Ok, so to get to Bristol I take a 5.20am coach. This means getting up at 3.15am. It is only a ten minute walk to the bus stop but I want to make sure I get there early incase the lovely people at Megabus actually arrive early and leave without me. Doesn't usually happen. Them getting there early that is. The Megabus bus stop is just outside a shopping centre so I wait in there so I don't have to wait in the dark for the bus. Now, whilst I was waiting a creepy sound suddenly began and starting echoing through the halls. I hated it. It freaked me out and I didn't like it. I knew it was probably something that hadn't been turned off in a shop properly but the thing was, I had been there for twenty minutes already and not heard it and now it was going off every 2 minutes. Also it was extremely loud and the only shop near the source of the sound was a Wilkinsons (a shop for home supplies). This was the sound.

Bullying is a serious issue today. I have been a victim to bullying in the past but with modern technologies growing and growing, I feel it is worse today than ever before.

I have recently read a lot about teen suicides. These teenagers often take their lives due to severe bullying. Their schools do not provide help and they do not know what to do. It is heartbreaking. Bullying is seriously damaging and school's need to do more about it. Furthermore social networking sites involved with the suicides, particularly ASK. FM should be shut down. The recent case of Izzy Dix's death seriously upset me. Her Mum wrote to the school over and over again about the bullying and Izzy even went to see the headmaster. The school did sh*t all. And the day after Izzy say the headmaster, she killed herself. The story is a really horrible one to read and makes you feel so upset. I will leave a link to it below and a link to a petition below that. It is called for the ban of ASK.FM, involved in so many suicides and the prime place for bullies to reside. I was lucky not to have social network sites when I was younger. Consequently, when I ran home, I could escape. However, now teenagers do not have the same privilege and we need to protect them as much as we can.

Izzy Dix article - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2483851/Izzy-Dixs-mother-gives-heart-rending-interview.html

Izzy Dix Anti-Bullying Memorial Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/IzzyDixAntiBullyingMemorialPage?fref=ts

Izzy Dix BAN ASK.FM Petition - http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/shut-down-cyberbullying-website-ask-fm-in-memory-of-izzy-dix-11-other-teens-globally

Recently someone has been playing extremely loud music in the rooms above us when I am staying in Bristol. It is so annoying. It's just thumping. THUMP THUMP THUMPTHUMP THUMP. It's awful. I just don't undertstand a)why anyone would want to listen to their music so loud and b) why on earth they have suddenly felt the need to start doing.

Shut UP.

It doesn't go on throughout the night but it goes on till late and then I woke up to the delightful tunes this morning. I just don't understand why. And why haven't people in the opposite rooms complained. I reckon I am about two floors below where the music is coming from and it is driving me insane. I must admit I probably wouldn't mind as much if it was some good chart music but it's just thumps. RnB music probably.

I had this problem first year, except the person playing the music was in the room next to me. He was so arrogant. I will name and shame him - AJ. He was friends with some people in my flat (I was at the end of the corridor and therefore my bedroom wall was also his bedroom wall but technically he was part of another flat). He would play music all the time and I would kick the wall. I am not a confrontational person so I never went and asked him to 'shut up' but friends in my flat knew I was annoyed and told him and he didn't appear to care. I would get so frustrated with him that I would throw things at the wall. And then he got FIFA. Oh my god! I now hate the game despite having never played it (and I never say I hate things until I've tried them). His friends and he would play it into the night, screaming, yelling and cheering. They did this before one of my Spanish exams. I was so stressed and so upset about the exam already and I got one hours sleep as they were up till 4am. I literally despised them by the end of the year.

Another thing they did was they would come home from a night out and destroy the place. My friend lived in their flat and once they poured everyone's food out of the freezer and let it melt on the floor after a night out. They also threw eggs at the window and refused to clean it up. And they had a favourite habit of spraying the fire alarms with deodorants and setting the fire alarm off. One night I was woken up by them coming back screaming - AJ and his two friends Shane and someone else. I heard them whispering how they were going to set the fire alarms off and I stepped out of my bedroom and looked directly at them. I didn't say anything but they were standing by my flat's fire alarm. AJ quickly scrambled but a few seconds later the fire alarm went off. I was so f**ked off I went and told the RAs. I didn't care. I would never confront them so let someone else to do the job. They had been making my life miserable till that point so why not? The fire alarms in the middle of the night definitely lessened and the boys had to go to the Vice-Chancellor. Also due to all their activities in the flat if they did one more bad thing they would be thrown out of accommodation. However, AJ continued to play loud music and continued to play FIFA. The fire alarm incident was pretty early on in the year and my spanish exam was clearly at the end.

