time

By the way, the times at the bottom of these blogs aren't English time. I didn't post the last one in the middle of the night. Its 11.20 am here.

"followers"

Today I discovered this blog has a follower. Exciting, someone must be reading all these words!

I guess that is what blogging is all about - getting my thoughts out to the world. :-)

Its friday now, and next week is the beginning of term. This term has been a long time coming.

Today's job is to finish my CV. I'm sending it off to The Times for their graduate programme, which looks really interesting. And it pays too!

3 days of work experience and then...

Well, its less than a week till the beginning of term. Its the start of my final 'real' term before I graduate as the last term is only six weeks.

I've had a day of Tesco shopping and watching the Formula 1 review of the year. It was an extraordinary year in Formula 1.

AND the biggest thing that happened today was seeing my articles published in the local papers - the east kent gazette, faversham news and sheppey gazette. I was only there for three days on work experience and I wrote loads of articles for them. The first one was about the situation in Israel and Gaza! I had to some up the situation in a sentence.

I'm really pleased to have these stories in the paper; I've wanted for ages to be a journalist and I'm a lot closer to getting there now.

And again with gusto

So, Woolworths.

Why are people so keen to keep it running? I think the stores were always un tidy, the shelves too high and the general atmosphere too unpleasant.

And now its closing down, and really I don't mind that much. I do think the 30000 job losses is a bad thing, but I never used it as a first place to get anything, that was always WHSmith.

And the pick and mix which everyone goes on about, I never had. It is just so expensive.

GM, on the other hand...

How is it possible that it could be about to fall in the next couple of days? One of the world's biggest car manufacturers, it surely must have finances in place to stop this kind of thing happening.

They employ a lot of people, and internationally they are a huge force. For them to go the way of other companies would be a real shame.

[OK, I'm getting this blogging thing now, its just an oportunity to write whatever you think, and see it on the internet!]

Sam

thursday, templeman library, a laptop

Ok this is annoying. I'd written quite a lot on my latest blog, and then it all disappeared. Twice.

But I will persist, beacause apprentely this is the way forward in the media, and since I want to be going forward in the media, I will carry on writing.

So I said, (in condensed form)

BLOG, not for a while, LIZZIE, busy, but enjoys it, NEED TO GO, as laptop is due back and SOMETHING ELSE, which I can't remember.

I think I may just publish this now, and keep writing new ones so I find out how not to lose all the stuff I write.

Sam

inQuire united

We came, we played, we went home.

inQuire united battled through the group stage of the 5-a-side tournament organised by Kent Union, and had a huge amount of fun but failed to get to the semi finals. Next time...

So, if you're reading this and want to know a bit about me, I'll tell you a bit.

I am a student at the University of Kent studying English Language and planning to go into journalism when I graduate. I am the news editor for inQuire (hence the football) and recently had a story about one of the letting agencies in Canterbury published on the front page. It was a story I was very pleased with, as it took a long time to write and research.

More about me in posts to come.

I'm enjoying this blogging lark.

This is my first blog

I have been told lots of times by people at all the journalism conferences I go to that blogging is a good idea. So here we go...

I have also been told that I put specific names in my blog then it get noticed more so:

DAVID BECKHAM

BARACK OBAMA

GEORGE BUSH

Well now I just need to keep writing. :-)