coursework trouble

hello all



i have spent the last few days trying to write a coursework for my final modual of the year. When i first looked at it i thought that this piece of work would be a breese but aparantly i was very mistaken. I have spent ages trying to find the correct information to do this and am finding it difficult to know how to write this kind of work since it is quite difficult to the normal pure science i am used to writing. My inability to do what seems like a simple piece of work is starting to make me feel a little down afterall if i can do harder work which requires more analyitical skills then why am i having trouble with th is.

My fiancee has been home for the week but is coming back today (YAY) i cant wate to see her again i deffonatly feel like a part of me is missing when we are not together, i cant wate to get married so we can have a place that we can both call home. Some of my non christian friends think that it is strange that we want to get maried, they say we are still young and that it can wate for later. I realy cant understand there point, if u have found the person you want to spend the rest of your life with then it is a joy to become connected by marage and declare your love in front of your family, friends and especialy God. I suppose that for many marrage has become an optional extra which can be picked up and put down at will, this is not the case for christians we marry the one we love and sacrifice parts of our lives for them like christ is married to the church which he sacrificed himself to save. When i think about it like that marage becomes a very important and solom decision to spend the rest of my life with my fiancee which filles me with joy and a longing for this to happen.

exam stress

hi everyone

This year i have no summer exams, the first time for 7 years. the releif of this is fantastic however at uni stress is never far away in one form or another. i find it etearnaly confusing that the general publics perception of student life seems to be that we are all lazy drunk and sleep till 12 pm; i am sure that some people do spend there student life like this but in my experience these are the minority and those who do try to live life like this generaly fail.

i spent most of yesterday helping my fiancee get through her exams. this largley entaled taking her to them and meeting her at the end of each exam. at the end of her first exam she came out and was so upset because she thought that she had failed the exam, i had to comfort her (not easy as she was very upset) force her to take a break and go for lunch. the point i am trying to make is that university is a very stessfull place mainly because most students care about what they are studying and have to work hard on there work.

weding planning

my fiancee and myself have been doing a little weding planning recently. This is much harder than i expected there seems like so much to do. we have been collecting information on different venues for the reception, the first thing you notice is how expencive everything is as these places but i suppose it is something you only do onece so we want to do it properly. we still have a few more places to look at but we have seen at least one place which we liked. i am realy looking forward to marrage i love the idea of spending the rest of my life with my lovely fiancee.

i am going to malasia with her in about a month to go meet the rest of her family. i already know her Mum, Uncle and Aunt who live in england and i get on well with them so i hope that i get on well with the rest of the family as well.

back to normal life

hello everyone

I have spent the last few days getting used to life without placement it is strange how fast something becomes your life, i was only at the hospital for 3 months but it realy became part of my life and as hard as it was i miss it.

on wednesday i met up with some friends from church to give out free cold drinks in the hot weather outside coventry cathedral. the reason we do this is to share a bit of love, something which seems to be in short supply in todays world. that evening i spent some time with a friend who has been upset because a close family member has been sexualy attacked recently by a man who had been drinking and taking drugs, the poliece found the attacker but he killed himself whilst in a police cell. i cant help but think that if there was more love in the world then things like this may not happen as often as they do, i dont mean that a few acts of random kindness will change people but it may be a start. my prayer for today is that everyone will experience a little of the love wich God has for us all.

after placement

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This is my first week after placement. I spent 3 months in a hospital seeing patients giving dietary advice and generaly been told how i could be doing this better. I found the whole thing very hard because it is basicaly 3 months of beeing told that you are doing this wrong or that you should be filling that form in that way. But i did eventuoaly get through it and passed yay, I hope that i made a positive impact on peoples lives and i think i did. Writing about this reminds me of a little old woman who i helped i think she is the patient i will remember most about placement and the way she thanked me just before she went home, i guess it is good to remember the good experiences and learn from the bad ones. Now I am waiting for my placement review to be posted to me.

As some people of my cource are still on placement i have the week of university. I am loving this week as the sun is shining and i have very little work to do. That being said i have to start doing some work as i have coursework due in a few weeks.

on other news i have been enjoying getting involved in church stuff again. today we gave out free cold drinks to students arround the cathedral and university square, i have realy missed doing stuff like that

my first blog

Hi everyone this is my first attempt at blogging so i hope it goes well. I am a 22 year old guy studying at coventry university, i hope that this blog will act as a window onto my life and the life of students who follow a similar path to myself.

Maybe i should explain the title of my blog page, Canaan was the final destination for the Jewish nation fleeing percicution in Egypt it was the promised land. The place of canaan is used in the bible to represent salvation and I am often reminded of this by the hymn line when i tread the verge of Jordan, bid my anxious fears subside; deth of death and hells destruction, land me safe on canaan's side.

I am a christian and go to church every week unless there is something major wich stops me. I hope to show a little of what motivates me to hold onto my fath in the forgiving power of Christ and to prase God for the works he has done in my life.

I look forward to bloging and hope that you enjoy my blog.