Christmas... Hohoho

Christmas time.
Christmas is over, and it has been a nice change this year. I went away from the city and into the countryside down in Devon. I have to admit though it didn’t really feel like the usual Christmas, or Christmas at all for that matter. However it has been nice to get away and actually have a few days of doing nothing, and just having some time to chill out.
It’s now about a week until Uni starts again, and I need to get cracking on with things. I have done bits and bobs of work, but just have a few more things that I need to do.
I need to start looking for some more work placements, I have been really struggling to find one at the moment, and I am running out of ideas of who to contact. Smaller companies offer placements but they are usually a lot closer to the time that what I am looking for so it has been quite difficult. I am going to spend the whole day tomorrow just searching and applying for everything that I can find.
I have been working on my crit studies work as well, trying to think if ideas and themes that I can use for my essay and then ultimately for my dissertation. I have been working on some of the portfolio tasks this week, and getting my folder started properly. I just need to finish typing up the lecture and seminar notes and presenting them.
I am looking forward to going back up to Leeds, but then whenever I come back from Christmas I feel really lazy and lifeless and I miss home and family and friends more than usual. I do have the dancing competition coming up in February though, so I’ll be able to come back home a bit more often.
I’m looking forward to the next project when we get back, and at least it’s only a ten credit module so it won’t be really really stressful. I think that I will learn a lot of CAD skills in this project to, which is only beneficial for the future and for skills for my CV.
We have some taught sessions for our PPD starting this term so hopefully I will be able to secure a placement this way if I can’t do it myself.