I am on the cusp of the ‘real world‘, soon I won’t be a student any more! But for now my life is filled with incessant revising, so this day in the life of me certainly isn’t a ‘typical’ one!

Today was the day of my second to last exam EVER. Therefore today wasn’t the most interesting of days, but it was certainly very, very stressful. It began with me rushing in to the library, and desperately revising before my exam. You know the day isn’t going so well when its highlight so far is eating (albeit surprisingly delicious) soup in the library café.  I thought I had revised the best I could, but my exam went terribly! I even drew a sad face on my exam paper…

My exam was on Aristophanes, an Athenian comedy playwright from the 5th Century BC. This might seem really boring, but bear with me! In one of his plays he discusses what women in Ancient Athens used to do to make themselves seem beautiful- and I found it really interesting to find that it is more or less exactly the same as what we do today- wearing make-up, perfume and alluring dresses*

I, on the other hand, looked the opposite of alluring today. In a horrible stressed rush, I barely had time to apply my make up (but of course could not go without it all together for fear of people being distracted in their exams by my monstrous bare face!)

As if a third year final exam is not stressful enough- I also had to finalise moving out of my flat which unluckily fell on the same day! My boyfriend and I had to race back to our flat in time to take meter readings and phone all kinds of gas and electricity companies (boring!)

Then we had to WALK all the way to the Estate Agents to drop our keys off, as the buses to it stop running after about 5 o’clock! It was a long way, so we had to refuel on the journey by stopping off for a bit of chocolate!

The day started to improve after that, we could breathe a sigh of relief, although we were both really sad to move out of our flat. We’ve been living their for the past 2 years and both loved it, but now we are about to become unemployed, moneyless ‘adults’ :’(

To treat ourselves we went to the cinema, thank God for Orange Wednesdays! We watched Robin Hood, which was okay but Russell Crowe’s depiction of Robin Hood did not compare to Jonas Armstrong (BBC Robin Hood) or Cary Elwes (Robin Hood: Men in Tights.) We then went for a big, fat Pizza Hut. I got goats cheese and spinach on a deep pan mmmm!!! I wanted to take a photo of this but my camera kindly ran out of battery.

Then we planned to get the train back to my house, which was quite sad as we’d normally just get the bus back to our flat! Of course, there were no trains for over an hour, so we had to sit and wait doing nothing- not even any of the shops were open in the train station!

I got home to find that a necklace I ordered ages ago off the internet had finally been delivered! I bought it with money from my birthday, and I am really pleased with it!

I can’t wait to wear it when I finally stop doing exams and get to go out and enjoy myself! Just another week of university and then I will be a free ‘woman’ / ‘girl’ (I am unsure of what to call myself, a la Britney Spears.) I can’t wait, and I can’t wait to (hopefully) fill you in with details of my next few weeks job hunting, holidaying and general university recovery (probably most of which will be done through buying make-up, jewellery and clothes that I really shouldn’t be buying until I have a job!)

But for now, I look forward to a nice lie in in the morning, before facing another horrifying day of revision, in preparation for my LAST EXAM EVER!!!

Wish me luck!!!

I hope you’ve all had a nice day!

Lots of love from,

Rosanna (Rosie)  x

*One of his plays, Lysistrata is about women going on a sex strike to force their husbands to make peace with one another (he was writing at the time of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta- and their respective allies) stresses the importance of beauty for women, in fact being pretty may have been all they were thought of as good for! The play states “The women!- What could they ever do that was any use? Sitting at home putting flowers in their hair, putting on cosmetics and saffron gowns and Cimberian see-through shifts, with slippers on our feet?”… “But don’t you see, that’s exactly what I mean to use to save Greece. Those saffron gowns and slippers…our scent and rouge as well.”

Written by Rosie – one of our trial Insiders! Find out more about our Insider Challenge here