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Over the weekend I ended up going to three (yes three!) Christmas markets! I went to Bath, East Farm and Winchester, all of which were super lovely and I did manage to pick up a few bits.

On Friday, myself and Adam went to Bath and had a little wander around their Christmas market. Adam drove us down after college (p.s thankyou for not killing us), and we actually got down there in good time, despite a huge traffic jam we hit just after we left. It was really nicely set up and the lights especially were lovely. I got to pick up a few presents ready to give to my Dad and brother and am glad I've now actually started Christmas shopping, it's bad I've left it so late, I know.




Next, on Saturday, I went to a small Christmas market called East Farm which is on the way to Codford. It's a proper little village market and was really good for getting decorations and stocking fillers. I also got the other half of my brother's present so now his is all finished! I got some pretty picture whilst I was there too which I'm really chuffed about! I haven't been able to use my new camera (Canon Powershot G7X) for taking proper photos yet so this was a perfect chance to. We also had some family friends up for the weekend so Christmas markets were fab for doing something easy and cheap all together. On Sunday, we all went to Winchester and their Christmas market which again, was really good but after seeing two other markets was rather similar to what I had already seen. Although, they did have a ice rink and were selling mulled wine which did win me over. We also went for lunch at River Cottage (where my Mum works) and had a roast dinner which was so good! The food was fab and the service was just as brill.

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For now, this is going to be the last post in my mini 'Road to Uni' series! I went to my final university open day a week or so ago and it was at Kingston University in London, again looking at their BA Hons Journalism course. I visited the Penryn Road campus which is where I would be if I end up going there. I was struggling with my UCAS application as I currently only had two solid choices and needed to put a third. You can have up to five choices but I've ended up only putting three. I found it very difficult to find places that actually offered courses which would appeal to me and the means of Journalism I wanted to learn about and somewhere which would allow me to become the journalist I aspire to be.


Kingston was the final uni where I had booked an open place for and whether I liked it or not, I would have to put it as a choice on my application because I didn't feel comfortable leaving it with only two choices. Luckily, I thought the uni was n't too bad, I think I do prefer Cardiff and Westminster however, I was happy to apply to Kingston as well. The course looked pretty good although, it doesn't focus heavily on the online side of Journalism, the side I want to go in to.

The entry requirements for Kingston are ABB, the same as Cardiff. Currently, I hoping that I will get an offer from Westminster as the entry grades are realistic for me and I feel like they are something I can achieve if I work hard this year. Although, I feel like i could potentially get into Cardiff or Kingston as well.

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I did a post similar to this back in September and I actually really enjoyed doing it! I know it's not that lengthy of a post but I like making the little covers and photos that go with this post so I've decided to do another. Here is my November Playlist...

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I've got to say, this week has been completely crazy in terms of stories and events that have occurred and I have found that I've quietly mouthed to myself 'oh my god' or 'what the f*ck' many a time. So here's at least three things that have made me say either of those this week..


1. Shia LaBeouf Live Streaming Himself  

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As some of you know, a few years ago I got tickets to go and see Imagine Dragons in Bournemouth with a few friends (I wrote a blog post about it back then which is here) and last Thursday, I went again! However, this year the scale was much, much bigger, this time it was at the O2 Arena in London. Myself and my friend Sam went along (originally there was four of us but unfortunately the others couldn't make it) and we had an incredible time.

The supporting act was a group called Sunset Sons who were also very very good! We thought that we hadn't heard of them before although, turns out we actually knew some of their songs. We both agreed that we'd go and see them on tour next year too!


Imagine Dragons came on stage at about 8:45 and stayed on until 10:30. I'd heard a little bit about their setlist and that they were opening with 'Shots' and they did! It was a brilliant song to open with and set me up in a good mood for the rest of the night. Looking back at the videos you hear me do a little giggle of excitement as they start playing (god I'm embarrassing). They played a few of their older tracks too like 'Demons', 'Radioactive', 'It's Time' and a insanely good mash-up of 'Amsterdam' and 'Tiptoe'. Weirdly, no-one really knew the words to 'Tiptoe' so Sam and I were kinda belting them out by ourselves.


The song 'It's Time' is a very important song to me as it's the first song of their's I heard (on an advert for The Perks of Being A Wallflower, believe it or not) and there's one line from it that stands out to me which is 'the path to heaven runs through miles of clouded hell'. This to me means that you have to go through the bad that to good and it's something that I've always thought of had stuck by me.

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I guess I'm kinda late or whatever but I recently watched Blackfish. A documentary about the treatment of Orcas at SeaWorld. And nothing could prepare me for what I was about to watch…

I knew a little bit about the whole situation but wanted to explore for myself, first hand the issues with SeaWorld. This lead me to watch the documentary Blackfish which is on Netflix. I sat and watched the documentary start to finish and was left feeling speechless afterwards. Firstly, here's a few facts about Orcas:

• Female orcas can live up to 50 years old
• An adult can weigh up to 5600kg and 8.7m long
• There are three to five different types of orca
• They can be found from the polar regions to the equator 
• A group of orcas is called a 'pod'

However, over at SeaWorld, its a completely different world for these awesome creatures. In training, if the orcas would be punished. There's one case where a younger and older orca would train together and if the younger orca performed wrong, both would be punished. This could even include food deprivation and being kept in a dark 20ft pool, unfortunately for some, even 2/3 of their life, is spent in these pools. Being confined in these tanks also affects them physically and emotionally. This results in the older orca getting angry and annoyed and biting the other. This left teeth marks on their flesh called 'rakes'. These marks could be so deep that they do draw blood, some orcas killing due to their agitation.