Saturday, 29 January 2011
Friday, 28 January 2011
Summer now please :)
I've had enough of the cold and would very much like a bit of sunshine and a holiday!
This song reminds me of summer times.....come back!!!
This song reminds me of summer times.....come back!!!
Thursday, 27 January 2011
Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming. What do you do? You swim, swim, swim.
Swimming has pretty much been my life since I was five years old. My mum has told me stories about taking me swimming when I was a little girl.
Before I had even learnt to swim I had always loved the water....everything about it excited me. The way it felt on your skin, the way it moved so effortlessly and how you would appear weightless bobbing up and down in the pool. As soon as I was old enough (a couple of months) my parents took me swimming, and when I could walk and talk, I used to beg and plead with them to let me sit on the bottom of the pool. Obviously they refused as I hadn't learnt to swim, so when I knew they weren't looking I would make my great escape running to the deep end and plunging into the water, to sit on the bottom of the pool staring up at them with my big blue eyes as they came chasing after me. Eventually they learnt to let me have my way (stubborn little thing I was) and they would wait a few seconds while i sat contently on the bottom of the pool before fishing me out. I used to be jealous of fish, as I too wanted gills so I could swim for hours without needing to surface for breath (LOL).
I joined a swimming club when I was five and stayed there swimming socially and competitively until I was 18 (before socialising and alcohol became the main focus of my life), often swimming four times a week. I met my best friends at that club who I still see even now and always look forward to meeting up with when I come home from Uni.
Over the past few years I have barely swum at all, which as sad as it sounds, really does upset me - it feels like a part of me is missing. However, over the last couple of months, I have tried to go as often as I can, gradually building up my strength and stamina.
I went swimming this morning before I started work, and I had honestly forgotten how good it feels. Your mind focuses on swimming alone, you don't think about anything else - it doesn't matter, and you automatically feel stress free. Even now, 10 hours later, I still feel fantastic. I suppose what swimming does to me, is what yoga does to others. It really is a feeling that no words can express. I think it is and always will remain an important part of my life.
I want to watch finding nemo now......
Before I had even learnt to swim I had always loved the water....everything about it excited me. The way it felt on your skin, the way it moved so effortlessly and how you would appear weightless bobbing up and down in the pool. As soon as I was old enough (a couple of months) my parents took me swimming, and when I could walk and talk, I used to beg and plead with them to let me sit on the bottom of the pool. Obviously they refused as I hadn't learnt to swim, so when I knew they weren't looking I would make my great escape running to the deep end and plunging into the water, to sit on the bottom of the pool staring up at them with my big blue eyes as they came chasing after me. Eventually they learnt to let me have my way (stubborn little thing I was) and they would wait a few seconds while i sat contently on the bottom of the pool before fishing me out. I used to be jealous of fish, as I too wanted gills so I could swim for hours without needing to surface for breath (LOL).
I joined a swimming club when I was five and stayed there swimming socially and competitively until I was 18 (before socialising and alcohol became the main focus of my life), often swimming four times a week. I met my best friends at that club who I still see even now and always look forward to meeting up with when I come home from Uni.
Over the past few years I have barely swum at all, which as sad as it sounds, really does upset me - it feels like a part of me is missing. However, over the last couple of months, I have tried to go as often as I can, gradually building up my strength and stamina.
I went swimming this morning before I started work, and I had honestly forgotten how good it feels. Your mind focuses on swimming alone, you don't think about anything else - it doesn't matter, and you automatically feel stress free. Even now, 10 hours later, I still feel fantastic. I suppose what swimming does to me, is what yoga does to others. It really is a feeling that no words can express. I think it is and always will remain an important part of my life.
I want to watch finding nemo now......
Wednesday, 26 January 2011
Monday, 24 January 2011
Globe trotting
This year many of my friends are away doing a year abroad as part of their courses in uni...and I'm not going to lie...I'm extremely jealous.
My friend Madi is in Oklahoma but has been road tripping all around America and it really does sound like she is having the time of her life! :)
Jess is away living in Nantes in France, and she regularly updates her blog with some hilarious stories.
And Phi has been living in Italy at the moment and is about to spend the second half of her year in Spain.
A-MAZ-ING
It's such an amazing opportunity and will be something they are going to remember for the rest of their lives and I'm sooo glad they are having a wonderful time (although I do miss them).
It has made me realise that I would really love to go travelling when I have finished uni, as I really want to see the world and think this would be the best time to go.....had better get saving really!
My friend Madi is in Oklahoma but has been road tripping all around America and it really does sound like she is having the time of her life! :)
Jess is away living in Nantes in France, and she regularly updates her blog with some hilarious stories.
And Phi has been living in Italy at the moment and is about to spend the second half of her year in Spain.
A-MAZ-ING
It's such an amazing opportunity and will be something they are going to remember for the rest of their lives and I'm sooo glad they are having a wonderful time (although I do miss them).
