New

I haven't been new in a place since I was three years old; when I went to pre-school. So I have always been around people I have known since a very early age. But yesterday was the first day at university and I was surrounded by faces unknown to me. And it was nerve-racking. The only reassurance being that everyone else was in the same position.

Fortunately, one of my friends who I went to school with is in my course, so at the beginning of the day, I had someone who I was familiar with. As it is a new campus (which is huge) and a whole new way of studying and learning, everything feels really alien. So you take a breath and turn to the person next to you and all the fear that consumes you vanishes when that stranger smiles back and begins to talk to you. And that feeling is like winning a prestigious award. And I was so lucky that I happened to meet two AMAZING people, who, after a few minutes I felt as if I have always been friends with them.

When starting at a new place, that is when you must face your fear of the unknown and "take a leap," because when you get to know others who you already feel like you can be yourself around, tell an embarrassing story and all laugh at the same thing- like these fantastic friends I found yesterday- it is the most rewarding thing in the world!