The Long & Winding Road...

Well hello there.

Yes I'm writing the second addition to my blog at long last, trust me I've been very busy.

Well lets start off where I left you last time. Oh yeah lets perhaps not, I was asleep pretty much, although I did complete my first example, lip reading. To be honest I wasn't to sure about what I was writing and whether it was the right thing all together. But I e-mailed it, don't you just love technology, to my teacher who said it was fine.

Although one thing she did say is that she really wanted it to be presented in a creative way, like a Vlog or Podcast. But that really isn't my sort of thing. So I argued my case that I am a traditionalist, yes I know what a great word for basically saying that I'm boring and prefer to wright an essay than to make a video.

But that's just me!

I really don't get it with some teachers. They want you to be all creative and do all of these fancy exercises, but down want us to write essays and read our textbook, isn't that the basic principles of a teachers heaven?

Now being honest this whole unit of the BTEC course is not my favourite. As said before in my last post. It's not IT!

Anyway let's not start that complete moan off again.

I'm noticing a theme while writing these blogs. Yes you've guessed it I'm listening to football this time. But this time it's the mighty Brighton & Hove Albion FC V Southampton FC, yes a quality local derby. Its 0-0 at the moment, so come on you Seagulls!!!!!

Going back to the world of education, another thing I have noticed is that teachers all want to set and collect work from me at the same time. Which wouldn't be a problem if I had one teacher for each of my three subjects. But that would be to easy wouldn't it, as I have three teachers for two of my subjects and two teachers for my other subject. So that's eight teachers, who I see on a regular basis and set work on a constant basis. :P

Like at the moment I have this assignment to complete while I have work to do for both of my other IT teachers, work for all of my Geography teachers and work from all of my Physics teachers. I think that colleges must think that we don't have any form of a social life.

Although my plan to give all my teachers, when possible, mammoth essays to try and put them off giving me more essays to write. It hasn't worked so far, but I will never give up!! :P

Moving away from education, since my last post I have been to several events.

The first one being that I went to See the opening Doubles and Singles games of the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals at the O2 in London. This is the second time I have been to this event now and this time was even better than last year. I saw the Bryan Brothers Destroy the NO. 8 seeded Doubles pair in the world. And more importantly I saw Andy Murray demolish Robin Soderling.

Although Andy Murray got bulldozered by Roger Federer earlier today.

Then last night, I went to see Ellie Goulding at the Brighton Dome. She was epic! She did every song, apart from one, off her album and a few covers, including her cover of Elton John's 'Your Song' (yes that's the one on the John Lewis advert at the moment). Plus the support acts where brilliant.

First we had a band called, Bright Light Bright Light, they where so loud, but there was only two of them in the band. They where that good that I bought their tour EP straight after they finished their set. Yes for those of you who know me, I do buy a song or album from Support Acts I see. Music is just so much better live.

And the second support act was a band called, Sunday Girl. She was also very good *pause* looking. :P And her music wasn't that bad either. Although she did dance very strangely. But it was great to watch, if you get what I mean. Plus one of my friends standing at the gig, won a t-shirt from Sunday Girl for singing the loudest to a song. Well done Danielle, height isn't everything, as proved by you!

Well I think that's me for the night. I'm absolutely cream crackered.

Oh and just incase you where intrested BHAFC V Southampton finsihed 0-0.

Thank You And Good Night!

Well I Suppose I Should Really Start My Blogging Carrer

Well here we go. I have finally set up my Blog and hopefully now I will continue to blog on quite a regular basis.

I have been meaning to Blog for a few years now, I just never really got around to it. Plus I never really fancied the whole vlogging experience, I mean who in their right mind would put a video of themselves talking about the most random things that spring to mind on the World Wide Web.

Now I had to set up this blog as part of my BTEC IT Practitioner Course, although let's just clarify i was not forced into it, I was going to set one up anyway, I swear!

For my current unit in my BTEC course we have to Blog about how we are finding the course and what sort of progress we are making towards are current assignments.

Talking of 'Progress', have you heard the new Take That album? It is very different. I think the best way of describing it would be like this, imagine The Hoosiers, A-Ha and take that all in one recording studio at the same time, and the new album 'Progress' is what you would get as the result of this mixing of artists.

Although do not think I am saying that it is a rubbish album, because it's not. I grant you when you first listen to it for the first time you do think, Is this really Take That? But as you listen to it a third, fourth and fifth time it defiantly grows on you. Although I warn you if you think all of the tracks on the album are going to sound like their new single 'The Flood', you would be very wrong.

Anyway back to the IT, so by tomorrow I will have to have completed one of my examples on 'the barriers to effective communication', yes I know what your thinking, "you said you where doing a BTEC in IT Practitioning, not communication skills." and your exactly right I am doing a BTEC in IT, and not Communication Skills. But apparently this is one of the core units that I will have to complete in order to achieve my first years qualification.

Now to be honest I haven't actually started yet, as I have just woken up from what I like to call a 'Power Nap', so yeah I basically just fell asleep after a long and tiring week at college *sigh*. Plus to add to the reasons why I haven't started it yet is that one, I'm writing this Blog, which is part of my assignments and two, Ebbsfleet v AFC Wimbledon is on ESPN. Yes I do like my FA cup football, especially when the non-league teams are still involved in the cup.

Now for my Assignment that is due partly-in tomorrow is all about how different methods of communication can be affected by many different things, like different facial expressions in different country's may mean completely different things.

I have got to write about how Lip Reading can be affected by certain things and also how E-Mail's can be misread by the recipient and not understood in the way as the sender meant it to be understood.

Sounds Fun, I know.

Well the sooner I start it the sooner I can do something I actually want to do.

So that is it for my first Blog unfortunately, I must admit it seems a little weird writing to an audience that may not even exist. But I have enjoyed writing my first Blog.

That's all for now 'tinternet, goodnight.