I am going to Don university

I was serving an eight year old girl today that told me she hated school I told her school was the best part of my life as working is a pain.. She said to me 'as long as i love my job ill be happy when im older' and then she turned to me and said 'do you love your job.'
I automatically said yes because my boss was right next to me and laughed her off but then I really got to thinking and I actually do LOVE my job. I love being able to give advice on shoes and I love having customers actually listen to my opinion and choose the ones I thought were the Most stylish.

My boss also made me feel valued by asking my opinion on the new shoes she was ordering as she thought I had a good eye for what people liked.

Then I arrived home made myself a fry up. Which might i blow my own trumpet looked AMAZING! I am going to be cooking at uni all the time if I remember I can cook like that. Which reminds me.. I booked halls, ready for September just need to save up to pay off my first payment and get some household goodies! (Which means a trip to IKEA .... Yaaaaaay)

I had a few doubts the other day about uni but today really made me realise Im gonna seriously enjoy my time and i am gonna full on kick some ass!

News

So as i told you all at the end of last month.. I applied for De Montfort University and as promised..
I bring you news of how my interview resulted. As you all know by now, this was in my head the only place I wanted to go.. I decided after my interview that if i didn't get in to Leicester I would put off University for another year and do a foundation course before applying again for DMU.
Over the weekend after my interview i was at work then home, then work again, constantly worrying and thinking about what they thought of me.. I had a hope that because I was older than the other candidates and have a lot of experience in the retail aspect of shoes that i stood a better chance.. turns out,
I am able to ace interviews and i got my place on my dream university course. If you havent realised what im trying to say already... I got into De Montfort University to study Fashion Footwear Design with a Unconditional. I was eating my lunch at work when i recieved the email. It was The best news i've had in my godforsaken life. Ecstatic doesn't even come close to how im feeling about going to Uni. Now im not bragging.. but i get to meet Jimmy Choo.. go to milan fashion week.. London Fashion Week.. I am so lucky that my life has planned out the way i wanted. I hope if anyone else is going through Interview stages that they get the courses they want.
Just remember though in the interview they want to see the real you. Express yourself but don't try to pretend you know everything. You're going to uni to learn from the masters of that subject not to teach them. Although im sure there will be a couple of things they'll learn from you.

My fingers are crossed for the lot of you.. especially my friend Jasmine - scrap that actually fingers crossed and hope is lost, fingers round and hope is found! SO... Fingers Round you beautiful people..

Laters Babies, Nina x

Update on my life

Soo.. i may have ditched this for a while and now i realise this could really help me in my future with the course i am now enrolling myself on. I applied via the confusing yet helpful website of UCAS to do a Footwear Design Course. This course was perfect for me and in a slightly unhelpful way there were only three places in the united kingdom that offered this course title.

The first is the most obvious, take a guess as to where it could be.. you were correct if you guessed the presitigious, London College Of Fashion. It is a great place to study, yet i feel that im not quite ready to be thrown in that deep, and the quality they expect is a little too high for me. So i decided against even viewing the place or applying as i convinced myself i wouldnt get in.

The second is Northampton and im going to try and be as diplomatic as i can about this one. It offers an incredible course and i genuinely did like the sound of it but.. i couldnt live in that area for three years of my life.. maybe from living in winchester for nearly thirteen years im a bit of a snob, but i genuinely just couldnt see it. The campus was decent but the town felt more like an industrial estate and whereas some may like it i just couldnt envisage me studying there. However i did still apply as i felt it was an option if all else fails. I also applied for the Fashion Marketing which i got a straight unconditional for which was pretty good for my self esteem.

Now the final place i love. I want to go here... wait no. I need to go there. Its De Montfort University in Leicester. Now there are two universities in Leicester.. leicester uni and thats one the outskirts of the city.. and DMU and thats slap band in the middle of the city say less than a ten minute walk for highcross shopping centre and the other main city attractions. DMU was a polytechnic college and has recently been changed into a university. I visited the university and city three times, two open days and once just to have a little look around the city. The first time i visited i instantly fell in love with both the uni and the city centre. I felt at ease and as if i belonged there. I knew then and there that this was the university for me. I applied before christmas.

So all in all i applied via UCAS for DMU, Northampton and Nottingham trent.
DMU - Footwear Design
Northampton - Footwear design
                        Fashion Marketing
Nottingham Trent - Fashion Accessories (Footwear)

I was also offered an interview for Nottingham and DMU,
i attended the DMU one on the 31st January and as far as i can tell i did well.. so fingers crossed, wish me luck and ill let you know next week whether or not i got in :)

Nina x