Friday, December 21, 2007

Crowds

Bizarrely enough, I've actually missed the crowds. The hustle and bustle, the anger of other shoppers, losing friends in the flow of the crowd, the art of weaving in and out people and wondering if the woman in front can possibly walk any slower. A new one, which happened today, was when a kid decided to sit on my friends feet as we were struggling to get into a shop...haha. The weird thing is that there can be so many people and you could be shopping for hours and not bump into anyone you know or you'll bump into someone you haven't seen in years...the magic of shopping. Especially christmas shopping, nothing like stressful shoppers getting those last little stocking fillers.

...ok, then there was this Alvin the Chipmunks promotion thing going on where there was a stage and random people dancing on it...what was the point?? If anything it put me off actually seeing the film, just reassured my first opinion about how pathetic it is remaking something I grew up as a child with...a classic. Ye, I had the chipmunks single that they released...love shack? Yeh, high pitch voices, your point?
Ramblings...

Monday, December 17, 2007

Home for Christmas

My first semester at uni is over. 12 weeks of meeting new people, experiencing lectures and assignments, going on a school placement and having a hire car, waking up at 5:30 in the morning for placement and generally having a good time.

It all feels quite surreal to be home, but i can't work out if being at home is the surreal part or the fact that I've been at uni. Last night I had presentation evening at my old school, it was really strange looking at everyone, it felt like a completely different world. It hasn't been that long but it's amazing how much people change. To be fair, I think I was noticed as changing the most by the change in my accent. Which on my half was a concious thing I've wanted to do for a while. Why? Well frankly because the accent I'm surrounded by at home isn't the best sounding and because I needed to improve it for professional reasons. If I'm meant to be teaching children, they need to be able to understand me lol.

Either way, I'm now 19 (yes it was my birthday the other week) and I'm home for the rest of 2007. It makes me realise that Uni is going to go by so quickly...am I preparing myself for the life beyond it?