I have always been an advocate of learning other languages but recently I’ve realised how passive I’ve become in this sense. When I was in school I wrote a persuasive essay talking about how irritating I found it that we, … Continue reading Learning languages
Yesterday I went to see La La Land at the Dominion Cinema and I don’t know quite how to explain how much it affected me. When the credit rolled I was literally speechless. I knew that what I had just experienced … Continue reading La La Land | Dominion Cinema
After a busy, fun but not so relaxing Christmas holiday, I am back to uni this week to start my second semester of second year. After this I will be through the easy half of my degree – can’t believe … Continue reading Back to uni!
When it comes to asking me what I’d like for Christmas, you generally can’t go wrong with a book. Especially if, like my mother, you make your selection based on my Goodreads list. Christmas 2016 is now to be known … Continue reading Christmas Book Haul!
I am going to give you, lovely reader, an insight into my Christmastime at home, I absolutely love this time of year to be around my friends and family, feel festive with the decorations, enjoy the challenge of picking presents to … Continue reading Christmas at home
I find it interesting to see how other classic mediums of communicating art like literature and print media are continually descending in popularity whilst film and television rise. We have a society of people who like to zone out and … Continue reading Theatre will never die
I am an Events student and as part of my Event Management module this semester we have the practical group assessment of creating a real life event. As a group we decided that we wanted to have a masquerade ball … Continue reading Masquerade Ball for Stella’s Voice UK
A couple of my younger friends from school are currently applying to universities for when they finish in the summer and I have found myself being asked what it’s like to start going to university. The honest truth of it is … Continue reading So what’s uni like? | 6 student tips and insights
This next piece came from my final year of secondary education where I gratefully took advanced higher English, the highest qualification that a Scottish pupil can achieve in high school and I absolutely loved it. There were only 4 of … Continue reading White Horse | High School English Portfolio #3
My confidence in these pieces grew year on year, and I think of this wee dramatic trilogy, this one is my favourite. I was studying The Great Gatsby for the textual analysis part of my Higher English course in S5 … Continue reading Colour in the Valley | High School English Portfolio #2
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