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The one thing I noticed last night was the fact that I did not dread the fact that it was Monday Eve, which was such a welcome relief after dreading almost every single Monday for the past three months (talk to me in a months time and see if I've changed my tune already!).

The early starts aren't bothering me too much, although it was dark at the train station this morning, an unwelcome drawing in of the nights. I've found even more mature students, this time round some from other countries. It still seems that I am one of the less mature of the mature students (yay!). I don't know how the others decided to go for it, I was fretting about having to take a year out to earn money as I didn't want to postpone my life. I've met people who have done a degree and a masters, or a degree and then teacher training, or like myself, a degree and then worked. We all sound old chatting about the way Uni was "in our day" and how old all these 18 year olds are making us feel with all their partying.

It looks like I will definitely be needing help in physics. At first the lecture was fine while the lecturer explained the reasons behind studying physics on this course, and I was enthused by them. Then the real lecture started and I really couldn't understand a thing I was writing down, all these sodding greek symbols that stand for wavelength and frequency etc, and the basic equations that they expect us to know. I do not know any of this, I last did physics six years ago, so just stick me in the corner with a dunces cap and talk very slowly so I can write all this gobbledeegook down.

It's not much to ask is it?

Oh no I've been neglectful

I'm brushing off the thin layer of dust that has managed to accumulate in the cafe after my brief time away. I apologise for the length of my absence and promise to behave in future (who am I kidding?).

Paris was fabulous as a future post will tell you, but for now I wish to speak about tomorrow and what lies ahead of me. Friday was my last day in work you see, and this Monday I start afresh with a new degree course (hopefully the last one!).

I'm absolutely petrified, I don't know where I'm going, who I'm going with or anything. I'm sure that at some point through my day I will run across someone who will talk to me, after all everyone is in the same boat, but the paranoid part of me thinks that everyone will have met up in halls and at various freshers parties this weekend and I will be the only one who doesn't know anyone.

So for now I mentally prepare myself and put my chatty head on, because tomorrow I will need it, wish me luck everyone!