Delightfully skeptical...I didn't drink honest!

Hello there again various readers...

This blog comes two days after my friend Andrew's 18th...overall, it was fantastic. :u).
Didn't top my 18th but still :P

Anyway enough of the smileys...this will become a small rant, but first a small story of how confused I was the day after. We (the party-goers) slept over Andrew's and, as you can expect sleep wasn't easy to get, and the sleep that was had...there wasn't much to go around for everyone -so to speak. I fell asleep a little after my return home, the next day. When I awoke, I was tired, so tired that I started questioning where I was, even though I was quiet clearly in my own house...and had been for a few hours. My sister thought it was humorous when I asked her where I was, but shortly after I was fine and dandy, and all was back to normality.

You may be thinking, 'he had too much (drink)', well you'd be wrong. I don't drink alcohol. Why? I just prefer not to, moreover I can attend a party - have fun/laughs/merriment without the need to become 'hammered'. I think, and know to be honest, that with a lot of people they feel shy and restricted from having ''MAXIMUM MERRIMENT'' if they don't drink. With me, I can just be my mad, crazy (I've been told enough...) self without having to worry about my 1) state of mind. 2) health - from drinking. The only real thing I need to worry about is falling over, from attempting some crazy dance move. I'm not boasting there, just stating how I play that game.

Anyway I will draw this to a close...I feel quite chuffed as I have just manoeuvred a fly out of my room...I detest the buzzing noise...however I know there will be more coming...oh well.

Hope you enjoyed reading this.

Callum

A bit more open and general...

The following blog will simply detail a few things I've done, and will be doing in the past/next few weeks....

Firstington firstford, I feel a tad silly, as I have a youtube account, however didn't ever get round to reporting the fact I had seen and actually met ROSS NOBLE!!! I regard this a pretty big thing personally, the show itself was fanatasic, and I hope I never forget what a great night it was.

More recently was my last day at Sixth Form (that is to say we are ''off timetable'', due to study leave -I'm sure you understand)...anyway the day itself felt...well empty as far as leavers' days go. Why? Well it's probably to do with the fact that many of my friends had exams during the day - I hadn't had any all that week....Furthermore, at my comprehensive school (as I'm sure goes for many secondary schools) there was the notion of shirt signing, aswell as a GRAND number of pictures taken....at the Sixth Form, there wasn't really any shirts being signed, ontop of that I could only see a handful of cameras at a time. Not too sure as to why....but hey.

After my last 8 exams are over, in June we are having a leavers' ball, so this hopefully will act as a better form of a send off/goodbye. I've heard a lot of people say it's pointless, but personally there are a great number of friends I know going to it, so it'll be a damn good night! Plus this time I have a girlfriend ;). Not to take anything away from those who I went to my 'first' prom with, but I really only knew these people, they wern't best friends, bar my best mate who did go, but other than him, non of my males-chaps went. Still THAT was a good night :)

What lies ahead today?...Well once I get showered and such, tonight I'm heading to my mate - Andrew's , for his 18th. Just a few people over his house, my sort of thing.

Anyway hope you've enjoyed this. As always, would love feedback, even if that's over Twitter :P


Callum

The business of going to University.

Within the next few months...

I should be going to Bangor University to study English and Linguistics. Great, no problem there.

My problem lies with those sort of people who seemingly have taken only easy subject, and can walk their way into University. The thing is, I believe some people try damn hard with hard(er) subject, Sciences, Languages etc, and may only come out with a C (for example) however there may be someone who takes comparably easier subjects however gets three A grades at A level. So, the former of the examples may miss out on Uni, whereas the later may get in, and it may even be onto a course that requires no previous experience, with three As, only because they took easier subjects. No trying to take anything away from the 'easier' subjects, they do their job, but at the end of the day some subjects will be harder than others. It's just the way it is.

Sorry if anyone is shocked/offended by my last statement, but if you take Media Studies and place it next to Chemistry, Chemistry would win in terms of hardness.

My point simply, if you haven't truely understood my rambling, is that well...I'll explain with the following...

I have spoken with a few people who agree with an idea I had. That being that some subjects (somehow) should be valued higher than others, thereby assisting some people with getting into Uni. Now I can hear cries of, ''but if they don't get As for (e.g.) Chemistry that's their problem, you can't blame those who do Media (e.g.)'' - However it must be taken in to consideration that some people may really want to do a science/language at a University, and nothing should stop them (same for all others subjects) but may not be fully 'there' at A-level, but do have the potential, but may not be the best at exams, so they fall down.

After some thought, I proposed the following;
(this is based on the current UCAS points system, and thereby ONLY points based offers are touched here, I'm not too sure as to what would be done for a grade based offer...)

• For extremely hard subjects +20 UCAS points.
• For those not as hard +10 UCAS points.
• For those subjects valued as easy, OR which have a high intake of students NO points.

The idea (which I know would need reviewing) is something I think would encourage people to think more when they pick their A-Levels, With many of my friends, we've discussed ''If we could turn back time, what would we pick...'', had someone said ' X subject banks you 20 crucial UCAS points, I may have considered X subject'. I believe it would just be a good system to enforce so you would have more people doing a foreign language...something I feel stongly about but I feel that it's something for another blog.

Anyway let me know your thoughts.Hope you enjoyed.

Callum

Hopefully the start of something beautiful....

Hello all.

Assuming this works, you're reading my (Callum Robson's) first blog, a la this site.

This is just going to be a short welcome, and then I'll publish 'real' blog thereafter.

So welcome, I'll hopefully get round to covering a few topics, ranging from the things that make me happy, those things that make me sad, and everything inbetween.



Thanks for reading.



Callum