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God
One thing I’ve found at uni is that having a faith is much harder. There are always new opinions about god and church to think through, there are a hundred little things on your to-do list that make it oh-so-easy to skip chruch or the student cell meeting, and above all life can be so distracting and insular in this student bubble.

With the arrival of Lent, I feel I’m making a better effort. Alcohol is officially what I’m giving up, but with that comes a small step back from the culture I’ve become wrapped up in. I’m saving money and improving health by doing this, and also shifting my lifestyle a little away from what I sometimes feel is uncomfortably close to hypocrisy. In explanation of this, I’m always making noise about social injustice, the environment and the appalling apathy of those with the potential to help solve the issues there. Just a short few weeks into my first term, however, I found I was wasting more and more money on clubs and booze, and barely thinking about these injustices at all. Some people would see this as me ‘unwinding’ a little, but then they would fail to understand that it is these things that drive me and define who I am. They’ve been put on my heart by God and I can’t see any point to my life if I’m failing to act on those issues. I’m not saying it’s wrong to have fun or unwind (and believe me I really, really enjoy clubbing), but I am saying that letting it take over, to me, is a selfish, self-destructive and ultimately hollow way of living life.

So now I’m stepping back, praying and listening more, and taking another look at what i’ve prioritised in my life here at Lancaster. I’ll probably still go out clubbing after Lent, but I want to be able to say that for every penny I waste and every second spent dancing, I’ve invested the time, effort or money equivalent into the things that matter.

There you go then. Three days. Three areas of life. Me in a nutshell at the moment.

Friends
There’s always been the fear with going away to uni that my old friendship group would lose contact with each other. Well one and a half terms in and we’re doing pretty well. It’s regular contact, although I have to admit that just recently there’s been a lag, and we’re all on good terms with each other apart from one. The surviving kendal dwellers I have the most contact with, so I hope I’ll be able to drag them down to Lancaster for a visit sometime soon.

Talking about uni friends; better than ever! We’re just plodding along in harmony thankyou very much, enjoying the escalating randomness that is Pendledale (which is what we seem to have named our group of friends and the happenings that result… kinda like our own soap). Oh, and there’s the obviously new development that i’m going out with Luke now… which is very ‘Dating your flatmate. Tut tut’. That’s also why going home this weekend is going to be nerve-wracking. Because he’s coming back to meet everyone. Family, please be kind.

I thought I’d just update the internet on life in general.
Back in school when me and my friends would catch up, we used to split ‘How are you?’ into three categories: Family, friends, and God.
So I thought I’d do a good old fashioned ‘How are you?’ update.
I’ll post a category a day as it’d be boring to post them all at once, though they’re all written as of today.

Family
Obviously not living with my family anymore changes this one, but needless to say I miss being around them. Banter with my dad, chatting over a cup of tea with my mum, talking about gaming with Sam, Sarah’s sunny personality and Hannah’s gorgeous baking.
It’s all pretty backwards, really. I’ve found that I’m missing them more in this second term of uni than I was in the first term. I guess that’s because life’s got more of a steady routine now. Still, I’ve visited once before this term a few weeks ago, and I’m popping back again tomorrow to see my sisters in their school play which I’m looking forward to loads, despite the other family-related nerves which I’ll get to in the next post…

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