ANYWAY what I am trying to say is be considerate to those around you. Don't play loud music continually. AND IF that person doesn't shut up, I will go upstairs, note down your room number and inform a member of staff because yes, I still am the girl who will not confront people....

The Daily Mail website is slightly addictive when you start going onto it. It is updated frequently with important news from the terrible storm in the Philippines to a celebrity buying fries. It is a little stupid that way. The articles aren't written well and quite a few of them are just trash. But good trash. And addictive trash. And you get a low down of the news and feel rather pleased that you know what is going on in the world.

Well today I read an article which made me extremely angry. An article about a murderer. He has been charged with the brutal murder of a 45 year old. Two of his friends and himself killed the man after a row over a bag of fries. They murdered him brutally and then stood over his dying body eating ham sandwiches they had brought with the money they had got from selling his phone. It was a very disturbing article to read.

Even more disturbing was this one particular murderer called Peter Laing. Who now wants to be called Paris Green. He is being put in a female prison and later on will be undergoing gender realignment therapy, which is being paid for by the NHS. His transport, accommodation the prison guards that will follow him will be paid for by British taxpayers.

 I have no problem with people have gender realignment and I think it is a progressive step forward that such operations can be done on the NHS but this man is a MURDERER. He is a villain. And this is why I am insisting on calling him 'he' not 'she' as he does not deserve that level of respect. He does not deserve an operation funded by the NHS and subsequently funded by the taxpayer. This could actually mean that the man he murdered, and the man's family, will be paying for his operation. No. No. No. This is evidently wrong, He does not deserve such a privilege. If he wanted an operation so badly he should have thought of that before committing such a disgusting crime. He should have to pay for the operation himself and should not be allowed time out of prison in order for the operation to be carried out. He should pay for his accommodation, his transport and if it is done during his prison sentence he should have to pay for his guards. He should also have whatever time he spends out of prison added onto his prison sentence. How can we give this person the right to such an operation for free when they are a MURDERER. The only operation concerning his genitals that I feel should be free is his castration.

I do not feel that the NHS should be unavailable to those in prison. If one is ill or has a life threatening disability then I support that they should be helped. But this operation will cost thousands of pounds and this man has committed one of the most worst crimes. Why should he be given such rights? At this rate, other criminals will start asking for breast enlargements or scar tissue correction operations whilst in jail. Why not? Gives you a break from prison life and taxpayers are even going to pay for your accommodation - something which the NHS would not cover for one normally having an operation.

This article just made me so angry. I can not believe that my country would allow this to happen. An innocent man is dead. His murder was extremely brutal and I will link the article below if you want to read what happened. This man has no right to a gender alignment operation when others deserve it so much more than him. Other people who are being bullied and feel suicidal in their bodies as they know they were born the wrong gender are waiting years for these kinds of operations. They deserve it so much more than a murderer.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2494991/Murderer-born-man-sentenced-life-womens-prison-arranging-sex-change-taxpayers-money.html

Many students will be slogging away at graduate scheme applications as I speak. It is a long, lengthy process which takes anything between 3-6 hours. And it kind of sucks the life out of you. Like a Vampire. You apply, you take ages planning and writing your application, you fill out all of the boxes and rack your brains trying to think of unique and different ideas. And no. Sorry. No. Rejection.

This is particular hard when you know no one has looked at your application. Imagine completing that long test and then being presented with a maths test, vocal reasoning test and a logics test. If you fail one, you automatically get rejected from the programme.

It's quite harsh. It's very harsh actually. Also it is really demotivating. You start to think, what was the point? What was the point in all my work experience? The sports clubs I joined, the committees are participated in, the campaigns I helped? What was the point in my voluntary work? Because clearly these companies don't give two sh*ts about it.

Rejection is a hard pill to swallow. Even when it is with a company you don't actually want to work with. And at this point in your final year, you are expected to continue applying no matter what and still do all your work. Why? Do these companies realise how much of your life is wasted on these graduate scheme applications? Too much. Too much time indeed.