Beautiful, Dirty and not so rich.

Ah, the height of student life. Drinking watery Sainsbury's value tomato soup, cold, in a messy student flat counting down the minutes until I have to go to work. Honestly? A year ago, this is what I worried about.

However, it's not all that bad. The fact I can make soup is an accomplishment in itself, for some students, this may have been a struggle. The fact it is wednesday and I still have £7 in my purse, also something to be proud of. The fact I even have a part time job in this current world. Very good, in fact, I have two. Maybe even greedy there. Also, I just found out one of my films came 2nd in an international hospitality competition, good however no cash prizes, bad times.

Swings and roundabouts really. Yet I bet you're wondering 'why are you still in halls of residence on december 22nd?' Surely I should be eating those quality street's with my mum arguing the strawberry ones are mine and the purple hazelnut ones are hers. Surely I should be wrapping up presents. Decorating the tree. Putting together the nativity and baking mince pies with my dad?!

Nah. I have to work at the stupid jewellers until christmas eve and look forward to the 7 hour drive home.

Honestly? The jewellers isn't that bad, I could still be working in the milkshake bar..or Starbucks. :/

The point is, I'm a fresher in uni, studying television production. I ventured down south to study this, knowing I'll have a better chance getting into the industry. I study at Bournemouth which is one of the best for television, I went to channel 4 and they told me to go to Bournemouth or Ravensbourne or give up. So I did. :)

I originally come from a small fishing town on the north east coast. Now I thought it wouldn't be that different however, you'd be surprised at the northern, southern divide. For starters, I keep saying 'Mardy' when someone is in a bad mood and no-one knows what the hell I'm on about. Everyone calls buns 'baps' and London is 'up', which is fairly confusing.

The thing that annoyed me the most was, I met this girl, who's 19 and never had a job. She told me she 'toyed' with the idea, but never fancied it as it seemed like a lot of effort. I found this insane. No disrespect to the girl, if I didn't have to work I wouldn't. She's obviously been lucky in wealth in her family, but to be honest, I think it's her missing out, not me. For example, if I never worked at Starbucks, I wouldn't know how to make coffee. If I didn't work at H Samuel, I wouldn't know how to handle rude posh people who don't want a warranty.. so maybe I'm not missing out after all. All this knowledge I have learned from these jobs have some how helped to make me 'a better person'.

However, mum? dad? If you do have some kind of loaded bank set aside for me, please send it over, Sainsbury's value tomato soup sucks.