Un Sogno

A little bloggerino just before I go back to studying..

I had a very odd but good dream this morning. Full of the things that make dreams awesome. Time travel, heartache, an Italian lady whose eyebrows got smaller as she aged, a love interest, panoramic views from very high up in leather seats in front of a huge plate glass window, a very nice grey coat, an abandoned cottage in the countryside that was clearly not in Ireland, a train, confusion with lifts, deja vu, and a cinematic ending that was tragic and cliched in equal measure, but mostly tragic for me.. though it didn't quite make sense..

Ah I love dreams. And that's a much more interesting way of describing one than having to listen to the whole dream start to finish, which can get dull for someone who wasn't there and wouldn't really get it anyway. And it was a long dream.

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Personal Statement, naffness for your reading pleasure.. ish...

It may sound clichéd to say that I’ve had an interest in English and drama all my life, but I literally have. I’m told that when I was young, my favourite thing would be to listen to the adults just talking, absorb words and repeat them (some more appropriate than others!). My mum was also key in giving me an interest in reading, having been told by her uncle “You can’t force them to be readers” she certainly did her very best, and it worked for me. I have always loved reading from Flip and Flop, to The Secret Seven, to Harry Potter, to Pride and Prejudice, to Twilight, to Paper Towns, and more or less everything in between. Writing has also been one of my passions, and I’ve always loved writing anything down, especially stories, which have thankfully matured since the mermaid and princess stories of my youth. I’ve also kept diaries, however infrequent, almost since I learned how to write, and I now keep more regular blogs on the internet, which I keep as coherent as I can, when they’re not rife with teenage angst of course.

As far as I’m aware, as long as I’ve loved reading and writing, I’ve loved drama and acting. I started going to a drama class when I was six and absolutely loved it. After receiving a distinction in my first drama exam I moved to an “advanced class”, in which the teacher was terrifying, and only my absolute commitment to drama kept me from dropping out. When I went into secondary school, I started drama lessons there and it was a very different, much more positive experience. However, since there are only two people in a group I do miss working in a larger group, and putting on productions, so I always try to get involved in musical, play or otherwise whenever I can. Last year I also had my first experience of working backstage, as stage manager for a play our school entered in a competition (and won), and I really enjoyed it, and would like to have some more experience in that area.

My other hobbies, outside of drama and reading and writing, would be standard teenage answers, I love music – and though I do well in solo singing and choirs, unfortunately I can’t play an instrument – and I love going out with my friends and travelling. I’ve been lucky enough to go to some amazing places with my family, and I have a very long list of other places I want to see someday too! Another of my less common hobbies is video-blogging. I make videos about anything I feel like and post them on YouTube, and while it may sound like quite an odd activity, there are so many good aspects, one of the main ones being I have made amazing friends from all over the world through it, by getting in touch with fellow video-bloggers and I’ve actually met several of them at YouTube get-togethers and count them friends for life. As well as the social aspect, YouTube has also greatly improved the computer skills that I had not learned as part of my ECDL, particularly with video and sound editing software, on both PCs and Macs; as well as refining my communication skills, by being able to get across my meaning clearly and eloquently, and not taking a 9 minute video to do so!

I also frequently babysit for friends and neighbours, as I get on well with children, and feel responsible enough to look after them.

As a person I am very friendly and like meeting new people, and I’m rather enthusiastic about things, which people can sometimes find a little surprising, but when they get to know me, I’m kind, have a great sense of humour, and am a really good friend and person to be around in general. I am mostly organised, helped by the fact that I am a bit of a stationary fiend, and like to know that everything has its place, wherever it is.

I haven’t decided what I want to do after I finish university, I think perhaps something media-based, but at the moment as I’m not absolutely sure, I can’t think of a better thing to do than read two of my favourite things for the next four years.

I had to keep cutting it down, it was a killer..