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“Having browsed through all the prospectus’ on the shelf in the sixth form common room at school, my hands always reached back to the prospectus for Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÒÅÆ×ÊÁÏ, and it wasn’t just the course of a mixture of French drama, theatre, business and art that drew me in to want to apply - it was more the place. Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÒÅÆ×ÊÁÏ seemed beautiful and quite magical before I had even booked a ticket for the train to go for an interview. Little did I know that my interview, aged 17, would be in French, and not only that, but an interview in French with a lecturer who had the strongest Welsh accent I had ever heard. I like talking – so it wasn’t a problem to reply – but let’s hope that I was actually answering the questions asked!

Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÒÅÆ×ÊÁÏ opened up so many opportunities to me to not only meet like-minded people, but to join clubs and societies that I wouldn’t have ordinarily joined in Hertfordshire. I joined both the parachuting, the mountain walking, the badminton and the singing clubs – all of which took me out and about amidst the most amazing scenery.

During my time at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÒÅÆ×ÊÁÏ, I lived at Bryn Eithin, in College Road, and along Regent Street, but wherever you lived in Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÒÅÆ×ÊÁÏ, there were no problems meeting friends and getting around as the city is a small, well-nurtured place, and lectures and pubs and the university were always in walking distance.

Since graduating from Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÒÅÆ×ÊÁÏ in 1996, having had a stint abroad in Le Puy-en-Velay France, I have worked as a Bilingual Finance P.A., the majority of the work at HarbourVest Partners where I have worked for the CEO for nearly 20 years. Prior to my first P.A. role, I had to get busking and travelling out of my system, so I travelled France, New Zealand, Australia, the Cook Islands and Hawaii with various lovely friends from Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÒÅÆ×ÊÁÏ and from school – all of which I am still in contact with today. Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÒÅÆ×ÊÁÏ is like that, you see, teaches you to keep genuine friends for life.

Being a P.A., and having had excellent lecturers at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÒÅÆ×ÊÁÏ, has boosted my imagination and also my literary skills to enable me to have become a published author in children’s magical realism (the ilk of Harry Potter or Narnia) and Adult fiction (a little like Bill Bryson if I may?!) – all inspired by the whimsical and magical ideas and scenes in the mountains and at the pier in magical Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÒÅÆ×ÊÁÏ!
Please see my website below encasing my titles which have been taken up at Waterstones, Amazon Worldwide and Barnes and Noble in the USA!

My time spent at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÒÅÆ×ÊÁÏ was invaluable to bond lifelong friendships and memories.