- Hello,
today we're going back to where it all began.
I posted my first ever YouTube video
in a lovely place called York,
which is up north but not the north I used to north in,
and I was at university
and I forced all of my flatmates
to make a terrible horror film,
which is sadly no longer on YouTube.
'cause it contained a little bit of copyright music.
Though I noticed that Google maps
has gone all the way around my entire university.
So, I thought it'd be fun to jump on there
with you guys
and take you back to where I started everything.
Show you my horrible house of 10 people,
show you where I was rejected by a philosophy student,
and hopefully see a load of geese.
'Cause I think there's more geese
than students at university.
Is that a myth?
I don't know.
There was a lot of geese.
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Alright, let's get on to the googs.
Tag yourself, right?
So, this is earth.
And, I went to university at the University of York.
This is the whole campus, which is surrounds a lake,
hence the geese.
And, I was in Halifax college, which was here?
Yes, I remember, which was a 10 minute walk off campus.
I remember when I was assigned this, I was like, oh,
I wanna wake up in geese land.
But, with my knowledge I have now,
I think it's a great place to go,
because you're probably gonna make more friends
in a house of 10 with next door neighbors,
than in a closed off apartment building.
I think we should go to where my parents dropped me off
on my first day at university.
I was absolutely weeing myself.
Younger Court, oh, that was where I was.
Okay, here we go.
This is my glamorous student accommodation.
I mean, it's not that snazzy looking.
Let's be honest.
This is a student house here where I was dropped off
and it's kind of awkward,
'cause everyone's going in with their parents
and no one knows each other,
but I just tried to be super fake extrovert
and just speak to everyone I saw.
I think the website lets you have a sniff around as well.
Oh my God, I'm in.
This hallway is just flooding me
with so many memories.
And, my room.
My room is the one that you can go around.
I was in room number one.
And, notoriously, that is the person
that gets the least sleep,
because you are opposite of the kitchen.
So, what you got some bag hooks.
I remember I just completely covered my walls
in posters and photos.
A tiny desk which was not good for my giant legs.
And, my mattress had so many lumps in it.
It definitely had been abused
in ways I do not wanna think of.
That is the tiniest single bed as well.
I fell out of that so many times.
Alright, let's go through to the kitchen.
Oh, it's had a bit of a facelift in here, I think.
It's not as horrendous as I remember.
I can be a bit of a mess, right?
But, I was put with the messiest people ever.
This kitchen constantly looks like an apocalypse.
I remember the first night, sat around this table,
with all these housemates I've never met before.
And, then one guy just goes, oh,
so we're getting to know everyone.
Is anyone like gay, or bi, or anything?
You don't just ask someone's sexuality
after knowing them for four minutes.
Of course, the entire table, no one was like, me.
I'm super gay.
So, I was just sat there sweating like...
I did tell them at a later date.
I just wanted to suss them a little bit first.
Back into the hall.
That was my neighbor and the walls were so thin,
you could hear everything.
This was a house of 10 people, right?
We all had to share two toilets.
That was probably my worst thing
about staying in this house.
'Cause there are accommodations where
you get your own bathroom,
which is such luxury compared to this.
Oh, we can't snoop upstairs,
but there was a shower and then eight other bedrooms.
Oh, we have a little Nisa local
to get your groceries.
Round here is where it's all happening, JJs Bar,
which is like the Halifax College bar slash common room.
And, the first week,
there was a party there called the H party.
You had to go with something beginning with H.
So, I thought I'd dress as a hit man, right?
So, I put on a white shirt, black trousers
and then sprayed loads of fake blood all over myself
like I just hit some man.
And, then a guy came up to me.
I was hoping he'd be like, hey, Mr. Hitman, hit me up.
But, no, he was like, me and my friends
are trying to guess what you are.
And, I was like, I'm a hit man.
And, then he just said, oh,
we were thinking you were a hemorrhage.
Great, love my life.
Let's go to campus.
So, my walkins campus was along this lovely lake.
First person to see a geese wins a prize.
Where is my geese at?
Bring back my geese.
Where they at?
Duck, there we go.
See, they're everywhere.
Hello, sun bathing goose.
Sexiest one.
There was actually a Facebook group
called the sexy swan appreciation for the sexiest one.
Ooh, that's the central hall, which looks like a big UFO.
I have terrible memories of that place,
'cause that's where I did all my exams.
And, all the colleges, which is where you live,
like your Hogwarts houses
are in different parts of the lake.
Some of these buildings are very brutalist 60s.
So, if that is not your vibe, it can be a bit ugly.
This is where you'd go to choose like the clubs and stuff
that you would join at the start of university.
I am so annoyed at myself that I didn't join more clubs.
Imagine how much I would've thrived
if I went to the LGBT club and went on that night out.
Is this you?
Thumbs up.
I think I did most of my English language and linguistics
in some of these glamorous buildings,
but still kinda leafy.
You got to look at a tree out the window.
Colleges use a lot of pretty cool names
like Alcuin and Goodrich.
And, then this one over here was just called James.
I am currently inside James
and then I think this was the student union.
Yes, oh my God.
This path here is where I had my fateful piggyback race
where I broke this bone in my hand.
So, I maybe had one too many vodka vintos,
which was the drink of York.
I decided to get on the back of the smallest guy I knew.
This is a situation where I should not have been on top,
because...
I feel like this is the ugliest part of campus.
Imagine if that was your room
and people are just walking past it all day.
What happens if you pull that lever?
The entire university just flies off into the sky
like Final Fantasy VIII.
You get the vibe.
But, I did love being on a campus
rather than in a city university.
I don't think I was ready for the big city.
