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It isn’t a feeling you really forget, is it? Walking into school in August (that should be a crime in itself) with your stomach through the floor, dreading what lies in wait inside that envelope.  We can attach all worldly importance to the marks of ink that will adorn the critical piece of A4. And not without reason - in the...

  I wonder if you've ever been fishing? I must confess at this point that I haven’t, and yet it seems like just the kind of activity that would frustrate me entirely.  Sitting around, line in the water, waiting for something to happen. For many of Britain’s anglers, the past-time is just that - a past-time. Yet for billions around the globe, now...

After a recent Preparation for University stream, a participant left us with the question “Do you have any relationship advice for during university from a Christian point of view?”. Yes, we do! Your time at university could be the place where your calling comes alive! As disciples, part of that calling is to let our light shine before others (Matthew 5:14)...

I arrived at the University of East Anglia for my first year of university way back in 2015. I had a horrific mop of hair, a head full of dreams, and a willingness to meet the kind of people I’d never before seen back home in Chesterfield.  I was so blessed to find those people quickly. Even more amazingly, there were some...

I love a deep conversation, me. Sitting in a car is usually my location of preference for a deep chat, but there’s one thing that all of them have in common - honesty.  Honesty is to a meaningful relationship as petrol is to a car. It just won’t work otherwise! You might by this point be thinking about those people you...

When I was in school, I had a history teacher called Mrs Bilby. Mrs Bilby had this thing she used to say about exams, that they were always “the elephant on the horizon”. She’d say this in January or February, and I would laugh it off as classic scaremongering. Fast forward to late-May and early-June however, and I was staring...

These are indeed very strange days. Toilet paper is short, pasta is but a memory, and millions and millions of people around the world are confined to their homes.  It’s curious - I’m told we are social distancing, and yet, this week I have had people from all over the UK pop up on my computer screen for a chat. I’ve...

I wonder if you have any things that you unknowingly do when you get a bit nervous. We only really realise them when other people point them out. I found out that one of the things I do when the butterflies to start is to keep saying the word “Marvellous!”.  This was pointed out to me by my Fusion Team Leader,...

It was a freezing Friday night, and the sound of a shrill whistle cut through the crisp February air with a deafening screech. It was time for football practice to start, and I had absolutely no idea what I was doing.  This story starts about 17 months earlier, when I ventured to Norwich to start university. I was looking forward to...

Gather round ladies and gentlemen, and prepare yourselves for my freshers week top tips! The first week of uni can be a whirlwind of fun, information, and new experiences, and it’s entirely possible that you’re excited to get going or dreading what might lay in store.  My prayer is that this post can make you genuinely excited about freshers week, and...

It, in many ways, will be the best summer of your life. You’ve wrapped up A-Levels, and now you’ve got three months stretching out ahead of you before you head to university in September. If you’re anything like me, you’re probably thinking “It’s so far away, it’s basically not happening”. I remember feeling like we were indestructible traveling around Europe with...