Saturday 30 August 2014

The city that never sleeps










This is crazy. As if I am actually living in New York. Okay it's only for four months but STILL! I cannot get over how weird it is! 

I haven't really been able to blog because it's been so chaotic here but I've managed to do lots of wonderful things in this beautiful city while also managing to sneak some uni business in there! 

Welcome week was mental, as always! We had a massive mess up with our course selections so had to start from scratch. This didn't exactly go well as the majority of the courses we all wanted were now full or not running any longer - absolute nightmare! We managed to eventually get it all sorted after countless phone calls and emails to every professor at F.I.T! 

I'm now studying quite a range of subjects here such as Fashion Journalism, Buying, Photographic Styling, Leather Accessories and Jewelry Fabrication! The description for all of these sound really fun and exciting which is exactly what I wanted! I'm definitely most excited for Fashion Journalism and Styling as these are the two areas I'm most interested about going into when I graduate at the moment. However, that could all change after these four months! I'm really hoping the Journalism course will help improve my confidence within writing. I like to think I'm pretty confident when it comes to public speaking but I've always struggled with presenting my ideas to peers for fear of them not being good enough - such a silly thought!!

We've done so many touristy things in the couple of weeks we have been here so I will just upload pictures to this post for you to have a look at rather than me banging on about them all!!

Next up - New York Fashion Week! Ahhh!!! 

Saturday 16 August 2014

What a whirlwind month!







I have no words...
HOW has one month gone so quick?! It's been such an amazing summer and I'm sad to see it come to an end! Although I guess it's only really beginning in some ways!

I've spent this month spending time with my family and friends before I go to New York and it's been lovely. I had an American themed leaving party/20th birthday which was fabulous! My mum and dad kitted the kitchen out so I felt like I was in New York. It was surreal. 

I've spent the past month not admitting I'm actually going to New York but today it has finally hit me and now It's the night before I drive down to London for my flight at 10:30 on Monday morning. Terrifying!!