I've Finished the First Semester of my First Year in University!

So the first semester of my first year of university is over! Yay!

Don't mind the face in the picture lol it's the only one I could find where I was actually in the air :D

Anyway, this past semester was pretty good, although there were a few rough patches for me. Firstly, at my university when you live on a hall of residence there is a tradition of going through orientation and being inducted onto the hall. That was a pretty hectic but fun experience for me but not for some of my friends who live on other halls :/ that went on for a week and a half, then came school.

I am a Spanish and French major (DOUBLE MAJOR EEEEP!) and so my courses are quite demanding and require me to be using the languages EVERY DAY, but I enjoy it. The lecturers are great and I find the conversation classes to be the best because you just talk. You talk about the topics covered in the lectures and students sometimes even start talking about topics they want to and the classes are just laid back and interesting. 

In addition to the school work, there re inter-hall competitions, this semester was mainly sports and so I had to wake up at 5am at times or leave the hall at 7pm to go and support my fellow hall mates at these games. I know absolutely nothing about sports so I just sat on the bleachers cheering my heart out lol and it worked because we won a couple games! 

As the semester began to come to an end, my hall mates and I began to prepare for our annual hall dinner and so everyone was getting themselves in a tizzy trying to find dresses and shoes; bags and jewellery; make up and hairstyles that they thought would suit them the best and we all went out and had a great time.

Red Carpet 

Did I mention I met some AWESOME people this semester?

After all of the festivities it was then time to settle down and prepare for exams which for me weren't all that bad...I don't think. I hope the results reflect the same thing hahaha *inserts anxious emoji here* 

THEN it was time to pack and go HOME! That was pretty exciting for me as I had packed a week before my exams had actually finished and before my parents were due to come and pick me and my sister up. Yes, I was that ready to go home. 

But all in all, it was a good semester and I hope that next semester will be even better although I've heard it will be much harder and the first one was just a little breather before the real work began. Yikes! Well, time will tell right?

So I'll end this blog post here and insert a few pictures for you to see what I'd been up to during the semester, if I can find any. 

Manager's Reception for all First Years on my Hall

I was being serenaded at the dinner

That's all I can find for now :/ sorry

Thanks Joel for taking the picture :D #TGIFPhotography 

Thank you for reading! 

Love, Toni