Half Way There!

18 months down, 18 months to go!

I am officially half way through my degree! It actually feels like it's going so fast! It always seems slow when there are so many assignments to get done! But now, it actually hit me that there isn't much time left until I graduate from Wintec and venture out to build the career and life I've been aiming for. Crazy!

My 20th Birthday Party Rules! :) Thanks to my flattie!

I know I said I would blog more... but I turned 20 and then got slammed with heaps of assignments. 

The other week alone I had to do two tests, a presentation, hand in two workbooks, 15 annotated bibliographies, a critique and a 3000 word essay - where we had to analyse an entire newspaper (I also went over the word count by 700 words! ha ha) I know... excuses, excuses! But if that wasn't a good excuse to not blog for a while then I don't know what is. Oh and I got 95% on a random test. I don't care if it wasn't a major assignment, I'm still claiming that mark haha. 

My 95% mark... on Instagram of course!

3500 Word Essay... That thing took a while to write!

This whole semester I had a major assignment for a class called AMC (Audience, Message, Context). We had to create an Advertising Campaign imagining the future. My group created a campaign for our future company Healthy Food Innovations. Our idea was to take all fast food companies and turn their food healthy. Keeping it the same but removing fat, processed ingredients and making everything good for you! I loved our idea so much. Wish it was real! My main task was to create radio commercials and this was our final product.:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvoVqNtlSXA

https://www.facebook.com/healthyfoodinnovations?ref_type=bookmark

Chilling at the Hamilton Airport with Diana and Piripi! Waiting for
the ALL BLACKS!

Work has been great! I've been getting more involved and am currently doing a More FM promo - going around to primary aged sports games every Saturday, cheering the kids on, giving them breakfast packs and taking photos! Its weird having parents call me the "More FM lady" haha.




Last week I also went to the Hamilton Airport and helped greet the All Blacks! It was awesome! All them rugby players are babes! ;) Ha ha! But seriously! I know countries have their own support systems for their sports teams and I've never been overseas to experience another sports atmosphere, but I can say that the support for the All Blacks in New Zealand is crazy awesome! Definitely a cool environment to be around.

Teaching radio in The Yak FM at WINTEC

I also ended up teaching a class of 15 Dio Year 11 students. It was so much fun! Being able to show others the skills that I've spent learning over the past few years. Every single girl I taught gave radio a go, no matter how shy they were and I even managed to get them to crack a few jokes on air. I've never had someone thank me for teaching them something (even their teacher thanked me!) haha. Its sounds so cheesy! But it was cool.

I'm on a 5 week holiday right now! My main goal to get done before the end of this year - I want to go to Auckland and do volunteer work for a charity called Radio Lollipop. Radio Lollipop is set up in hospitals all around the world and allows sick children the experience of going on the radio and doing all sorts of that type of stuff. I'm currently waiting on info from them, but it would be such a cool experience to help children out and do radio at the same time. Anything to brighten up their day :).

Until next time...

Katie the Radio Girl x