At university I really enjoyed cooking and I\u2019d cook for myself every night. Over three years I\u2019d also become somewhat skilled at using all the food in my fridge throughout the week and spending \u00a315 on a weekly food shop. Since being home, I\u2019ve found myself getting wound up at the amount of waste we produce in my household, we over-buy food and don\u2019t use it all up. Slowly but surely, I\u2019ve been teaching my mum how to make a meal plan for the week and how to shop efficiently. I also get to cook for my mum and sister sometimes, which is way more enjoyable than cooking for myself!<\/p>\n
Cleaning<\/strong><\/p>\n On the other hand, my mum loves to keep the house clean, while I\u2019m not 100% sure if I ever touched a vacuum while at university, so she\u2019s delegated weekly tasks for each of us which has been really eye-opening. I never realised how often you had to clean a place to keep it tidy, especially with cats \u2013 there\u2019s cat fur everywhere, even a day after vacuuming! In this respect, I\u2019ve definitely learnt something from being home that, arguably, I should probably have learnt over the last three years!<\/p>\n Me Time<\/strong><\/p>\n One thing I\u2019ve realised is that it\u2019s really important to have time to yourself. I never really noticed this at university since it was easy to have time to myself \u2013 I had my own meal times, my own TV and I could see my friends whenever I wanted. Now, living at home is different in that I have spent a lot of time with my family, at first without really recognising how essential it is to be able to have time to yourself, be it a walk, watching TV or reading. In this light, I\u2019ve found a few hobbies to keep me occupied at home when I\u2019m not spending time with my family, mostly drawing and Facetiming my\u00a0friends.<\/p>\n I’ve also gone on some beautiful walks to have some time to myself.<\/p><\/div>\n Family Time<\/strong><\/p>\n Having said this, I\u2019ve found it really helpful trying to keep a balance between having my own time while also socialising and spending quality time with my family. In an effort to stop us from spending too much time alone, we have set two nights aside a week \u2013 one for playing board games together and one for doing an online pub quiz together. Doing this reminds me a lot of living in Bournemouth because my housemates and I used to have nights dedicated to spending time together so it\u2019s really nice to be able to recreate this with my family. It also helps ease tensions in the house when we’re feeling moody.<\/p>\n My cat, however, isn’t a fan of spending quality family time together!<\/p><\/div>\n Overall, it\u2019s taken me a few weeks to acclimatise to living at home again and it\u2019s definitely been a learning experience trying not to be too independent and having to consider the fact that I can no longer do exactly what I want. However, it\u2019s been great getting to spend time with my family again and actually teach them a few things I learned at uni.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Moving to university was a giant learning curve for me. I taught myself how to cook, how to motivate myself, how to clean a bathroom, the list could go on. So, moving back home has almost been another learning curve and has been in a lot of ways challenging, mostly because this independence that I… Read more » about Moving Back Home<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2786,"featured_media":12723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1638],"tags":[1138,147,129,1510],"class_list":["post-12721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student-blogs","category-undergraduate","tag-bu-student","tag-family","tag-home","tag-moving-home"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2786"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12721"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12772,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12721\/revisions\/12772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/files\/2020\/05\/IMG_4521.jpg\")
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