Easter Vacation (So Far).

Two weeks down, two and a bit to go. A month is a ridiculously long time when there’s not much to do. A lack of money and friends scattered around the country does not make for easy socialising, although spending time with my best friends than home has been much more exciting than I expected it to be. Catching up with someone I haven’t seen for a long time was an experience, to say the least. It’s amazing how much people change over such a short space of time. What’s even more amazing is how much they don’t.

I sat down today to go over the list I wrote this time last year, the list of things I wanted to accomplish before I was 19. It’s my birthday in exactly one month and so I’ve already started to think about the list of things I want to do before I’m 20. It’s a big list; I definitely plan on making the most of my final year as a teenager. I tend to work on more than one to-do list at once. I spend far too much time writing them. I suppose it could be called an addiction but I think it helps: they motivate me and keep me focused on my goals, however big or small. On my Easter Holiday list there’s a range of activities from reading Ian McEwan’s Atonement, completing all of my assignments, revising and completing N.E.R.D’s ‘Rockstar’ on expert on Band Hero. The last on that list I finally achieved today. The others are a work in progress. Somehow my priorities don’t seem quite right, but I feel like I’ve working hard this semester. I’m entitled to a little break.

And so on to next year’s list. A few things I’ve already put down: maintain a minimum of a 2:1 average, go abroad, read at least 20 books on my To Read list, gain some kind of work experience that will help with chosen career, get over The Boy. (Have I ever mentioned The Boy? Spectacular in so many ways and as lethal for me as the strawberry cupcakes I am so tempted by in the campus cafes.)

One the whole, this year has been one of the best. It scared me how quickly the time has gone; in a few short months I will no longer be a Fresher. I’m going to have to really start taking my work seriously and the phrase “Its first year. We only need 40%” is going to have to become a thing of the past. And as much as I am going to miss my Fresher status, living in halls and all of the other things that come with that, I cannot wait to move into the house with the girls and move onto the next part of my life.