Getting ready for university

10 days to go!!!

So, I am going to be starting university very soon and I can safely say I am nervous, exciting and very very scared. Although, if you ask anyone else how I am coping they would say I am being very organised and seem to be looking forward to it. As my previous blog said I am scared I will feel I won't belong and be forgotten back at home, which I know is normal for every fresher, but, it makes me very anxious. I already feel like an outsider with my flatmates who I have found on Facebook they always seem so nice and happy, but whenever I write something in the group chat it seems that I am ending the conversation. I know that I am not great at conversations, but do they think I am a complete weirdo already. 

Freshers week scares me a bit too but not as much as fitting in does. Its just that I have no going out clothes because I don't go to clubs and stuff at home, but I want to try them out in freshers week. There is everything from a fancy dress party to an outdoor cinema planned and it seems like a lot of fun, and I can't wait to have some fun and smile. I haven't smiled for a while so it should be fun :D

Getting ready to leave for university has definitely not been very fun at all. It has involved a lot of washing and organising of books, photos and other memorabilia, and I haven't even started on packing clothes and toiletries, that's next week's job. One thing I am sure of is that I won't be wanting more stuff, my mum keeps on joking that I will be the most well equipped student in the whole university. But, I need a whisk just in case I want to make pancakes and I need a food blender just in case I want to make a smoothie or a soup. Its a little strange packing up my life in the next week. I know its not my whole life I still have friends who live at home and my parents still do too, its just most of my belongings will be coming with me and they will all have to fit into the boot of my mum's car. I really hope that I don't forget anything I am moving a six hour car journey away from home and its quite a trek back, plus I don't want the embarrassment of ringing up my parents and asking them to send something up by post.

I hope that university lives up to my expectations, I have been waiting for so long that I have formed so many ideas in my head of what it is going to be like. But the truth is, those ideas could be completely wrong. 

What does everyone else think about going to university for the first time? If you have already gone what have been your most memorable experiences? If anyone ever reads this it would be nice to read your thoughts on the subject below. I would love to be reassured that what I am feeling is normal.