1/3 done
Handed in the last of the main essays today. That is the end of the core modules for the course. Strange to think that we have finished that main teaching part of the course. Now it is really just the dissertation and the work placements to go. There are a few small things to complete before April, but in essence we have finished the first main part of the course.
Spent most of the weekend in London. The weekend didn't quite go as planned, but i managed to get to the Docklands Museum down at Canary Wharf. It is a really interesting part of London, hadn't been there before, but had heard a bit about the building regeneration work they had done to reclaim the docks and build them into a useful and community based area. The museum is in one of the original warehouse buildings, but it is surrounded by very new, generally quite nice buildings.
The museum tells the history of the docklands area, looking at the way the Thames has shaped London from pre-Roman times to the 1980s. I quite enjoyed the 20th century section, they had some really interesting things on the Blitz. I amused myself though, by realising how much my visitation fitted into the conclusions drawn from visitor studies. The last essay i wrote had quite a bit on visitor studies and behaviour in museums, and it was interesting and amusing to assess my visiting behaviour against the research i had studied. After about 30 minutes i did start to drift between displays and not read all the labels, but merely those that caught my attention, just as the surveys suggested first time visitors to a museum would do. Nice to realise that there is a strong truth in all that research.
I visited an Inner Wheel club today, and spoke there. The Inner Wheel is a ladies club that is attached to Rotary, it started as a club for the wives of Rotarians when Rotary was a men's only club. It was quite nice, a lot less formal than the Rotary meetings i have been to so far. A few of the members are going to Australia during this year, so they were quite interested in some of the things I said, and asked a few questions. It was a really nice lunch, both the food (YUM) and the atmosphere. I really enjoyed it.
Other than that I haven't done too much. The last essay has been taking up a lot of my time, and I got a horrible cold yet again last week. So there isn't really all that much to report sorry.
Spent most of the weekend in London. The weekend didn't quite go as planned, but i managed to get to the Docklands Museum down at Canary Wharf. It is a really interesting part of London, hadn't been there before, but had heard a bit about the building regeneration work they had done to reclaim the docks and build them into a useful and community based area. The museum is in one of the original warehouse buildings, but it is surrounded by very new, generally quite nice buildings.
The museum tells the history of the docklands area, looking at the way the Thames has shaped London from pre-Roman times to the 1980s. I quite enjoyed the 20th century section, they had some really interesting things on the Blitz. I amused myself though, by realising how much my visitation fitted into the conclusions drawn from visitor studies. The last essay i wrote had quite a bit on visitor studies and behaviour in museums, and it was interesting and amusing to assess my visiting behaviour against the research i had studied. After about 30 minutes i did start to drift between displays and not read all the labels, but merely those that caught my attention, just as the surveys suggested first time visitors to a museum would do. Nice to realise that there is a strong truth in all that research.
I visited an Inner Wheel club today, and spoke there. The Inner Wheel is a ladies club that is attached to Rotary, it started as a club for the wives of Rotarians when Rotary was a men's only club. It was quite nice, a lot less formal than the Rotary meetings i have been to so far. A few of the members are going to Australia during this year, so they were quite interested in some of the things I said, and asked a few questions. It was a really nice lunch, both the food (YUM) and the atmosphere. I really enjoyed it.
Other than that I haven't done too much. The last essay has been taking up a lot of my time, and I got a horrible cold yet again last week. So there isn't really all that much to report sorry.
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