The sometimes bumpy road of the student midwife 

16/08/04 Sorted!

The above is a picture of moi. I took it at Christmas with my new toy, if I'm looking slightly bleary eyed it's because my brother woke us up at 7 to open our presents ... by the way my bro is 18 yep 18 and he woke us up at 7! Normally he won't surface until at least 2pm in the afternoon. Anyway I'm feeling rather smug and contented. My accommodation came through!! Yay!! I have a slightly larger than average room complete with a bed, easy chair , desk and desk chair, a wardrobe and drawers oh and a bookcase!! Not to mention a sink.
I'm in a flat with 7 other rooms like mine and we share 2 toilets, a bath and a shower, and a kitchen/dining area. Cool huh!

Unfortunately with the good comes bad, my bro wants to stay, for a long holiday! I don't think so. Short visits I can handle but tripping over him the floor for a week would start to drive me bonkers!! Short visits though I can handle. Besides my lease says I can only have a visitor stay for 2 days in 7days.

I've also started to make some friends with people starting my uni, which is great because then I'm not alone!

Got to go

Kim xxx

09/08/04 Accomodation worries

Hey as I finally cleared my health and police checks on the 28th of July which meant I was officially awarded my place at uni, I have been waiting for an envelope to drop through my letter box. A letter which is of upmost importance to me, my accomodation details. Why is it so important? Firstly I live near London, and uni is up North so however good public transport is, commuting is NOT an option. Secondly I'm going to be spending 45 weeks a year there, that's an awfully lo.........n.......g time if the accomodation is pants!!! So I'm despretely waiting like a Pop Idol wannabe for some news of a 'nice' (I realise as a student accomodation is not going to be of Ritz standard but by nice I mean not stuck in the sticks with mouldy wallpaper and cockroaches!!) room somewhere.

Finally as it's only 5 weeks before I get up to uni I decided to call up accomodation and find out what was happening. The people in accomodation were lovely and assured me that my accomodation will be with me in the next couple of days, which has put me out of my panic... for now!!

On a different tack I have had a really nice letter from one of the other girls starting my course. Apparently everyone who's due to start my course wants to meet up and say hi before uni starts. I really can't wait to meet everyone though I'm a little aprehensive as a little voice in my head called insecurity is whispering, what if they hate you or you hate them or if I make a complete idiot out of myself. Ahhhhh not good. Still what is life without risks? Besides if no one likes me I'll make friends with other people. I've really got to be saving some money but as I mentioned in my previous article I'm a shopaholic and money has a habbit of being spent when it comes within 10 ft of me! I should definately save ... soon!!

Bye for now

Kim xxx

03/08/04 : 41 days to go and counting ...

41 days to go and counting ...

I'm Kim and I'm 19 years old. In 41 days I will start a direct entry midwifery degree. I have decided to write a diary of sorts to chart my progress and allow people to see a bit of me in the process. Firstly I live in Surrey in the UK and I have a little brother, a dog and I enjoy reading, the theatre (particually Shakespeare), the cinema, socialising with friends and most watersports! I'm pretty short, about 5"2, have mid lenghth brown hair with red highlights, blue eyes and typical english rose skin (basically meaning I'm as pale as milk!!!) My favourite films are usually either horrors or romantic comedies! My best film is Drop Dead Fred. I enjoy reading Jeffery Deaver books and struggle to put a good book down. I guess I would describe myself as bubbly, friendly, extremely talkative (to the point people have to gag me to shut up!!), I'm loyal and affectionate (I'm making myself sound like a labrador - not so good!) and I'm a definate romantic. I want to be a midwife because I want to help women make their own choices about their preganancies and making it an experience they regard in a fond light rather than a painful one. I want them to feel in control of what's happening instead of being controlled. I want to act as their sounding board, their medical advisor and their friend.

At the moment I'm trying to decide what to take to uni with me. It's tough, I mean you only have so much room for things so what is a necessitiy? I've got 3 saucepans of various sizes. That's it so far. My parents decided the best thing to do is to get up there and buy everything when I get there. Which is tough for me because I loooooovvvvvvveeeeeee shopping, and the wait to get things is so long! I'm a bit of a shopaholic, it doesn't matter what it is I like shopping for it. Kitchen appliances, bathroom accessories, clothes, makeup anything even hardware tools!!

Anyways that's enough for now, more entries to follow

Kim xxx[b]