Thoughts, gathered.

I suddenly got a compelling urge to write a blog. It occurred to me all of a sudden that what I'm going through right now is SUCH a once in a lifetime, and I then began feeling quite panicked about having a record of how it all was for me. Blog today, vlog tomorrow. If that's not a life motto I don't know what is.

In four days' time, I will be moving to university. In London. For starters, I find this alone incredulous. I don't know if I used incredulous in the right context there, I didn't want to say incredible so I thought that was a good alternative but now I'm not so sure. I digress. But yeah, ME moving to LONDON. That's crazy. I've wanted to live in London since I was fourteen. I know this because that's when I started blogging, and when I read the blogs I see that I filled in literally hundreds of those survey things, and every time I was asked where I would live if I could choose anywhere, I said London. So naturally, I assumed it would never happen. But alas, on Sunday I'm moving to London. But it's even better than the London I was referring to back then; back then I just naturally figured that in the unlikely event that I ever DID move to London then it would be to a penthouse apartment on top of CyberCandy in Covent Garden, surrounded by pollution and tourists and traffic. But no. I am moving to one of the nicest areas in all of London. I will be five minutes away from what I believe is the most expensive and poshest London borough, in which there is acres of beautiful parks and fields, yet I will be half an hour from the centre of London where the much-beloved hustle and bustle is. Best of both worlds? Hells to the yes it is.

Next thing: Estelle. Estelle is one of my best friends. We have only been friends for around two years (maybe even less), but we clicked straight away, as we are both quite mad. My first memory of Estelle is of us taking photos on my new MacBook in the study room at school when we were meant to be silently working. My next memory of Estelle is of us doing Bollywood dancing to the Bangra music from Slumdog Millionaire in the common room at lunchtime. We're going to university together XD I'm so, so happy. We literally always find something to laugh about, and there is no one else from school I'd rather be going to uni with. What makes it better is that we're in the same halls, she's living two floors above me :D She keeps me quite grounded; I have a tendency to somewhat KICK OFF, and I know she'll tell me to shut the hell up.

DING DING, next round. MY COURSE. I don't need to go on again about what an absolute hoohar/faff/kerfuffle I had to endure just to get to the point of having a place on a Media course. Short and short, in case you don't know and happen to care, is that I had 5 offers at 5 top universities to study Drama, and then I changed my mind about Drama but my parents weren't so sure and it took me five months to muster the guts to be like HELLZ TO THE NO I WILL NOT DO DRAMA and then I had to pull out my applications even though the deadline had passed etc etc...BUT ALAS. I'm doing a Media Arts course :D It's like my dream course. I feel like it's The Next Step to getting me to where I want to be. I, according to Mother Dearest, am a go-getter. I went out and got two jobs by myself. I got voluntary work by myself. I got work experience by myself. No one had to nag me, no one had to tell me to do it, I just wanted to do these things really badly and did them. I want REALLY BADLY to do amazingly at my course, and I really hope I can do this. I want to carry on GOING and GETTING what I want. I don't want to be the person who sits around saying "Ohhh I wish I could be a TV presenter one day!" I want to tell people that one day I'll be a TV presenter, and then actually go and do it. I know it's not something you can walk straight into. This is why I chose my course; I feel like on top of the various things I've already done, this is The Next Step to getting to the TV presenting; going to uni, getting a degree, refining my work ethic, upping my experience of both the industry and of life, and then GOING AND GETTING MORE STUFF. I can't wait.