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Here I am again. It's Merel here. Time for some fun facts with Merel, as a continuation from Georgia's post. First things first, I'm 21, though I will be turning 22 quite soon. 1. I can't live my life without music. Honestly, I'll listen to music in all situations- whether I'm in the shower, reading a book, studying, writing, walking; just whenever. It's the background noise that's comforting, and the silence doesn't appeal to me. There is a range of music that I like to listen to which mostly ranges from rock to alternative to indie, and things somewhere in between. My spotify music selection can be quite a mix and I love it. 2. I love reading- which includes collecting books. So far my collection is sitting at about 189 books. I have to admit a lot of those books are young adult books, though I have been collecting books since I can remember. 3. I'm terrible at picking favourites (just like Georgia...), and am also very indecisive. Som

So you got to know a little about us in our blog introduction but now it's time to get personal. Kia Ora,  My name is Georgia, my friends sometimes call me Gee and some people at work call me Joga (don't know where it came from or why but it's not the worst nickname) but most people just call me Georgia. Now I don't know about you but I'm feeling 22 (sorry that's a lame joke but I only have a year to make it so I'm going to make the most of it). I'm not really sure how to go about introducing myself I'm not good with introductions so I'm just going to share some facts about me. Here we go: 1) The furthest I have travelled from home was to Washington DC after I won a trip. I got a personal spy tour of Washington and learnt all about how the spies operated during the cold war. It was such an amazing time and Washington is so beautiful and I can't wait to go back there some day. 2) I suck at picking favourites. I don't know

I can’t believe that it’s been 20 years of Harry Potter. It’s honestly such a crazy thought. It’s been more than 20 years since a generation of great witches and wizards were introduced to a series. I feel like someone has obliviated the first real memories of how I got into this series, but it’s been a part of my life for quite some time. The first book I remember reading was The Half Blood Prince, which is quite strange if you think about it. I barely remember if it made sense to me. I was about 9 or 10 at that point. I must have liked it because when my mum bought The Deathly Hallows I read it. Unfortunately, someone was a snitch and spoiled the end of the series for me. I was casually eavesdropping on someone’s conversation while we were waiting in line at school. I was a little bit upset (I think it’s one of those pivotal spoiler moments which I still remember). But that was it, though. This is what I remember from my first real introduction to Harry Potter. I do

Lumos Something tells me there will be a few blog posts on here like this since Harry Potter is such a big part of our lives and our friendship. Now this is a little late if we're following that Harry Potter publishing birthday trend but this would have been published birthday or not. Harry Potter is something that changed so many people's lives, it certainly changed mine. Without Harry Potter I probably wouldn't be friends with some of the people I am, the series introduced me to new people and brought me closer to others, some of my best memories with my friends have a connection to the franchise that I hold so dearly to my heart. I thought I could share some of these favourite memories here for you all to enjoy as well. Now I was 2 when the series came out so I wasn't going to be on the bandwagon but I was around 6 when the first movie was released and from that moment I fell in love with the magic that was Harry Potter. Now at 22 I'm a proud Huffl

Study may be over for some of you because of holidays (whether that's the summer or semester break, depending on where you are in the world) or you've graduated, but for some of you the journey may only be beginning so it can't hurt to have some study tips that we've found useful over our university careers. Study is always daunting, especially when you're a procrastinator (as we both are), or you don't really have the motivation to do it and you're giving yourself the excuse that you have plenty of time to do whatever study or assessment you have. This has always been a problem us. So as procrastinators we have compiled a list of useful tips and tricks that help us get the work done. 1. Study in chunks- work for X amount of time, and then break for Y amount of time, then repeat. Last year we started to implement this strategy. The point to this strategy is to break up the time so you don't drain all your energy and it makes it more tolerable. There

Welcome to our blog! 💖 Every first encounter should start with an introduction so here’s ours. Hello. We’re Merel and Georgia and we’re from that little island down the bottom of your map called New Zealand, it's very small and very green and most of you would probably know it as Middle Earth. Both of us are in our final year of university and tbh we can't wait to finish. We meet in high school and we've been friends ever since. Our blog itself is about so many different things, from helpful life tips that we’ve picked up in our years of life to our passions. So join us on our life journeys from the end of our university studies onward. Now for the more personal one on one stuff: I'm Georgia, I'm currently completing a bachelor of commerce majoring in Management and Media Studies with a minor in Marketing. I work part time at a movie theater as a supervisor and I've been in the same job for almost 2 years. I still don't really know what I wan