Sam 2000 - June "Cheers to your last day of your first year at uni," Shayla yelled to me over the noise of the packed pub, filled with students like me, celebrating the end of the school year. It was such a bizarre concept to wrap my head around, the fact that I'd completed my first year while friends back in Australia were only 3 months in. We clinked our glasses together, letting beer spill out onto the table in front of us without a care. Shayla had travelled up from London to celebrate with me and the few mates I'd made at Cambridge in the past year, one of which was my dorm mate Greg, a somewhat shy lad at first but once we got talking we found we had loads in common, he too had ended his relationship before travelling across the country to attend Cambridge but, unlike Veronica and

