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Personal Narrative: 10 Things I Hate About You

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Life was peachy and then bam - like a truck, I was with hit with unwelcome surprises. As a result I was submerged for a while, up to my neck in a sea of stress, post it 's and notebooks. Sitting at my desk attempting to organise my life, I was often reminded of character Chastity 's quote from the movie 10 things I hate about you "I know you can be overwhelmed, and you can be underwhelmed, but can you ever just be whelmed?" - whelmed explains it perfectly! I found that due to stress, my ability to retain new information had disappeared. What intended on only being a month-long break over Christmas and the New Year, turned into an unplanned, 3 month, behind the scenes hiatus. There was a lot to adapt to, mainly trying to figure out how to

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