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2 Read the article: Who feels more positive about living away from home?

No Place Like Home?

Lizzie and David Dickson give us first-hand accounts of the pros and cons of living away from home

Lizzie is studying History and American Studies at Nottingham University.

David recently completed Part One of a degree in architecture at the University of Newcastle.

Lizzie

There is no doubt that starting university is a daunting experience. Aside from the fact that in two days you meet at least 300 people but can remember only two of their names, it is the first time in your life that you become anonymous. Until this point, someone has always been haranguing you. So it seems inconceivable that it should just all stop when you get to university. There is something vaguely anarchical about living in a hall of residence in your first year. Freed from the constraints of family life, you suddenly find yourself in a place where the cheese toastie is seen as a valid source of nutrition, your music is not referred to as ‘that awful racket’, and you won’t be judged for wearing your pyjamas to lunch. Or dinner.

1 Halls never sleep. Neither, it would seem, do the pizza delivery men who service them. No matter what time of the day or night, you will always find doors open, a bass thudding, or a kettle boiling. At first, you wonder how you will ever sleep with this constant noise. When you go home, you wonder how to sleep without it.

2 But then Monday comes. And there is life, you have a purpose, you’ve got hockey training, you’ve handed in an essay and you can get excited about the prospect of a full five nights of flinging your limbs around in an over-capacitated nightclub. You might actually never go home again.

David

One of the main things you learn from going away to university is that the grass is always greener. You can’t wait to leave home to go there, but it only takes about a term for the novelty of life in halls to wear off. While it was once exciting to be living with a thousand strangers, it doesn’t take long to realise that you have nothing in common with the majority of them. Awkward conversations with people you still vaguely recognise from Freshers’ Week become tiresome, and you’ve had enough of people stealing food from the communal fridge. In short, you long to get into a place of your own.

3 Inevitably, these dreams of domestic bliss are short-lived when, a few weeks into independent living, you realise the house won’t clean itself, bills don’t go away if you just ignore them, and you’re not quite the gourmet chef you thought you were. Early morning fire alarms are now replaced by housemates chucking stuff at your window when they’ve locked themselves out. And now, when the washing machine floods, it’s you that have to deal with it.

4 So, what have I learnt from leaving home? That I can bear a considerable amount of grime before feeling compelled to clean and that it costs a lot to run a tumble dryer. And, strangely, that the home you so longed to get away from three years before, the one where someone else cooks and cleans and pays for the electricity, no longer seems quite so bad after all.

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Прочитайте статью: Кто более позитивно относится к жизни вдали от дома?

Ответ: Lizzie feels more positive about living away from home. Initially, she describes university as a daunting experience but ultimately embraces the independence, purpose, and social life, concluding with an enthusiastic "You might actually never go home again." David, however, starts with an idealistic view but becomes disillusioned by the realities of communal living, responsibilities, and costs, eventually concluding that home "no longer seems quite so bad after all."

Ответ: Лиззи чувствует себя более позитивно по отношению к жизни вдали от дома. Сначала она описывает университет как пугающий опыт, но в конечном итоге принимает независимость, цель и общественную жизнь, завершая свой рассказ восторженным "Возможно, я больше никогда не вернусь домой". Дэвид же, напротив, начинает с идеалистического взгляда, но разочаровывается реальностями совместного проживания, обязанностями и расходами, в конечном итоге приходя к выводу, что дом "уже не кажется таким уж плохим".