Back from the dead...temporarily

You may be surprised to see a new blog entry here. The last blog entry I made was 5 weeks ago! I admit I have given up with blogging, I think because:


1) Nothing interesting has been happening in my life and I don't think it would make entertaining reading to write depressing grumbles all the time

2) Blogging makes me feel like I am talking to myself and heightens my already growing suspicions of madness, although I suppose it helps to show family and friends what I have been up to

3) I've been going through a pure lazy phase


4) I prefer reading other people's blogs and seeing the pictures rather than updating my own


5) I don't feel blogging really achieves anything for me personally, except for staying in touch and I have facebook and email for that




Am I getting into depressing rambling already? Ok, so here's some good stuff then:



1) I have been fighting all year to get on to a Teacher Training course (PGCE in Secondary Religious Studies) starting this September and finally, I am getting somewhere. Just maybe I am slowing crawling out of that dark place of unemployment and a peasant lifestyle...hope it's not too good to be true.


2) I attended both interviews, the first lasted FOUR GRUELLING HOURS !!!!! and was the worst interview you could imagine x 10. Although the two ladies doing the interviewing were really friendly and made jokes to relax us all - it was a group interview. The second interview, at a completely different University, lasted just under 2 hours but is still excrutiatingly long for an interview don't you think!


3) A few days after completing the first interview, I received an offer of a place! I actually did my second interview only today. Right after the interview, they offered me a place there and then! One of the ladies even gave me a hug and seemed really impressed with my performance. I have to be honest, I have truly shocked myself by what I can achieve when I put my mind to it. I have actually achieved the 3rd stepping stone to a career in teaching which is my end goal. The 1st stepping stone was that I managed after trying much harder than I thought I would have to, to get the school work exxperience I needed in order to apply. The 2nd stepping stone was being offered the interviews for the course and you guessed it, the 3rd stepping stone is that I got offered a place on the course I want, twice! I just hope I can make it through the course because it's definitely going to be no easy task. I'm happy I've got this far. You know what though, I'm a bit of a funny one. First I worried that I wouldn't get offered an interview in the first place, then I get an interview and I worry that I'm not going to be good enough. Then I get offered a place at two different Universities and still I panic, this time about which place to pick, if I'm strong enough and tough enough to make it through the course and can I catch up with my subject knowledge...since I didn't do my degree in R.E!!! I find it more interesting than Art in terms of teaching though, so I'm taking a risk and going for what I really want to do. Or am I doing what I really want to do?? Arghhhhh! My poor worrying brain. I should be excited, but I am freaking out aswell as being excited.



4) I will be finally leaving the city I live in now for somewhere much nicer, hurray. Only got a month to move and organise everything though, eek!



5) So, to finish on a good note, as I fear I may have managed to write some bad stuff in the good stuff section after all, here is some pictures of my travels lately:

P.S To add another happy thing to this rather long blog post, here are some pictures of the silly way my gerbils sleep :-)