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So two weeks ago I finally started college! Over the next two years I will by studying Creative Writing, Geography, English Language and Media Studies. I'm studying these because I believe that they will help me get into a career in journalism. There was actually a Journalism A Level available which I decided not to take right now put may pick up in my second year. This means that I could end up with a total of five A Levels rather than four or even less!

To get to college, it normally takes me between fourty minutes to an hour to get there. Now, I know what you're all thinking 'Katie, why didn't you stay at your school's sixth form if it's closer?' Well, that's because two of the courses (geography and media) I wanted to do clashed so, I would have to choose one or the other, which I really didn't want to do! That's one of the main reasons as to why I chose to go to college rather than stay at school. Being at college has also given me a chance to get to know some new people which is great! A lot of the people I actually went to junior school with go to my college so its enabled me to catch up with them too! I'm not forgetting about those who stayed at sixth form though, I'm trying to see them all on a regular basis.

At college I'm finding that I'm engaging much more in lessons than I did at GCSE level. This is probably because I'm now doing all lessons that I enjoy rather than ones that I don't. I'm focusing in class more than I ever have!

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It feels like so long since I've sat down wrote a half-decent blog post! I've been so busy these past few weeks it's unreal. Here is a little breakdown of what has been going on in my life recently...

So, a few weeks back my family and I took a quick trip up north to Liverpool for a weekend away before work and school went back into full-swing again. We stayed there for three days and did plenty enough during our visit. We did all the tourist-y things like the Beatles tour and took a ferry across the mersey. The Beatles tour was brilliant and it was just so interesting to find out more about all of theirs lives before they became such a huge band. We saw a few of there houses and schools and even went into the Cavern which was amazing! It's tiny inside and way way underground! Also, outside the Cavern is a wall full of artists' names who have preformed there! Bands ranged from the Arctic Monkeys to Jessie J and Elton John. I could've spent hours just looking at it reading all the names engraved in the bricks.

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This is the last installment of my posts about my trip to Rome, Italy! I'd also thought that I'd let you all know that my family and I are going to Liverpool for the end of the week so I'll be writing a post or two about that next week. I also start college in two weeks so I'll be writing a few posts based on that too. But, for now, here is the lowdown of my last few days in Rome!

So, on Tuesday we went to the Vatican State which was truly amazing. Everywhere you look there is a beautifully crafted pieces of art which you can't help but look at. We went to the Vatican very early in the morning to enjoy a breakfast in one of the many courtyards and from there we began our tour around the Vatican and the Sistine Chapel.

The Sistine Chapel was extremely beautiful but we were unable to take photos or video inside so, I have zero to none photos of the chapel. The tour we went on lasted around 4 hours because the Vatican State is so huge! We got told that if you stopped to look at every piece of artwork inside the Vatican for one minute, it would take 40 years to go round the whole area, which is insane!

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On the Sunday of our trip to Rome, my Dad and brother had organised a activity for us all to do which myself and my Mum didn't know about. We had been speculating for weeks about what it could be and it had finally come to the day of the big reveal. As my brother and Dad know, I have a huge soft spot for Fiat 500's and I'm always telling my family about how they're going to be my first car. My family had organised to go on a tour around Rome in two 1970's style Fiat 500's! We were waiting outside for our 'lift' and after 5-10 minutes these two little Fiat 500's pulled up and I couldn't help but smile as they whizzed around the corner.
The two people who did the tour were fantastic and took us to places which we hadn't even heard of. It was definitely worth doing as we got to see all these amazing places in such a short amount of time. We drove to a few truly beautiful churches, a gorgeous fountain, two or three amazing parks. There was also a piece of contemporary which was extraordinary. Although, there was one stop which I thought was particularly
special.

Inside the contemporary art

The beautiful fountain we saw

We walked up to this absolutely humongous door which had a tiny little keyhole at the side. All we got told was to go look through the keyhole. When you look through it, there is a two rows of well manicured trees, one to the left and one to the right but as you look beyond that, perfectly placed in the middle of the keyhole is St Peter's Basilica. It was one the most brilliantly, mind-boggling things I had seen during the whole trip, so simple but, so amazing. That evening we didn't really do anything special, we just relaxed at the hotel and had a meal there which was very nice indeed.

This sounds quite odd but, on Monday we went to the beach. Now, when people go to Rome, they don't really think about going to the beach as Rome is such a great city. We took a train ride to Santa Marinella which was about an hour away (and the trains were double-decker, whAt?!). The beach was very well kept with rows and rows of umbrellas and sunbeds and beautiful apartments nearby. I've also decided that I'm 100% going to live in one of those apartments someday;) Santa Marinella is a very beautiful place in Italy and I hope that many more people get to see it and appreciate it. We had a tasty snack at the top of the beach which was very good and had a great view of the whole stretch of beach. Monday was our sort-of 'chill day' as we had a very busy week planned ahead of us!

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So on Friday evening my family and I arrived back from Rome *sobs* and I want to share the adventure with you all!

We traveled out the previous Friday from Heathrow airport in London and it was a two hour flight which, compared to a 9 hour last year, was pretty good. As soon as we landed I could tell that I would fall in love with the city. It was ridiculously beautiful with amazing scenery right from the off-set. We then traveled to the hotel which was Crowne Plaza St. Peters. It was a very friendly environment and a great place to stay whilst we were there. That evening we didn't really do a great deal. We unpacked a few of our belongings and headed to dinner at the restaurant next door which had some delicious food! I had a chicken in a tomato sauce which tasted so so good. We all slept extremely well that night after a busy day of traveling.

The hole in the ceiling of the Pantheon

The Pantheon That evening we had then booked in to share a meal with a wonderful Italian family and we met some amazing people. Barbara cooked some delicious Italian home-meals for us and I don't think I've ever tasted Italian food which was as good as that! Also, her apartment was so cute, I loved it! Thank you so much for having us! At the meal, another family from Canada joined us and it was so great to meet them. It was brilliant to make some new friends who we will stay in touch with. It was amazing to meet The Holy's!