Let's Start at the Very Beginning

(a very good place to start)

My name is Rachel.

I'm 17 years old and study English Literature, Psychology, Law and French at college.

I'm from Yorkshire. It means I mangle the English (not to mention French) language with my lovely accent.

Are you going to the shop? No, actually, m'off t'shop.

And as much as I love the place, even more so when I'm complaining about how shitty it is, I can't wait to pack up and leave.

Because there's only one thing I want to do in life, and that's travel. I'm never happier than when I'm off somewhere different, seeing new cultures, new landscapes, new faces.

I'm not ambitious. At all. When people ask me what I want to be, my automated response is now, "Solicitor," or, "Barrister," or, "something vaguely related to the law," and I can't tell you why. It's not true. I don't really want to be anything.

I love my friends and family, but I won't miss them when I go away.

I have quite a diverse taste in music ranging from Iron Maiden to Edith Piaf to Shakira. Jamie T and Alex Turner are my gods.

I only turn the TV on to watch period dramas, Friends re-runs, Doctor Who, tennis, and Skins.

My greatest passion in life is ballet...

... and the Eurovision song contest.

I read Dostoevsky, Austen, Tennyson, Baudelaire, along with those silly little teen romance novels. Princess Diaries? Read them all!

I'm pretty into film, especially when it's of the tragic romance variety. Brief Encounter, Atonement, Moulin Rouge... My favourite movie of all time is Amelie...

I've watched Clueless about a million times.

I'm a child of the 90's. It's the best kind of child to be.

I read the newspapers everyday, even if they make me want to spit in somebody's eye. It's like when you watch a movie knowing it makes you cry, and you watch it mostly because it makes you cry. I like knowing that I can feel that kind of anger, and I like having to defend my opinions against theirs.

My family is Catholic, I went to a Catholic school. It was not in any way traumatic. I don't know what I believe in yet, but I know it's something that's important to me.

I don't know what else to tell you.