Follow up

Well, the summer’s finished. I can’t believe that my 2 month and 20 day holiday finished so quickly! I wrote about how chuffed I was about finishing and probably more importantly my plans for the longest holiday you get in your school life.

Well, let’s analyze my list:

1. Get a job?

   Yes, I got a job. I got the job right at the beginning of the holiday as a customer service agent at Sky, or at least that’s what they told me. Turns out the company I was working for were a bunch of liars and it was actually a sales position. Still it was okay as it was inbound (people calling in) sales. Along with that, I may have gotten the job at the beginning of the summer, but I wasn’t actually allowed to start till the end of July which would’ve been quite annoying had I not planned my summer as well as it turned out.

2. Work on Usayd Network

   I guess I kinda let myself down on this point, the summer just flashed by without me having the chance to do any real website development, partly because I was busy and partly because I couldn’t be bothered. Either way, not much has been done.

3. Expand Projects

   A bit vague, but we do have plans for different projects and I myself have taken on some responsibilities in external projects independent of the Usayd Network, so in that view I have at least initiated something in this field. Definitely more to come on this side of things.

4. Islamic Work

   Alhamdullilah (praise to God) we had quite a successful summer in concern to the YM work planned. The major activities were the two camps, the YM coreworkers camp and the north west camp. I took part in attending the coreworkers camp and in organising the north west one. Both were successful and many lessons have been learnt for future events. Self development is a continual process and more can always be done in that field, you always end up regretting not having spent your free time doing something more productive like reading etc.

5. Revolutionise Humanity

   This was a joke title but there is some essence to it, really the point is that perhaps people need to start looking upon things in a slightly different light. When you spend time with different people (like at work) you find that there is a huge lack of knowledge towards things that are making such a big difference to people’s lives, e.g. the whole islamophobia phase that the west is going through.

6. Chill

   Yeah, I had a good holiday. Unfortunately I’m back at 6th form doing my AS levels now and that word ‘chill’ has just gone out the window. Time for some hard work…(Maths!!!! )

Other things – Well I did okay in my GCSE’s, 2A* 6A 2B, don’t care about those any more. Erm…just got back from a ISB/YM cw camp which was good too. Integration seems to have been this weekends ‘buzz word’. It was interesting…A.S. I’ve chosen Computing, Government & Politics, Maths and Design Technology (Resistant Materials) with the intention of doing something in the field of Computer Science at University. Oh and I got a Sony Errickson W810i, its great

Time to write some politics notes, laters.