must remember to do this later today when i have the time:
We have our blogs, like to read each other’s and it would be cool to discover blogs from people living next to us. But there isn’t a good seach engine for that
Like I said, everyone’s using it at the moment.
I was going to try to dig up some stuff about my brother on googlism.com when I got this message : “we’ll be back real soon! ”
Maybe it’s just a hint that I should be working instead of mucking about online.
via nu-produKt, this is great but really slow becuase everyone’s using it.
Some of my favourite results:
And a few of my least favourites:
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | What will stop when the firefighters strike?
“Sir Graham Meldrum, the chief inspector of fire services, is writing to more than 25,000 employers after unions warned that staff could refuse to work because of safety concerns.”
No relation as far as I know but seeing as the fire alarm at my halls has a major problem with the smell of toast I could find myself standing outside for at least an hour waiting for the army to come and tell us we can go back in.
BBC NEWS | Education | Teachers split over workload offer
“The government wants teachers to take on a more managerial role, supervising staff such as classroom assistants.”
“The re-modelled teaching profession projects teachers as better-paid, better-trained, flexible, classroom managers.”
“Long hours of marking and preparation in teachers’ own time were claimed as causing stress and leading to many teachers leaving the profession.”
“A report into teachers’ workload, commissioned by the government, recommended a target of 45-hours per week, but ministers have refused to set an inflexible upper limit to the working week for teachers.”
There do seem to be some good things to have come out of the govertnment’s proposals though:
“And it envisages a more flexible approach to the length and style of lessons. Instead of the standard classroom lesson, there could be lecture and seminar style lessons for older secondary pupils. This could include both small-group and one-to-one teaching and larger groups than the conventional class.”
My physics teacher last year took this approach and it really helped with the transition from the Grammar school to University.
This weekend is the first meet for the Glagow Mountaineering Club (GUM) which I was intending to go on but for various reasons (like having to get food, drink, a permission slip from my parents because I’m not 18 yet, not having enough equipment with me and forgettoing to sign up on the day I was supposed to) I decided not to, but looking outside today I’m really regretting it, it’s another gorgeous day in Glasgow and from what I’ve heard it’s meant to be better the further north you go. I’m going to have to go to the Kintail meet in December.
I did play volleyball yesterday though which was brilliant after not playing since about May. My shoulders are really complaining today unfortunately, it’s incredible how unfit I’ve become since coming here, that’s going to change. I think I’m going to join the actual volleyball club instead of just going to the drop-in sessions, it’s always better playing with people who know what they’re doing. I burnt my knee playing yesterday which was really sore, it burnt right through the trousers I was wearing, so a pair of knee pads could be a good invesment, if I can find the money (or maybe I’ll get them for my birthday… that’s if any of my family actually read this and can spot a fairly obvious hint)
I’ve had my own PC hooked up to the Uni’s network for about a week now but for the last few days I’ve been totally without email other that my new student address which nobody will ever remember least of all me (it’s something like you matriculation number follwed by the initial of your first pet’s name follwed by a dot then an ampersand then the name of some South American country written backwords @gla.ac.frank.uk.gb.sco) because a lot of things have recently been blocked, it wouldn’t be too bad except the computers in the halls’ library (which would normally let me access my email) have been down all week.
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I’ve not even been here for 3 weeks yet but already I’m calling it home.
There was nothing wrong with Dunbar but this is just comething else.
(almost)Everything about it I like, the people, the buildings, the parks, the layout, the course I’m studying, everyone else who’s come form outside of Glasgow.
There are some bad bits about it but every city has them (like the bus that got its windscreen shot out last week). But today really made me appreceiate what a beautiful city Glasgow is. It was a beautiful moring, not a cloud in the sky, sun shining and no wind.
On my way back from Uni I was going to take the bus but as I was walking up Queen Margaret Drive I passed the Botanical Gardens and just had to go in, they’re only wee but I spent about half an hour wandering thorough and onto some street that I dont know the name of and had never been along before but I didn’t care – it was gorgeous weather.
I kept walking in the general direction I thought the halls were in through streets lined with victorian houses and eventually made it to the Forth Clyde Canal and started walking along that. I would have had no idea were I was except for the numbers on the locks, the first one I got to I couldn’t quite make out the number until I was about 100 yards away but before I got that close I has seen a familiar building and it was a total shock, it was Lock 27, a pub about 10-15 minutes walk from my halls (but in the opposite direction to Uni) so somehow I had stumbled on a route that took about the same time it normally takes me to get from uni but I had been walking at about half my normal pace and I had ended up a decent distance from halls. I went inside and found a whole load of vets from my halls so had a quick pint then went home and did some work, had the best meal I’ve had since I’ve got here and now I’m going back to the lock to watch the England game.
All in all a good day!
