Posted 18 Feb 2010 — by eddieh
Category Life
I posted this on my Tumblr first and decided that it suited my blog as well. I also like to say that I am sory that I havent been spending much time on here.
Before you get annoyed with this post, I haven’t wrote thinking that I know it all, I just want to note it down for myself for when I am feeling negative again at college. I just hope you realise it depression bringing you down and you just blaming things such as assignments or people in your course. I need to remind myself that I was going though a period that one day I really loved everybody and the next I hated everyone and thought everyone was ignoring me. Anyway..
Two weeks ago was the first time that teachers yelled their heads off at me at the college which was a shock to me. Whilst I don’t approve one of the methods that was classifed as bullying (that the tutor, no surprise being rather friendly from now on), the other methods that didn’t involve attacking or forcing me to write stuff really did make me smell the coffee and somehow was the first step getting me out of this negative and depressing world that I was in.
On the day was a terrible day for me and I was in shock on what happened. I was posting on Facebook statuses that was very woe to me. And I thought that I messed up and couldn’t get back on track. But I went to Disneyland Paris and without intending to, I let go of my negativity there, I also made a promise to myself that I could do this. Every night, I was slightly kept up by thinking how I could do the assignments and when.
And now in the present, its half term and somehow I am up to date with everything. Now even though all the assignments somehow are finished doesn’t mean everything swell for me.
I am dreading doing English when I return back. I fucked it up three times now. Last time was more gutting as I was so close. I hope I can find something in me to get this grade. I know that everyone is judging me and having their eyes me on about this. If I fuck it up again, I will sadden loads including myself. It doesnt help knowing that they are shoving me into a overcrowded group due to the peaceful one not suiting my timetable. I hope things go okay.
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So lets travel back in time, say Tuesday night, this was when I woke up from sleeping once I got back home. Why was I sleeping at 17:30 in the afternoon you may ask? I decided it was a good idea to get some sleep because of having to wake up to get to my college at 5:15 in the morning. The thing is that I couldn’t get back to sleep easily because I got rather worried getting told off by the college. I had to note down my thoughts on the situation in my hardback notebook. (That I even used to plan this post!) Once I did that I could get back to sleep with the knowledge I will be able to sort it out when I return back.
Time is now Wednesday morning. I put the alarm clock on for 4am. I slept though it. I woke up at 5am. ‘Crap!’ I said loudly when I woke up. I dashed around for a couple minutes managing to down some cornflakes and orange juice. Got my mother to put my contacts in as I didn’t have enough time to do it myself. Then dashed to the college with a lift in the car. My dad didn’t help by mentioning how late I was every second. Thanks. But I dived out the car and the coach arrived. I discovered when I got on the coach that the Witney folk was right at the back and that it was roasting, I hate warm air when I am travelling as it makes me feel ill. So I didn’t say much on the coach as I didn’t have a drink with me to sip on.
Finally we arrived out the Eurostar station in London and headed for the coach parking area. However the coach had to reverse out of the entrance as the floor ramp wouldn’t come down like it meant to. This therefore annoyed road users that was near the entrance. There lots of car horn action going on. But everyone quickly got out and grabbed their bags. To the station! We got in plenty of time and had three hours waiting around.
In some of this period we went into Costa and I brought a overpriced bottle of water. I couldn’t wait to buy it anywhere else. You have to remember I was feeling unwell from the warm air that I travelled with in the coach. After that I sat on a freezing cold metal seat that froze my bum so much that I ended up standing up. After doing that for some minutes, we looked around Marks and Spencer’s food where which I nearly knocked all the stock off with my large bag on my back. I scored extra by tapping some people with it as well. I am sometimes known for being clumsy. I brought a cheaper bottle of water there that was so much more bigger than the one in Costa which made me feel gutted.
I sat down so more and noticed that one of the girls handbag had one of them big willy bears. I found it funny that we were heading to children friendly Disney with that on her bag. Little did I know I would be seeing worse later on in the trip.. 
Finally it was time to check in. When you check in, you have to make sure you have nothing in your pockets and that it get x ray scanned. So the trick is to put it in your jacket/hoodie to put with your bag. However I was concerned it would fall out of it. Thankfully it didn’t. Also I had to remove my belt which meant I have a groovy shifting walk to make sure they didn’t fall down the period I didnt have the belt on.
