The Snow Ball Fight

I never thought I would get into a snowball fight at my new college.

As a new HND student I went in feet first and landed in the class room. It was full of blank faces I didn’t know, it was ok though I knew myself or at least I thought I did. As the work started flowing in I could already start to feel the pressure, everyone else seemed to know what they were doing.

The first assignment seemed really exciting something to get stuck into the only thing was time management. Yep not my strong point and it was defiantly not a good idea to have a week off trust me on this one.

I could feel the snow ball getting bigger everyone seemed to be fitting in really well. The Snow Ball Effect, this was mentioned right at the beginning of the course when I was trying to run before I could walk. Never thought in would happen to me but there was too much work going on to take in.

Right it’s time to get stuck in now like I set out to do because after all this is my future. It was really good because I could ask anyone on the course for advice or should I say the team. I didn’t realise how helpful people could be, I can definitely say I have started to melt the snow ball. The only thing I will do from now on is to stay on track and keep focussed.

'Where I’ve come from; where I am now; where I’m going'

It all started on the 1st of November 1979, the day I was born. I spent my first six months of my life in Pontefract West Yorkshire were I didn’t get much time to grow up. I was quickly shipped off to a small village near Scarborough on the East coast called Hunmanby this is where I spent most of my happy childhood but once I was old enough to make my own decisions I started to map out my life.

My life has come on since the days of living in a small village, like moving to Leeds six years ago with my girlfriend. This was one of the biggest things I have done, I started out by doing several jobs before getting into the construction trade were I made some good money but unfortunately due to the credit crunch I was laid off. So there was this big wall in front of me and I didn’t really know what to do with myself to be honest, I had done an HNC in graphic design in the past but every thing had changed so much by now. Then I made the decision that the only way forward was to retrain at college, I started to look into an interactive media course which defiantly was the way forward for me. It took a lot of hard thinking and a lot of hard decision making but I finally got the ball rolling.

I would like to think I have some direction in my life now, one of which is making my girl friend an honest woman which is a really important thing to me and to go further with the band I play in which is looking good for the future. My other hope is to finish this course and to make a good carer with the skills I will have learnt over the two years.