Another Year Older

Hey Guys!

Okay I know I said I would blog every Wednesday... but I have been crazy busy trying to get my Audience, Message, Context project done. We have to create an advertising campaign imagining the future. My group and I have turned fast food healthy and I've been creating radio commercials for the campaign. Its pretty fun but very hectic! We also have to fill out a visual diary documenting everything we have done individually and as a group... So much printing! And cutting! And gluing! Ugh!

I also have a Consumer Behaviour assignment due in and I had a text last week in Media Theory. Now that it is getting towards the end of semester one, there is a whole heap of work to get done! But I am almost half way through my degree!! EEEEEEPPPPPP!

My photo wall :)

Not alot has happened since the last time I blogged. I've cooked a few sausages at work, celebrated my cousins 30th birthday, babysat, cuddled a newborn :) and put photos all over my bedroom wall and that's about it!

As I am writing this blog, I am counting down the hours till my birthday. In 3 hours it will be my 20th birthday! Its so weird to think that I am about to be 20. I feel old! Least I can claim that I am not 20 until 10:57pm tomorrow night! I don't care what people say, I still believe that you don't turn your next age until the exact time that you were born!

Cherelle and I during our BLACKOUT show days :)

This time two years ago I was doing the Certificate in Radio Broadcasting. I was about to turn 18 and I was SO excited! I was the youngest of my friends and had waited ages to be able to finally party with them, drink with them and buy a lotto ticket (which I didn't win!). The night before my birthday I was recording another one of my BLACKOUT shows (my first show on The Yak FM) with my pals Cherelle and Faith! I remember dancing in the station that night counting down the minutes until it would finally be my birthday! It was so much fun and we ended up making a youtube video that night! CHECK IT OUT! haha (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGJjrIoX8IQ)

This time last year I was in the hospital having ear drum reconstruction surgery. Was very high on medicine and all I remember is the pain! This year I'm partying! Making up for last year! haha.

Me with my 9 year old self! Taken exactly 10 years ago today!

It's crazy what you remember about your birthdays! My whole childhood I remember having slumber parties. We ALWAYS roasted marshmallows on our outside bbq, played a game called Hedgehogs, always played Singstar, watched movies, ate party food and had so much fun! Every slumber party was different though. My 7th birthday was Barbie themed. My 12th birthday we danced all night. and my 16th birthday we got up early the next day and drove to Rainbows End in Auckland. Was so much fun!

I now have 2 hours and 55 minutes until its my birthday. Being 20 seems so odd to me! I am entering another decade of my life. Am no longer a teenager. And to me it seems weird being 19 one day and 20 the next. Never being able to be 19 again! Its all wrinkles and grey hair from now! haha (Well I am hoping the wrinkles and grey hair stay away until I am 50!)

Every single day becomes a memory and this time next year I'll be about to celebrate my 21st birthday and will be thinking back to this moment, back to when I turned 20 and sat in my bedroom writing a blog! haha. But least I can look back on this post and remember what I was thinking about.

Now I have 2 hours and 47 minutes until my birthday... and I still need to do my Consumer Behaviour assignment before tomorrow.

So until next time...

Katie the Radio Girl x

Time flys when you're having fun!

Flower Power!

Hey Hey!

I think I need to update my blog more often! Once a month is a bit ridiculous! I literally posted a month ago to the day! Ooops!

After my last blog post many people asked me why exactly I have a blog, what it is about and what I am hoping to get from it. Well... the reason why I have a blog is because during the past year and a half, my public relations tutor Debbie kept saying she loved blogs and that she thought that all the students in our class should have a blog in order to communicate and practice our writing. She said that we should have a blog that involves things we love or are interested in... and Bingo! I created one and here it is. My blog is basically about myself and my journey through Wintec, my ambition in life to become apart of the radio broadcasting industry... whether that involves becoming an announcer or other areas of the industry and my blog includes bits and pieces of my friends and fellow students who are also working their way towards the careers and lives they desire and dream about! I am not hoping to get anything out of my blog... maybe just a few page views, and something that I can look back at and watch my progress towards life! I would love to be able to change someones life through my blog or inspire someone to do radio or study... but I think that is just wishful thinking. (If I do change your life, please tell me! :D)

I am making a goal over the next four weeks to blog every Wednesday. I am going to change it up a bit... But am unsure yet of what to talk about. (Any topics... throw them at me!) I am mainly doing this so that I can practice my writing and communication skills

Anyways...

Partying with Clint from The Edge, my mate Rick and flatmate Dasha

So much has happened, is happening and is about to happen and it's so crazy trying to suss everything out!

Last time I blogged I mentioned that I am now officially employed by MediaWorks Waikato (Eeeep! Still excited). Since then I have worked heaps, learnt heaps, met so many people, made myself look like a dork, made myself look like a legend and so much more!

Working at the Waikato Show with Ashleigh :)

I've done sausage sizzles (slowly becoming a pro), driven a car that is ten times too big for me (or else I am ten times too small for it), I had fun doing the lock box challenge at the Waikato Show, I've attempted to make candy floss (which is super hard! and super bad to eat... I now know why my parents never let me eat it as a child), I've watched several Peppa Pig shows and more! I honestly love my job! I think the best part about it is the fact that I am doing something I love and am super passionate about. It really is true when people say that working is fun and exciting if you're doing something that you love. :)

So much has happened at Wintec too! I wrote a 1500 word essay on radio shows and advertising... and got a pretty choice mark for it, a 1000 word report on gender roles and consumer behaviour, did a joint 15-minute presentation with my pal Nick (check out his fb page Theboysofmay) on Miley Cyrus and her involvement in agenda setting, and am now working on my AMC project, writing radio commercials and doing my never ending workbook...Such work! I wonder why degrees were invented?! It is actually a lot of work, time, money for just a piece of paper. Ha ha. I guess the other million students around the globe could potentially be wondering the same thing.

Kendalls birthday party :) Revenge of the Nerds!

So much has happened personally too... I was in a car crash literally in the middle of nowhere on the way to visit my family down in Wellington and was left stranded, alone, in Taihape (which is a long way from either of my homes) for over 3 hours. ( RIP my black car!... if anyone wants to sell me or even gift me their car, I'll love ya long time! :P

My cousin and best friend Josie... and my car crash scars... ha ha

I am slightly scared of being in cars at the moment and I have some good scars on my forehead and some nasty burn/grazes on my arms from the airbags but otherwise I'm sweet! Airbags hurt people!
I also partied with my workmates in a 1984 themed party (happy birthday again Kendall!), and I'm about to turn 20... ahhhhh! 10 years till I'm 30... eww! haha

Hopefully I'll be back next week (don't hold it against me if I forget :P)

Until next time...

Katie the Radio Girl! x