Hi everyone J
sorry I haven’t done a blog in a while, it’s been pretty manic (as usual),
however it’s now the Easter holidays! Woo! I think we all deserve to have a bit
of break don’t you think?!
As you all know I work for the Research Centre in the
Psychology department, so I’ll start by telling you about my mentoring work I
did last week for the English exchange (the French students came to England).
It was for three days, might I mention long days and I think the second day we
were working for 10 hours straight! The first day was meeting up with the
French kids and teachers at midday at the University’s Medway Campus in
Chatham, Kent. We did a couple of ice breakers to get back into the swing of
things and so the students interact with each other. We also played sports (but
in the freezing cold!), the kids moaned a bit but once they were out they had a
good time! We had lunch and dinner on campus in the canteen, the food was
actually really good and considering we were moving about all day doing
activities we were all pretty hungry! We got home about 8pm on the Monday, but
knowing we mentors and researchers had to be on the coach at Avery Hill campus
at 8am in the morning, I got home and went straight to bed! (Wild student I
know)
So we were all on the coach at 8am, freezing cold, as the
weather refuses to enter the spring season. We picked up the mentors from
Medway campus and then drove to Faversham in Kent. We met the English and
French students there to go on a history related activity; looking at gun
powder works. We did this for a couple of hours and then went onto Canterbury,
which was lovely! We went off into smaller groups; however I say small, my
group consisted of 17 students! Eeek! We ended up in smaller groups though as
you can just imagine that they all wanted to see completely different things
and go into different shops! We had lunch and looked around the shops for a
while, the time zoomed by and by the time we looked at the time, it was time to
go! We then went bowling in Whitstable; it’s lovely there, very picturesque.
The bowling was near the harbour, but we didn’t really get to see much of
Whitstable as it was so cold and the students just wanted to play, not to
mention us mentors! :P It was really good there, I think the bowling was the
best part of the trip for the students, as they were all interacting with each
other, which was the whole point of the widening participation project!
The next day was more of a relaxed activity; the French
students came to the English students’ school in the Isle of Sheppey. It was a
good day, however I think the French students were so tired by this point they
just wanted to go home! They left around 1pm, and so the English students went
back to lessons and the rest of us went back home. Overall, it was a really
good experience, and I've come to realise that I like working with that age
group. I've been considering for a while now about becoming an ‘A’ level
teacher, teaching Psychology and Sociology. I think it would be a great job,
however I do still like the idea of working in psychological research so we
shall see!
Other than that, I’ve been getting on with my dissertation.
I need to amend my analysis, write up my conclusion and a small introduction
and then… I’m done! Just revision after that, which I know sounds geeky but I
don’t mind, as you can take revision with you wherever and I can write notes
down, and it’s not like an essay where you need to check over it and amend it.
I have four weeks to make my dissertation perfect so hopefully I get a good
grade!
Over the Easter weekend I went back to Essex to see my
family and home friends, it was very chilled which I needed! And of course,
like we’re supposed to, I ate so much chocolate that it should be illegal.
Oh and last night, Monday 1st, me and my friends
got together and watched the first episode of the new Game of Thrones season!
It was amazing, as always, I literally cannot get enough of that show! If you
haven’t watched it yet, watch it now! Season 3 is now airing but season’s 1 and
2 are available to buy. It’s soooo worth it!
Oh and before I forget to mention it, it’s my birthday next
Tuesday the 9th. Yep, I’m going to be 21. I don’t mind so much, but
I’d rather be 17 loving life in college with no worries! I’m going on a surprise
outing this weekend, my mum, dad, brother and boyfriend have arranged a weekend
away somewhere and I have no idea where we’re going! All I know is that we’re
all leaving super early Saturday morning! I’ll let you know what it is when I
blog next! Exciting ey J.
Right before I ramble on anymore, I’m going to be off! Hope
you all had a good Easter and ate an obscene amount of chocolate!
x
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