It's time to make myself a new blog here, after my testing blog here had to be removed when the forums went public.

Just a little about myself before i get started, I'm 19 and I'm a student at Nottingham Trent University. I'm studying history, and my hopes are either to become a teacher at secondary level, or somehow be involved with research. Whatever I do, I want to bring interesting history to people with things they did not know before. I started moved in here last Friday, and am really enjoying my freshers week here, as it's the most intense week i hope I'll ever go through.

If you don't know what Freshers week is, it is basically a week before university officially starts, where in the daytime you have inductions, tester lectures and where you choose what modules you wish to take. And at night, you go out, EVERY night. I'm hoping to make the full 8 nights out in a row, currently at 6, but I'm running massively low on money as my loan has yet to come through.

So, now to today.

Had to wake up at around 11 to go to the Freshers fair, which is a fairly large event with stalls giving away masses of free gifts, goody bags and the like. Nothing essential, or compulsory, but nice for some free gear. I went to the are it was in, and WOW. The line was literally half a mile long, it went so far along the street, I thought I'll go do something else and come back'. So I went up to meet one of the Heady in charge of History at the university as i managed to miss a meeting yesterday which involved the students choosing which modules we want to take. I went there and chose to add Global Studies to my course (you had to choose one extra add on for the course). It took me maybe an hour to get there, fill in the forms and get back. I went back the way of the Freshers fair and the line had doubled, it now encircled the building (and it is not a small building). So i just came back to my flat and chose to ignore the whole thing, it wasn't essential anyway.

So tonight is Gatecrasher night, never been there before but I'll give it a go. Shouldn't be bad, although I don't have much money or drink left.

Time to go ring the parents to ask for some money I think, so crossed fingers!