Goodbye and Good Riddance

 

The end of the college year is finally among us. Even though I am happily moving out into a house, it still saddens to say goodbye to the college, the place I called home. I will miss drunken chats with the security guard, lining up for dinner and a stupidly early time (5pm) and procrastinating in numbers, justifying it as "Well if they're not studying, they're not getting any smarter either, so it's okay for me to do the same so we stay on the same level of smartness". Just that sentence proves that we should have studied. I will miss being surrounded by 200 of my closest friends and the countless inside jokes that have formed over my time here. The year has been amazing, something I will never forget. Never did I think that I would make friends as close as I did, and imaging my life without them now is like imaging Nimbin without drugs. It's not going to happen. So to conclude, before I post countless photos of some of my favourite times this year, I would just like to say thank you to everyone I have met this year. The experience changed me as a person for the better and I have a bigger support network than I could have ever imagined.

These are the girls that changed my life. 

All College Ball

My sister and my best friend came and joined to college life too!

These boys are like my brothers.

I'm going to stop there because there are literally thousands of photos I could put up.

Although I know I won't keep blogging, the fact that the blog is here means that I will always look back on it and remember that one semester I decided to shake up my electives and do journalism.

Also, here is my favourite quote to leave you with. Its from Winnie the Pooh

"If there is a day we can never be together, keep me in your heart and i'll stay there forever"

Money Money Money

Here is a tune to listen to while reading this blogpost to set the mood. Its also a classic and everyone should appreciate it.

So there have been many life changes that have happened within the last few weeks. They all came relatively quickly, but they are all for the best.

The first one is that I got a job. Woo! After a year of being an avid job hunter, I finally got a retail job with a great team of people. When I first went to the interview, I was worried because I had previous interviews that didn’t work out too well. I was always too nervous and couldn’t concentrate properly meaning my answers always seemed stupid and I was probably coming across as some bimbo. I decided to go into this with the thought that if it didn’t work out, I’ll just return to my home town for the summer and it’ll be okay. So all the pressure was off me in the interview. Maybe that’s why I performed so well? We can’t be sure.

Then I got a call a few days later saying I had got the job! It was quite a shock! I had no retail experience at all!

So then the complication hit: where was I going to live all summer? I got kicked out of my residential college in only a few weeks. Luckily some girls I was friends with were moving into a house, so I made the decision to move into a house with them, the second big life change that had happened to me in the last week. We signed a contract quickly and as painlessly as possible.

Therefore, I am now the proud tenant of a house AND I have a job. Bet I seem pretty independent, huh? I still need to learn to cook, but those skills will hopefully come later!

There is one thing that my head is still getting around though, and that is money. How quickly it comes. How quickly it goes. How the world revolves around it. Then the big ol’ debate arises: does money buy happiness? I work in a store where there are a lot of expensive things and people throw a lot of money around. I’ve notices that the people who come in with kids are usually the nicest people. Is this because they love seeing smiles on the kids’ faces when they buy them a game or an iPod? The younger generation is always up for a good chat too and aren’t shy when it comes to asking questions, does this mean they are just as happy too?

I have however noticed that middle ages people that come in by themselves without a ring on their finger (yes, I am a girl, I notice these things) are the impatient, rude, and generally unpleasant customers.

Here is my personal opinion on the debate: money does not buy happiness. Happiness is a state of mind that can’t be bought, and you get happiness by the amount of love in your life. To get this love, you need to give the same amount of love. If you give no love, you get no love.  Easy as the ABC. Hope that makes sense!

End of rant.