Over the hump!

I haven't blogged for a while because life became a little crazy in March! I had my daughters 21st birthday party to organise and then I went overseas to New York for nine days in late March. the party went well and we all had a good time and the trip to New York was great even though it was very cold! As you can imagine my study schedule was interrupted while all this was happening. I used the podcasts on my ipod to listen to the modules and downloaded as as many readings asap to take with me for light reading on the long flights! I felt as if Iwas at least keeping up with the current topics but I didn't get around to using the internt on my travels to blog,resarch etc. I was planning drafts of my assignment one in my mind and jotting them down on paper. But by them time I got back in early April I felt sure that I was way behind everyone else in the course and at times I began to panic. Fortunately my daughter who has just finished
Bachelor of Media and Arts course at Deakin uni, was able to calm me down and help me. Whilst I was madly trying to catch up with reading after reading, I began to feel confused, unsure -what were 'my own ideas"? Then I read these re-assuring comments in Kuhlthau " Tomorrow I 'll read this over and over and some parts will fall into place and some still won't...The mind doesn't take everything and put it into order automatically and that's it. Understanding that is the biggest help." Then I knew I wasn't the only one who had felt like this! Eventually I was able to clarify my ideas about the T/L role and I got asssignment one done, I was over the hump.