I've replaced Sushi Bars for Curry Houses, Central Park for Victoria Park and Gucci jackets for Burberry raincoats. And, if I ever feel homesick, I just stand under the imposing Attenborough Tower!

I'm not particularly fond of the Paternoster thingy though - how is one supposed to maintain an image of cool sophistication while scrambling up the stupid thing if it stops half way between floors?

Despite the strange lifts, awful weather and dare I say it ... pound shops (where have all the designer shops gone?), I've grown extremely fond of Leicester and its student population.

I thought New York was the Capital of dating hell, but how wrong can a girl be? On campus I've witnessed all number of sexy shenanigans.

Girls ordering their men about like they order their pints! (You go girlfriends! Although, a glass of cheap Lambrini looks more sophisticated than that darlings.)

It's now been left to the boys to search for their Princess Charming! Oh dear, I think they as well as I have got a lot to learn about British male/female dating dynamics.

Will she ever be able to move on and accept that there are plenty of other more fanciable fish in the sea? Perhaps her Mr Right is just around the corner of the Percy Gee building.

Carrie Cockshaw

Enough of me darlings. Meet Kat, an 18-year-old, blonde bombshell from 'Norf' London, who throws away her men as soon as the condom wrapper hits the floor! Commitment is her least favourite phrase, along with 'marriage', 'children' and 'can I see you again?'

To call her a 'slapper' would be a bad case of 'double standards' to all you boys out there. Get with the programme! But, underneath this saucy facade, is there a girl just desperate to fall in love?

Nikki, however, came to uni from a tiny village in Yorkshire, in search of her one true love and have her first kiss! Will this naïve princess meet her prince or be hurt in the process?

Meet Ryan, an egotistical Romeo type, who loves to be the centre of attention. Will he continue to choose shrinking violet types who gratefully blend into the background while he struts his (not so perfect) body on the dance floor? Maybe one day he'll meet his match.

Mandy, is the self-confessed idealist of the group. She met the 'love of her life' three years ago on a geography field trip to Skegness (hardly ideal I know, but don't tell her that!)

Will she ever be able to move on and accept that there are plenty of other more fanciable fish in the sea? Perhaps her Mr Right is just around the corner of the Percy Gee building.

Meet Jeremy, the Graham Norton of the group, hilariously funny and seriously devoted to providing the main attraction at Leicester's Gay Club, StreetLife! ("I know all the moves to every Spice Girls song they ever made"). Don't mention that they have split up!

He still insists to anyone that will listen (not many) that they are still doing secret concerts (in his head). Will he ever give up his playboy image? Maybe an older man will tame this wild boy's ways.

Now you have met all the main protagonists - check the next from the diary of Carrie Cockshaw - what will she get up to?