I walked on a rainbow

Book Review : The DUFF

noreply@blogger.com (HaleyWalkedOnARainbow) — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 17:32:00 +0000

I’m Back!!!

Now I am back with a book review. I absolutely love reading and thought this was something interesting to write about since I love voicing my opinion!

I want to say straight off that yes, like a lot of others, I watched the film before I read the book. This is unusual for me as I strongly believe that the book should be read first but hey ho. Secondly I treat the film and the book as completely separate things, separate stories should I say. In terms of the book, it has a lot more substance and plot than the film.

The basic plot of the book (without ruining anything), is that we have our main character Bianca who finds out from the ‘love interest’ Wesley that she is referred to as the DUFF, which stands for Designated Ugly Fat Friend. Bianca goes through journey of dealing with this label and how it translates into her love life and friendships, which makes for a compelling story. How I feel it differs from the film is that the film just focuses on the love life and barely touches on how it affects her friendship. The book deals with this perfectly in equal measures. It also tackles Bianca’s fairly difficult home life and how she deals with the strange relationship of her parents and how this can really change your life.

I feel I can really relate to the book as Bianca is incredibly warm and funny, she is easily relatable. She’s that kind of girl who either you are or is your best friend. I didn’t want to go to in-depth with what that plot because this book just has to be read.

(photo to come soon. stupid macbook)

Haley

Top 10 bucket list items

noreply@blogger.com (HaleyWalkedOnARainbow) — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 13:58:00 +0000

I recently found an old notebook containing a bucket list with many items, some of which I had already done (yay me!). It got me thinking about what the top 10 things are that I would love to do so I thought I would make a blog post and would love to see other peoples top 10 too.

Top 10 items on my bucket list

11. Travel to Florence, Italy

22. Learn to drive and own a car.

33. Have enough money to live comfortably

44. Visit New York or be able to live there.

55. Write a book and have it published.

66. Conquer my extreme fear of flying.

67. Learn to speak French.

88. Visit Finland to see the Northern Lights.

99. Time travel (when its invented, because it will be)

110. Find love.

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Why I chose to quit College and not go to University...

noreply@blogger.com (HaleyWalkedOnARainbow) — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 23:32:00 +0000

Now I know that this time of the year some people will be getting prepared to sit their exams in a few weeks time and be getting their offers from University, I should have been one of those people last year. A lot of the boys and girls my age are now in their first year and I often get the question, why didn't you go Haley? This is something I have needed to get off my chest for a while and it starts with when I attended college.

My first year of college I didn't go to my high schools Sixth Form counterpart. I thought that all my unhappiness in high school was because of the environment and the people I was around. I had a large group of friends of school, only one person I now still speak too and I do consider her my best friend. At the college I decided to attend I chose an art and design course. I met various people on the course, a lot of whom I got along with and was rather happy. Now I have always suffered with anxiety and mild depression because of what has happened in the past but I managed to keep it all in check up until my first year of college. Towards the exams part of my art and design course there was a family tragedy and this completely messed me up in the best of terms. I decided to quit college because I couldn't cope.

It was months later before I managed to get myself back on track, after yet another family tragedy only 3 months after the one where I chose to quit college, and I applied to go to my old high school's Sixth Form college. This is where most of my friends were and it's also where my best friend was. I was extremely happy here and I even fell for a boy. Now I don't blame him entirely for my breakdown in college as it happened only 2 months after we broke up, I blame mostly the extreme pressure that you get put under at college when doing A levels. Now I don't know if it was my teachers who pushed me too hard or that I pushed myself because I thought that I had to prove myself but I completely fell apart.

It was this point where I began to cry myself to sleep and cry every morning before I had to go to college. I would dread going in to college and I felt like I was being judged by every single one of the people that I knew apart from my best friend, who was at this point the only person who knew what was happening apart from my mum. I purposely missed classes and found any excuse not to go because I would just sit and cry in lessons. I pushed myself so hard in the mock exams to the point where I cried after the exam because I thought I did so bad. It turns out that I did rather well but I was then accused of cheating on one of the exams. I absolutely did not cheat and run myself ragged revising for an exam that didn't even count.

My form teacher was beginning to notice all this and she tried her best to support me but I couldn't cope. I ended up having to quit because i was missing too much. Back at home I was also caring for my mum who is severely disabled and cannot work. Her needs were beginning to be neglected when I was going to college because I had to work and I couldn't take her shopping or take her to pay her bills or just sit with her and talk. The option of University was not even on the cards if I did finish college because it wouldn't be practical for me to be hundreds of miles away with my mum not able to fend for herself, which she cannot do while all my brothers have families and lives of their own and can't check in on her every day.

Currently now I am my mums permanent Carer and am able to provide her with the care that she needs rather than her suffer, as she also has severe anxiety and depression as well as other illnesses which mean she is wheelchair bound when out of the house and can barely walk a few steps before it becomes extremely painful. I am beginning to get better, I have bad days but I think that everyone does. I have noticed that although I was a good student, college and university just was not for me. It won't be for everyone and some, although this may be a few, will be going through the same as me and all I want to say is that there is more to life than school and university. My situation is by no means ideal but I have to do it, because to put it simply, no one else will. There are options for those who don't want to go to university or college, lots of people go straight to work or get apprenticeships.

I hope that this helps someone. It helped me to get it out and write it down rather than keep it in.

Haley x

Hello world, this is me.

noreply@blogger.com (HaleyWalkedOnARainbow) — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 00:13:00 +0000

Hello people of the internet, my name is Haley. I started this blog years ago and only had one post which I hated so I decided to revamp this whole thing and make this something worth having.

I decided to make this blog because just like a lot of you out there I watch all the beauty gurus on Youtube such as Zoella, Velvetghost, Lily Melrose etc. They all inspired me to create my own blog as I am no where near confident enough to be on Youtube and put my face out there twice a week and too be honest I swear like a sailor so it would be inappropriate haha.

On this blog I hope to post content to do with beauty, fashion, lifestyle and other random bits. It is a hobby so bare with me

Haley x