 I'm Megan Brady and I'm a first year communication studio student in DCU. I am from Cavern so during the week I live up in Dublin in an apartment with three other girls but at the weekend I go home to Cavern. I decided on DCU TV vlogs to share with you all what it's like living away from home. So the question is what is it like living away from home? And the answer is great. Man if you're watching, I miss you the most. Please get the good daughter points now. Probably one of the first things I find most difficult about living away from home is being creative with my dinner. It's not that I can't cook because I like to think I can cook. It's being creative with my dinner. Probably for the first at least a week or so. I lived on a pretty much diet of pasta, sauce and chicken. And I'd come home with them again and man be like so what did you have for your dinners this week? I'd be like pasta and chicken. Pasta and chicken. Pasta and chicken. And man be like oh Megan come on. I can cook so I don't know why I didn't cook that in the house but I just find when I come home I just don't really feel like cooking. So pasta and chicken, handy. But I moved on from pasta and chicken. Second semester I find another stable food to do me. Another home comfort that I really missed when I'm living away from home is a dishwasher. Yeah you heard me a dishwasher. Oh I hate washing dishes. And you've gone to the effort of cooking your dinner. I've had to make my own dinner. I'm sitting there eating my dinner and what's staring at me only a mountain of dishes waiting to be done. When I say a mountain I mean a mountain of dishes because I am quite a messy person. So if I'm making something that would normally take two bowls I'll probably use about ten because I just can't help it and I don't have a dishwasher so I have to do it all with my hand. Yeah it's really really sad. Since starting college and moving away from home there's been one number that has entered my life that the test would probably be too strong of a word but it probably fits the bill perfectly. It is 109. Now I know people are going to be like you can complain it's not that far away from Dublin which is fair enough it's not but the fact that it takes two and a half hours to get the bus and recently sometimes it takes me three hours to get the bus from Dublin to Cavern or Cavern to Dublin when in a car it takes one hour and a half every time I think of that when I'm sitting on that bus I just cry inside a little. It's just a painful bus journey that I do not enjoy and I have to do it every again. Now I know I've ranted about all the things I miss and are bad about moving away from home but obviously there are good things too. It's great moving out, you get independent, you get freedom, you get to just kind of be your own person because I'm living on my own so I'm fending for myself I'm making my own dinner, I'm making my own decisions and choices and I think at the start if I had to make any decisions or choices I'd be like oh I don't know maybe I'd ring mam and ask her but now I think I'm just doing my own thing and making my own decisions and choices and I like to think that I'm an independent person so I generally don't miss home during the week I'm not in a bad way like joking aside I generally don't miss it like I'm happy to come home with the weekend and I like coming home to my own bedroom and that but generally I'm happy to be living on my own well I'm not necessarily on my own but you know what I mean to be living independently for the week that suits me, I'm happy with that I know some people would probably find it maybe a bit more difficult or get more homesick but I never, like even at the start of the year I didn't really get homesick maybe the first week or two I was up there I'd be like okay so it's Wednesday it's nearly Friday I'd be going home but it wasn't that I was homesick it was just that kind of I didn't really know what I was doing or where I fit in so I just kind of wanted to go home to what was familiar but now that I have my friends I have new friends in Dublin as well and my college friends that I see during the week so I'm happy to go up to Dublin and I don't wait for the weekend to come home so overall I enjoy living away from home I put together that little montage of clips at the beginning to share with you my little journey that it takes me on a Friday evening when I finish up that lecture so yeah, that is my vlog for DCUTV maybe hopefully, I don't know if I'll be loud after this one to do more vlogs in the future for DCUTV and you can check out my channel I'm just going to do a self-promotion plug because there's no promotion like self-promotion my channel is Meg's Monday so I upload regularly on a Monday if you want to check that out and yeah, that's it so, bye!