Referendums to the left of me, referendums to the right

The news channels have been a buzz recently with the Scottish Referendum, taking hold of Britain's eyes and ears. Every time I've turned on the tele the BBC seemed to have forgotten about their English workers, with the Scottish accent the only one being heard. Every single news story was somehow related to Scotland, even those that had nothing to do with the referendum, and those that did went on for hours.

But for me, that hasn't been the most pressing referendum. One has been unfolding a little closer to home in fact, in the surrounding towns and villages of Hull, including my own.

Plans had been made to expand the Hull Council zone and encompass the surrounding villages, rather than us proceed under East Riding of Yorkshire Council. Letters have been sent out to all the houses in the affected areas and voting related posters and signs have been spotted everywhere - houses, businesses, street corners - the villages are ripe with propaganda, all persuading people to vote NO.

And I couldn't agree more.

Back the hell off Hull. We don't want your shitty council with your dodgy coloured bins and your even dodgier MPs. Isn't Hull big enough for you? Do you really need all of us to join with you? Even the Deputy Prime Minister doesn't think this is a good idea. "A bigger Hull isn't necessarily a stronger one". Take that advice - leave us the hell alone.

Scotland wanted independence, and the country voted against it. The same will happen here when the voting closes on the 26th of this month and the papers are counted. NO NO. That's the vote, and if that changes, then I'm moving.

I kid of course, the only way I'm moving is if Mum moves. She does all my washing after all.

Delaying The Inevitable...

The most daunting aspect of being a college student (for me) is the inevitability of moving onto higher education. It was hard enough work getting into the college I wanted to attend, never mind the effort that's needed to get into University.

I've always wanted to go to uni. For as long as I can remember I had aimed to go to uni and get my degree, and anything less than that didn't seem worth my time. But the closer it gets, the more I start thinking that maybe uni isn't the place for me?

My problem with going used to be about money - I never thought I could afford it. Turns out that I was wrong and anyone can go to uni (theoretically) and not have to pay a penny until they start earning enough. My heart was set once again onto going to university and the dream of becoming a fully qualified Psychologist was one step close.

I knew that if I wanted to make a career after going to uni, I had to pick a subject that would pay well in the long run and I'd be doing something I love. So, Psychology was in the lead and all of my attention was on ensuring that I worked hard in my first year of college so I wouldn't have to resit and be a year behind everyone. This was crucial for me and taking a gap year wasn't an option either. My year for uni was 2015 and nothing was going to change that.

Until the end of my first year, were the grades that I wanted to see weren't highlighted in bold on my results sheet. I was devastated. I was grumpy as well, but mainly devastated. I had passed the other subjects with decent grades, a couple of C's here, and a B there, but the E in Psychology was something that I wasn't expecting. My dream moved one step away from me.

I dreaded that I would have to take the entire year again and my nightmare would become a reality. Luckily, it didn't. I agreed to retake AS psychology along side my other A2 lessons and I was able to breathe a sigh of relief.

But a realisation came over me; clearly this subject isn't for me, despite how passionate I am about it, so instead of doing Psychology at uni, why don't I do an English degree instead?

This thought process wasn't ideal, seen as though nothing apart from teaching sprung to mind when I thought of English-based careers that were stable? And yet taking it on at uni and carrying on as a PhD didn't seem like a bad idea. There's nothing wrong with doing something you enjoy after all? Or maybe I don't go yet, and do another year at college to make sure I'm ready to move ahead in my education?

Maybe 2015 isn't going to be my year after all...

Notices for the past/next few months

Hello all, did you miss me? :D

I must apologise for not posting in such a long time! I have no excuse other than I'm lazy, so deal with it.

A few things have happened since I last posted. I read the last couple just to jog my memory of where my ramblings led you, not quite down the rabbit hole I must admit, but not far off ;)

I finished my first year of college! *cheers from the masses*

The exams were awful to say the least, I didn't revise enough, they were badly spread out (and by badly spread out I mean not spread out at all:/), the people that watch you like hawks during the exam were not only off putting, but close to making me fail. Some loud bitch kept talking to people in the exam and she had jewellery on that made so much noise when she walked anywhere it was like she had a 20 piece orchestra hanging from her neck. Shame they didn't choke her.

I'd say that's an over reaction but I wasn't the only one who noticed her and I know for a fact that more that one student made a complaint against her. I haven't seen her since luckily, maybe the complaints actually worked? That would be a first, I'll be honest.

Anyway, the exams were hideous and I refuse to do them again....oh wait, give it another year and I'll be back here again haha.

So I started the summer holidays off worrying my arse off about exam results, desperate for at least something decent. Something better than a D. Unfortunately that wasn't the case for some subjects, although not the ones I was expecting. Instead of the inevitable U in History, I managed to get a C! How crazy is that?! I thought the exam went terribly, so god knows how I pulled that off. I got a B in English lit/lang so that's not too bad, another C in general studies, although that means nothing when it comes to applying for University. Some accept it as an A level, but most don't from what I've read/heard. I got a D in Creative which I would have preferred to be better obviously, and I got an E in psychology. An E.

I couldn't believe it. That consisted of a D in unit 1 and a U in unit 2. I know that I wasn't very confident when I came out of the exam hall but I wasn't expecting a U :/ Apparently the exam board were extremely harsh this year when it came to grade boundaries, but that still doesn't make me feel any better.

So when it came to re-enrolling at Wyke, Mike (psychology teacher) recommended that I retake AS Psychology along side my A2 subjects so I can improve my overall grade. I agreed with that but I would have rather just resit the exam and revise the content in my own time, rather than resit the entire subject. I suppose I could have said something to Mike, but I didn't see the point. So this year I'm taking AS and A2 psychology, A2 Creative Writing and A2 English Li/Lang. I'm happy with that I guess, can't complain. The lessons so far have been good, and today I had Creative Writing. Jamie (the teacher) is focusing on blogs and I'm quite excited to be honest, it's something I'm extremely familiar with and I love reading and writing blog posts, so hopefully it should be good.

Our first piece of homework is to write a blog post about how our thinking has changed about a subject of our choice. It can be something serious,or something a bit more light hearted, and I have to stick to a word limit of 500 words :/ (I maaay find that difficult?) haha, nahh I'm sure it'll be fine :) I'm mentioning this because instead of making a separate blog just for college related posts, I'm just going to post them on here, so they may not fit in with that rest of my blog and I won't sign off like a usually do, it will probably be a simple, boring sign, if I do one at all :/ So don't be alarmed if over the next few months my blog takes a turn in a different direction.

I'm gonna go for now though guys, my next post will be Creative Writing based, so enjoy that haha ;) 

bye for now!

Over and out;)xxxxxx