Light at the end of the tunnel

Hello fellow bloggers

Feeling pretty happy with myself now I have completed Rachel's essay and (fingers crossed) have Fiona's presentation finished tomorrow. That will be two ticked off the list and one to go (Lin's essay!!!)

Haven't had the feedback yet though, so may not be smiling for long. Oh well, can revel in my happiness for a short while ;)

Babies deciphering accents

Thought I would add this link which I saw on BBC online which would compliment the video we saw in Fiona's lecture last week. Researchers have studied the cries of newborn babies born to German and French parents and it is suggested that the cries are imitating the sounds of the parents accents, which seems to emphasise further that babies are developing cognitively whilst in the womb.

Hope this link works. Not sure if I am adding links correctly any advice would be much appreciated!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8346058.stm

Not quite Pavlov's dogs!!

Thought I would add this link for anyone to browse if they wished!! Although not in relation to children, it does show the link to conditioning animals by reward, in this case honey bees to detect bombs. Couldn't get The Telegraph link to work but found the same story under the url below. Slightly biased as it was my brother in law that did the research and my father in law that provided the bees!!!!!!

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=1196

Reached my 'dip'

Well, I knew it would arrive sooner or later and here it is, the feeling that everything is piling on ttop of me. Thanks to a good chinwag today at break time and a mini chocolate cake from Dave (Happy Birthday!), it made me realise things can only get better - so onwards and upwards!

Getting there!

It's the end of the third week and I'm finally getting to grips with what's expected of us and the way we should be studying (I think!) and I can now move forward with Lin and Rachel's assignments. Have received in the post this week the Sociology "bible" and 'The Invention of Childhood' (only £3.79 on Amazon if anybody is interested in getting it!) all on Jen's recommendation from her talk last week - very inspiring:) Enjoyed the trip to Warwick this week and it hit home that I am actually a University degree student.

Oh well, back to the coffee and do a little more research (what else would I be doing on a Friday night!).

I've made it through the first week

Well, week one is now over! My apprehensions about the course have been lifted - a little :) Really like all the tutors so looking forward to getting in to the swing of things next week. Think I will need to eat three weetabix for breakfast though to match Lin's enthusiasm and energy!!! Everyone on the course is great - I feel quite at home:) And just in case it wasn't clear from my title - THIS IS MY FIRST EVER BLOG - Yippeeeeee!!!