A Pop of Colour

I don't mean cat fights and gossip, I mean am-dram, student theatre, and the drama society.

I had wanted to get involved in student drama right from the off and I remember as a nervous Freshers, approaching a very scary seeming finalist who I had heard was into the drama scene, and asking how I could get involved. She rolled her eyes at me for interrupting her work and then told me about the Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS, I'm still not sure if it's pronounced ooods, or owds). She add

"Just be yourself!" is so much easier to say than do.

I had taken a gap year so I thought I knew who I was and felt quite confident in that. When it actually came to meeting people I was not as confident as I had thought. In the first term I presented a version of myself that wasn't fully myself. I poshed-up my accent and didn't always say what I really thought for fear of being "caught out". I'm not sure what I was afraid of being caught out from, but I definitely wanted to fit in and Oxford i

It's been really really hard. You can put a brave face no and say that everyone's really pulled together and you've learnt to enjoy the little things in life, but the truth is that it's been really difficult and lonely.

Working almost entirely online has meant I've had actually quite limited interaction with people and I haven't been able to go anywhere. It's been home, and college for meals, with the occasional sacred trip to the Rad Cam to take books out. I'm honestly sick of looking at a scr