DAY 1!

 Day 1 - I feel like this is my first proper day of physically starting!!! So now I feel scared and embarrassed; in my head everyone else on the course has finished their essay and are half way through their Map!...Again I feel scared and embarrassed. But what should I do, suffer in silence. No, a cry for help!? Well not quite but I am kindly nudging people for a response ;)

I have read and re read the Handbook, taken part in the Skype sessions and that was all well and good but then you leave and go back to real life. Now I feel like I have to go back and start again!!! There is no doubt the Skype sessions were really helpful and you finish feeling really motivated but then swiftly after that (normally when my daughter is sitting in her high chair for lunch) the bubble bursts and everything feels far away once more. I should have used the Skype sessions as a Diving board and leapt off immersing myself in the chosen task, but I didn't. Now I am paying the price ;) I will most definitely be referring back to my notes form the online sessions but now I need to tackle making that active start......but WHERE!?!?

I am going back through the Handbook and commenting, underlining, marking what I think is useful and what are the underlying tasks I need to undertake. Now my question to whoever reads my post; the main beef of the critical reflection essay is approx 1500 words on three areas of learning divided into 500 words each. Then 500 words discussing the Lens. So discussion of the three Lenses only has to be done in 500 words? Maybe I'll be screaming yahoooo by that point but it seems to be actually only a small part of the essay. The area of learning section is detailed on pages 48 and 49 of the Handbook and I think that seems fairly self explanatory (in terms of how I go about doing it). I think this is where I will make my start! Anyone got any other tips or comments?

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