Why Must Personal Statements Be So Important

It's crazy how difficult A-Levels are. I know a lot of people go through them but my oh my it is tough! I'm meat to be writing my personal statement now and I forgot how much I enjoy this blog. And also, personal statement is so hard. I can't type how I type here because I want to appear professional and sophisticated but also need to sprinkle a bit of my personality in there and I am not sure how to do that. How am I meant to just 'sprinkle' my razzle dazzle. It's either all or nothing with me. Also, after much deliberation I've decided to apply for English literature. And, I'm not trying to victimise myself,  but I feel like an English literature personal statement is super hard because its trying to show off your writing skills, you really got to impress. 

Also the opening line of a personal statement. Lets be real, how am I meant to wow them. I was reading model personal statements online and just had to stop because I wanted to steal all their opening lines, plus they were all incredible and my writing ability is not up to that standard. That makes me nervous though, because what if I am just not up to English literature standard in general. What if everyone is there quoting Shakespeare and making jokes about classic authors I've never even heard of. If I get accepted into university, I will spend my entire summer reading so I can try and become a boffin. I want to impress people with my book knowledge. But I am super forgetful so I'd most likely end up embarrassing myself. 

Someone close to me found out about my blog the other day and I was like ah man I gotta get posting. So I am going to start. I say that in every blog post but blogging is such a good outlet and wonderful community. So..hello. I am actually back. I think I'm going to stop putting so much pressure on having good blog posts. In my head I imagine everyone laughing because my standards were so poor before, but I'll come here to ramble and stuff. No necessarily just outfits and makeup. Because I am mature now. All my friends are turning 18, meaning I'm friends with adults therefore I am practically an adult (crikey!!!!!!!!!!!!). Nah but I just mean not posting because I have no pictures. The picture I've used isn't relevant at all. Its a photo I took in summer of my dog after she finished sniffing the flowers. I suppose I could make it relevant, because dogs have no responsibilities and therefore they dont have to worry about writing an amazing 47 line document about how wonderful and impressive they are. I am not that wonderful or impressive, I think one of my most impressive qualities is that I am amazing at making popcorn on the hob and that I burp after every drink I have. Thats not even impressive just a fact about my life.

Anyway, see you guys soon. Good luck with personal statements and all that shitty school jazz. (Is it lame I just got so excited to be posting a blog post again and to catch up on all my friends blogs)(I dont actually really have any friend bloggers but there are some people who are my friend in my head)(and by some I mean lie 5749 people). 

Doomed Rainy Days

Gosh, I forgot how hard I find it to take decent outfit pictures! I was trying to take these before I went to college the other day. I wanted to get in early because I started at 11 but wanted to get in around nine, but because of the horrific rain there was on Friday the buses were all over the place. I was going to wear a jumper because I have the perfect jumper for rainy days- it has a rain cloud on it with a lightning bolt coming out of it! But my mum said it was going to be hot-ish and I would boil in a jumper. This was false though, I was freezing my tits off all day. Although, I was prepared for the rain with my trusty red raincoat. 

top-Asos  |  skirt-Asos(similar)  |  raincoat-no idea  |  socks-Primark
I apologise for the grainness of my camera- it just never seems to work that well unless super close up. Or maybe it's just me.

I absolutely love Ragged Priest, I wish their clothes weren't so pricey. I really want their doom and gloom dress but I do not own £45 to spend on a dress at the moment. Well actually, I do but I'm just not willing to spend that much on a dress at the moment. Ragged Priest and Lazy Oafs are the reason for my low bank account, I tell ya! If only I was famous and could get sent things for free. 

It's Sunday today and I haven't had much homework, and I can't really revise because well, I could, but instead I have had the most relaxing Sunday. I've been doing some English work and going to do some wider reading for Classics in a bit, but I feel like I am finally a woman as I have watched both the Bridget Jones films. I am ready to see the third one. Everyone used to act shocked when they found I had never seen Bridget Jones, and although I like shocking people I also do love watching a typical girlie film and wooah buddy did I enjoy indulging into the life of Bridget Jones earlier. Have you seen the Bridget Jones films? I feel so ready to see the third one, even though from the trailer Renee Zellweger looks so different and I feel like I would spent a lot of time just thinking 'wow you've changed' also I was watching a trailer with her and it blew my mind that she's American in real life. 

I Am Back!

I get so caught up with life that I forget to post. Not so much forget, but place priorities on other things and my blog gets pushed to the side, always a thing on my mind. I think one of the reasons for this is because I find it hard to make time to take photos and that is a big part of blogging. Loads of people with blogs love photography, but I prefer the writing part but obviously no one is going to want to look at a blog with no pictures (and I need pictures as well because I want to talk to you about my clothes, lets be real) but I am just so lazy when it comes to taking photos. Then this laziness adds to my blogging procrastination. 

However I have been hit with a burst of inspiration and blog ideas, but for now I just wanted to do a little update because I always enjoy writing these. SO!

You can't see here because I look a mess but my hair is pink again too! Wahoo!

I'm not really sure the chronological events of these things but I will try my best. I went to Reading festival again and had the best time ever. There's only so many things I can say without being boring but it was amazing. One of my regrets though is that I didn't realise till Sunday night how much I loved being on peoples shoulders, so I spent a lot of the time at acts on the floor when I couldd have been on shoulders. It's just so fun and if the crowd is a good one, it's so fun to see everyone going for the music. I just got slightly worried that I was going to crush people, but everyone was safe. Huzzah for strong people!

I was really excited to see Twenty One Pilots at Reading, but they had quite bad sound quality or something, either way I couldn't hear much but low and behold, they are touring! They sold out super fast but then another date came up on tablets rather than laptops and me and my friends managed to get them and ah! I am so excited! It's just annoying that loads of concerts are around October/November because I have mocks in December!

