Friday, February 23, 2007
Films
This week I have been working hard organizing my film I have got some good students to help me out in conjunction with a talk I'm doing.
Monday, February 19, 2007
Role models
Saturday saw me run a training day for a group of specailist coaches, Over lunch and then in the afternoon session the subject of Role models came up, Many of my delgates talk to me about specific clients/ students of theirs and one of the things I suggested over Lunch for one young woman was a role model, I often tell people the story of the time I saved myself from suspesion beacuse I at the time was fond of the IT teacher I dout Id feel the same way now but at the time this particular teacher was very important in my life and in all honesty was probably the reason I wnet to school for alot of the time, putitng this into contect I got bullied or told off everyday and got in cowhat for aawhiole year for struggling to organise my homwork. I often got told off beacuse somone had bene nasty to me aand Id bene nasty back a period later
when I had no friends at school and I had noone to talk to this particular teacher became unbelilvably important. I had to wait at school for my dad till 5:20 and I could often be found in the IT room. I had before been intrested in IT so no suprise then that I got on with the teacher.Somtimes we would talk and somtimes we would just work but it meant somthing to me to be in the same room as somone who didnt hate me and would at least listen to me.Once another kid t the mick out of the way I laughed and the teacher stood up for me since then I have never been scared to lauight and aged 20 I learnt that men can actulaly find my laught attractive and indeed at least 1 has.
We alos had a drinks rota for cans of Pepsi when I started at the school I couldnt evan open the can myself by the time I left I had been taught how to do this, a can of pepsi might not seem very much but the fact that somone would sit with me for that long everyday and evan take turns buying cans of pepsi meant alot. Its rather hard to express what it meant but he basically saved my school career although school for me was a waste of time after the age of 14.
The teacher gaveme projects to do I orgnaised the IT open evening and also designed some webpages and llearnt some basic programming. As he also taught an evning class on VB (visual basic) Doing this helped me no end and are now proud addtions to my CV the skills I learnt from each small task served me well.
But he taught me other things too, he taught me what I wanted to be like. One of My aims in life is to be as good to people as he was too me and to make a special effort for those who need it, To listen and to pay attention to the little things,
I learnt about smart dress and that fun is also good too but making a clear distigstion between work and play in ones dress sense is important, Iwas always bullied at school for my apperance I now have short hair and very often wear a blazer when Im training.
On one of my college courses there was a smart dress requirement and I aws theonly person who made a big thing about it beacuse to me the way one dress says how h/she feels about their job.
The thing that I am most glad of is that my teacher was a safe sensible role model and as I left school and left my teachers behind I went looking for somone to look up to. I think the transistion from school to college or univirsity is very hard and I think the extra free time can be a problem to begin with, when at school I was never veruy much into computer games for my I found that I cant relax and therfore cant enjoy things that arent very serious. I also regreted this and felt had a lack of sense of fun on a activities day I rember I chose to stay in the IT room and I remeber the teacher mentioning to everyone that should anyone be planing on doing any work ( meaning me of course, as I spent most f my tiome on the computers surfing the net or writing or designing things) the network would be a little slow, I ahve never forgottern this discreet message and always truy and be as polite and unassuming whne talking to people who I might make feel embrassed or shaken.
Most of the teachers dindt understand me they didnt understand the need for me to talk or that I might just want to feel that somone liked and wanted me around.Most didnt see he 2 sides of a story except for this 1.
So in my life a role model made all the diffrence I think alot of young people can stray the wrong way so easuily beacuse have Asperger's makes you vvunravbile as you dont understand other people and their motives and you dont know whats right and wrong,
You might not stray to the wriong side of the law but you might end up hurt and taken adavantge of and I dont think there is enought emplasis on this.
Until saturday I hadnt mentioned role models taht much buttit made me think how important they can be, and as alot of you reading this are probably past delgates I wanted to share my experiances beacuse one of you might be a role model to somone with AS so above are the reasons why its so important,
but as always remebre everyone is diffrent.
when I had no friends at school and I had noone to talk to this particular teacher became unbelilvably important. I had to wait at school for my dad till 5:20 and I could often be found in the IT room. I had before been intrested in IT so no suprise then that I got on with the teacher.Somtimes we would talk and somtimes we would just work but it meant somthing to me to be in the same room as somone who didnt hate me and would at least listen to me.Once another kid t the mick out of the way I laughed and the teacher stood up for me since then I have never been scared to lauight and aged 20 I learnt that men can actulaly find my laught attractive and indeed at least 1 has.
We alos had a drinks rota for cans of Pepsi when I started at the school I couldnt evan open the can myself by the time I left I had been taught how to do this, a can of pepsi might not seem very much but the fact that somone would sit with me for that long everyday and evan take turns buying cans of pepsi meant alot. Its rather hard to express what it meant but he basically saved my school career although school for me was a waste of time after the age of 14.
The teacher gaveme projects to do I orgnaised the IT open evening and also designed some webpages and llearnt some basic programming. As he also taught an evning class on VB (visual basic) Doing this helped me no end and are now proud addtions to my CV the skills I learnt from each small task served me well.
But he taught me other things too, he taught me what I wanted to be like. One of My aims in life is to be as good to people as he was too me and to make a special effort for those who need it, To listen and to pay attention to the little things,
I learnt about smart dress and that fun is also good too but making a clear distigstion between work and play in ones dress sense is important, Iwas always bullied at school for my apperance I now have short hair and very often wear a blazer when Im training.
On one of my college courses there was a smart dress requirement and I aws theonly person who made a big thing about it beacuse to me the way one dress says how h/she feels about their job.
The thing that I am most glad of is that my teacher was a safe sensible role model and as I left school and left my teachers behind I went looking for somone to look up to. I think the transistion from school to college or univirsity is very hard and I think the extra free time can be a problem to begin with, when at school I was never veruy much into computer games for my I found that I cant relax and therfore cant enjoy things that arent very serious. I also regreted this and felt had a lack of sense of fun on a activities day I rember I chose to stay in the IT room and I remeber the teacher mentioning to everyone that should anyone be planing on doing any work ( meaning me of course, as I spent most f my tiome on the computers surfing the net or writing or designing things) the network would be a little slow, I ahve never forgottern this discreet message and always truy and be as polite and unassuming whne talking to people who I might make feel embrassed or shaken.
Most of the teachers dindt understand me they didnt understand the need for me to talk or that I might just want to feel that somone liked and wanted me around.Most didnt see he 2 sides of a story except for this 1.
So in my life a role model made all the diffrence I think alot of young people can stray the wrong way so easuily beacuse have Asperger's makes you vvunravbile as you dont understand other people and their motives and you dont know whats right and wrong,
You might not stray to the wriong side of the law but you might end up hurt and taken adavantge of and I dont think there is enought emplasis on this.
Until saturday I hadnt mentioned role models taht much buttit made me think how important they can be, and as alot of you reading this are probably past delgates I wanted to share my experiances beacuse one of you might be a role model to somone with AS so above are the reasons why its so important,
but as always remebre everyone is diffrent.
Sunday, February 18, 2007
News at last
Finally I have heard some news bck, apprently its been there since the 8th of febuary but NOBODY TOLD ME WHERE TO LOOK, but ARU have made me a condtional offer YIPPE but the course title has chnaged so too has the tariff points required instead of 160 I now need 200.
Roehampton have also offerd me a place.But no news yet from the others.
Roehampton have also offerd me a place.But no news yet from the others.
Monday, February 5, 2007
Time lapse
Yesterday I tryed my first piceeof timelapse phtoography over an hour and a half. it worked quite well, I now have my video camera back and Im working pretty hard to organise filimg for my film.
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