Hello there,
I remember this time last year when the year was ending and I couldn’t wait to finish my final matric examinations and just get out of high school. All you can think about at this point in time is all the fun you’re going to have once you get to varsity. You think of the drinking and the endless partying you’re going to do once you get here, because you’re on your own and there are no parents to tell you what to do right?Well I wish there was someone who had told me that it’s not like that, in fact if someone had said to me that by the beginning of the second semester I wouldn’t want anything to do with alcohol or partying, I probably would have laughed in their face. I mean who ever gets tired of partying? You’re probably asking yourself how on earth it is possible for one to replace a good mix of Southern Comfort and lime at OLDE 65 with some other boring non-alcoholic drink in your room while reading a book. Well after failing your June exams because you were at OLDE 65 having SoCo and lime the night before you wrote an exam, or when you hear of a girl that got raped on her way back from a night out by male students she met at a club, you definitely find a way to do so.These are realities that students and especially first years face when they are at varsity, simply because you came having the mentality that you are going to get here and have fun, not thinking about the dangers or consequences about having a hectic social life. University is after all a place for learning amongst other things.Your girl,
Nonlie
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I am glad there are people who would address such issues. It’s the truth, lot of first years come to varsity with the idea that varsity is a place of freedom forgetting the fact that, they still have to work hard to achieve their goals. I know of many students who did well in metric but they couldn’t do well at varsity. I also had the same problem, but failing the June exam was a wake up call for me. So the purpose of our blog is to alert the first years that, although fun is around, but they shouldn’t forget what they came here for and that their families are looking upon them.
Nonlie’s letter to her younger self on http://www.firstyearblood.blogspot.com/ reminded me of my letter to my younger self ,Ashness on http://fourhensandacock.blogspot.com/ in many ways. Like me, Nonlie also talks to her younger self about how her mind deviated from her purpose to be here because of the influence of alcohol and partying. While I give an example of “cane train” special at the union and Nonlie spoke about “southern comfort and lime at olde 65, both of us stressed on the same point of facing drastic consequences of having a,like Nonlie puts it,” hectic social life”. The drastic consequences that were faced by me , as I mentioned in my letter, are mostly the same as Nonlie such as working on assignments at the last moment and failing most of them, almost passing June exams but most importantly, not living up to our families’ expectations. In our letters, we question our younger selves to wake them up from their deep sleep and welcome to,as Nonlie says “reality”.
Much love sister
Ashness
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