When everyone else goes back to Uni…

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“While everyone updates their social media feeds with going back to Uni posts, I’m happily sitting on my deck looking at this insane farm I’m lucky to call work and home.”

So yeap… it’s coming up to that time where everyone is getting excited to go back to Dunnerz for O-Week. I should probably be sad that I can’t go but to be honest it doesn’t actually bother me a hell of a lot. Instead I thought I’d do a blog post about how to survive O-Week.

Survival Tip #1: Hide your wallet from yourself after you buy your drinks for the night.

No seriously. Do it. If you’re anything like me this will save you hundreds of dollars hahaha. Honestly you don’t want to end up back at Leith Liquor where drunk you decides to walk out with a $50 bottle of Vodka or Malibu just because you “don’t feel like scrumpy anymore.” I probably did that 5 nights in a row.. oops.

Survival Tip #2: Don’t go to the comedy night, its shit.

I literally cringed the whole way through. Infact I didn’t even make it to ten minutes into the show before I got up and left to go home and party lol.

Survival Tip #3: Eat food before you start drinking.

Sounds obvious I know, but trust me its a mistake I make way to often! Just do it.. then you’ll be able to last until 4/5am and not pass out at 1/2am haha.

Survival Tip #4: Drink water before you pass out.

Blah blah blah re-hydrate yourself before you go to bed to avoid hangovers. Everyone knows that trick haha. $5 bag of lemonade ice-blocks are mean too when your hungover lol.

Survival Tip #5: Keep your phone in a safe place.

Don’t do a Keely and keep it in your hand the whole night or give it to randoms because they want to snap-chat.. I lost my phone way too many times during o-week and it literally had my life on it haha.

Survival Tip #6: Get drunk.

Seriously like everyone says “oh don’t drink too much” but who cares man.. drink as much as you want thats what o-week is haha getting pissed for a week (y)

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Right, so I’ve been wanting to start a blog for a pretty long time now and I’ve began to find I have a lot of free time on my hands, so why not start one now? 

Hi I’m Keely! Most of you probably have no idea who the hell I am or even care but that’s fine I’ll probably just ramble on anyway in the hopes that at least one person gets something out of what I have to write about.

So I should probably tell you about why I decided to create this blog and answer the question you are all so keen to know about… “Why the hell did she call her blog that?” Well a few weeks ago I found out that I didn’t make it into the course of study I wanted to do for my second year of University. At the end of 2016 I applied for Teachers College at The University of Otago. All was going to plan until they emailed me back telling me that my birth certificate was out of date and I would have to apply for a new one. Sounds easy right? Well, it was just my luck that the same time I got that email was the exact same time the big November Earthquake struck Kaikoura/Christchurch and Birth, Deaths and Marriages were only taking Emergency circumstances. I applied for my birth certificate and asked for it to be couriered because I needed it asap only for it to end up in my mail box like 2/3 weeks late. That was pretty shitty… anyway I scanned it and sent it away to the University and within a week I had had a reply saying I was just too late and they couldn’t accept me. As you can imagine I was pretty frustrated but hey, thats life and life can be pretty shitty sometimes!

So now that you know what the title is all about I’ll let you know why I decided to create this blog thingy. I know you’re all probably thinking “she’ll probably just write about how depressed she is all the time because she didn’t get into uni.” I know I would be if I was reading someone else’s blog that was called ‘A life without University.’ But, I’ve decided that instead of dwelling on the negative impacts this event will have  on my life why not focus on the positive? I mean I have so much free time now (sort of) to work on myself and the goals I want to achieve so why not make the most of the year off right? I thought I might list a few things I want to tick off the bucket list this year:

  1. Go overseas – Whether it be to the islands or to China, I don’t mind but I seriously need to feed the thirst I’ve been having for travel lately!
  2. Tramp the Fiordlands with Isabelle – This one might have to be an end of year thing… I don’t fancy hiking in freezing cold weather conditions.
  3. Start playing competitive sport again – Might explain this one on another blog post later on in the month.
  4. Learn how to not be as awkward in random social settings – I’ve been finding that I am the most awkward person ever and never reciprocate questions. I answer what I can and do the best to avoid situations. Can you do workshops on this kind of stuff hahaha?
  5. Try new foods – I love food but always stay within my same food bubble… it’s definitely time to expand on my horizons.

I’m sure there are heaps more but I can’t think right now so I’ll have to get back to you on that one. Anyway, thanks for reading if you made it to the end ;) Look forward to updating you on my adventures for the year <3

K x