money, What money?

Bad start to the day today, started by calling up NHS bursary turns out Ive forgotten to put a small bit of information in which means that the whole application will be returned and will have to be put through the whole process again which will take at least 19 days to process. This means I'm going to have no money to pay for my accommodation in the first month and that I have to rely on my savings alone. I am absolutely devastated that it's going to mean a full month of money worries in the freshers week. I'm worried it will affect how I live my first few weeks at uni. To be honest it feels like a joke. A 36 page long form has to filled out by me, someone who knows very little about what I should be doing with limited support and help I feel let down by the system. Something is terribly wrong, how is it that one thing can delay a form for nearly a month!  surely this is not the first time it has happened and it leaves students at risk of late payments of accommodation and course fee's. luckily enough I don't have to pay for my fee's but I'm paying £103 a week with just my savings alone. Student finance is a joke the system is wrong and logging into the student finance is near on impossible. Researching finance is difficult there are millions of websites contradicting one another. I kind of feel so let down with it all the near impossible forms and unhelpfull system means I could possibly living out of a cardboard box for the first few months... So damn angry!

rant over for now :)

But GeGe cheers me up so everything will be fine in the end :)

Unrelated

I've had two days off in a row which is pretty much unheard of for me, I've decided to work right up until I leave for uni so sometimes it's difficult to find time to fit it all in. Just to add to my busy calendar I've also got pole dancing to fit in along with my two main jobs, caring for and old lady, being a cleaner and a waitress around organising student finance and packing, budgeting and making lists for what i need and don't need.  On the brighter side I finally perfected and mastered my hang back into handstand at pole last night after last weeks disaster of falling off smashing both my knee's and shoulder which hurt! I was therefore this week slightly dubious and scared of trying again but practice makes perfect(and more bruises) and hooray for me. I DID IT!
It's going to be a real shame when I won't be able to practice because they don't allow poles in halls surprisingly enough.



And my forwards hang to finish :) look at those dirty feet eek!

Accomadation

Finally received my accommodation email, turns out I could be no further away from where I originally wanted to be. Never mind I can't have it all. It seems unreal how close the U-Day finally is (18 days). I've now met most people in my course and one of them is staying in the same building as me. This means that we can share the long walks to the Edith Cavell buildings together :) The people I am studying with all seem amazing if a little eccentric but I'm sure that's a good thing. Nerves are starting to kick in now and the boxes in my room must be filled in a few weeks. this brings me to my next hurdle...
What the hell do I pack?

Most of the the things that I really, really, really need are already packed away courtesy of my mum and Nana :) it seems they're more keen to get rid of me than I am to leave!(maybe, maybe not?) As promised though I'm not leaving home with out a band and a red carpet. Which has been promised to me ever since I was a small teen.
 Choosing clothes is a different story and one that I will put off until I absolutely have to do it. I still have to get a few things but only because I want them and not because I need them as such.
There are a lot of things that I can't take even though I want to such as my pole and stereo both because there to big and because my room is the size of a very small shoe box. Damn...

Unconditional





All the hard work for my BTEC Diploma payed off and my certificate came through and my status change from conditional, firm to UNCONDITIONAL, firm. A huge sigh of relief that my place has been confirmed :) it's now only 27 days until I officially move into university and 30 days until the hard work starts. I've already met most of my fellow midwife cohort and they all seem very nice and equally as nervous as myself. The closer that the time of moving out gets the more I worry about money and the course and everything associated with being a university student! After all the excitement of getting an offical place offered to me, the next hurdle is my forms for the student finance and bursary from the NHS...

I may need some patients for the 36 page student bursary form. :S