Longing for a City gets a makeover?

Hello strangers!

As many of you know, I have been absent from LFAC for quite some time, an entire 7 months in fact! However, you will also have noticed there are  a lot of changes that have taken place here in the last week. Not only creative changes, but subject changes too.

If you haven't seen the new"About Me" page, here is a brief overview of what has been happening.

Starting in mid-December, I began the journey to adopt a Vegan lifestyle. Though I'm still a total beginner, I will be sharing progress and recipes on here as often as I can.

 If you the most recent posts from last year, or follow me on Instagram (@longingforacity) you will know that I spent the past 4 months studying in America. I have written a series of between 4 and 5 posts giving you tips on travelling abroad on this kind of programme, and telling you what I got up to while I was away.

Lastly, I’m now obviously a second year university student. I am now focussing a majority of my content on student related posts. These will cover everything from being a good housemate, to travelling on a budget.

In a nutshell, I have a lot more content that covers topics that are actually important to me and they are going to be more substantial and useful to you.

If you're interested in my header please take a look at my graphic designer, Louise: Louise Merry, Behance

Tweet me to let me know topics you’re interested in @longingforacity or just comment below.

Talk soon, Lauren

My life || May

Hello strangers!

I haven't been around this way in a while and was missing all you wonderful people, here's what is going on in my life at the moment.

Life

At the beginning of May I turned in my final piece of university work for my first year *insert praise hands emoji* for those of you who don't know, I study Marketing at Winchester university. I am going to make a post for business freshers in the next month so keep an eye out for that one! But I'm just glad that I have finally finished my first year.

My bucket list

Hello all!

First off, I feel awful for neglecting my blog recently! I know excuses are pathetic, but I feel I should explain myself all the same. It's just as simple as a tonne of essay and coursework deadlines piled onto me within the space of the last week before the holidays, I know that we've all been there but I'm not great at dealing with it at all! Eventually I will do a post explaining everything with some tips that I would recommend. 

For now, I hope that you all enjoy this little insight into my... life plan... I guess!

Subscribe to me on Bloglovin

Hello everyone; 

I just got an account with www.bloglovin.com

See my profile here

It's a really easy way to read and follow tonnes of blogs and have them all in one place, they also have an app too so you can read on the go!

Don't forget to follow me!

Ciao, Lauren

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Twitter update

Why hello there,

I just wanted to make a short but sweet post to alert you all to the fact that I have just created a Twitter account!

I thought it best to jump on the social media ASAP so here it is; www.twitter.com/longingforacity

Please follow me and Tweet me some blog post ideas... I will do my very best to reply to them all, but then again there is school to keep me pretty occupied at the moment, you know, that small hitch in an otherwise perfectly relaxing day!

But on a serious note - I would love to talk to and get to know you all! Just tweet me to say "hi" and what your favourite types of posts are, or if there are any tags that you want me to do.

I hope that you're all enjoying the olympics!

Ciao, Lauren

To begin with...

A journey,

You can start a journey with anything; a deep breath, your best foot first, a morning shower, prep talks, or just a "hello" to that hot guy that you met on the train. A journey is anything that you want it to be or anything that has been.

As for me, my journeys, I've had quite a few. I could tell you the 'ins and outs' of them all, but a brief introduction is probably best.

My name is Lauren. I was born in Durham on the 19th of May 1996 to the best parents that I could possibly ask for. I was four when we moved to Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire and spending only 8 years in its substandard infant, junior and upper school education. I met, fought and made up with my longest lasting and closest friends. By the time I was twelve we (two sisters heavier) picked up again to a small town in Somerset.

Now I live 15 minutes away from a Tesco express, Budgens and Subway. This is hardly enough to quench my thirst for the small taste of real Cities that my not-very-well-traveled-self has had.

At 17 I have had my share of family holidays and appreciate them as much as the next girl, however a 5 day school trip to New York opened my eyes to the love - hate relationship of a proper city.

I feel that I am now at the start of a metaphorical journey that I wanted to make a record of; for now anonymously (to a degree) to avoid the judging eyes of the "click" system.

However in order to end up in any of the few cities that I love I need to find motivation in something that I do. This is where my new blog comes in.

Until next time...

Ciao, Lauren