Thank you so much all of you who participated in my media project! I had my crit yesterday and I got really encouraging feedback from it, so much that I'm rather excited about the new things I will be doing in the future!!

I'm inbetween being busy at the moment, so I thought I'd take this moment to write this journal! Just had a rather successful driving lesson, off to north east london in a few minutes to photograph some lovely students who dress in vintage clothing for a poster of a WI society for younger women they are setting up. I love how word gets around when you're studying with new people. It's so exciting. Already had two people ask me for portrait commissions, well a few more but these two are serious types of jobs. (Then again... nothing's ever serious with me )!

Slightly nervous as I haven't sussed out the location they want to be photographed in but I'll make do, got my 18-55 lens ready. I probably should get a new lens but I'm one of those people who is happy to make do unless it's necessary. I will be finishing a gorgeous roll of medium format on monday, getting it developed for wednesday hopefully! It's all rather exciting actually. Especially now I'm studying Visual Communications, I think it's almost more my type of thing. I'm sortof... in between fine art and vis comm, personally.

If any of you like to follow 'blogs' of types. I am currently writing things 'daily' in a wordpress site. [link] It's called my Concept Box because right now all my thoughts are just full of ideas, I write them in sketchbooks all day long. When I think of things that are a little bit more than silly I write them in there. :]

My love life took a bit of a dip earlier this month or so, but I'm gearing up for happy and motivated with my art now. I can't believe how busy I am really. So many things to do all the time. I love it.

Wahey I hit 50,000 pageviews

That's nuts!


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Please can you take part in this project I am doing in media at university?

I'd appreciate it if you did it as soon as possible. Tell anyone else you know to give it a go too! The more the better!

I'll be writing some lovely journal again soon. Life is hectic.

Gosh I am a useless blogger. All those precious memories of being in America, eh? Well I'll be posting all the emails I sent to my mother everyday telling her every detail of my day, so you guys who were watching out for those journals won't be missing out!!

Of course I've been so away from the computer recently as I've started UNIVERSITY. I'm doing Art for a year, then choosing my full degree next year. It's like a year 0. It has turned out to be absolutely fantastic so far, some parts are long and drawn out compared to other times but it's sooooo cool.

I feel like I've been there a month but it's only the end of my first week! Then again I've been feeling this course for the past few months, so no wonder really. I love my new friends, I have lots of asian friends who are perfectly hilarious! A few other really good friends that are english too! So many fascinating people, I just love going in everyday (gosh that is sad).

I have started with two weeks in 3D & Spatial Design which is pretty intense, I've finished a sketchbook of sketching from galleries and observations around me, 3xA1 (594mm × 841mm)sheets that are filled with more sketches and observations, as well as 12 small scale sculptures that will inspire the next stage of making a large scale model, with some sortof purpose. It's all rather exciting really! (Though 5 hours making sculptures out of boxes was a bit slow haha)

Something that made me smile the other day was, we were talking about people at uni and how some people are unapproachable 'cos they come across as grumpy or something. Then my new friend Than said I must find that 'cos I'm always out for a laugh! Either the past week has changed me substantially or this guy doesn't know me AT ALL yet. I find myself being the one in the background wishing I was having fun, rather than going out there and making it happen. Whereas this week, I've had the most fun in months, maybe even years! I really appreciated what he said though, I've always wanted to be 'fun' in real life, I'm quite happy online but in day to day life I tend to turn into a big pessimist.

HOORAH FOR OPTIMISM. I hope it sticks.

I'll be journalling sometime -soon- with the link to the emails.

Hope you're all having fantastic times.

So yesterday I volunteered with the YMCA at this health fair, which was rather amusing. I was having a look round at all the stalls and there was the Gynecologists sitting there with a big plate of cookies iced and stuff and they were trying to sell me that and I was just eating the cookie and going, nomnomnomnmnmnmnmmn, and then breaking it to them that I lived in the UK roflmfao! And of course then they were all highpitched and excited about me and I giggled to myself. The most amusing was the saleswoman for laser treatment, and she was like, heyyy there nice to see you, would you like to look at my services? sorta thing, and I was like, k? And she just goes, WOULD YOU LIKE TO TRY SOME LASER HAIR REMOVAL?!? And I was like, LOL No thanks... I live in the UK... and she was like, GET IT DONE BEFORE YOU GO BACK ;D And I was just like, EEEEEEEEEEEP *runs* ROFLMFAO. The Rotary club guy was hilarious, he was this little asian guy and I told him I won a few photography competitions back home with them and he was like, MUST TAKE PICTURE, so he took a picture of me and wrote down my name and asked which college I went to. I told him and then he wrote down I went to Oxford University and I was like, roflmfao bless you. In my head of course. Overall it was rather amusing. I had myself a chilli dog with cheese which was quite unusual, oooh and tater tots ^_^ those things are delicious. It was really funny yesterday too 'cos my friend got called to the principals office for inappropriate clothing and expected the parents to run over there and bring some new clothes. That would neveeeeeeeer happen in england, they'd give you some clothes and the parents would never even know about it. But to do that especially over here where everything is like at least 30 minutes away from eachother is crazzzy. It was amusing all the same, especially as she wasn't as inappropriately dressed as they are in the UK. Ooooh I had some crazy bread and pizza yesterday that was yummy, never had crazy bread before, went allover my fingers. D: I'm not sure what I'm doing today at all, just got up and had me some poptarts, fruit loops and miiiiilk. :3 Whilst watching Frasier ofc. That's my morning routine now and it's just perfection.

So yesterday I went to Brenham and went to the town itself (which I'll get back to) and the icecream factory for Bluebell creamery!! Soooo awesome, I got my brother a t-shirt from there which is pretty sweet. I had a peach and vanilla icecream which I've never heard of ever in the UK but the size of the chunks of peach that were in the icecream were the best bit, they were HUGE. O_O; and one scoop was like a dollar! In the UK you'll be lucky if you get (lol I just freaked out 'cos there's no poundsign on the keyboard)... like 2 pounds for icecream as good as that. The Town of Brenham was adorable, I didn't quite realise little towns like that REALLY still existed. I went in an oldschool Soda Fountain which looked so cool! Also went in their new museum, so weird to see what they have in museums over here, obviously there's a lot of african american stuff compared to the UK. I was given some cotton plant which I thought was unusual, had never seen it in real life before. Also it had all the native americans sortof history which they'd found which was unusual too. I also went into an american highschool to drop off my friend's lunch, which was crazy, really huge place o___o. Bearing in mind this school had like well over 3500 students and my school and normally schools in the UK have like 1000 students. So crazy when they were all in the halls. I love waking up to the birds here, they sound so different, much more interesting than waking up to a wood pigeon everyday. I had been holding my breath about my first visit to an american supermarket, because it's just one of those things that I love to do when I go abroad. I have never seen a whole aisle devoted solely to soda before, especially one as large as that. Also, the flavours are completely different here, obviously there's a lot of mexican flavours 'cos I'm in texas, but I've never seen so many cinnamon products in my life. Especially never seen cinnamon gum before! Of course and peanut butter flavours, peanut butter in EVERYTHING, I swear! I want to try some peanut butter oreos ;o

I'll edit this later I reckon! Byeee