This week we got the privilege to speak to Kirsten Munday, another of Exeter-Cornwall’s Campus Correspondents!
Subject: English Literature
Year: Second
Relationship Status: Single
Hometown: Oxted, Surrey.
Who is your celebrity crush? Russell Brand!
Describe your perfect date… I’d love to have a picnic (with all my favourite food!), on a secluded beach whilst watching the sunset. Or I’d like to go and do something new – like go in a hot air balloon or swimming with dolphins. Although really it’s the person you’re with that makes the perfect date, so the main thing is great company.
Favourite chat-up line? Gosh, I don’t really use them myself, but I think the best one that has been used on me was when a guy I had been chatting to asked if I’d like to see what his girlfriend looked like. I wanted to be polite so I said okay. He got something out of his pocket and held it up to me saying, “There she is”. I saw my own face staring back at me from a mirror!
Biggest turn off… When a guy is not comfortable with himself; I don’t like to think that he’s trying to be someone for me, I want to see the real person. Fakeness is something that I cannot cope with because you can’t trust someone if you don’t know who they are.
What’s your favourite book, film and song? My favourite book would have to be A Company of Swans by Eva Ibbotson. My favourite film is Notting Hill, and I change my favourite song pretty frequently I’m afraid, but currently I would have to say Take Me to Church by Hozier.
What are your future aspirations? I’m still trying to figure them out myself! My aim is to do something that makes me happy, probably a career in which I am writing and interacting with people. I’m desperate to travel, to meet lots of different people and see as many wonderful things as possible. I’d like to fall in love and have a family as well! I just want to be content with life, whatever I’m doing.
What do you enjoy doing in your spare time? I’m teaching myself to play the guitar which I absolutely love, and I sing a little bit as well. Sorry to live up to the English Literature student stereotype, but I read a lot, and I write – one day I hope to actually finish a book. I also love seeing my friends and having a gossip!
How does it feel to be nominated as Campus Cutie? It’s an honour, and I shall spend my life striving to live up to the reputation.