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A good week for publicity

It’s been a good week or so for publicity for my 30 Challenges with articles in the following:

Leigh Journal

Leigh Reporter

Wigan Evening Post

Bolton Evening News

I’ve been pleased with the progress I’ve made with the cycling to work having now notched up over 400 miles.  I’m getting into the swing of it now and think I’ll be able to get my weekly total up to the 125 miles a week I need to meet my goal of 500 miles a month.  I’m also really enjoying going swimming which has surprised me a lot!

I’m on day 21 of my 30 day vegetarian challenge and the end is in sight.  This is one challenge that I’m finding hard to look on the bright side with.  I’m eating lots of different things which is a bit of a novelty but I doubt I could maintain my vegetarianism any longer than the 30 day challenge.  It doesn’t however seem to be having any impact on my physical challenges, something I was worried about beforehand.

 I’ve also just submitted another assignment for my MSc dissertation course.  The focus group discussions I have conducted so far have been fascinating but there’s still a lot of work to do.  I need to run 6 more focus group sessions and transcribe them before Christmas.  My literature review chapter could do with being rewritten and I need to make a start on the project review chapter.  Before the end of January I could do with having all of this finished so that I can submit a draft copy of my dissertation, prior to handing in the finished product by the 17th of March.

Tomorrow I’ll be attending another full governor meeting at my school.  I go to all three sub committee meetings- finance, curriculum & staffing and pupil welfare and am the governor responsible for looked after children and children with special educational needs.  So far I’ve been to two governor training sessions run by the local authority and I’ve got one this coming Tuesday on improving the attainment of children in care.

So in summary… I’m incredibly busy but loving every minute of juggling all of these challenges alongside my other responsibilities.  The fact that the students I worked with managed to raise over £4000 for Cancer Research as part of our harvest appeal is giving me a further boost and spurring me on.  Well done guys!

Cancer Research UK

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