Newport....wow

Well as I'm sure maybe some people guessed today was that I wasn't at school :P, Charmoo and myself went to the open day at Newport, um I won't comment on how I did not like the ride there, but after 4 hours we got there :P Caerleon was so beautiful, heck I would just wanna go there for the scenery. There were so many hills and it was just wow, the front of the uni was pretty too, it had an old look about it and a clock tower :) made it look cool, oh yeah plus Caerleon has all this stuff about Roman things which would be cool to look into.

The open day was very well organised, altho we did not have enough time to do everything we wanted which sucked. Altho we did help do a focus group discussion for developing the school :) was interesting to see how different our view was to this other girl's. And we did get £30 worth of hmv vouchers for doing it :o that'll save me money, omg I just realised I could get Nausicaa & The Cat Returns with it, yay I love Miyazaki films :D

Anyway back to Newport :P I really enjoyed all that we did there, and the woman who represented Newport at the APU convention remembered us :D that was nice. All the students were helpful and nice :) it was a really nice community there, the rooms were nice too. Last bit was to go off with the lecturer people for the courses, and all I can say is gawd I really wanna do the course now O_o it sounded so interesting from the talk we had, there were like 4 of us that had come to Newport for the games design stuff, the guy next to me seemed pretty excited about it all, altho the girl and other guy didn't seem so passionate and I think the girls parents were more interested in the course :P. But hey I won't judge, that’s just mean doing that. So David (lecturer) said they're only taking on 45 students O_o which is like none so it makes me realise I might not get in :( I don't really wanna do a foundation course to better myself for it. I wanna go onto the life drawing :D I love life drawing ok well no that sounds weird, I don't love drawing naked people :roll: but yeah I really enjoy life drawing, we're doing it again this year :D should be good, but yeah course sounds so good O_o and going to conventions or even just Lionhead would like be a dream come true....I'm not a weirdo :( but um yeah only thing I worry about if I got into Newport, would be where all the games would go O_o I mean yeah the 360 would come with me since I'll have one by then but what about everything else O_o oh dreamcast I cannot live without you......I feel I'm sounding weird now so um I'll stop and say that Newport is a great uni, and mesa wanna go now. (not like I didn't before :P)

Hehe and David knew my name how cool :P even if I did post on the forums and say what I’d be wearing so people could spot me :roll: good ol xbox hoodie :P.

9 comments

Comment from: Unknown Badger [Visitor] · http://spaces.msn.com/members/haisdeaks/
sounds like a really cool course, art and games all in one! sure life drawing is a bit odd but once you get over that fact that theres a fat naked lady sitting infront of you, its fun to get on an draw away.. even though i suck at it... not the fat lady of course.. i suck at drawing her... i dont suck the lady...
13th October 2005 @ 18:06
Comment from: Catherine [Member] · http://www.catmoo.co.uk/
lol sure Hais :P I really liked life drawing even if she was um old and fat, its something different and I'm not bad at drawing the human form...I think :P, apparently there will be life drawing again, altho Wadders is doing it in January this year. which I shall be looking forward to :P.
13th October 2005 @ 18:38
Comment from: Bli [Visitor] · http://www.BliMation.com
man 45? wow .. when I started on the animation course at Newport there was only 7 of us and that was in both years! and it wasn't at caerleon it was at fairoak a small ex primary school not too for from clarence place ... mind you, this was way back in 1985!

Good luck!
Bli
17th October 2005 @ 12:33
Comment from: Catherine [Member] · http://www.catmoo.co.uk/
Hehe thanks ^^

Well if you think about it, 45 is a lot less compared to courses that take hundreds.
17th October 2005 @ 14:29
Comment from: Hannah [Visitor]
I suppose I may have seemed a bit more passionate if I didn't have such a bad cold, haha. ;p and I apologise about my parents asking all the questions..

(sorry, I just randomly came here from the message board)

The course does indeed look excellent.. The lecture and the uni itself were both very impressive! When do you think you'll apply? I'm worried about getting in, too. =(
17th October 2005 @ 19:32
Comment from: Catherine [Member] · http://www.catmoo.co.uk/
Oh cool, so you're names hannah ^^ you're parents did seem to want to know a lot about the course :p sorry if I've spoken rudely about you at all in my blog, I so didn't expect any of the people at the open day to look at my blog O_o. I was gonna get my ucas form sent off pretty soon, and I was also going to apply for the foundation course at newport, just incase I don't get in. I'm being told by my art teacher that I should do a foundation course as apparently it was the best year of learning in his life. But a foundation doesn't seem to appeal to me, I really just wanna go straight onto the course, no matter how silly that makes me sound :P It sounded that great that :P.
17th October 2005 @ 19:40
Comment from: Bli [Visitor] · http://www.BliMation.com
They tried to convince me to do one of them too ... but lack of academic qualifications meant i couldn't do one (i do have some, but not enough lol).. all the others doing A level art had more than me and got to do the foundation, i didn't none of them as far as I know went on to do an art related job wheras I have been in the animation biz for 20+ years ... not saying a foundation course is useless, just saying its down to the person :D - good luck and remember to have fun!
18th October 2005 @ 09:46
Comment from: Catherine [Member] · http://www.catmoo.co.uk/
Hehe thanks :) I understand the relivance of a foundation course, I just don't like the idea of it that much.
18th October 2005 @ 15:24
Comment from: Bli [Visitor] · http://www.BliMation.com
me neither :D

18th October 2005 @ 18:13

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