A Few Days in Scotland...

DAY 1// TRAINS//
For a long long time I've wanted to visit Edinburgh, and as my friend is at Uni in St, Andrews which is only about an hour away from Edinburgh I decided to go an visit.  First it started with a car journey, two trains and a bus but after about 8 hours I finally made it. (+ Laptop, book and music)On the first night I was eager to do something so suggested we go out for dinner, Zizzi called and we had a delicious meal, (Calzone, excuse the diet) and caught up. Already in love with this pretty little town we headed back for an early night ready for the few days ahead.

DAY 2// ST ANDREWS//







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REVIEW: SOCIETY 6

A lot of reviews are mixed on the quality of phone cases. From reading old reviews the quality of cases have improved A LOT over the last few years. I didn't actually buy a case to necessarily protect my phone, having dropped it with and without the case on the screen didn't crack (what always happens with phones)  but the aluminium on the edge of the phone, as with the iPhone was protected, whereas without the phone has a nice little dent in it now. :( For prettiness and overall design Society 6 is winning, the individuality means you wont have a case that is like anyone else's and allows you to show your true personality. whether that means you have a person with a fish bowl with a head on it, whatever that shows people.

Having used this case every day for the last three months its one of the prettiest and durable cases I've come across. the colouring is still in tact and there is very little scratching on the back of the case. I like that it makes the phone seem more substantial without making it look bulky or (as strange as it sounds) like it has a case on it at all.  The imside is padded with a leatherette like fabric making the fit very snug. The buttons ont he side are also unaffected by the slim case and overall  i would definitely reccommend this case to anyone who wasnt either an ipod, ipad, iphone or s4 case for style and durability. 

Society 6 is an American company and something to bear in mind when you're buying from them is the import duties. I have no idea what applies to other countries but to the UK I paid $35 for the case and £13 import and handling fee which made the overall cost of the case around the £35 mark. Which, although I hadn't really thought about import fees, british websites are starting at £35 for the same quality and design cases. (The email looks a bit like a scam but is actually a broker type thing working on behalf of parceforce or DPD). 

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Make Friends, Stay Friends, never ever break friends.

Gavin and Stacey reference there. No? Okay.

After reading an article in COMPANY Mag a few months ago it made me think about what a friendship actually means. So you can understand my situation I went all through primary school (age 5-11) and through high school (age 11-16) being around pretty much the same people for the majority of my school life, then feeling reckless (obviously) I decided to take the plunge and instead of going with all my friends to the same sixth form that was joined to my school (that’s the last two years of education before college/university) I decided to go to the sixth form college in the next town. After some mess up’s with the admissions process I only got accepted the day before college started and I remember getting the call for an interview and being so excited I physically jumped into the air. I couldn’t have been happier. i never ever get excited about anything. No, really. Never.

When I made the decision (I was given about a second to decide) to go, I thought simply, why not? I’d never moved schools in my life, never had to go into a completely foreign environment and make friends with people who were complete strangers. (I’d had a pretty sheltered existence) It was probably the single most exciting a scary thing I’ve ever done and from what I know now the best decision I have ever made.

While my ‘old’ friends were still in school, no change of scene and still bitching like they were thirteen again I met people who liked the same things as me and were (cliché) on the same level as me. Don’t get me wrong, this was college which meant lots of free’s and the first few days were pretty horrid. After a few weeks it got better, (Suring up the fact I had made the right decision. ) I made more friends, took more Starbucks trips and became friends with people who it felt like I’d been friends with all my life, but what about the people who I had been friends with all my life. 
Would I lose touch or would we become friends more. Both, I think. Some friends, those who lived by me, those who I’d known all my life I saw and still see whenever I can. The type of friends who you don’t see for weeks and when you see each other it feels like you haven’t been apart. The friends who I knew from lessons and am now ‘internet friends’ with. And lastly the friends which I don’t speak to at all or they’ve ‘gone off the rails’. But what makes a friendship worth keeping? It’s not a case of wanting, sometimes it just happens, others you lose touch or you both go in different directions so much so that you probably wouldn’t be friends anyway. So now I have old friends, new friends, twitter friends, friends I don’t know any more. Sometimes you have to accept the best friends’ you’ll be is twitter friends or not friends at all. But the time that you were friends is what will shape you as a person and will be significant to that particular time in your life.