Twenty-one year old Literature student at university. Enjoys playing Violin, photography, singing, reading, museums, art galleries, Paris, Audrey Hepburn films, baking and her boyfriend David.
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Yaaaawn. Violin lesson was amazing and challenging! A little callus is busy forming on my left index finger, aha. Still, it is nowhere near as painful as the ones I used to get when learning to play the acoustic guitar when I was sixteen! My fingers after playing the violin are instead warm, as opposed to on fire.
What else have I been up to today? Not much really. I bought some strawberries and bananas to eat for breakfast tomorrow, since they were on offer! Also arranging moving out dates and whatnot.
This reminds me from the scene at the Natural History Museum in ‘The Time Machine’ by H. G. Wells - such a good book!
Just received some great news. I’ve been offered an Internship at an Art Library next Easter. I’m releived to obtain some work experience that is related to what I would like to do! I really want to become an Art Librarian…
My boyfriend took this photograph on my iPhone, budding photographer, I reckon.
Ah, today was wonderful, I hope I never forget it.
David and I went to Hyde Park and went on the rowing boats late afternoon. We went for a bite (literally, even the waiter was making faces and circled the 241 offer on the receipt!) to eat in Oxford Street and walked there. It was just so nice to spend some quality time together when there’s all the stress going on with the moving/money/jobs/Uni-dissertations/family things. Days like today spur on conversations and laughter that would have never taken place otherwise, due to prioritising. The future seems less frightening now, and potentially moving to the countryside after university seems likely. I cannot wait. As much as I love London, part of me feels that by growing up with it, I’m slowly growing out of it, like a flower that begins to bend the longer it lives. Interested in other things and new grounds. I want to know what it is like where there are buses with no Oyster sign to tap on, I want to experience befriending a community, I want to grow fruit in a garden (silly as it may sound). There’s so many exciting possibilities that I haven’t even begun to imagine.
I was meant to see a lady about potentially babysitting for her children, but it turns out that she is leaving the country, which is why David suggested going for a row in the sun. However, when I checked my e-mails on the bus, it turns out that there’s an art gallery in London that hold internships for their small library. I received an e-mail back (an extreme rarity) and it turns out that they might be interested in me during the October period or next summer. Despite this, it places less stress on me in terms of finding work experience that is credible, reputatable and worthwhile before applying for a graduate traineeship. I think that my current library work, or lack thereof, will not be strong enough unfortunately. But this would be an incredibly exciting experience, that could provide me with a strong insight to what an MA degree could lead me to.
However, I have a Violin lesson tomorrow. I cannot wait. I should be given the Violin that I’m meant to be practising with. Ahh…sweet sounds…
Listening to my Fleetwood Mac vinyl, which I bought for a bargainous pound last year. It feels nostalgic listening to this record, as I remember dancing like a grandfather in the lounge with my fellow housemates to it just after I brought it home. A year has passed and we’re all parting our ways. It is genuinely sad, to be honest. It is for the best, though.
Should be moving out two weeks tomorrow (if my unreliable maths is correct). It is a little daunting, as the new tenants have yet to find a final sixth person to move in with them, but fingers crossed all will go well. As a result, however, it looks like I will be moving back home to the outskirts of London. It will be strange being at home after living indepdently for two years, but at least I shall have David, Scout and my violin :)
I get my new Violin on Tuesday during my lesson. I can’t wait to bring it home and practise. It will be so fun and if I’m honest, I’m feeling a little lost right now. I have to wait before any further job searching can happen, and reading books while it is lovely, doesn’t make me feel that I am on a break from university work - since I’ve been reading roughly three novels every week for the past year.
I’ve become the budgeting queen for today. I’ve been working out how I can afford to live during summer, and although difficult, it is possible to do without a job. I really hope I do get a job though. I received a voicemail from a Creperie yesterday, and yet I couldn’t bring myself to ring them back. I just knew it would be such a stressful job, it is so far away to travel and I would have been paid, again, according to the minimum wage. I’d much rather spend my time volunteering for an Internship that is related to my future career.
The only luxury I will have this summer are my Violin lessons. Apart from that I will be preparing for my Dissertation or rummaging through reading lists in general. I think Music gives me a real sense of motivation and enthusiasm for life. It’s very therapeutic. The idea of playing with other people in an orchestra gives me so much excitement, and makes the idea of leaving University next year less difficult, just because it is something I can continue after I graduate. I really think it will become my new passion. When I began learning the acoustic guitar when I was sixteen I would stay in my bedroom for hours memorising tablature and strumming/picking styles. I never got bored of it, I merely got distracted by university prospects and now I know so many people who are more confident guitarists I feel too out of practice. However, I’m so glad I was given the chance to do it as nobody in my family owns a musical instrument. So this will be my little personal project, and it really makes me happy.
Student Mentor training also went well the other day. Looks like I’ll have up to ten freshers to look after. Aww! It should be interesting. The university choir is also going really well, we’re performing the Holst piece in front of a hundred and sixty people next month! So I need to practice!
Aww this video is so cute! I really like Nicola Benedetti, and she’s a good role model to look up to while I’m learning :) Although I never really got into classical music until this year really I had her first album when I was fourteen and really enjoyed it. I really want to go to Italy at some point in the next five years.
I found out yesterday that my university choir is doing a performance next month, which I’m excited about! It could turn out terribly, but it’s the effort that counts, aha.
Been lazing in the sun today, but not for too long, as I have been the source of food for numerous insects. This made me sad :(
When I was fair and young then favour graced me; Of many was I sought their mistress for to be. But I did scorn them all, and answered them therefore, Go, go, go, seek some otherwhere, Importune me no more.
How many weeping eyes I made to pine in woe; How many sighing hearts I have no skill to show; Yet I the prouder grew, and answered them therefore, Go, go, go, seek some otherwhere, Importune me no more.
Then spake fair Venus’ son, that proud victorious boy, And said, you dainty dame, since that you be so coy, I will so pluck your plumes that you shall say no more Go, go, go, seek some otherwhere, Importune me no more.
When he had spake these words such change grew in my breast, That neither night nor day I could take any rest. Then, lo! I did repent, that I had said before Go, go, go, seek some otherwhere, Importune me no more.
I remember reading this when I was twelve years old. I loved the Tudors. After dropping out of school it was the only period in History which caught my full attention. I miss studying them in sixth-form. Tudor History was my strongest subject, aside from English.
Yay. I’ve been selected to be a Student Mentor next year. Lovely news.
Went to Parsons Green this morning to meet with a lady who I may babysit for in the future. She seemed really lovely and apparently there were two hundred who applied and she cut it down to three, including me. Fingers crossed the children like me :) :)
Going to university later, as it’s Bop. Basically just a chance to have drinks and chat with people I haven’t seen in a while. I hate catching a taxi back, though, grumpgrump.
Very excited for next week. Mentor training, seeing my brother, Violin lesson, Choir etc. I’m sure things will get busier especially as I’ve sent of tons of job applications. I donated so many items of clothing to charity recently, as I’ve lost so much weight and none of my clothes fit me anymore. Plus we’re moving out and I needed to cut down the amount I had. Got a basic black dress (comme le beau Hepburn), black bag, tights, mac coat, wearable heels and got my hair cut by a man who resembled Jack Sparrow. I’m trying to adopt a more classic and timeless fashion style, really. Seeing as I’ll be twenty two in half a year and graduating, I wanted to look more mature.
