Monthly Rewind – Page 10 – as told by zaheerah

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Results day 😥 – AKA possibly one of the worst moments of my life, Tbh. I just missed the expected grades I needed to get into Sussex. I was sorely disappointed, mainly because they don’t take into consideration my EPQ grade which I got an A in. My plan now is to retake my exams by taking a third year but the college is being so frustrating!!! I asked if I could immediately apply for a third year on results day but a senior at college told me not to do it!! She said it would be better to take a foundation course so that I automatically get into my chosen course. But I felt more comfortable paying for my retakes rather than adding an extra 9K in student loans. I tried my luck with the foundation course but they were filled up already and now I’m getting no response from college about the third year 😭😭

Visited family in London – Since we couldn’t go last month on Eid, we decided to go this month for a couple of days since my aunt recently have birth to her first child, a baby girl!!

Got a job!! – probably one if the few good things that happened this month. It’s a part time waitressing job at a restaurant. The pay is minimum wage and its alright for me since this is one of my first proper job. I intend to really just stay there for a couple of months for the experience until I find something better.

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I read 7 books this month! Here’s some of them: (ill add links once I’m back in Brighton)

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Reframing Language: “This Game is Crazy!” – A small but informative post about the ableist words we use to describing games. Also, includes words we could use to replace it.
Tropes Not Experienced in School – Joey’s TTT was so funny and hilarious. Reading his one makes me want to write my own list of tropes that I did/didn’t experience in school!

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Please excuse the moody look but the lighting was A+

Celebrated Eid! – This year was a strange Eid because we usually split our time – the first half of the day staying at my grandma’s house (dad’s side) and seeing all my relatives from his side before going up to London to see my other grandma and aunts (and my many, many cousins – I currently have eleven cousins, with another one due soon and I recently found out another one of my aunt’s pregnant again so YAY more cute babies to come!) But this year we didn’t go to London which was really sad because I haven’t seen them at all this year. 😦

The first month of no college! – I finished college back in late June. And BOY was it stressful. It made July such a strange month because I wasn’t following my college timetable and it left me with so much free time. I also tried to look for a job but, sadly, received no response to the many places I applied to.

Attempted to sort out my writing – This blog was originally created back in 2013 as a place to write my own original stuff. But since restarting this blog in 2015, I realised there was a lack of original writing. And since I know I definitely want to write a book in future, I’m just not sure what? So this month, I went through everything I had that resembled a decent story. And began plotting. (I hope to start writing more posts about my writing process) I realised that I had written basic plotlines to four different stories. (The one I have my eye on was based on a childhood game I played when I was little with my cousins which were about a group of female pirates that travelled the world going on adventures with mythical creatures)

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