Sunday 8 July 2007
Berlin
I'm hoping that my year abroad in the city of Berlin will give me many experiences which I will want to share with someone else except my local cafe owner there - so hence the reason for this blog! Here's to new excitement!
Warwick Experiences
I've only recently realised how final some goodbye's were at the end of my second year, this year.
When I return from Berlin so many of my friends will graduate and move on, which means that our time together in the university experience has now passed. How quickly it all seems to have gone. I refuse to see it as something negative, however, but rather that I am so thankful for all the wonderful times I have shared.
This year I was lucky enough to be an Orientation Week helper, where I really felt I was in my element! So many cultures, nervous faces, and often situations just needed a friendly face and a joke or two. One night the Iroko Tree Theatre Company, (http://www.irokotheatre.org.uk/) played and I reached some sort of semi-trance - it was beautiful. I danced to those drums for 3/4 hours straight, and at the end I nearly fainted! There was just nothing left in me! Amazing.
One World Week (www.oneworldweek.net) introduced me to really hard work which I wanted to do, a strong team, being able to utterly trust someone and the incredible feeling of seeing a project through to completion. As always with these things, what I will take away most from it are the wonderful personal relationships - working and friendships - which I developed. Defintely a life-time memory.
I am so lucky to be surrounded my friends, but there are some who really stand out and make you fall asleep with a smile when you think of them. Thank you for those.
My actual degree seemed to be very much a secondary committment for a long while, only once the Easter holidays came round could I rediscover why I love studying History and Sociology so much! I enjoyed revision and the long essays, to the point that when it was over, I was quite sad!
Revelation Rock Gospel Choir (www.rev.org.uk) has enabled me to release all the stress and emotions through singing every week with a group of people who I hardly knew, but still loved for their kindness and generosity - from which I have much to learn. I strongly feel that this group has led me on a whole new journey. I wonder where it shall lead.
When I return from Berlin so many of my friends will graduate and move on, which means that our time together in the university experience has now passed. How quickly it all seems to have gone. I refuse to see it as something negative, however, but rather that I am so thankful for all the wonderful times I have shared.
This year I was lucky enough to be an Orientation Week helper, where I really felt I was in my element! So many cultures, nervous faces, and often situations just needed a friendly face and a joke or two. One night the Iroko Tree Theatre Company, (http://www.irokotheatre.org.uk/) played and I reached some sort of semi-trance - it was beautiful. I danced to those drums for 3/4 hours straight, and at the end I nearly fainted! There was just nothing left in me! Amazing.
One World Week (www.oneworldweek.net) introduced me to really hard work which I wanted to do, a strong team, being able to utterly trust someone and the incredible feeling of seeing a project through to completion. As always with these things, what I will take away most from it are the wonderful personal relationships - working and friendships - which I developed. Defintely a life-time memory.
I am so lucky to be surrounded my friends, but there are some who really stand out and make you fall asleep with a smile when you think of them. Thank you for those.
My actual degree seemed to be very much a secondary committment for a long while, only once the Easter holidays came round could I rediscover why I love studying History and Sociology so much! I enjoyed revision and the long essays, to the point that when it was over, I was quite sad!
Revelation Rock Gospel Choir (www.rev.org.uk) has enabled me to release all the stress and emotions through singing every week with a group of people who I hardly knew, but still loved for their kindness and generosity - from which I have much to learn. I strongly feel that this group has led me on a whole new journey. I wonder where it shall lead.
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