Monthly Archive for September, 2005

Romance Academy

Following the excellent BBC2 Documentary “No Sex please, we’re teenagers!”, which followed 12 teenagers who took a 5 month abstinence vow, the Romance Academy has enjoyed a lot of positive press coverage. It looks like they are now planning to expand their programme outside of London, so let’s hope something similar finds it’s way to Littlehampton.

Many of the teenagers I work with were enthralled by the show which prompted some positive conversations about sexual relationships, trust and love. One lad even commented “The youth workers on the programme remind me of you!” I just hope it was for good reasons…

Blogging hits Littlehampton

The blogging phenomenon has been exploding around the globe for years now giving reporters a run for their money. Even insignificant events and personal musings in blogs have been scavenged and re-worked into major news stories, not to mention actual breaking news posted online as it happens.

The recent trend of podcasting has also shown that people are keen to gain their own audience and inform or entertain the masses, but here in sunny Sussex my friends have all decided September 2005 is the time to share their thoughts with the online community!

A few more links have appeared to the right of the page as my mates have all set-up their own blogs. I’m actually learning quite a bit more about them through their posts which is quite exciting. I’m not sure though if blogging in this way is a useful form of communication to explain things you would never say, or merely an excuse for not saying the things you ought to face-to-face…

Interesting thought, let’s see what they have to say about it!

New iPods

The new ipod nano’s were announced today and they are sooo sweeeet! Colour screen, new features and amazingly small. It’s just a shame they’re only doing 2 and 4GB versions. Check it out here