Summer Ball in 2010
How we met
I sort of met Leah by accident. Before we started Uni there was a Facebook group for the people in my halls so you could meet up and chat before you went. I misread my accommodation allocation and thought that I was on the second floor and so merrily went and introduced myself to everyone on that floor until a girl (now my housemate Charlie) appeared explaining that that was definitely her room and maybe I had made a mistake. It appeared that of course I had and so went off to find my floor of people. When we did all move in I did go and introduce myself and our two flats bonded to a degree and that's how I first met Leah. Throughout first year I probably spent more time in her flat that mine as we all got along a lot better and then in November Leah and 4 of her flatmates (and also our good friends by that point) signed for a house with me for our second year (and subsequently our 3rd year). I don't think it was until the summer term of first year that we became really good friends but after that we've been close ever since. Living with someone who's a best friend when it's the first time you've lived away from home definitely makes your closer. Without parents to consult at the end of everyday we would turn to each other to share the funny or sad or confusing parts of our days and I'm so glad that I always had her there to listen and share that with. She's filled my home life at Uni with so much fun but also so much reason I cannot imagine a uni experience where I don't have her warm smile to go to at the end of each day.
Us in Fresher's week
My favourite memories with Leah
* Watching horror films together during the daytime of first year and how she would never get scarred but I would always freak out and not be able to sleep that night.
*Her teaching me to make Paella with Hannah
*Her always coming with me to the vet when Sonia or Franklin were ill, and the one time she couldn't be there she bought me a box of white chocolate finger biscuits in case I was really sad and met me at the bus stop.
*The time I persuaded her to buy hash browns in a carton and make them for me
*She was the only person who'd sleep on the concrete outside the biology building to queue for summer ball tickets with me and we took sleeping bags and blankets and tried to nap on the really cold ground.
*The time that we first straightened her very curly hair and no one could believe how long it was!
*Going on the bumper cars together at every summer ball and her always letting me drive and us reeking havoc across with the other cars.
*The day that we spent alone wandering through Venice with no map and no plan but completely content in each others company just wandering wherever we wanted to go and eating a really nice lunch at a cheap restaurant under a canopy next to a canal.
*Giving her hair cuts to save money and sometimes accidentally snipping her clothes and only telling her sometimes.
*Having a ferocious water fight in our back garden.
*The time I burnt a hole in her bedding and stained it with ink in the space of 3 days and she didn't get mad at me.
*Taking our evening 'constitutional', walking our little circuit through the countryside of the Green, moaning about exams/housemates/siblings and generally putting the worlds to right and staying out in the fresh air and space until we felt human enough to go back.
*The time that I sat there painting her really quietly while she read her uni paper
Eating lunch in Venice
Things I would always like to remember about Leah at Uni
- Her saying 'Yo' to greet you in her really chirpy voice that just invited a good converstation
- The way that each night we would have a little chat together and then go up and clean our teeth together before going to bed.
- She's a really funny drunk
- Wherever we were, whatever time, Leah was guaranteed to attract the strangest men.
- We'd always watch telly and cook/eat together, normally Teen Mom or Big Bang Theory and sometimes we'd follow a series like the Apprentice and always watch in together each week.
- She makes incredible pasties
- Her room smelt really stale in the mornings but exactly the same stale as my sister's always did which made me really nostalgic every morning.
- The little parcels she would make for her friend when she was in hospital filled with stickers and bubbles. They were always so thoughtful.
- She'd work on her essays at a fairly late timescale and get a really furrowed brow and a slightly shortened fuse and yet she always got such good marks.
- Her shoes were always in such a state - covered in dirt and with holes in the back!
- She was always nibbling Applewood smoked cheese
- The amazing fry ups she used to make us after big nights out.
- I could ask her to do literally anything to help me and she always would, whether I needed to print off an entire thesis in an emergency with her ink, borrow money, get her to send the work I'd forgotten to uni, bring me my lab coat, whatever I asked she would help in whatever way she could.
- How we used to sit and work through the puzzler magazine together and she would help me when I was being all dyslexic about it.
- How she hates sharing a bed but if I stayed she would put up with me and my snoring and wriggling.
- How she always wore long necklaces with animals on such as her Peruvian monkey or the pewter giraffe.
Making pasties on a snowy day
Things I admire/appreciate in Leah
Whatever she commits to doing she throws herself into it completely
If I ever needed help for anything with Gospel Choir or Sailing she'd always give up her time to help me even when she really didn't need to and it'd probably be really boring.
She's not afraid to be silly or make a fool out of herself just to have fun
She always shared her coco pops
She's so sweet and caring
She doesn't take and nonsense from anyone, especially her brothers!
She's very brave
Final year summer ball entrance
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