Melbourne Uni bound

Hello my lovelies, 

Well, as the title suggests, I am officially a student of The University of Melbourne. Offers came out on Monday and it was the most amazing feeling getting my first preference and knowing all my hard work paid off in the end. I'm still not sure what I'm going to do in the long term or what career I'm going to be choosing, but I figure I have three years to sort that part of my life out. I'm going to lean  a little towards the biological side of things, maybe consider a post-graduate in medicine if I enjoy it enough. Also might look into pharmaceutical science, always enjoyed chemistry even if it wasn't my best subject. Also a real good thing about Melbourne is that I'll get to take a breadth subject, so I can continue Japanese! Hopefully I haven't forgotten it all, that would not end well when I return... 

I suppose it's a really big chapter to start in my life, finally and adult and finally going to university. I'll be truthful, I'm more nervous than I am excited. It's been a long time since I've had to meet new people and a part of me feels like I just found the right friendship group and I finally fit in somewhere. I can trust these people I've surrounded myself with, I know they're dependable and they won't betray me or hurt me. It's hard to open up again, or to think I'll connect in the same way with a different group of people. I honestly don't know how I'm going to find anyone who would come close to the friendship I have with Jane, the comfortable silences over coffee we have all the time. I guess I'm really skeptical about finding people who really understand me and are more than just a surface based friendship. I know I should be really excited to start this new part of my life and be open to so many more things, but I'm not exactly the whole lets-be-friends outgoing type, and I'm so fed up with fake people and lies that a part of me just cannot be bothered subjecting myself to that kind of venerability again. I know, cynical right? Nevertheless, I'm sure I'll end up making friends and I'll have a million stories to tell and finally someone new to talk to, just don't quite see the excitement in it yet. 

 Now that the deep reflection of my future has ended, I guess we can go back to the fashion. Apparently my cousin is getting married, so his parents flew down and saw my grandmother. They brought with them some wicked presents, including this gorgeous electric blue jumpsuit. I don't own a jumpsuit, let me point that out now. They always seem to look really ugly on me. If they cinch at the waist or have an elastic waistband then it tends to hug my hips in the most unflattering way and accentuates them more (not a good look and not the part I want to be highlighting, for the record). This, however, doesn't have any of that and instead makes my legs look incredibly long. 

I went to dinner with my Japanese class, which did not need this much glamour but I cannot resist an excuse to dress up so I went all out. The necklace is a chunky gold lion's head that my brother bought me as a gift from an antique shop. I paired it with an H&M wide brimmed straw hat - straw hats are actually better than felt I've discovered because I can pin it to my head through the little holes to hold it in place, very useful when you get a windy day like today. The jumpsuit is tad long at the legs for me, so I decided to wear a pair of ankle boots with a small heel to add height. I'll be real honest, I totally forgot to wear rings because my dog rolled in dirt literally just before I left the house and I had to speed change and give him a bath. One of my closest friends also requested a new nail art design - he's a huge DC comic fan - so I included this week's nail art design. I've just gotten up to date with Arrow and The Flash so I appreciate these nails a lot more (side note: Barry Allen is a total babe). I'm also super proud of the Superman symbol, it actually turned out so much more perfect than I anticipated.

I am officially drinking a chai latte at 11pm and pretty happy with life, despite the dark outlook I have to uni. I went out with a friend this week, she came back from America and we spontaneously decided to go out for icecream. She's a huge foodie, so she got out Urbanspoon and looked up some cute gelato places. I ended up driving a solid 45min to Albert Park after our first destination in St Kilda was closed. We sat in the sun eating icecream and laughing about life and her trip. It was actually one of the most perfect days this week, just spontaneously going on quests for icecream and having excellent company.

Anyway, I'll be around enjoying the rest of my freedom. Until then,

Amy.