A Whole New World (without the magic carpet)

Since Tour, I've helped host the SRA Conference 2011, attended Sports Colours 2011, celebrated my 21st birthday, finished my degree at UH, started full-time at The Grapevine as a Reporter, and best of all, had my Summer Ball!

Westwood with the Crush Team.

Sports Colours 2011

The first picture of all my Final Year housemates (Kela Lewis-Morin, Claire Brookes and Davut Unsal) and I together at All Bonked Out! (The last of three years of "Bonk!"-ing)

Summer Ball 2011 with Letara Buckley (my shirt is PURPLE, despite what it may look like in pictures)

But after all the fun times, I now feel like I deserve my grey hairs - I feel so old! The only way I can describe the feeling of leaving university is like this:

Imagine it is autumn, a pile of dead leaves are on the floor, and you and your friends are insects living in the pile. You know that sooner or later the seasons will change and your temporary home will be gone, but sooner than expected a leaf blower comes and "whoosh!" everything has separated. You and a few others managed to cling to the same leaf, others maybe didn't get blown too far away, but the pile is gone! Sad times.

Although comparing myself to a bug living in a damp rotting leaf-pile isn't the nicest way to describe things, it is just a metaphor and I will always hold on to my university experiences. Even if I have to visit the Forum again when I'm 45.

Scooby Doo: Day One

So the sponsored Scooby week has begun, and as promised I will be blogging everyday to show you what I've been getting up to!

So Monday 28th March 2011, day one, and I went to work at The Grapevine Magazine...

After the office got used to having a large cartoon dog around, I also began to get used to the costume and forgot I was wearing it for a bit. Until I went to lunch around Welwyn Garden City!

I decided to go to KFC and on the way I had little children pointing, with almost everyone smiling at the sight of me - it was nice!

After work I had kickboxing, so I decided to train with the others for a bit...

but after about two minutes of skipping I started to overheat! So I had to stop to be frank(furter)... HOT DOG.

The 28th was also my housemates birthday - Davut Unsal. So I left kickboxing early and when he arrived home we took him to Nandos in Stevenage and then the arcade.

Watch this space to see what I get up to over the rest of the week!