[-JERRYCOOKE PHOTOGRAPHY-]

Well, it’s a busy, exciting time at the moment. I can divide everything into four equal sections. In date order, they are:

Firstly - Skating: Saturday is the national style slalom championships and I’ll be travelling up to London to compete. I’ll be heading up on Friday and coming back on Sunday. I’ve got less than a week to train up and work out my routine, so I’m getting a little stressed out about it. Ho hum, I’m sure that I’ll be fine and I’m not particularly worried about placing highly (though it would be nice to at least equal the 4th place I managed last time).

Secondly – Birthday: It’s exactly one month till my 20th birthday. I’ll be having my traditional beach party (I guess it’ll be my last one)!

Thirdly – “The Move”: In just over a month, Mum and I  will be moving to our beautiful new house in Cornwall. Most of me is looking forward to the move (the new house is far nicer than this one), but a small part of me is sad to leave this house that has been my home for the last three years. The best part is that I’ve got a brand new room (one that’s a whole 2 foot bigger than my current one), with four shiny bright new white walls which I can cover with photography. I’m also going to have a broadband connection strait into my room, which will be fab! I’m planning to have a “house-cooling” party to say goodbye to this place and then a “house-warming” for the new house when I’m settled!

Finally – Photography: I’ve had my new camera set to full manual recently, so that I can improve my knowledge of using apepture/shutter speed/ISO corretly. I’ve also been using my 35mm more and more, in the past two weeks, I’ve shot six rolls of film. The ironic thing is that I wanted a 35mm because I felt like it was cheating, using the cameras auto settings all the time, but now I use the digital in manual mode and the 35mm in auto. Go figure. Anyway, hopefully all this extra practice will do a little to help my university applications in a couple of weeks.

That’s all for now! I’ll give some feedback about the IFSA nationals once I get back after the weekend.