New Year's black-out booze Why abandoning alcohol should be your New Year's Resolution. Having spent my New Year's Eve hermiting in my cave of a room, I've come to the realisation that I might be a loner. Not as a result of being introverted, nor being gay, but because I don't drink. Partying as a teenager in Britain cannot be described with words in the English language. Nevertheless, I shall make an attempt: overbearing, eventful, absolute madness. Teenage house parties in the UK are a unique experience to say the least: a girl splayed on the floor with her knickers on display; another with a lovely stain of chunky vomit on their dress and someone in the corner, holding a knife, whining about how much they miss their ex. Despite this, we still feel compelled to drink more . We often imagine peer pressure to involve a crowd of kids circling you, grabbing you by the jaw and shoving a bottle of alcohol into your gob. But, sometimes, peer pressure is unintentional;...
A not-so-private diary about a teenage-girl's life