I spent the weekend at Dwór Mościbrody, Poland, as a volunteer to teach English!
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Angloville: My first weekend as a TEFL volunteer.
Author: Paige Briscoe
28 year old marketer. English and Creative Writing graduate. Publishing post-grad graduate. Passionate about a lot, blog about a little.
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written 5-10-19, early hours of the morning;
Menstruation Station; the importance of intimate and sexual health!
So, if you have me on other social media, you’ve more than likely seen at lease one post where I’m promoting the importance of regular STD screening and how easy, confidential, and often free it is. Naturally, I’ve decided to write a post about it!
This post is going to get really bloody TMI, by the way, so enjoy!
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a fire burning;
To think of you,
but to not be consumed;
to watch to feel to hear
the flames and the smouldering embers,
but only feel the lick of their (your) lips,
but none of the danger,
none of the burns of flamed fingers grasped
too tightly so that I can’t tell –
who’s doing this to me?
The smoke, or your arms-
who suffocates me more, smothers-
neither.
You burn quietly in the background.
Contained.
Yearning.
Flash Fiction entry ‘The Replacement’
A few months back I wrote a very short piece of flash fiction, eighty words long, and entered it into a competition hosted by Third Word Press. I was lucky enough to be selected as a winner for that round of entries! As of writing this blog post, my story is featured on the front page of the website, which can be viewed here:
You can also read my entry, ‘The Replacement’, below! (Image is a screen-grab from the above website).
Feminine Body Hair: Learning to Love What Society Says We Shouldn’t
Are you female? Do you hate having body hair? Do you spend hours (and lots of money) shaving, waxing, scrubbing hair away from places you don’t want it- legs, arms, under-arms, etc? Yeah, same.
At least, I used to. Now, to put it simply, I really don’t give a toss about my body hair, and here’s why you shouldn’t either!
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Game of Thrones finale: my thoughts, reactions, explanations.
A lot of people have been unhappy with the final season of HBO’s epic Game of Thrones, and honestly, I get it, I understand why; but I am not one of those people. So I thought I’d explain why, talk about my opinions of the series and the unanswered questions I (and many others) have.
This post will be spoiler heavy, for both the series finale and some of the aspects of the novels, so don’t read ahead if such spoilers will bother you.
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Stuffing your wallet: earning money as a student.
It’s a worldwide fact: if you’re a student, then you’re most likely broke. Especially if Student Finance give you the minimum maintenance loan because of the ridiculous ‘means-tested’ system, therefore not even giving you enough money to cover your rent…
Like me!
I could go on and on about the penny-pinching fraudsters that are Student Finance England, but that’s not the point of this post; the point of this post, is to explore all the ways to make money on the side as a student! Whether you need a full, food and rent income, or just money for the sesh and other treats, here are some of the ways that I manage to line my pockets.
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Going Eco-Friendly: How University Life Changed Me.
University changes you in many ways – there’s no denying that. In my three years at Aberystwyth, I’ve discovered so many new things about myself, reaffirmed others, and improved over all as a person (there’s still progress to be made however!).
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Nephthys;
A proper Game of Thrones trailer dropped today – so naturally I wrote a poem about it. (Specifically Arya – click here to view the trailer in a new tab)
Paige Briscoe 