"Tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis"

Well here we are, I promised another blog post on a Saturday and even though it's a week late, I think I've kept to my promise. This is the first of many blog posts that I will be posting from uni.


Little explanation to the title. Well as many of will probably notice it isn't English (bit of a no brainer) and for those of you that are intellectual you'll probably know that it is indeed Latin. The rough translation, I believe, is "The times change, and we change with them." Feel that it's pretty significant to me cos this past week has been the biggest change I've had in my life. I'm at uni. I've been thrown into the deep end. And most importantly I finally got the brand new fresh start that I have wanted for so long. I can be someone new. A new Ed. I can be who I want to be, meet new friends, enjoy new experiences and have a fucking great time. And I'm glad I can finally have that new start. This new start links with the Latin used in the title. Times do change, whether we want them to or not. And no matter how reluctant we may be or how we don't notice it but we change with the times. Better or for worse.


So I am now officially a Northumbria University student and I am loving the lifestyle. Things are so much different here. You meet people who are exactly like you. Tossed into the deep end. Hardly knowing anyone or anything. It's such a different and exhilarating experience. I'm trying my best to describe the feelings and experiences and I'm really failing. All I could possibly say is wait and look forward to uni because it is the start of a brand new life for many many people. Since I've been here I've been out every night, only exception being Friday because I was absolutely shattered. So far I've been to a hypnotist show on Sunday which absolutely hilarious, to a silent disco on Monday, which I would love to do again, a roller-disco on Tuesday, a James Bond Ball on Wednesday and a school disco on Thursday. It has been such an awesome week. Loved every second of it. I have however found it that I haven't been as homesick as I thought I'd be. I mean don't get me wrong I miss my family. I miss my friends. I also miss the little things about both Hull and Hornsea. But I seem to have quickly adapted myself to my new life. And that means that most of my homesickness has disappeared. Not really sure whether it's a good thing or not.


Now for my recommendations of the week. This week they're all songs. The songs that I'm going to recommend are Sabotage by The Beastie Boys, Rise by Flobots and Underdog by Kasabian. All three are truly great songs. Sabotage is just your typical 90s song. It's dark, it's different and my god it's fucking awesome. Rise is a song that I fell in love with a couple of years ago when I first discovered Flobots. Flobots are quite a politically motivated band, very Rage Against the Machine-esque (not as heavy as Rage though). The song is brilliant mix of Rock, Rap and Classical music. This band is definitely worth a listening to. And finally Underdog. It's just a brilliant song. Never really understood the meaning of the song but all I can say is that it is bloody brilliant  song.


Well that's it for this week and for the first blog post from uni. So to finish off I'll leave you with the music videos for Sabotage, Rise and Underdog. Enjoy.


Sabotage:



Rise:



Underdog:



So till Tuesday. I hope you all have a great weekend. Stay safe. And you'll hear from me next time around.
This is me, Edward Thompson, signing off.
Much love
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Back from my hiatus.....

Well as you can most likely see from the title I'm back from my holiday in Spain and back from my hiatus, which lasted a bit longer than I thought it would.

I'm not going to be write much in this blog as I'll save it all for the Saturday blog. So this is going to be a very very short blog.

Summer is well and truly over. People are back in school. And I head up to Newcastle this Friday to start my uni experience. How am I feeling? I am both nervous and excited. I'm nervous because it'll be the first time that I have lived outside of Hornsea for longer than a couple of weeks. I'm excited though cos I'm finally just studying what I want (which is just History) no other shitty subjects. Just the one I love. It's also a chance to have a new start. Be a new me. Something I have been craving and wanting so badly for most of this summer. This summer has had its ups and downs. From the extreme happiness with my friends, most new and one who I have grown closer to, to the extreme lows that have looked like a resurgence of depression. Tried to come to terms with things, both in the past and the present. Realised I have made quite a lot of mistakes in the past. Wish I could change some, if not all. But would I be the same person if these mistakes had or had not been made? If I hadn't made the mistakes that I have would I know the friend I have today. Would I be happier or worse off than I am now? Of course I'll never know but it is interesting to speculate on how I might have turned out if I had or had not made the mistakes that I have made in my life.

Anyhoo I'm not gonna write much else for this blog. So till the next blog which will be resumed on Saturday I'm gonna leave you with a song by a very good folk artist called Johnny Flynn. The song is called Brown Trout Blues and in a way it sums how I've been feeling. About the mistakes and stuff. To me, the song is about how someone wants to change the way they are so that they can please someone else. But the person comes to conclusion that he is happy as he is and therefore shouldn't have to change themselves for anyone. Truly a brilliant song. I'll recommend some more Johnny Flynn in the next blog but till then I'll leave you with this brilliant song. Enjoy.

Brown Trout Blues:

So till Saturday AND the first blog from university. I hope you all have a great week. Stay safe. And I'll see you when I see you.

This is me, Edward Thompson, signing off.

Much love

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