Posts Tagged ‘tried’

Dusty postcard

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Posted 27 Mar 2009 — by eddieh
Category Life up to Nov 2009

Since the last post I called up the phone insurance company which promptly sent out a brand new phone to me for the old one. I found this rather neat as the phone I had were a refurb meaning I didn’t have any of the wires or charger even. I had to send so many emails to get that charger.

Anyway. Lets talk about Friday. Well, I didn’t have a phone so therefore it ended up meaning that I didn’t have a alarm to wake me up resulting on me oversleeping and waking up 10 mins before the lesson.

Thankfully I kept hold of the postcard the media people gave me which had the tutor number and called her up. She told me that they were in a different room and when I reached the college, I stepped into that room but got a shock when I found it was grannies on computer. I tried explaining I got the wrong room and I was a student but they couldn’t work Word out. I quickly told them about it and dashed out wondering were the class was. I worked it out in the end and managed to caught up with the work.

In the afternoon, it was video production. Gah! I thought I would of loved this subject when I joined the course but the only thing I don’t mind about it is the editing which I still only know the basics of. In the subject, everybody group is making two adverts. Well the adverts I made suck. I mean, come on.. I’m mumbling in the adverts! Then to rub thing into the womb, Tiff and Key flipping join the group which I can’t argue about as Tiff is the girlfriend of the person I’m working with and they done crap all!

Towards the end of the day, they suggest leaving early and as we managed to get away with it last time. I just went along with it as I wasn’t really enjoying being there.

So yeah that was Friday.

One is taking a break

Posted 18 Feb 2009 — by eddieh
Category Abingdon

I have travelled up and been in Stoke since Sunday as its half term. Yay!

I supposed to be doing some college work whilst I’m up here but I keep getting distracted by fun things that I can do more easily up here like go shopping or badly doing radio shows. I will live to regret it though when i comes Saturday when I be panicking and rushing work.

The internet in this house is dodgy to say the least, well the wifi is. I went into the control panel but the crappy BT Home Hub is way too simple even in the Advance so I couldn’t do what I wanted to do. Oh well.

I’m writing this blog post on a Mac which is a first. I never been on a modern mac till now and its strange whilst exciting. I’m slowly figuring things out on it and I can see why people are Mac fan boys now. The word press control panel mixes well with the whole Mac look..

I tried to go swimming today however the both times I tired (first alone and second with housemates), they weren’t open. This council sucks at somethings, I slowly love Vale when I’m over here.

I did another gym induction over here so when I visit Stoke I can do gym. Its a good logistic isn’t it. I joined the Keele gym and I’m not use to space as the Abingdon gym uses the most out of the small space it has. This Keele gym also have more modern models of the the equipment. Only fault I have with it is that they lost my form this morning however they let me go in and they found it by the end of the session. Its all good.

Anyway I better get off this Mac before I get addicted to it. I just want to stroke it and admire it. :P

Taxi slide

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Posted 02 Feb 2009 — by eddieh
Category Life up to Nov 2009

I couldn’t manage walking to college today so I booked a taxi a night before as I haven’t yet seen a back expert to click everything back into place yet. Thats tomorrow afternoon thats happening. Anyway back to the taxi journey. The taxi arrived on the dot but I didn’t realized the difficulties it had getting outside the house. The snow on the road made it a car ice rink. When it got to the main roads it could go back to normal speeds. It wasn’t that expensive though.. Six quid. :)

Snow covers roadLike you might of heard in the news or seen yourself, it snowed well today in the south east England. Its rare to see any snow where I live in Abingdon, so having the amount we got today was impressive. When I arrived it wasn’t soon till Dan and James wanted a snowball fight with me, and I tried to join in but dodging the balls was painful.

Radio was fun as I done most of the work already. I need to go to the station over the week though to get used to their mixers and get the timing of the show on spot. I only have one run to do the radio show with Micheal and S and as the producer I really don’t want to muck things up. Looking forward to doing it though as it shall be fun. Me and Micheal played around the interview as we was bored and produced a remix of it. It is rather strange:

[audio http://thatginger.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/remixremix.mp3]

English went well for achange. It was basically wrapping up the poem lessons so you could do a lovely essay on it. I had to complete a big A3 sheet which was fun. I say that with sarcasm. But it did really fly though the whole hour and a half I had in there.

I spent most of the breaks inside as I didn’t want anymore snow ball fights nor did I want to get cold. I really enjoyed today though and finished early at 4pm.

Best of: Dragging myself to Disneyland Paris

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Posted 28 Jan 2009 — by eddieh
Category Best of.., Disneyland Paris

Waking up at 4am is more easy than I thought it would of been. I somehow managed to get sleep early last night which meant that I have had the same amount of sleep that I normally have. Still I thought I would oversleep the alarm as I normally get up at 10amish.

I was one of the first people at the meeting point at the college. Richard and Bradley beated me though. Richard was in the dry as it was raining but it took me afew moments to realize where he was. Everyone soon followed after me. The A level people wasn’t that social and didn’t mix with the us much. The coach arrived and I was the first person the hand my bag over. I don’t aim to be the first, it just ends up being that way. Didn’t take long to get to London and I wondered about with the group which ended up sitting on the metal seat that felt like that they were frozen cold.

Disneyland Paris stationGetting checked in wasn’t bad but it took me along time to get stuff outta my pockets which annoyed peps behind me in the line. When we was in the seating area I took the camera off my neck as it was heavy and I was so tried that I left it behind. However luckily others noticed this in the group and picked it up for me. I felt well embarrassed about that.

Once we got in the Eurostar train itself, it looked well dated inside with the brownish colours and I would thought they would of tarted it up abit. I didn’t think about getting a magazine to read on board the train and wish I did. Everyone ears was popping thoughout the jounary which I didn’t expect to happen but I suppose it made sense as the channel was on top of us.

When we arrived into Disneyland Paris, we checked our bags into the storage and went into the main park with the group being fellow people on my course and Richard. Richard set a misson for Ryan which he set for his older bother which did the trip last year. The mission was to go on the rollarcoaster starting from the bottom being that Cowboy one to Space mountain being the top.

At lunchtime, I ended up eating in pizza place. It was really bad as the pizza wasn’t precut and you had to use these plastic knife and folk with a cardboard box. I just ended up using my hand completely and didn’t eat all of it. I felt well ill afterwards.

Over the morning and after lunch I done most of the roller-coasters which was really good . It was quick it wasn’t raining but as it was cold, the parks are not that busy. I don’t mind going to theme parks when it cold at all. I rather it be cold then hanging ages outside sweating.

Disney Village at night.In the afternoon we was let into the rooms. I had Sam and Adam in my room and I was secretly happy that I didn’t have anyone I didn’t get on in the room. It was good that everyone a key card to get in to the room meaning that you didnt have to stick together all the time.

In the evening I went into the village with Dan, Sam and Callium which was alright. Ended up eating McDonald’s which was strange seeing how they adapt the menu for the country. Thankfully they had a picture of what I wanted on the counter and I just pointed then paid. On the way back to the bus, I rung my mom and Keane started playing which was ironic as my mom loves them.

At night time, people just went to bed and didn’t piss around much. I woke up loads thoughout the night though and didn’t get a good rest.