Oh, this is where I stayed in the fourth year
when I did post production.
It had a nice view of the lake,
unless you're in my room, tucked away over there.
I was always put on the bottom floor.
I don't know why.
Yeah, I was quite lonely in the fourth year,
'cause most of my friends had left.
I think you'd see me declining slightly
as I made various weirder and weirder YouTube videos.
Okay, this is the best building at York.
All buildings should look like this.
I feel like they're tempting the bees with that though.
They'll just be like today's classes is bees.
Let's go to my first student house.
This is about a 15 minute walk from campus.
Oh, Badger Hill.
What a name.
Imagine living in Badger hill.
My house was in Fulford, which is here.
Oh my God,
that's when I had that job at...
I mean smubble you, smeich, small.
We'll go to town in a bit.
I'll show you that.
Walking down this road is giving me so many memories.
I just feel like I'm a student again.
So, I was down here
I'm pretty sure.
It was this one.
Yes, the memories.
It was falling apart inside, but it was functional.
There was my bedroom.
So, if you ever watched any of these videos,
I was sat in that room, which was the biggest one.
So, we basically turned that into the lounge as well.
So, I had a sofa and a PlayStation and stuff.
I lived with five other people.
It was pretty fun,
but also you get so many adult responsibilities put on you,
like who's gonna pay the electricity bill,
the sink isn't working.
The landlord's ignoring me.
It was a bit of a pranky house as well.
I just hate the uncertainty of what is gonna happen.
One time I was getting back from Christmas
and they filled my entire bedroom
up to the ceiling with balloons.
My dad wanted to help me build a desk and he was not happy,
but he basically thought my entire room had been transformed
into a clown dungeon.
This is the field that I was like,
I'm gonna get healthy and jog around this every day.
I think I did it once.
Here's the co-op where I got all my frazzles
and microwave meals.
For some reason, I don't know why,
the bread they sold here was insane.
And, me and my friend would just go
and get a massive baguette, go home, watch Holy Oaks,
and just eat plain bread and butter for dinner.
It was great.
We called it (dog barking) and bread
and it warranted that name.
That house was kind of falling apart.
So, we moved to a slightly better one in the third year.
Oh, there it is,
but that looks completely different.
Wait, can we go back in time?
Oh, that's so weird you can do that.
2008, this is messing with my head.
I was here then.
That was my room there.
I remember the landlord
made me stick that sign on the window
saying students wanted,
'cause he knew we were moving out.
For student houses, this was amazing,
'cause the rooms were really big
and they also had this pretty big garden here.
Oh, this.
The tent.
One of my housemates got annoyed with us all
watching movies late at night on a weekend,
so he literally pitched a tent,
and went and slept in the garden.
I can't believe Google has captured the tent drama.
We look a bit suspicious closing all these blinds, don't we
I think it was this year
that someone slid into my DMS.
We'll call him Larry.
And, he went to the other university,
which was Yorks and John,
he was basically like, hey
we chatted on a night out and I found your Facebook.
I was wondering if you wanna go for a drink.
So, I was just thinking this never happens.
So, I went for the drink, which was in town.
Let's go to town
which is about a 10 minute bus from the university.
Oh, York is so nice.
There's little castles just dotted around.
That's Clifford tower.
In summer, sometimes we just go sit on the top of that.
This is the most famous street in York, called shambles.
'cause, I mean, look at it.
You feel like you are literally in the past.
If you're ever in York,
you need to go to the Viking center as well.
And, then you're just walking around the street,
and look at this.
Can you believe this is a real place?
Ah, it's the gallery.
That's a club we'd go to on a Tuesday.
And, I'd pretend to know how to dance.
My friend worked there so I'd get free drinks.
It's probably not called the gallery now.
They change the names every minute.
Oh, my God.
This road just reminds me of waking up at 4:45 AM
to start the morning shift.
I'm gonna...
I'm not gonna say which stationary story it was,
but it was definitely on this street somewhere.
It was so bad.
I didn't have the best time,
but I think I got some valuable life experiences.
Where's the gay disco gone?
Oh, it's permanently closed.
I talked about this before.
It was a Chinese restaurant slash gay disco.
Oh, it was just in this little doorway here.
Dim sum bar and disco.
I've got sidetracked.
Where do I go for this date?
Ah, it was here, Evil Eye.
This, if you're ever in York, you need to go here.
It was a good date place.
I think they had beds upstairs, which is quite sexy.
I dunno if they still do.
So, I ordered the most fun cocktail I could find.
I offered to get him one as well.
And, he said, ah, I think I'll just have a beer.
And, I was like, no, come on.
We're at the cocktail bar, you gotta have a fun cocktail.
So, I've twisted his arm
and he still chose the most boring cocktail ever,
like an old fashion.
And, I thought it was a nice get to know you date.
You gotta play it cool.
I left it a couple days and I text him like, hey
that was fun.
Do you want to go to a uni event or something
in a couple days?
I got a reply that was like, sorry,
I don't think we're compatible.
I'm more into guys that drink beer if you know what I mean?
What does that mean?
Did you want me to just get some engine oil out of a car
and drink it out of a football trophy
while screaming the word man into his face?
I don't know.
Whatever.
You can have your preferences.
I don't care.
It was just a weird, a weird thing to say.
I'd rather he just said he didn't like my face to be honest.
Well, look at that devil hanging out there.
Anyways, there's so much more I could tell you about York,
and my time there,
but I think that's enough for today.
I had so much fun on this quest.
Thank you for joining me on my nostalgia trip.
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Hope you're happy.
Hope you're healthy.
And, I will see you very soon.
Good bye.