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August 22nd, 2011 in Charity
A few hours ago I returned from the African continent back to a surprisingly sunny Britain, and I have to say the past few weeks have simply been amazing.
The Ghanaian children’s enthusiasm has continued to amaze me, and whilst we went there to teach, I think we too have a lot to learn from them. It’s undeniable that people in Africa are far less materialistic than those in Western countries, but it also seems apparent that they’re happier than us. It does make you ask the question of why we are so obsessed with money and success in countries like England, when this seems to have no correlation to happiness.
Anyway, back to teaching! This week I began with teaching transformations, which includes reflections, translations and rotations which I planned with my friend Stuart. These were the first lessons that I had taught alone since arriving, and I have to say I really did enjoy the challenge this brought. Whilst team-teaching can allow you to focus more on individuals, working alone does provide better value for money as the teacher is teaching a larger volume of students. I tried to make these lessons as interactive as possible, through getting them to complete and design mazes to discuss translations, and reflecting the pupils outside. They seemed to take to this well, and also appeared to be enjoying it.
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Tags: accra, ghana, teaching in africa, volunteering, volunteering africa, warwick in africa
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August 14th, 2011 in Random
So I’ve now been here in Ghana for just over two weeks, and it’s been absolutely fantastic. I have met some challenges this week though, and I will come to these later.
To explain exactly what we have been doing, we’ve been running Summer schools in some schools located near the capital – Accra. Whilst we were previously told we should be running the school from 8.00am to 1.30pm, the headmaster requested that instead we ran lessons from 9.00am to midday. For me this didn’t feel anywhere near long enough, though apparently these were the times the parents had expected it to run.
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August 7th, 2011 in Charity
Last week we left England to head to Accra, Ghana to teach summer schools with Warwick in Africa. So far it’s been an amazing experience, where I have gone from only teaching a handful of maths lessons in Birmingham to leading lessons each day in Summer schools in Africa.
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July 26th, 2011 in Random
Over the past four weeks I’ve been working on site at a fire station being built in Gloucestershire, known as GFRS Cheltenham Road East site. It’s been a great experience, and I’ve learnt a lot about construction over a relatively short period of time. The fire station is one of four being built across the county as part of the scheme, with this one featuring a community centre using Glulam – a laminated wood veneer structure.
The site is just finishing working on the sub-structure of the station, where they are putting the drainage in across the site, and over the past few weeks the steel super-structure has been erected, and first and second concrete floors have been set.
So, my next move now will be to shoot off to Ghana, Africa for three and a half weeks! I will be teaching Maths as part of the Warwick in Africa scheme, where we are hoping to make a big difference to the children there through running Summer schools. Whilst I’m incredibly nervous about it all, I know it’s going to be a fantastic experience and really cannot wait.
Tags: fire-station, gfrs, ghana, warwick in africa, wia
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May 11th, 2011 in Mailchimp
Not too long ago, Mailchimp released a new design that allows you to easily create new designs for your admin area, which is great for agencies that might do work on behalf of clients. They call it co-branding.
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Tags: co-brand mailchimp, customise mailchimp, mailchimp developer, mailchimp expert
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April 23rd, 2011 in Charity
 So, in July I will be off to climb not one, not two, but three mountains in 24 hours! Who knows how it’ll go, but one thing’s for sure – it couldn’t be for a better cause.
I’ll be raising money for Warwick in Africa – a charity that sends a number of us Warwick students over to South Africa, Tansania and Ghana to raise the quality and standards of teaching. It’s had huge success since it’s launch five years ago.
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Tags: raising money, three peaks challenge, warwick in africa, wia
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April 22nd, 2011 in Random
Last updated: 16 February 2012
Applications are now starting to open so make sure you start applying!
I thought it might be useful to some people to have a concise list of where you can go to work at the festivals this Summer. Hopefully below will act as a starting point to what might be the best moments for you this Summer!
To all those who missed out on Glastonbury this year, unfortunately there’s no 2012 festival due to toilets and police heading over to the Olympics, but why not have a look at other festivals like Bestival?!
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Tags: bestival, festival jobs 2012, festivals, glastonbury, work, work at festivals 2012
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April 20th, 2011 in Random
So last year I was lucky enough to work a huge range of festivals during the Summer – Reading, Beachbreak Live, Bestival, and the biggest of them all, Glastonbury. But with no Glastonbury in 2012, and all the tickets for 2011 now well and truly eaten up, how can you go about getting into the festival without having to resort to climbing over fences into Stone Circle, or trying to run through security gates?
Well there’s still a very limited number of spaces available with Big Choice, so if you’re looking for work, click here to apply now! There’s two days left to apply, so do it quickly now!
Good luck to all those who apply, and do let me know how you get on!
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April 18th, 2011 in University
Over the past few months I’ve been lucky enough to make it through the three rounds of Target Jobs’ Undergraduate of the Year award for the Construction and Built Environment Undergrad of the Year award, which has been great! I hadn’t expected to make it anywhere near this far through the competition, and as of Friday afternoon, I was just a few moments away from finding out if I had won a placement with Laing O’Rourke in Hong Kong for the Summer!
Anyway, in the end I didn’t win, but still had gained a huge amount from the experience. Firstly, there was the practice of going through a rigorous interview with two senior members of the firm, and second there was the beautiful food and drink at the event, which (just like any student) I’d appreciated enormously!
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February 3rd, 2011 in University, Work
So, it’s been a pretty busy 4 weeks so far and it’s not looking like it’s going to calm down much! It has been good though, and have had a great many laughs and successes over the period.
The main one would be that I’ve been working as marketing manager for an opera being put on at Warwick Arts Centre. Opera’s not exactly the easiest thing to sell – especially to students – so I was looking forward to the challenge. Anyway, in the end it paid off and we pulled in over £10,000, making it Opera Warwick’s most successful opera of all time and bringing in one of the largest non-student audiences to a student production the arts centre had ever seen! So that’s been pretty good.
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