Durham, Challenge of Management, and Heatwaves.

I can’t say I’m a sun-lover. What with my pale skin, I tend to burn quite quickly. And I don’t do shorts, so you can understand that the past couple days have been ever so slightly uncomfortable. And there’s worse to come too – doing the Challenge of Management event at 6th form (more below on that) required me to wear a smart shirt and trousers. Which means I get very warm very fast. Thankfully, that’s all over now. Much prefer the rain.

So, Challenge of Management. I can hear the outrage already: “He’s doing the topics mentioned in the reverse order!”. Live with it. Basically, it’s a business simulation – we ‘took over’ a Biscuit-making company, and we had to make the decisions about Advertising, Employment and Stock. It was interesting and my team not only won our section, but had the best results out of everybody. Go us.

We were all mixed up though, rather than in groups of friends, and there was nobody in my group that I actually speak to. They were nice though, and I’ve made a couple of friends. Not to mention that our supervisor was a bit ace.

This leaves Durham, which I visited last Tuesday. The city is absolutely magnificent, I can’t rate it highly enough. I could quite easily see myself living there and enjoying doing so. The Computer Science course they offer, however, didn’t seem quite so great. I’m not saying it looks like a bad course – I’ll definitely be applying for it – but the lack of a chance to do an Industrial Placement means that I’m leaning towards Manchester.

Other than the aforementioned three topics, I took the opportunity to watch most of the tennis and play lots of Xbox 360 this weekend. Managed to do all of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare on the hardest difficulty, and saw Federer outlast Roddick in what was really an epic game.

This post was supposed to be up earlier, but I’m a slacker. More catching up will be posted tomorrow.

~ Godders

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Sofish (Jul 06, 2009)

Does the COD mean you’ve done one thing on your list? xo

Godders (Jul 06, 2009)

Almost. I’m on 920/1000 points for said game. And the last 80 are freaking hard.But doable, hopefully.

I do need to post an update on my 50 Things, can cross off a couple.

Sofish (Jul 06, 2009)

Ooh, which ones?
Obviously not the ‘post in my blog every 4 days’ one. :P xo

Godders (Jul 06, 2009)

Haha, were it not for PC overheatage I’d still be on target for that. Damned technology.

And you’ll have to wait for the update. Neener neener neener. ;P

Sofish (Jul 06, 2009)

-.-