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Berlin Day 3: Blogmas 18

Berlin Day 3: Blogmas 18

Day three of Berlin was really successful. After yet another amazing nights sleep we headed bright and early to the second day of the JPI Climate conference. We spent today discussing the results of yesterday’s ideas and having lectures from various companies who are of interest to the future of loss data.                                                 (A well earned lunch break)  Overall the…

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Holidays? What holidays?

People around me are happy, as they break off for their annual 2 week ‘Christmas holidays’. I am happy for them, I really am. I just wish that I could get a proper holiday too. Since I got my first real job at a bakery when I was 16, I have always worked around Christmas. In shops, call centres or, like now, a warehouse. All things that really can’t shut down for 2 weeks, because people still…

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Term 1, What I've Learned... or Rather not: Blogmas 14

Term 1, What I’ve Learned… or Rather not: Blogmas 14

so I’ve now finished the first term of second year studying environmental hazards and disaster management at Kingston University. Thus far this term has very much sucked. To be fair it started out positively, I had 2 awesome jobs, working for the rugby world cup in twickenham and working for the uni as a welcome connector (helping to move students in and welcoming them into the campuses.) I also…

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Christmas Baking! : Blogmas 13

Christmas Baking! : Blogmas 13

I was supposed to write a post about the Christmas dinner myself and my flatmates were aiming to cook. But in true form Christmas got cancelled. Shame I had already bought Christmas baking goods… In a moment of utter stress about how much work I have to do and I’m not doing obviously I decided to bake Christmas cakes. 😂 …. If in doubt make chocolate cake. I used a basic muffin recipe for this You…

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Getting ready for a last minute trip: Blogmas 12

Getting ready for a last minute trip: Blogmas 12

In the past year, all my travels have been last minute. My boyfriend and I found an amazing deal in early summer for a trip to Majorca for £180 and it was incredible!!. In late summer I went to visit my family in Washington, D.C. But the actual date of travel wasn’t decided until about a week or so before flying :’) This trip however we booked not 5 days ago.  My boyfriend and I both study…

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Baking Oreo cupcakes for SARAID: Blogmas 10

Baking Oreo cupcakes for SARAID: Blogmas 10

On the 9th of November my uni society for my course: Kingston emergency planning society, had Jo turner from SARAID (search and rescue assistance in disasters) give us a talk on the what the charity was all about, what type of work they did and who they employed. We heard stories from rescue workers in Nepal and Haiti and what they found easy and difficult in these times. We also found out about…

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Lightsabers, ready?

I haven’t seen the new Star Wars. I would like to see it in a cinema, but I’ll wait till I can see it in 2D (can’t distinguish 3D) in relative peace and quiet. The last movie I saw just after release ended up with lots of kids chattering away, totally ruined it. But I feel that to fully experience The Force Awakens, I’d like to see it in the cinema.  Like almost every person I know, a new movie…

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Deep Breathing

Uh oh! Something has gone wrong, and I can feel the panic starting to rise in my stomach. What have I done wrong? How could I let this happen? I’ve let people down? And when this happens, there is not one iota of possiblity that can focus on anything else.  How do I react? I start getting cranky. If my work is stressing me, giving me more work doesn’t help my stress. I just go into a spiral where…

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