It has been an interesting past 10 days or so, more than most of my winter weeks so far. At the start of February I was in Norfolk by the coast at a field centre for my Geography A2 course which requires some sort of investigation as one of the modules. It was unfantastically freezing almost the whole week; especially analysing sanddune succession for 4 hours right from the shoreline. We also did a CBD study of Norwich and a river study. It was pretty fun actually, even though we did write ups and the data analysis on top of a long day of fieldwork in the evenings.
Our group was in the centre with pretty much only Londoners of varying friendliness. We seemed to get on pretty well with one group of year 10s who had the typical “innit blad, dat buff man” slang which was awesome! I love it. Every night some kind of event would happen in our room, occasionally dueled with the other guys’ room down the corridor for occasional pillow-bashing victimisation :)
Our room had a radiator which was constantly on the highest possible temperature - a shock as you just come inside from the artic chill. It was even worse at night. There was a thermostat thing placed behind a window just so you couldn’t reach it. We were convinced we could get to it and turn the heat down so we prized the window open using some scissors to get to it. One of us goes to grab it and starts turning as the thing just comes off! It wasn’t actually connected to the frigging radiator!! So after all that we got a fan in our room since we couldn’t do anything to the radiator - well apart from cover it in duvets and spare mattresses.
All 5 of us ended up in one corner of the room to benefit from the fan without any ‘wastage’. I was the only one on a top bunk as the others were either on the floor or on the lower bunks. So I had some comprising to do to secure my breeze and ultimately some sleep.
I didn’t mean to turn that into some sort of you-really-had-to-be-there story. But I did so I’m not going to delete it now. Sorry.
Anyway that was a week ago. The past week has been alright. I have been really pushing on eduX to get to stable release, it’s really overdue from our original January release date. I can’t wait to complete it - it is a powerful beast with amazing potential! Yesterday I redesigned,(from an urge) the eduX homepage which looks a lot more appealing than before. The VLE system just needs some smoothing out to eradicate the constant bugs. Argh. Then we need to validate it, which hopefully James will sort out.
yesterday I was off school because I have (hopefully had) a really bad cold with a waterfall kind of nose which has been eroded by boxes of tissues. Tonight I am going to Andy’s 18th party which should be fun :) I need it.
