Sleep Deprived


I haven’t blogged for a little while largely because I haven't been up to much recently. I was able to go home again at the weekend because it was my brothers birthday weekend. I won’t bore you with what I got up to because it was pretty much the same as last time.

I am so tired, over the weekend I had hardly any sleep, Thursday night I was out until 5am then got up at 8.30am to go help my dad at work. Didn't go bed until gone 2am on Friday, and then was out until 5am Saturday night. It was my plan last night to go bed really early last night. It was all going so well I was sleeping by around 10pm, but then I was woken up by the party going on in the flat next door. I ended up staying up until around 2.30 am.

It was good to go home, but the only problem is when you get back here you start to miss the things you used to do at home, and when you talk to people back home and they are off out to do whatever, you kind of want to go regardless of what you are doing here. It was my plan to visit home quite often to prevent me getting home sick but perhaps it has the opposite effect. I think it will be weird when I'm home for a month at Christmas.

I have arranged for my best mate to come down for a weekend in November and for my girlfriend to come down a couple of weeks after. That should be quite good. Then a couple of weeks later and I will be back in Torquay, I've arranged a job for myself for Xmas I think I will be able to go back to work at Somerfield. I worked there for two years and it was one of the things that made me come to uni. It really sucked there, my manager is a smarmy orange b******, but I need the money.

Going Home

I was able to go back home at the weekend, one of the good things about coming from Devon is that I am able to get home in a couple of hours. I left Falmouth Thursday afternoon and was back in Torquay by 3 o'clock.

It was good to get back and after a few hours there it was like I had never left. Thursday nite I went to Valbonnes (nightclub) it was OK, cheap drinks, not as cheap as the student bar though. I spent far too much, I decided to be generous and buy people drinks. Big Mistake.

I spent all of Friday with my girlfriend which was good, Her dog has just had puppies so it was nice to see them too. It was all going really well until she put the sound of music on. I had never seen it before and never want to see it again. I left half way through.


I went to Drakes Circus (Plymouth's new shopping mall) on Saturday it looks really nice and modern however it was really busy and you couldn't walk with out having to dodge people. Saturday night I went down town, again spending and drinking far too much. It was better than Thursday, as you would expect.

It was great to see everyone again, I was able to drive again (buses are really annoying me now), I saw my dog, friends and family. A weekend of my mum's cooking was fantastic, back to microwave meals now though.

Today I visited Tremough Campus, Penryn. Penryn is one of Cornwall’s oldest towns founded in 1216, it is situated at the head of Penryn River and was quite a significant port in the 15th Century. Penryn's main industry however was producing granite as it was very common in the town.

Tremough itself was once run by Nuns and a part of their convent is still clearly visible today. The gardens surrounding Tremough stately home are also very impressive and are home to some plants which are very rarely found in England.

The house itself would have been very imposing in its day and still is today. There are some beautiful covings on the ceilings. There also Granite Pillars in the house which are quite spectacular and gives the house quite a regal feel.

Tremough is now owned by Falmouth University and obviously there has been extensive building work changing the look of Tremough. The first building which you see as you arrive at the Campus is made of blocks of Granite a throw back to the Towns old industry. This building, like Tremough House, is facing the town and has quite a dominant stance over the town.

There are many contrasts between the old Tremough House and the new building one is the pillars. As previously mentioned the pillars in the house are a nice feature of the house. The new building has pillars making the building look almost epic, similar to that of the Greek coliseums.

The new university buildings are also quite contradictive, with parts having a wooden finish part being Granite, and the shaping of the buildings are also contradictive with some being spherical others being square. A roof garden was also planned on the university and the stairways and pathways are in place, however the room garden is unable to open due to health and safety figures.

At first glance Tremough Campus looks extremely post modern with some quite unusual architecture. However after taking a closer look it is evident that the designers of the buildings took into account the towns heritage and left certain part of the site's history reasonably untouched.

I've just completed my first week at Falmouth University; it’s been pretty good so far. There have been a lot of good nights up at the Stannary (Student Bar) and a lot of mornings when I have felt pretty rough. 70's night was on Friday there was a live band playing 70's music which you don't tend to hear on your average night out.

The town itself is really nice it’s similar to my hometown, Torquay, both are nice seaside towns the only difference is Falmouth doesn't seem to be full of chavs and drug dealers. One of my last outings in Torquay I was accused of being an undercover cop by some druggy because I didn't have any cocaine to sell him, hopefully I wont be getting that here. Although I had some Cornish guy ranting to me about students who come to Falmouth and then slag it off, he finished the rant with a Cornish song which was quite amusing.

I haven't really done any real work for my course (Journalism BA hons) so far, but from what I have heard it sounds good. I enjoyed English Literature and Media at A-level so hopefully I will find this course enjoyable too.