First day back for second year!! [Betty]

Yesterday I finally had my first day of uni after four full months!!

Hey. My name’s Betty and I’m a second year Arts student, majoring in Creative Writing. You might remember me from last year when I was a first year blogger. Probably not though, because I kinda disappeared in semester 2 after it slapped me full across the face.

This time I’ve promised myself to actually keep up the commitment so we’ll see how that goes.

I was on campus from 9 to 6, which is fun to moan about to anyone who’ll listen because it finally feels like I’m doing something with my life again. (I’ve spent a little less than four months with ants crawling all over my skin and inside my skull, where all I wanted to do was get up and run and do something but I was securely strapped down on the anthill.)

In the morning, when I tried to pack my bag, I was greeted with a big handful of MUSH because lo and behold there was a squashed, blackened banana at the very bottom.

😳🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

It had dots of furry white mould all along its split-open skin, seeping into the very fabric of the bag. Rotten insides pouring out. I thought, ewww has this been sitting here for four full months?! So I had to throw the whole bag out and take one of my dad’s ugly bulky grey backpacks instead. Why do I function like a dysfunctional high school boy?

In the confusion I forgot my lunch, my coffee and my headphones, so I couldn’t even watch the lecture that I’d skipped on Monday to go to work for. Then I got on the wrong train so the usual 30 minute train ride turned into a 50 minute one and I walked into my first class of the year a full 15 minutes late. Humiliating.

But it was all worth it to finally make it onto campus. I got to do my favourite thing in the world – creative writing!!! – in my creative writing tutorial, then I learnt some of the Korean alphabet, which is fun because it’s a puzzle that actually makes sense. I chose Korean 1 as my breadth subject because why not. I like kdramas and life is too short to be serious. I wish I’d known last year that you can take languages as breadth even in an Arts course. Would definitely recommend for first year students.

Then at prime dinner time, which was when my last tutorial of the day was, I used the last of my depleting blood sugar to write about a mermaid making a library go mouldy. (When my tutor asked people to share I carefully averted my eyes. I’m truly sorry, Miss.) I was so tired I felt a little drunk. The room spun when I turned my head.

On the train ride home I fell asleep and full-on drooled onto my own collar. Gross. So so tired. But so worth it, as I said. Until it slaps me in the face again I’m really excited for this year. Hope you guys are the same. We’re all gonna smash this semester outta the park, I can sense it :))

Cheers and see you next time,
Betty