The life of a Dairy Farmer

Your normal typical working shift is from 9-5 as Dolly Parton would put in her 1980 hit single, but on the farm i live on it's 5am till 5:30pm and this is one way of making a living. We milk just over 250 cows twice a day, and no for you people who live in big cities we don't do it all by hand, we have machines doing it all for us, this building is called the parlour. After milking all the cows the the milk is then transported to another building called the dairy, this is where the milk is put through a number of filters to make sure the milk is nice and clean. The milk then goes into a tank to be chilled and Slowly stirred.

Mostly every dairy farm has a contract with a manufacturing company which then sells the milk to you the public, our contract is with ASDA, so if you ever buy milk from ASDA that has probably came from my farm.
Like any normal job a dairy farming has its ups and downs as well, for example; in 2001 most farms across the county had been hit by Foot and Mouth, this is a horrible disease which affects all the animals on the farm and they all have to be burnt to stop the disease spreading to other farms (humans can't catch it, only cows and sheep); TB is another disease that affects cows, this one isn't as bad as foot and mouth but this creates a shut down on the farm which means we can sell young bulls to other farmers, but instead sell them to slaughter houses for not as much money, Badgers are the main reason for the spread of TB but the government wont allow a stop to them.
If I had the chance to decided to live on a farm or in the big city, i would always chose to live on a farm because I love my wellies!

TED speaker:

When scrolling through the TED web page I managed to come over this unique video that caught my interest. Instead of a mature skilled speaker who believes they have a great view of life, Child prodigy Adora Svitak (aged 12) was equally or I would even say more moving at sharing her view on how adults can equally learn as much from children as they teach them. I find her speech most interesting because she identifies how adults come up with grand plans but then they hit the wall of realisation; the cost of it; the benefits; the impossible. However Children don't have that reason not to come up with thinks, allowing them to be full of inspiring aspirations and hopeful thinking, being creative, going beyond their reach and discovering new ways and limits to the way of life.
To a person like me, who can see themselves one day become a teacher, believes that we do need to listen to children to let them inspire us and let them tell us how they believe the world works so then we can help them expand on their potential aims in life and hopefully make their dreams come true.

Being At Home

It was great to come home for Christmas; get to see my family, have a break from university, see old friends and get to enjoy every bit of my mum's cooking again.
However this year my older brother was in Australia with his girlfriend, it was the first Christmas without him, so you could imagine Christmas morning was very quiet and boring without him. Then being at home has been boring, the advantage of living in halls is that all your new friends are all under the same roof so you can easily just pop out your room and run into one of them, but where I live is very quiet I'm surrounded by field of green grass filled with cows and sheep, I do have a neighbour but they arn't that chatty.
So in all my life I never of thought I would say iIcan't wait to go back to school (uni).

1st Assigment

Just completed my first assignment for my Education Studies course!
My task was to write 1,500 words about a key reformer which has contributed to the development of the education within the UK. When having a gap year from being in education and this is your first assignment, this 1,500 words has suddenly became a mountain right in front of my eyes.
When it came to deciding what I was going to write about, I believed that for my first assignment I should write something that took my interest, that I have read about and has took my interest, therefore I wrote my assignment on the the contributions of the Foundation Phase towards the education of today. After completing my essay I felt like this mountain become a tiny little rock and that I had panic and myself worry way, too much!

If I could give poeple tips for going about tackling their first assignment I would tell them to stop and take a beather, brake it down and read over the question. To help them manage to get all their points over to the reader, start off with a brain storm and then step by step work through to the end.

The Cinderella story (my style)

Animation

Catchphrase

Brain Storm

To show my own opinion about reflective processing, I have created this brain storm to make it easier for me to understand and for others to see.