Girly Cocktails

I think when I first arrived at IED, I found it quite difficult to fit in, as everybody had already been there for a year and got to know each other and got settled. I think the fact that Emily and I came in together every day and were very much a unit together, prevented it from being quite so easy to get to know everyone. This is probably my biggest regret of doing a year abroad - not doing one for long enough. I don't feel that I really got to know everyone properly, or even the university properly. As many of my peers from home will know from being at Chelsea, it takes you at least a term and a bit to actually get used to the people you are with, the way of working, and the way your tutor likes you to work. It takes time to build relationships within design and I feel that the second we built our relationships with our new peers and our new tutors we had to leave. This is something that worries me slightly about coming back. It is so far into the year, that I will never really get to speak to my tutor on a personal level, or to see how my tutor likes to work before the year is over. 
I have made friends in Barcelona that I can honestly say I would always want to keep in contact with, which made it very sad to leave them so soon, as it feels like we have only just become really good friends! 
Thankfully we had actually had the opportunity to make the most of the time with our friends and on one night we went out with one of the girls for cocktails to really loosen up and get to know each other properly. She was looking at coming to Chelsea next year and I actually think that this would be a brilliant experience for her to notice why our work was so different from everyone else's. I would also like to be able to give her the same amazing opportunity that I was allowed to have. 
Hopefully we will be able to keep friendships alive - despite the distance between us all.