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I've not been around this last week much/at all and I feel that you all want to hear what I've been up to. No? Well I shall inform you anyway.

I've been working for Student Direct, which is a student newspaper based at the University of Manchester, and is the biggest circulating student newspaper in Europe - with approx. 200,000 printed, and snapped up, every week.

This was a work experience due to the fact there are a dwindling number of places availible on Journalism courses at universities and I need a relevent work experience to get a certain place on a course, and also because I wanted to experience a working newspaper environment; and HELL did I like it.

I don't know if anyone here is 'happily' employed, but I just felt at home in the newsroom, it's a rather cheesy prospect I do realise, but it's something that makes me all the more comfortable to spent three years and a shedload of money on a course that I now know I DO want to get into.

My week has entailed gathering stories, writing them up, proof reading, sub-editing and a surprising lack of tea-making! I also feel my vocabulary has been cavernously widened and my analytical skills of people's language are all the more pedantic. The story I worked on wit ha girl called Rachel, which is about the government's gambling bill and the new casinos that are to open up in Manchester was made the chief story of the newspaper, which I was quietly impressed about.

If anyone's university dishes out Student Direct then pick it up and have a read, I'd be ever-so grateful. In addition to that I've also been offered a regular writing job for the paper, doing opinion pages on various issues, which would suit me down to the ground.

I've also been out like EVERY night this week and have a blister, A BLISTER, on the bottom of my foot, partly from commuting and party from my sweaty shoes.

Oh and "Down with Bush" and all that lefty stuff I'd have said if I was posting during the American Election.

Solskjær wrote:
> Heh, another one crosses the Pennines! ;D

I probably will be over the pennines for my course anyway as I'm going to be going to Preston or Edge Hill (unless I decide to settle for Chester or Sheffield).

> Anyway, I'm glad to hear you especially had a good time there, after
> all else you've had and felt in your life. You can feel proud of
> yourself for this. You've taken a very big step for this, if you ask
> me. I mean, the majority of people would've just settled for
> something very "local" to them (within the same city), no
> matter what.

Cheers. I think some opportunities dont come to you, you have to go out there and find them.

lcarus wrote:
> Na, just Kinloch. The office is usually empty anyway.

Alex Kinloch?

Heh, another one crosses the Pennines! ;D

(Pah. I have blisters on my feet almost all the time - LIVE WITH IT. :P )


Anyway, I'm glad to hear you especially had a good time there, after all else you've had and felt in your life. You can feel proud of yourself for this. You've taken a very big step for this, if you ask me. I mean, the majority of people would've just settled for something very "local" to them (within the same city), no matter what.

:)

Na, just Kinloch. The office is usually empty anyway.

Woah I didn't know that.

Spookeh!

Do you know Lex?

Though it's nothing to do with typing out any articles, more updating the site. I think I'll be able to allowed to change the site next year though.

I work at Student Direct as well! Spooky.

I know :-)

I haven't

:P

Thank you, you've all been eerily supportive.

I like it.