As my birthday and my parents' wedding anniversary fell on the May Bank Holiday weekend, I decided to go back home.

It was a nice break from revision for a few days and it was especially nice that some Liverpool friends were able to come back from uni and we hit the town in Liverpool on Saturday night.

On the Sunday, my parents' anniversary, I had a family morning out to Southport. We played crazy golf, and somehow, I came last (it must have been the ball I was using). My birthday luck obviously hadn't arrived yet.

On my birthday I returned to Leeds but I was unable to do any major celebrating that night as I had an exam the next morning. The exam was a moot (a mock court case) which counts towards part of a module. So instead of partying and having fun, I sat at my desk, working.

However, I was glad that I chose to revise as I felt that my moot went really well. I was grateful that my birthday luck had finally arrived.

I celebrated my birthday in Leeds in the evening by going bowling. It was a really fun (and cheap) night out. My birthday luck definitely continued as I scored 147. How I did that I have no idea as the last time I went bowling I scored less than 50.

No one was laughing at the fact that I am so small that l need velcro bowling shoes after my 147 score.

Leeds J-SOC was extremely fortunate that on Yom Hashoah, Holocaust survivor Arek Hersh spoke to J-Soc and young professionals at an event organised by Leeds Jewish Initiative.

He stressed the importance of ensuring that the Holocaust should never be forgotten.

Yom Ha'atzmaut saw a week of events in Leeds. In fact, the Leeds J-Soc labelled it 'Israel week'.

There was a club night with paddling pools and blow up palm trees.

The irony of the night was that the nightclub venue, Halo, is a converted church.

The next day there was a free barbecue in Hillel. These two events attracted so many people and it was a really fun sociable few days.

Before the barbecue I had a talk about choosing modules for next year. I couldn't believe that I already had to decide what modules to take.

I walked back to Hillel in time to grab a burger before I ran off to the law building to the module fair. Other than family law, I had no idea what else to choose to fill my remaining 20 credits.

So, I took information from each stand and it wasn't until I looked over the sheets to decide what modules to take that I realised how much choice there was within the Law School itself.

There were modules ranging from business law to criminology to environmental law I just thought 'ahhhhh' - I had no idea what to choose!

Following discussions with my personal tutor and parents I decided to take - along with my core modules and family law - a medical law module and a psychology module.

I chose psychology because I wanted to do a small section of my degree on something other than law. Ten credits is only a small proportion of my 120 credits which I need to take each year.

Other than reading law at university, I also looked towards an original writing degree, as that is something which I love to do and I also looked at psychology as it is a subject which really interests me and which I have never had the chance to explore.

Unfortunately, there was no option to take an original writing module as a non-English student, but I found an introduction to psychology module which overlooks the subject. Perfect for what I wanted.

On Lag b'Omer there was a night of food and live music at the new Chabad House in Leeds. The food was great and everyone was enjoying the Israeli dancing. It was a proper work out, I felt like I had been to the gym.

With Shavuot on its way, students chaplain Rabbi Alan Garber held a Megillah Ruth reading in three parts, over a three week period. During the reading, there was ice-cream and cheese cake - there is no better way to prepare for Shavuot.

On the week commencing Shavuot, Chabad held a midnight breakfast with everything from French bread to smoothies to hot chocolate.

Together with all the food, there was a learning session on Shavuot.

I couldn't believe how quickly my exam period came round. It all seemed so long away and then, all of a sudden, it was here.

I worked extremely hard, probably a little too hard, in the last month leading up to the exams. I even got repetitive strain syndrome in my hand from writing so much. I just hope it pays off.

I'm not sure how well my first exam, constitutional law, went. Section A was the hardest paper I have ever seen.

Looking around the examination room, no one started writing for 15-20 minutes into the exam as the questions were so difficult. I felt that Section B was a lot better.

I was most nervous for my contract exam as this three hour paper counted for 100 per cent of the module. I had already done essays in the other two modules I had exams earlier in the year and had got a 2:1 on each, so the pressure was slightly less for those two.

I think the contract and tort both went ok, but I feel like I messed up a question on each paper, so I'll just have to wait and see.

I was so stressed that I even tried herbal sprays, but I don't think they worked on me. I'm a hopeless case when it comes to stress. However, I do think that it helps me to do well because it makes me push myself and drives me to do the best that I can.

Whereas most students have to go home to do work because they aren't doing enough at university, I was made to go home for the weekend because I was doing too much.

On my last Shabbat in Leeds, there was a fresher's Friday night dinner at Rabbi Garber's house. It was a lovely night with pictures of all the freshers over the walls and it was a time for reflection on the past year.

For Shabbat lunch, the Hillel residents had a 'family lunch' together as it is rare that we were all together on Shabbat lunch.

Leeds J-Soc was visited by Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks, but because I had an exam the next morning I continued with revision.

His talk was centred around student apathy and he gave the students reasons as to why the Jews are different from all other nations.

The Chief Rabbi praised the Leeds students for the large turnout with it being such a hectic time with exams.

Many students in Leeds applied to participate in the Leeds team for University Challenge. It is brilliant that a Jewish student actually got on to the Leeds University team.

After my final exam, I went for a drink in the Union with some course friends to celebrate and then, unlike most of the girls who went shopping as soon as exams were over, I went and played some football. It was a bit annoying that the sky decided to rain and I had straight hair which was then curly.

By the time I got back to Liverpool, I was mentally and physically drained, so I couldn't be happier to find myself in my own bed at home.

I had a lovely Shavuot in Liverpool with all my family.

However, I missed a lot over Shavuot in Leeds. Before yom tov came in there was a J-Soc 'all you can eat' cheese cake social, which also included chocolate fondue.

This was followed by a play on Ruth and many stayed on for a dinner in Hillel.

All three of the Leeds students rabbis - Rabbi Garber, Rabbi Michoel Danow (Chabad), and Rabbi Kantor (Aish) - attended a tiken le'el at Hillel.

On the Friday, there was a lunch time barbecue at Hillel House with chaplaincy, Chabad and Aish.

I can't believe that I have already finished my first year at university.

It seems like yesterday that I first arrived in Leeds. The year has flown by.

I will hopefully be in touch over the summer to give some advice to all those who are to be freshers in the next academic year.