Back in Manchester

Hi.

So, I will begin this post by firstly gloating like a true attendee of higher education about how good it feels to be back at University and how life is just "seewwww guurrddd yaaarrr". The transformation is instant, you go from being a slob/couch potato at home to a personification of words such as free, dynamic and independent; unfortunately, sometimes in the less mentally privileged of us, 'YOLO' is also included in this list which fundamentally makes no sense but doesn't really pose a great issue at that level (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=yolo more info for those lucky ones who have not been tainted...yet). It is genuinely a fantastic feeling and I would thoroughly recommend anybody who hasn't yet left home to go and experience life outside of that environment. However, like I said in my previous post, there really is nothing like home and that is something I would personally encourage to always keep in mind.

Being the first day back today it felt like I had never been away. The big news is that I a few weeks back I had decided to obtain a job in Manchester to earn back some money to pay off my student bank balance, which had unfortunately repeatedly shown figures featuring the minus sign. Obviously these figures were wrong *cough* #studentlifeproblems. I have found during my time so far at Uni that a lot of people aren't sure whether to get a job or not, especially when doing content heavy courses such as medicine. I myself was afraid to look for and apply for jobs but desperation called and so I managed to be successful in being hired by Hollister at the Manchester Arndale Centre shopping mall. So I found myself trotting across at 9 o'clock this morning to be inducted. The job is good in terms of fitting around the course heavy weeks as the hours are fairly flexible due to the no-contracted hours policy operated by all Hollister stores. This will hopefully mean that I'll be able to do shifts as and when I am available, thus not interfering with my exams coming up soon. I will be sure to keep you posted on this student debt motivated experiment and whether it is indeed as good a deal as it sounds!

Anyway, I will bring in a wardrobe element into the next post featuring the work uniform...just like a class A student (knob).

Ciao for now.

VZ x