In response

When I found out that few of the diploma students were following our blogs I was naturally curious to see what their blogs were like, so I followed a few. Lets say for inspiration.

Imagine my amusement when I find the next one published had my name in it. Therese's blog spot "On My Mind"  spoke about the Mentoring that the diploma students have been kind enough to donate some of their time for.  I particularly liked the descriptions of her little protege's, Keiran, Harltley, Wendy and myself. (It's OK Hartley, I don't think you're an onion, and Wendy, I don't want to sedate you.)

Being the equal opportunist that I am, I thought that I should take the opportunity to write a out my experiences with the mentors.

 So every second Thursday we have our class interrupted by a new mentoring program with the diploma students. On our first day of this we really didn't know what to expect. It was exciting to think that we get the chance to talk to the students who have been through it all before, but then what do we talk about? Would they make us think that we are getting in over our heads?

They came into our class and I was a little worried by the fact that there was only four of them. Is the course really that bad? Then we divided into two groups. Alana and Therese took Wendy, Hartley, Keiran and me to the canteen where they told us they use to sit during their breaks.

I was happy that they were so approachable. As a result we tried to get as much out of them as possible, bombarding them with questions about the assessments that they did and what the lecturers will be expecting of us and how scared, exactly, we should be of Keith. To our dismay, they couldn't help us on the assignments that we had, and some of their classes were structured slightly differently, but we got to compare notes and find that we seemed to be getting off to a decent start.

Hearing about the crying corner didn't scare me off as much as I thought. It was good to hear stories of everyone who did have a little bit of a stress time. It made me feel better in the event that I do have a cry.

In all, now I look forward to having a chance to bounce off some ideas with people more experienced, in the course, than us.