Well that is it -- my days as an undergraduate Law student are over! I am fairly satisfied with how my exams went, but the proof will be in the pudding when I get my results. My exams were really tiring, and I pulled a few all night sessions of revision beforehand, so I was pretty exhausted when they were over last Wednesday. I went out to the pub that night in the hope of celebrating both the completion of my degree, and also a Manchester United victory in the Champions League, but had to be satisfied with just the former.
During the build up to my exams, I was invited to attend two events in London. The first was the annual fund-raising dinner for the Backup trust, at which I gave a brief talk. Backup are the charity with whom I first went skiing to Sweden with in 2006, and I have since become a mentor with them, speaking with newly injured people with spinal cord injury, and hopefully helping them through their ordeal a little bit. I was incredibly nervous before the talk, and hadn't had much time to prepare anything as I was concentrating on my revision, but all in all it was well received. I had a great time, and a fantastic amount of money was raised, so all round the evening was a success. I was also invited to attend a prize winners reception for the Girdlers Association at which I received an award for overcoming adversity since my accident -- not sure exactly what I have done which is considered extraordinary, but I was delighted to receive it nevertheless!
My family and I have now booked our summer holiday. We have booked a cruise to the Mediterranean which should be brilliant! Nowadays, I get a little bored on holidays as I am not able to do the same things other people do, or the things I used to be able to do, so I thought that the idea of a holiday which would enable me to visit lots of different interesting places would be ideal. During the cruise we will be visiting (amongst other places) Rome, and Monte Carlo so I am really looking forward to it. I have just started reading ‘Angels and Demons’ by Dan Brown which is set in Rome, so it will be good to go to Rome and see the different locations the book is set in first-hand.
As for the present, I am just really enjoying the freedom of not having Uni work to do. The warm weather seems to have come out for me, so all in all, I am really looking forward to the summer!