all the best with Exams :)

Trust your heart don't be afraid to reach out to something new.Go ahead get yor hopes up even if things turns out differently than you have imagined.You will have tried,you will have learned,you never have to live with regrets.It seems to me what wears us down the most in life aren't the chances we take but the ones we don't take,the dreams we put aside,the adventure we push away.So what ever you want in life go for it an dalways remember no-matter what trust your heart and you will never go wrong.

I thought I was "RIGHT"

My first challenge was wrapping my fingers around the pen and having a firm grip on it whilst still being able to write comfortably. Then it was adjusting the angle of my book to complement my grip of the pen - which took a while; I tried having the centre of my book perfectly aligned with my body, but that restricted my left arm's movements and I thus had to compensate for that by overworking my left wrist and fingers... they got tired and so I tried a different angle; this time with the center of my book perpendicular to my body; and guess what? the opposite effect, my left arm was liberated while my left wrist and fingers' movements were restricted; the result was that my pen made erratic jerks in directions my brain didn't consent with but which were fully support by my rebellious left hand. The next logical thing to do was to find the half way mark, so I positioned the center of my book at a 45 degree angle to my body, and Voila! I had more control over my left arm's movements and could go on writing for longer before periodically resting my arm. Of course my handwriting was illegible (as not even I could make out what I wrote) but at least I wrote with my left hand for an hour and covered 1 1/8 pages. I really expected pushing a pen to be way easier than pulling it, but I was wrong; using your left hand is a skill that has to be practised, there are so many technicalities that need to be considered, it's not merely doing everything the opposite way to how you do it with your right hand - your left hand might not be comfortable with doing things that way, so you need to find what is most suitable for both your right hand and your left. You might view both arms as twins but you must treat them as individuals; they prefer it that way. After this experience of being left handed, I immediatley felt off balance when walking and uncertain as to which arm I should use when. I think my brain had become so attuned to using my left hand that it started neglecting my right hand every now and again; and i was fully conscious of this as it happened. So I had to draw the line between the two so that each hand could know its place, for small tasks like opening the fridge and pouring juice into a cup, i can use my left hand; but for bigger responsibilities, I let my more experienced right hand take its place. I thought I was right, but i guess now I'm ambidextrous.

Paper trail... I think we are on to something

My review is on the blog site http://thepapertrail09.blogspot.com. Given the fact that blogging is a subject that many of us have only been exposed to this term and that the bloggers of this site are first year students, I am quite impressed with the quality of their blog site and their blog posts. Firstly, the aesthetic quality of the blog site is impeccable, it correlates brilliantly with their name as we see strips of paper and ink blots that suggest some sort of writing activity that has transpired and that the bloggers are the ones exposing all this activity, so an element of intrigue and suspense is created from the appearance of the blog and how it relates to the name of the blog. The Posts are informative yet exuberant; you can tell that they are intended for the younger generation. In their blogs the members, who are Cam, Marina, Nkuli and Candice, cover everything from current affairs to their personal experiences and opinions. Their profiles give you the opportunity to know them a bit better and they are quite free to let you into their lives. The language cuts across academic and colloquial in that you can sense the seriousness of the reporting style yet at the same time feel like your conversing with an old friend over coffee. The headlines summarise the content of the posts effectively, thus evading anti-climaxes from reading the posts. This blog site is relevant to journalism students because it is informative and inspiring.

The day in the life of a 1st Year Pharm Student...but not really.

I never thought Id end up impersonating a student.
Not even for a minute. I ened up doing it for and hour.
I gatecrashed a Zoology prac.

I walked into the Pharmacy department i.e the Zoo building , lab coat on my back, disection kit in my hands, ready to do something deadly to something, well, dead.

Since most of my friends are pharmacy students (I kid you not, 89% of my friends are doing either 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th year Pharm...I need to get out more) I decided why not experienced some of what I hear about everyday?

So off I went, ready, steady, go! but what do I end up doing? disecting a leaf and examining its properties and characteristics. meh.

Never the less, I enjoyed my hour as a Pharmacy student and promise never to do it again.

Nicola Feldmann braves the icy Grahamstown dam water in style

Swing-swing-swing along

Run. Run. Run. I often run to the Grahamstown Grey Dam.
Tired. Tired. Wow it’s a far run, and every time I take this far run I so desperately want to jump into the water to cool off, because by that time my body is hot, hot hot, but there is this one problem; I am terrified of cold water, and Grahamstown as we all know has a weather man that so kindly graces us with all four of the seasons in one day, how delightful.
The water always looks evilly tempting, like Eves apple; yet once you are in, you freeze. So I decided for my “I have never done this before task” that I would not only brave the iciest water, but that I was going to do it in style. There is an old swing that is tied to one of the biggest trees at the dam. So I swung like a craze Jane from the tree, SPLASH and then there was silence… and before my head had reached the surface it was shit shit shit!

Some things should never be revealed but I guess…

Sunday afternoon I was the joke of the day, but I really don’t mind. I spent the whole afternoon half naked “WHAAAAAT? Yep!!! I did, all day I was walking around res only covered with my tiny towel. All my friends were all shocked because walking with a towel around res is something I really hate and never tried it before. I usually ran down the stairs to my room every time after a shower. It was a hell lot of experience, but will never do it again I’m not ready for any risks this time. Some random guy walked in the common room and it felt so weird because he spent more than 20minutes chatting with us and I was very quite always looking straight in the TV. Well sometimes, I guess it’s good to do something you not used to do even if it’s extremely risky. Maybe I will try this again……maybe not.