Well hello there fellow keyboard tapper, what a pleasure it is that you stumbled upon my little corner of the worldwide web!
My name's Kerry (as the blog name suggests... not just a pretty face ya know), I currently reside in a little village just outside Cambridge and I've just left Sixth Form College where I studied English Literature (Satan's subject), Psychology and Dance. Upon deciding that my weary post-exam bones needed some time relax, I made the executive decision to take a gap year!
Now for those of you who aren't familiar with a gap year (or gap yah should I say) this is where you take a year out between leaving sixth form and venturing onto university. In exactly 17 days (h o l y c r a p) I will find out whether I have secured a place at Bournemouth University to study Multimedia Journalism. Regardless of whether it all goes to plan or goes absolutely pete tong, I am still left with a whole year to do whatever the heck I like! (insert lady in red dress dancing emoji x3) I had planned on living the dream and scouring the journalism industry in the search for internships and placements to try and gain some experience in my desired field of future work, but then reality gave me a slap round the face and I realised that I would have to find myself one of those full time job things? Now I have a part time job in retail and have recently applied to work there full time (fingers crossed) so hopefully this money will enable me to fund some possible internships, alongside my makeup, clothes, jewellery, handbag, tech addiction..
In addition, to this, as much as I would love to glamourise my life as a jet-setting, adventurous 18 year old who has experienced all that this ol' globe of ours has to offer, I am not at all a seasoned traveller. There are many a 4 year old who have travelled WAY more than lil' Kezza M has. Having said that, I was lucky enough two years ago, to travel all around America with my best friend Lauren (who I'm sure you will meet very soon) and her family, seeing the sights of New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and my favourite place ever, Pismo Beach, to name but a few. I also visited the lovely city of Rethymno in Crete a couple of weeks back, also with Lauren (a.k.a. Loz, Laur, Rear of the Year, that last one is pretty self explanatory in person) which was very relaxing and wonderful, apart from our two Danish stalkers, and the fact that I thought I had turned into a bronzed goddess only to discover that this was as a result of the gradual tanner that was incorporated in the aftersun that I was using...
Now to the point of all this travel ramble, I have realised that I have yet to see and experience pretty much the whole world, so in light of this I plan to spend a few months of my gap year travelling! WOOHOO (hopefully with Lauren, once she has decided what she plans to do next!) We have gushed over our love for America, our dreams of visiting Venice Beach and soaking up the Californian sun and mostly and our constant yearning to go back to the Seacrest Hotel in Pismo Beach, (in all honesty, mainly so that we can keep stealing the freshly baked peanut butter cookies that they leave in reception at 12pm and 5pm.. yes I do still remember the time slots because they were THAT good) But also, we are dying to visit Australia, now to all you Aussies out there, seeing us milky skinned brits traipsing around you're beautiful country with backpacks bigger than our futures, my desperation to visit must be nothing new. But to me the thought of visiting Oz is like realising that Christmas is only 5 months away (eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek).
I won't make this debut entry too long, as by now most of you will have read the title of the post, and the cliché Lionel Richie lyrics were enough to send you running for the hills and you definitely won't have even made this far. But the possibility that one poor human has made it this far (hi mum) is enough to motivate me to spend my time documenting the crazy adventures of my gap year! I'm not going to tell you what to expect to see on here, because it could be anything from makeup/clothes, to a drunken 3am post of my love for nugz (chicken nuggets for you normal people)
(with accompanying pictures ofc)
Kez xxxx
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