2019 in Months


Favourites with at university for end of the first year and the start of the second year:
  1. Attended a Youth Strike for Climate in York
  2. House viewings, getting the house, moving into it out of campus accommodation
  3. Yoga Retreat Day in spring
  4. Tried out Kuda, Stone Roses, Charles XII, PAP at Yates, Courtyard for food, Lowther, V Bar Jazz Night, Rook and Gaskill, Drawing Board, Micklegate social, Dusk, Revolution, Bison Coffee York, Fossgate Social, Flares, Society, Las Iguanas, Jalou, Fibbers, Mansion
  5. Derwent Global Community Week: A Plastic Ocean screening, TED talk, debate, clean walk
  6. Baking Society
  7. Went vegetarian - almost vegan most of the time
  8. York Resident's Festival
  9. Minster tower, Clifford's tower, Castle museum, York Chocolate Story, York Art Gallery, Yorkshire Museum, City Walls, Walks Through Heslington & Around, Park, Museum Gardens, York Castle Museum, Train Museum
  10. Italian meal, Everest Gurkha Nepalese, Tah Tien Thai, Pandamami buffet, Zaap Thai 
  11. Fossgate Festival, Vanbrugh Jam, Big D Apocalypse (Scouting for Girls DJ, Mackie Gee)
  12. Roses: Festival with netball and fireworks, hockey, fencing, netball, table tennis, dodgeball, university challenge, trampoline, powerlifting, rugby
  13. Grandparents visited York
  14. Birthday picnic outside with whole flat
  15. Trip to Nottingham for 2 nights (Bierkeller, Mod Pizza, Lion King, Love Island)
  16. Trip to Leeds to Red's & Revs
  17. Bempton Cliffs with family when being dropped off
  18. Bought Lucy + Yak green dungarees, jeans from Chinese Laundry, top from Depop
  19. Tried a battered Mars Bar
  20. Freshers Fair with freebies, Comedy Night (Jack Lambert, Lauren Pattison, Josh Jones, Joel Dommett), Viking Raid
  21. Liverpool with Katie: World Museum, Wetherspoon, markets, Beatles sites, Cavern Club, Royal Albert Dock
  22. Bonfire Night: fireworks through town, fireworks with old flatmates
  23. York Christmas Markets: trying alcohol, Thor’s for Bailey’s hot chocolate
  24. Bought Christmas decorations for the house like tree, lights and decorations 

Favourites while at home:
  1. Went to a sixth form reunion
  2. Saw Anteros, Redfaces, The Hunna, Yonaka, Retro Video Club live
  3. Looked at the Print to the People exhibition
  4. Went to the NUA degree show and MA show
  5. High 2:1 in the first year of my psychology degree at the University of York
  6. Travelled to Peru to volunteer in a primary school, explore the area and trek to Machu Picchu with people from the university after fundraising
  7. Visited Wales over summer
  8. Holidayed in Troyes, France; Ecrin National Park, France; Geneva, Switzerland; the Alps, Switzerland (at 1800m); Verdun, France; and Reims, France
  9. Had a BBQ with family
  10. Lunch with Amy at Sahara 
  11. Wetherspoons, Turtle Bay + Loft with Amy
  12. Attended the Stop the Coup protest in Norwich
  13. Celebrated my brother turning 18
  14. Attended the Global Climate Strike in London on the 20th September with my brother
  15. Election Day with a much bigger Tory majority
  16. Afternoon tea with family and family friends for my 21st birthday
  17. Family meal for my 21st
  18. A beach clean with my brother in Great Yarmouth (Sealife Centre)
  19. A night out with Norwich friends before Christmas and for my birthday
  20. Christmas Day at Gran's house
  21. A trip to Wales 

Films I watched:
  • York Student Cinema: 
    • Fantastic Beasts - Crimes of Grindelwald
    • Spiderman - Far from Home
    • Aladdin
    • Toy Story 4
    • Booksmart
    • Lion King
    • Fast & Furious - Hobbs & Shaw
    • Ad Astra, Yesterday
    • Good Boys
    • Ready or Not
    • Zombieland Double Tap
    • Swiss Army Man
  • Watching all Avengers films before Avenger's Endgame at Student Cinema
  • Films watched: 
    • Bridget Jones Diary
    • Wonder
    • Kingsman - The Golden Circle
    • It's Kind of a Funny Story
    • Joker
    • Wild Rose
    • On the Basis of Sex
    • Greenbook
    • An Inconvenient Truth
  • Goldfinch at Picture House
  • Star Wars - The Rise of Skywalker at Vue

Books I read:
  1. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge
  2. Notes on a Nervous Planet - Matt Haig
  3. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
  4. Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder
  5. Attachments - Rainbow Rowell
  6. This Modern Love - Will Darbyshire
  7. The Little Book of Hygge - Meik Wiking
  8. Eat Up - Ruby Tandoh
  9. The Geography of You and Me - Jennifer E Smith
  10. Where She Went - Gayle Forman
  11. She Must Be Mad - Charly Cox
  12. The Brain - David Eagleman
  13. Silence is Goldfish - Annabel Pitcher
  14. Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism - Yanis Varoufakis
  15. The Girl of Ink and Stars - Kiran Millwood Hargrave
  16. The Reluctant Yogi: A Quirky Guide to the Practice That Can Change Your Life - Carla McKay
  17. This Is What Happy Looks Like - Jennifer E Smith
  18. Naomi Wolf - The Beauty Myth 
  19. This Is Not A Drill - Extinction Rebellion Handbook

Photo by Lucas Marcomini on Unsplash

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