On the subject of exams, I also got my AS results this summer, I was happy with my results, apart from biology. I was going to keep it anyway and drop English lit because I hated English lit with a passion but then after the first day back at college I swapped back to English lit. I think one of the reason I hated it was because I didn't have a class that I bonded well with, not that they were mean but just, there wasn't much banter. And I didn't particularly warm to one of my teachers. But this year, I love my class (so far)(I have only had one lesson but I have a lot of friends in there and the person I revised English with is in my class and that makes me happy because now we can work together even more) and I love the teacher I have. I'm meant to be doing the coursework now but I just wanted to write a blog post more.

My only issue now is deciding what uni course I want to do, and unfortunately because I'm lazy I have hardly seen any unis and although open days are still happening, a lot happen on Saturdays and there is only so many days I can take off work! I really wanted to go see Nottingham but the open day was Friday which was the day of my first English lesson which I had to go to to talk to my teacher about my coursework plan. But there are some unis I feel safe not going to see because I know people that go there so can ask their opinion, or they're just loved by everyone in general.  What a stressful year ahead, am I right!

I know I have said this in every post recently but I feel this one in my bones, I think I will be able to get up more posts now I'm back at college. Yes there is a bigger work load but there is more structure to my days and woah, do I have a lot of frees in college now in which I can do work. Also, I have an ambition for this year to drink more water. Half of summer I was like the water goddess, I was fit and healthy and I am going to bring that me back. I love summer but oh boy was it busy. Anyway, adios friends, see you soon! Hope you have all had a goo start back to school/college/work!

Winnie The Pooh

Hey guys, woah good luck everyone getting results today! I don't know if it's too late to say good luck because nothing can change now really (unless you get your papers remarked) but either way I hope you are all happy with your grades!! Exams feel so long ago, it's so annoying we have to wait so long for our grades, because I feel like the wait is so long that getting a grade we're not happy with just makes the massive buildup so unnecessary. I'm not sure if that makes sense.

Anyway, enough talk of exams right now, I'm making myself nervous. I'm glad results are found out in the morning though, imagine having to wait till like four o'clock to find out, I'd be a sweaty nervous wreck, I tell ya. 

At my work the other day everyone was saying how on Tuesday it was meant to be a massive heatwave, and in my head I was planning fun things to do with my friends for the hot weather, but I won't lie to you guys, it wasn't that hot. It wasn't cold, but my mental plan of being able to eat 57 fruit pastille ice lollies and not being judged because it was just so god damned hot didn't go through. I managed to get a magnum though. Summer makes me nervous because I am always down for an ice lolly or ice cream and in that aspect I'd say I'm a pretty good friend because I can't imagine anything more lonely than being in a group of friends and being the only one with an ice cream. I'd feel like such a loser if none of my friends were eating an ice lolly and I was just there slurping at a calypo. Do you see where I'm coming from? It would just be embarrassing and lonely. Also it's a really horrible feeling to be shut down by friends when asking if anyone wants an ice cream and everyone says no, then trying to be nice they say 'but you still get one!' like, excuse me that's not the way it works. And I don't need the sort of friends in my life that don't want ice cream in their life. Luckily Tuesday though I didn't have that issue, we all got ice creams and it was a great shout from me, if I do say so myself. 

I got a magnum and I had been craving one for ages, on Saturday I went to buy a magnum but my friend picked up some galaxy wannabe magnums, which were nice but lets be real. A magnum is a magnum and no type of wannabe will ever top a magnum. Okay, my rant about ice cream is over, but I just needed to get it off my chest. We also got a bunch of fruit, which was nice because although I was eating despite not feeling an ounce of hunger it was healthy food so it was all good and no regrets were felt. I discovered I like coconut. Well, not exactly like but not dislike. I wasn't expecting the texture.

These dungarees are my favourite thing ever at the moment. I don't really have much else to say about them because I don't have to say how great they are because can't you just tell! Although what you can't see is how many pockets there are and how deep they are, it is glorious. Anyway, I will see you all soon and I hope you have a good results day and a good weekend and a good everything!

Brick Lane Puchases

Well, I have no idea what I've been doing this summer but it sure has been busy. I went to Brick Lane yesterday with my friend, I always seem to go on days that the market isn't open, but woah buddy I still make some good purchases. If I do say so myself. Also for lunch we ended up in this little street food corner and I have no idea what the heck I ate, all I know is the corn bun was delicious and I love fried plantains. It was really messy to eat, sort of a burrito in a bun (I say sort of, it was hardly like that but pretty much- I would have taken a photo but it did not look appetising) but I had to eat it so fast because it was just all slippin out the bun. 

Every time I go to Brick Lane I end up somewhere new and yesterday I ended up in Rokit. It's the only shop we went to because we spent so much but it was with it. My aim was to get funky shorts (I had a specific style in mind and I am glad to say that aim was a success), a funky top and a denim jacket. I ended up getting some of the cutest dungarees I've ever seen and a funky jumper. I can't wait to go again to get even more jumpers like this, it fits so perfectly and is so cute and quirky and perfect for when it gets a bit colder. Also, lets be real, baggy jumpers and skinny jeans with docs is my go to outfit. 

I've wanted shorts like this for so long, I think it would look so cute with a little black bralette, or tight black crop top or baggy black top tucked in. And can be worn in winter with tights! The same goes for the dungarees, I wanted to get long ones but couldn't resist these. Imagine them with glittery tights underneath, docs and a black top underneath, oh these outfits will be just adorable! And fingers crossed the weather will be nice in England next week and I can get some good outfit pics.