We were waiting for the train and somebody thought it would be amusing to play my rap. I was rather disappointed at the group for them to play it in front of everybody. I made this clear to them and after I stopped it, they got the message not to mention it ever again on the trip. How I wish I modified the lyrics to the rap now. Its a hit I guess with everybody though. When the train did arrive it was such a trek down the platform to get to our coach. The journey was such a long one. Three hours in fact. It was however made less boring by eating the brownies I love from the coach shop and listening to Spoitfy on my mobile.
At 7am I woke up to the alarm clock that I set on the room telephone and ended up washing my hair and gelling which made me feel better about my looks in photos. Headed to the morning meeting soon after to be told we be eating together as a massive group which included the Witney lot. There was cheers and clapping. We also had to some filming for the evening screening which I was expecting. I had breakfast where I managed to burnt the toast. Noone warned me that it didnt have a timer and that you have to pull it up manually. After everyone eaten we walked in to the park which was relaxing and was nice views. I wish I walked last year as all we did last year is catch the bus. Another day in the park and also had to meet up to get the camera to shoot with my mini group. Every mini group had a task to do. We had to do a travel doc which went downhill from the start. We made fun out of Russians and after we shooted it we’re regretted it. In the screening it was facepalms for our mini group. We should of noticed that one of the Witney folk is Russian. Dear me. It ended being okay. I was slightly amused that everyone from Abingdon had the sound perfect with the external mic and the Witney folk messed up the sound. After the screening we was awarded for our good behaviour by having a meal out with everybody. I had roast chicken and chips for my main and ice cream for my desert. Rather good it were.
When we headed back to the hotel, all the guys went in the same room and did some channel flicking. I love international channels. It times when you watch it that you wish you knew more than English. We watched Serect dairy of a call girl under the covers when the tutors walked in. We was rather drunk and was giggling as it was a naked scene and they thought we was watching porn. It was so funny. They asked if it was related to anything we was studying and someone said we was researching ‘Angles and viewpoints’ (a thing we did in photography) which I found rather funny at the time. The tutors laughed their way out of the room. I was really really tired and headed to my room pretty soon after that. It was really late.
Now it was Friday morning. I got too drunk and slept over the alarm but it ended up being okay. Woke in time for the meeting and was so great we had to pack up for 11am so much later than last year 9:30am. This meant I had a shower and packed up slowly after breakfast where I popped my coffee cherry. I got such a buzz from drinking it. We shoved our bags in storage and over the day in the park we hanged with the Witney lot which was really nice people and had a laugh with. Rode every ride again. In the afternoon we got our bags back and after spending long time sitting on the station floor, checked in. I prefer checking in there as they had a more chilled out style.
On the journey back on the train, it had to make a stop at a French station to restart the whole thing we meant we had no lights for a period which wasnt that bad as we had a nice view of Paris. I was also amazed that they had double decker trains which I spotted. Also we made a joke with this lonely man with bags was waiting for a bus which amused us whilst we was waiting. When the train arrived back, we had a few people which included the one of the tutors which thought they lost their passport but ended up finding it which delayed us setting off for abit. It wasnt that long on the coach till we was back at the lovely college. It was a shock how colder it was then France to me. I wasnt expecting ice on the ground and slipped over on the way walking to lift home.
Thats my report of Disneyland Paris. You can read someone else trip report now.
Posted 10 Jan 2010 — by eddieh
Category Life
I feel like I should post something on here but not sure what to post about. If you didn’t know my town snowed for day after day continuous which was nice for the first day off but it started to brother me. I didn’t even complete my first week back at college. I have missed loads of college work that I wanted to do and have been brothered by the weather loads. I am currently doing live tv which is mainly judged by how well you preform the role you been given. I have already missed one of the practice session that been scheduled (shakes fist at snow) but hopeful college is open the next time.
I need to work on a VT for the the first themed show we’re are doing which is kids show. My group was thinking to either do a thing on Animals or a make your own sort of thing. I am looking forward being bossy as a floor manager on that show. In a fortnight its a Music show which I am a Prompter, fortnight after that its a Video game show and I’m a guest , and then its finishes with a Chat show with me operating camera two. I am actually looking forward to doing this sizzle and hoping I can get a good grade on it.
I am rather happy for two reasons, I am slowly catching up on the assignments that are overdue and I actually got a trip to the local supermarket with some peeps I haven’t met in ages last night. It was a nice surprise and my mom was happy I didn’t die in a terrible road accident because of the icy roads. I love what my mom thinks of the driving skills my mates have.
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