It has made me realise that I would really love to go travelling when I have finished uni, as I really want to see the world and think this would be the best time to go.....had better get saving really!
This is my friend Alice on the elephant when she went to Nepal!
Go fuck yourself... you love yourself enough
I can't stand the type of people who think they're better than everyone else. It really gets on my tits. I don't know why some people think they have the right to put others down or laugh at them behind their backs for trying...
Unfortunately I have a few friends who have this mindset, and they act like they are the most important people in the world. What they do is the only thing that matters in their eyes and nothing else comes close...
Need to be knocked off their high horses...but that's just my opinion. :)
Unfortunately I have a few friends who have this mindset, and they act like they are the most important people in the world. What they do is the only thing that matters in their eyes and nothing else comes close...
Need to be knocked off their high horses...but that's just my opinion. :)
Sunday, 23 January 2011
BJTC visit
On Friday we had a manic day as the BJTC (broadcast journalism training council) came in to have a look at what we have been doing with ourselves on the course.
We came in at 9 to have a multi-media rolling news day which was very fun and extremely exciting but a tad stressful.
We had a few of us making 5 minute TV bulletins every hour, radio students (including me) were making 3 minute news bulletins every half hour, whilst the online guys were frantically putting everything up on the web.
I had the joys of being the radio news reader which although was exciting, also meant I had a huge responsibility upon my shoulders, as, if the slightest thing went wrong or I would miss-read it would be all my fault....luckily things didn't go too shabbily after having a few slip ups in previous bulletins earlier on in the day. We got our own local audio by going out on the streets of Farnham and hassling the public for interviews and also gathered information from press lines, the police and ambulance contact lines as well as the Internet.
All in all the day was a great success and we trotted off to the pub to celebrate. Our lecturer decided to set up a tab for us behind the bar but after accumulating £150 in 10 mins he decided it perhaps wasn't such a good idea...but still...what a legend.
A messy 12 hours later and I was home for a 3 hour sleep before a full day of work. Joys of Joys, but it was definitely worth it. I gained a much better understanding of what it would actually be like working in the industry, whilst at the same time managing to work well under pressure in order to meet deadlines.
Here are a few bits and bobs we created throughout the day :) enjoy
Click here to see behind the scenes of the making of the TV news bulletin
And here is the finished bulletin! Fantastic work by the TV guys...
Click here to hear the noon radio bulletin (This was just a practice which is why you can hear us talking/laughing/papers.. oh yeah and we got our radio lecturer Martin to record our jingle...he is HILAIR)
We came in at 9 to have a multi-media rolling news day which was very fun and extremely exciting but a tad stressful.
We had a few of us making 5 minute TV bulletins every hour, radio students (including me) were making 3 minute news bulletins every half hour, whilst the online guys were frantically putting everything up on the web.
I had the joys of being the radio news reader which although was exciting, also meant I had a huge responsibility upon my shoulders, as, if the slightest thing went wrong or I would miss-read it would be all my fault....luckily things didn't go too shabbily after having a few slip ups in previous bulletins earlier on in the day. We got our own local audio by going out on the streets of Farnham and hassling the public for interviews and also gathered information from press lines, the police and ambulance contact lines as well as the Internet.
All in all the day was a great success and we trotted off to the pub to celebrate. Our lecturer decided to set up a tab for us behind the bar but after accumulating £150 in 10 mins he decided it perhaps wasn't such a good idea...but still...what a legend.
A messy 12 hours later and I was home for a 3 hour sleep before a full day of work. Joys of Joys, but it was definitely worth it. I gained a much better understanding of what it would actually be like working in the industry, whilst at the same time managing to work well under pressure in order to meet deadlines.
Here are a few bits and bobs we created throughout the day :) enjoy
Click here to see behind the scenes of the making of the TV news bulletin
And here is the finished bulletin! Fantastic work by the TV guys...
Click here to hear the noon radio bulletin (This was just a practice which is why you can hear us talking/laughing/papers.. oh yeah and we got our radio lecturer Martin to record our jingle...he is HILAIR)
Sartorialist
My friend recently introduced me to the sartorialist blog...and I LOVE IT!! truly fabulous and inspirational. I am going to take a leaf out of his book and start taking a camera around with me to pap everyday random things that make me double take...
http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/
http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/
ucreate is the ONE
I love going to an art uni. You learn so much from others around you doing different courses and you can all help and inspire each other with what you do.
I don't think I would be the person I am today if I had not decided to come here.
I am also enjoying my course more and more everyday...and we all have a much stronger bond this year.
It is fantastic...I'm not gonna lie <3
I don't think I would be the person I am today if I had not decided to come here.
I am also enjoying my course more and more everyday...and we all have a much stronger bond this year.
It is fantastic...I'm not gonna lie <3
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