I realise that I didn't leave Uni all that long ago, but there's this odd feeling you get when you leave...it's almost as if it never happened. You spend three busy years surrounded by new people going from social event to social event with a few essays in between and it all buzzes by so quickly that it's over before it's even begun. When you start your first year, you feel like you have forever. That those three years ahead of you will feel like a lifetime but unfortunately, that is not the case. I still cannot believe it is all over. I sit here back in my hometown at a time I should be packing up and making that nightmare journey ready to unpack my ridiculous amounts of 'stuff' in to my old room with the big bay window that during the winter made my bedroom feel like Alaska.
Alas, I am not. I am in my second coffee shop of the day (supping on tea because coffee goes straight through me if I drink it before 12pm for some strange reason), filling in yet another job application form which by now i'm pretty sure are getting sent off and then ending up in a black hole as I am hearing very little for all the forms I have sent out. I am sure that one day soon it will all just come together and I will be thankful for this time I have had to get involved with all the things that I won't be able to once I'm employed such as charity events, setting up groups at Church, catching up with people I have missed, making Christmas crafts already etc.
Having said all of this, I have started to think back to Uni and remember all the good things about it - which I of course, miss.
1) I miss this conversation; Me: It's 1am, I need to go to bed. talks. Me: Oh dear, it's 2am, I really should be in bed. talks. Housemate: It's 3am, you said you needed to go to bed 2 hours ago. talks. Me: It's 4am. There's no point going to bed now. (This happened a LOT in 2nd year)
2) I miss sitting in coffee shops all day with the same person. Oh, wait...I still do that.
3) I miss walking out of my door to Chester town centre and seeing approximately 1,500, 987 people that I knew.
4) I miss going into Starbucks and always finding someone I knew.
5) I miss Northgate Church.
6) I miss walking the walls. (google Chester, England and you will see these walls)
7) I miss the random adventures we would just decide to go on.
8) I miss my house and the way there was guaranteed to be someone there who didn't live with me at all times.
9) I miss my lectures. (The stupid ones - we were youth workers)
10) I miss living right by Starbucks so it would be rude if I didn't pop in on the way to my 9am lecture and then be late by at least 10 minutes because the queue was so flipping long.
11) I miss Cheshire. It's a lovely part of the world.
12) I miss all the amazing friends I made. (Going from seeing them every day to never is not so nice.)
13) I miss everyone mocking my accent (NOT)
14) I miss the Uni community - neighbours, friends of friends, people who lived on our street, different Church folk, CU folk.. all of them were great.
15) I miss being the only student house with a garden. I sat in that garden every single time the sun shone.
16) I miss being in a safe place where I didn't have to look for a job.
17) I miss our house, all 8 of us 'The Babs' became our infamous nickname and how everyone who visited (if we liked them enough haha) became 'A Babs.'
18) I miss student life.
19) I miss being in walking distance of everything.
20) I miss the cocktail bars.
21) I miss student discount
22) I miss being able to go to Orange Wednesday every week.
23) I miss not quite being a grown up.
I hate ending on an odd number but at the moment i'm not sure right now what specifics I would add. There are a LOT of things I miss and remember with fondness. That was a great chapter of my life and I am sad it is over. However, I am beginning to be excited to be the one who stays behind whilst everyone else goes back to University. I've never been that person before. My life at the moment is in a very humbling stage, getting knock backs from jobs that I must be qualified for and becoming a supporter and not being a leader are new experiences for me so I know I am going to learn a lot in this stage.
I loved University life - it was the best decision I ever made and I will always look back on it with a thankful heart and a tear in my eye!
Much Love xxx
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