I started a new adenture today seven years ago

I have fond memories from my year in Southampton. Granted, the academic stuff proved to be a tough learning curve as it turned out I had enrolled in a third year semester with the subjects "The Ethics Of Belief" and "Fiction And Fictionalism" respectively. I pretty much had to take a crash course overnight to get even the slightest idea of what was going on, I had never heard words and terms like "epistemology", "doxastic attitude", "x-ing at will" and "refrain from x-ing" in my life, and needless to say, it felt frustrating having to work on essays about these subjects I had pretty much just been introduced to. There were definitely aspects of them that were interesting, such as theories of parallel worlds and why things happen but granted, I will never look at the letters A, S, P and X the same way again haha, but I actually did pass all my exams, even if it was just by the skin of my teeth. Still, I look back at it all as a learning experience and I also made many good friends along the way, and the social side of my stay really made up for it and it's what I have the most fond memories from. I was a member of two clubs, a language exhange club every Tuesday evening where I would learn German from other foreign students and I would teach them English in return. The other club was a LGBT club that took place every Tuesday afternoon and it felt good to engage in subjects outside of the classroom with people I had intererests in common with. Both clubs were on campus at the student cafe The Bridge. There was also the pub/karaoke bar on campus, The Stag's Head, where I did one performance doing Calvin Harris' and Rihanna's "We Found Love" to great response from the audience. I also watched the final of the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest at The Stag's Head and the fact that I had a British sim card back then meant that I could vote for my own country Norway, which was definitely a first for me and a nice perk of having a different sim card haha.