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Now I've finished my degree (technically) I might finally be able to start posting again. Apologies for the small break I took from the internet that turned into a sort of MASSIVE one - I don't even know how that happened to be honest. I've still been reading if that's any consolation and I do still keep up to date with all of your lives and whatnot because I miss you guys♥
Anywho, I finished university at the end of April and have been volunteering at two secondary schools since then for something to do really that could help people. One is an all girls school and the other is a school for kids with behavioural or emotional problems meaning they can't be in and/or got kicked out of state schools. The classes are tiny and a lot of them are in care, it's challenging a lot of the time but it's amazing and I love it so much. We made propulsion rockets last week and went on a trip to an lrc to let the kids make shakespeare cartoons. I spent most of the time messing about with their computers - brand new high-def macs with dual-boot systems. It felt dirty loading windows, but it was so good.
As of next week though, or after half-term anyway I'm starting a two-week placement as a TA which pays really well! No idea where it's at yet as I find out during training but we will have to see. Then it's all about finding a job of some sort.
I DO have a holiday booked for the end of august though which I actually can't wait for. And graduation in July. Gahhh. SO MUCH STUFF. I've been reading a lot though, mainly old books like the Lioness Quartet, Secret Circle and the like but I have started Divergent which is absolutely amazing and I highly recommend♥
One thing that has been hard though, I guess, is that even though it's been nearly two years now since my dad died sometimes, somewhere in the back of my head something makes me forget and I go to tell him something or ask to speak to him and it's all there again. Fresh and horrible and difficult. I'm graduating soon and I guess I always sort of just took it for granted that he'd be there, smiling in the front row with a camera he can't quite work right and the idea that he won't be, that it's not going to be like that - well, it hits again and again but won't quite sink in. I miss him so much all the time and it's impossible to make people understand that it's not something that is going to just go away. I feel a bit alone in all of it to be honest but I'm trying. I'm trying so hard to make it seem normal that most of the time I'm okay. Most of the time.
Alas, depressing part over. ONWARDS, HO!
Y'all should start watching Fringe like, right now. Just saying. Alternate universes with a doorway between them, shapeshifters that are part mechanical, drug-induced communications with a dead person, a bomb that can only be stopped by turning off the power with the mind....it's just amazing. Trust me. I know it might sound a bit crazy but just watch it. That and Eureka. Nothing I say about Eureka will do it any justice, all time favourite show ever - FACT♥
SO GUYS. What about you? What's been happening? What have you been reading/watching?♥
Anywho, I finished university at the end of April and have been volunteering at two secondary schools since then for something to do really that could help people. One is an all girls school and the other is a school for kids with behavioural or emotional problems meaning they can't be in and/or got kicked out of state schools. The classes are tiny and a lot of them are in care, it's challenging a lot of the time but it's amazing and I love it so much. We made propulsion rockets last week and went on a trip to an lrc to let the kids make shakespeare cartoons. I spent most of the time messing about with their computers - brand new high-def macs with dual-boot systems. It felt dirty loading windows, but it was so good.
As of next week though, or after half-term anyway I'm starting a two-week placement as a TA which pays really well! No idea where it's at yet as I find out during training but we will have to see. Then it's all about finding a job of some sort.
I DO have a holiday booked for the end of august though which I actually can't wait for. And graduation in July. Gahhh. SO MUCH STUFF. I've been reading a lot though, mainly old books like the Lioness Quartet, Secret Circle and the like but I have started Divergent which is absolutely amazing and I highly recommend♥
One thing that has been hard though, I guess, is that even though it's been nearly two years now since my dad died sometimes, somewhere in the back of my head something makes me forget and I go to tell him something or ask to speak to him and it's all there again. Fresh and horrible and difficult. I'm graduating soon and I guess I always sort of just took it for granted that he'd be there, smiling in the front row with a camera he can't quite work right and the idea that he won't be, that it's not going to be like that - well, it hits again and again but won't quite sink in. I miss him so much all the time and it's impossible to make people understand that it's not something that is going to just go away. I feel a bit alone in all of it to be honest but I'm trying. I'm trying so hard to make it seem normal that most of the time I'm okay. Most of the time.
Alas, depressing part over. ONWARDS, HO!
Y'all should start watching Fringe like, right now. Just saying. Alternate universes with a doorway between them, shapeshifters that are part mechanical, drug-induced communications with a dead person, a bomb that can only be stopped by turning off the power with the mind....it's just amazing. Trust me. I know it might sound a bit crazy but just watch it. That and Eureka. Nothing I say about Eureka will do it any justice, all time favourite show ever - FACT♥
SO GUYS. What about you? What's been happening? What have you been reading/watching?♥