Ooh exciting things are happening.

I predict that my blog is going to be very up and down if I make a post every time I am enthusiastic/ apprehensive about this trip.

However, I'm going to do it anyway, mark my words.

The other girl who is going to Exeter and I have been getting along really well. We only have really talked over facebook since the one time we met, but we've made plans to fly to London together, travel London together and then move on down to Exeter for the beginning of term, where we will be living in the same flat at the same accommodation.

We've definitely grabbed hold of each other and decided to be best friends. It's a bit awkward because at the same time we're both like 'don't feel pressured!' and ' I don't want to be pushy, but if you'd like to--" type thing because while I believe that we are both on the same page, it's tricky to compromise and communicate effectively with someone you don't really know, but you expect to be friends with in the future, purely due to proximity and convenience.

I'd love it if we really do end up being good friends. It's been a long time since I made a new, close friend and she seems really lovely. She's very pretty, which makes me nervous because I always thing that skinny, pretty girls are all just popular and think they're too good for me and that doesn't mesh with my psyche well because half of me is like 'but she is too good, she could do better and we won't match' and then the other is like 'fuck you very much, she'd be just as lucky to have me as a friend as I would to be hers' and then I get this weird complex of resentment and inferiority.

I'm exaggerating. Mostly.

But she knows what she is doing and likes Harry Potter and is a little bit shy too so I think we will get on really well. Hopefully. We could end up hating each other but for now, we're travelling together for about two weeks by ourselves so I think us getting on well is pretty important.

It'll just be a matter of working out what her expectations are and making sure I pull my weight, and when we travel, making sure that I do get to be myself and do the things I want to, as well as what she wants to. But I think we're both going to be pretty laid back and willing to compromise and I think that's one of the most important things.

Ooh I am excited. Booking flights tomorrow hopefully.