Interview

Today I had to wait for nearly an hour for the train, the longer I waited the more my mood changed. I had to be at work for a 3pm-6pm shift as I live quite far from where I work I knew that I would be at least an hour late for work. Being an hour late would mean that I had traveled 2hrs plus the 1hr wait, to the only be at work for 2hrs. Today I knew that no matter what came in my way I had to make it to work.

I had a few thought going through my head, the old me would have used the train delays as a way to get a day off work. However I knew that I had an interview with a colleague so it was vital that I got to work. The whole journey to work I was getting so frustrated and I was not in the mood to do any interviews. It's strange how something so minor can change your mood. This then got me thinking about how my mood could now change the way my interviews would go. All I wanted to do was get to work and conduct my interview, it so stressful knowing that I could do nothing to get to work on time.

Late Posts

I have been running around like a headless chicken to try and sort out any missing parts for my submission. I have really neglected my blog I have however been giving all my attention to my note pad, my poor note pad does not even look like a note pad anymore. I will be posting up a few things form my note which I should have posted a while ago.

Running out of time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I knew that holding focus group meeting with my colleagues would be a challenge but now I have come face to face with this dilemma. Time is running out and I have a brain and note pad full of question for my colleagues but getting them all together does not seem as though it could happen anytime soon. After a long night of thing and talking to myself I cannot let this hinder my inquiry as I have come so far. So I came to the decision of not holding any focus group meetings (not that I have a choice) but rather have one to one interview with my colleagues. Although I may not get the same information with an interview as I would with a focus group, I feel that I can still gain knowledge form my fellow practitioners. I feel that having one to one interviews will not prevent my colleague from holding back there thoughts in the way that a focus group will. I can still ask the same questions but they may not spark that argument/debate that a focus group will. With time running out I cannot wait any longer to hold a focus group. I have also manage to gain a contact who student who studied phycology particularly the behaviour of humans, they are also willing to be interviewed.

Audio visual, who is it for?

I want my artefact to be done in an audio, erm!! I wanted to make the artefact a film/dvd that could be given to people who are in the same line of work as me. I want this artefact to show how amazing and challenging youth work can be. I want this film to have still images as well as moving ones. I will use images that I have be gathering for the past year. I have soo many ideas on what I want my artefact to show. I not sure what direction to go in. I want to show people that not all young people are challenging I want people to be able to look at the young people and see themselves in the young people. Just like I do at times I look at some of the young people and see myself at that age . another idea just came to mind. Could my artefact be based around choices? The choices young people make how they choose to act.

As my may notice there are a few spelling mistake as well as some grammatical errors. The above piece of writing was written at the last campus session that I attended. we were given a task which required us to spend 5 minutes right what we where thinking. The task required us to write word for word what came to mind.

Survey Questions

For the past few days I’ve been working on a survey that I can distribute to my fellow practitioners. As easy as drafting a survey may be in slightly struggling. I am having trouble with the questions I want to ask, the questions I’ve been drafting seem to open and this may not help get the answer I may require. Has anyone got any ideas or tips that could help me?

Module 3 At last (update on inquiry progress)

My inquiry is going very well I am begging to learn even more about my chosen topic. During the summer I was able to work more hours at the youth centre; this then gave me the chance to have a better look as to how the girls behave in different social surroundings. I worker with a much larger amount of young people, the number of young people who attended the youth centre grew weekly. The regular members began inviting there friends this then meant we were having at least 5-10 new members each week. 

As mentioned in previous blogs I am still fairly new to youth work however the summer experiences gave me a better insight into what else can be expected. I defiantly can say that I have grown as a youth worker compare to the start of the year. I was given the opportunity to go on off sight trips with the youth centre; I was responsible for a group of young people. Which I must say I found daunting as this would be the first time I was in charge of a group of young people. I would be lying if I said the experience was easy; as it was not, it was very challenging at times I felt as though it was too over whelming for me. (Discussed further in my personal journal) 

This inquiry has sparked some very stimulating discussions amongst staff, being able to discuss my inquiry with my colleagues have been very beneficial to this inquiry. i am able to continue focusing on the importance of the inquiry.

  

I’ve been working like a crazy women, I am working two different jobs over 6 days, leaving me with only 1 day off per week. The past few months have been rather hectic from working at the youth centre to working at the toy store. Now it’s time to get my head back into ‘Uni Mode’ I need to start prioritising so that I can get my degree one and for all. I know that it’s not practical working 6 days a week, when do I get time to study? When do I get the time to attend campus sessions? Although between train journeys to work I am able to read my fellow BAPP blogs but I seem to lack the time to comment. 

Commenting on blogs is not as easy as it sounds, I like to take my time to carefully read as well understand the bloggs. It may look as though I may not have been showing any form of interest to this module, I am. With that said I have now chosen to reduce the amount of days I am working, I do not want my work life to hinder my progression with this module. I will make sure to spend a suffiant amount of time into blogging and commenting, I do not want my lack of communication to be my downfall in the module.