of work we had to complete, and nearer to the end of the year I had struggles with other things going on at school but not at all work related. I was so happy and relieved the day I signed off all of my coursework and the day I walked out of the exam hall for the last time. It felt like a lot of weight had been lifted off my shoulders.

 

June - September [2015]

 

Prom

My somewhat long summer holiday was filled with laughter, day trips out with friends, drinking with friends, and a heck of a lot of sleeping. Over that summer I got back into my hobby of reading and I learnt a lot more songs on the ukulele, which I like to think I have perfected by now. Prom was a blast, and results day was a laugh - mainly at the end of the day when me and my friends took a trip down to the pub. [I would like to mention that at the time I was 18 years old so I was allowed to drink...responsibly.] I was very happy with my results and I wasn't more contented with the achievement of getting into my first university choice. I was overjoyed.

Over the summer, after getting accepted into uni, I was given the task to create a 'Summer Project'. This was to introduce me as a person, so when I started uni everyone would watch it and get a glimpse as to what my persona is like. Also, at the same sort of time of creating this video, I was travelling through the euro tunnel, into France  - basically my second home. When I got back, I had one week to prepare for my first week of uni and it is fair to say that I was petrified.

 

September - May [2015-Now]

 

One of the Studios at Maidstone TV Studios

Obviously my first day of uni was scary, but I really enjoyed it. I enjoyed it more, of course, when I started doing the work and I had created friendships with most people on the course. Now that the first year is over I feel like I've talked to everyone in my year and I've created some sort of bond with everyone.

We had three units that were completed during three terms - one unit for each term:

• 1st Term - Storytelling (1st Unit)

• 2nd Term - Directions (2nd Unit)

• 3rd Term - Documentary (3rd Unit)

On top of those units, we also had a contextual studies essay to complete which is basically the theory behind our course topic. Throughout all three units, and even the units to come in the next two years, we have a blog. This blog gets marked as put of our course, and we basically upload posts on our research, our pre-production for the unit and out post-production.

Obviously, where I've been spending most of my time keeping up to date with my uni blog, I've had no spare time to catch up with my personal blog.

But here I am.

I've decided that I want to blog a lot more, now that I have 4 months off for the summer. I'm going to post about places that I've visited, make-up products that I've bought and tried, new songs or albums that have been released, new films or TV series that have been aired and anything else that comes to mind. This is going to be a place where I can talk about anything, let my mind run free, while hopeful entertaining someone. Kind of like my YouTube channel [ https://www.youtube.com/user/beccaabennettt ] but in a reading form.

I hope you find some enjoyment out of these posts, and the next one won't be as long as this. I promise.