Fountain of Knowledge found at the library

Change was essential at this case as I sat alone, in my zone thinking what is it that I needed to do in order to maintain the change. Something new was at the peak of my nose but then I couldn't figure it out. As I sat in my room trying to study and prepare in advance for the final exams, for some reason I couldn't ponder to the books that were on the desk waiting to be read. I kept on drifting to old memories that showered my life and on the other hand I was busy checking my phone not knowing what exactly I was looking for in it.

I proceeded studying but another distraction occurred, I kept on yawning, I realised my body was tired but my mind was as fresh as the sun blistering in summer mornings. Something triggered my mind to stay focus or else go find a place where concentration will be at its best. The next minute I saw myself packing my books and heading straight to the library, this was not a bad idea after all because I enjoyed studying at the library with no uproar whatsoever.

The fountain of knowledge was indeed found at the library!

stuck in the mud

Every student in the Nelson Mandela Dining hall always complain about how filthy the pond is and how insane it is that they don’t clean it resulting in a certain eeky smell blowing off from the waterfall and pond…so a group of friends and I decided that we were going to chill outside the dining hall near the smelling pond and that we were going to lay down head to head for exactly an hour and appreciate the beautiful green garden we have outside our dining hall regardless of the reek. So we did it, half the people who walked past us thought we were retarded. The nature lovers of the dining hall said things such as “wow its great that you appreciate nature but why here and not the botanical gardens?” others said “out of all things one could do at Rhodes u chose to sleep here” then others just walked past us giving us the LOSER look of “oh my gosh are they for real?”. This was very interesting and fun we endured the smell plus we had good laughs.although i doubt id do it again as the weather wasnt too great and we got wet as we were "stuck in the mud" and could not move untill the hour was over.

A blog that I simply couldn’t believe was managed by journ 1 students is http://www.thenumber42ispurple.com wow I really found that their blog was very well done, the style of writing and even the choice of words that they used was great. They enhanced the theme of Maya mystery which is their opening piece very well especially by using animation as their icon and then having photographs that are abstract at times and weird at times. I found that their photography was of a very high standard and that they used a great method of keeping the reader glued to the screen as they used colloquial language but kept the flow very well. I think the members liased well in terms of what their blog is about and what exactly will be posted as their pieces were coherent and were in someway linked. The stories were well strung together and there were no major grammatical errors which seemed to a problem for most blogs. I found that all students could relate to their blogs especially to the politics story talking about the daunting 45 minutes in politics 1 lecture’s throughout the term with professor Vale. There was also a variety of stories as they covered nature and fun topics and also serious stories like pollution. Very well done to the team I was very impressed with this blog I certainly do hope they did apply for journalism 2 as they truly deserve to be there next year. Very very Well done guys!!!!

A blog that I simply couldn’t believe was managed by journ 1 students is http://www.thenumber42ispurple.com wow I really found that their blog was very well done, the style of writing and even the choice of words that they used was great. They enhanced the theme of Maya mystery which is their opening piece very well especially by using animation as their icon and then having photographs that are abstract at times and weird at times. I found that their photography was of a very high standard and that they used a great method of keeping the reader glued to the screen as they used colloquial language but kept the flow very well. I think the members liased well in terms of what their blog is about and what exactly will be posted as their pieces were coherent and were in someway linked. The stories were well strung together and there were no major grammatical errors which seemed to a problem for most blogs. I found that all students could relate to their blogs especially to the politics story talking about the daunting 45 minutes in politics 1 lecture’s throughout the term with professor Vale. There was also a variety of stories as they covered nature and fun topics and also serious stories like pollution. Very well done to the team I was very impressed with this blog I certainly do hope they did apply for journalism 2 as they truly deserve to be there next year. Very very Well done guys!!!!

Seethe on what view?

Reviewing blogs of other first-year journalism students seemed like a daunting idea at first but then again it gave one the opportunity what other bloggers had in mind and what fresh they brought to the table.

The list of the blogs to choose from was too much of course since there are a lot of students studying journalism at Rhodes University this year. As I scrapped through the list I saw a rather interesting name for a blog titled http://rant-a-view.blogspot.com. There I was asking myself what are those bloggers seething about? they were probably seething about everything that is going on around the country and having a blog where freedom of expression is the way foward. The content of the blog is amazing but then the colour of the backgroung is dark-blue, now the reader feels compelled to get closer to the computer screen in order to read what is going on in the blog since the font colour is dark.

The blog is well written indeed, all the bloggers of Rant-a-view have a good level of professionalism; they all use clean English and maintain the lucidity. The pictures as well are remarkable and they carry a lot of weight in making the blog attractive, although I still feel that the name of the blog should be changed because it opposes the purpose of the whole blog but generally, the blog is superb.

Blind, under the cover

I never thought of this in my life time until today, when I told to do something I never did. Well my experience was quote out the hook meaning impossible to cope with it. I decide to do it by supper time, from my res to dinning hall I walked with my friend, the whole tension of people looking at me strangely I was can feel it, some people were asking question and laughing.
The inner truth is that it was not fun at all while it was meant to be fun, something I have learnt was, if you’re not born blind, life is not easy for by any chance. I have to dependent to my friend for that time, the feeling of smelling the food that you cannot see but you have eat them it hurts and other thing is that I was suspicious that people will do something to my food or do things that I cannot be able to see or hear them. After the experience I have concluded to take my spare time to spend time with blind people because that is another thing that I never done in my life.

Is sex as simple as a flea bite, as essential as a vegetable, or as precious as India's jewels?

Nomashawekazi Damasane

I was dumbfounded when my friend told me the name of their blog. FLAMING TESTICLES! I could not even ask why that name was chosen. The name does not seem to say anything about journalism and one would think that it is a blog done by a group of perverted guys but such is not the case. They are a blog that targets students on the most important issue their ‘sexuality’ and journalism Is the tool in which they will be able to tell the truth about such matters. They are a blog that deals with many issues that face present students and those still yet to come to university, they talk about sex and alcohol in ways that get make you want to make a decision and become a leader in your own life. Their aim is not to sugar coat the truth about such matters they aim to talk and reveal about all and from what the blog has shown they have not disappointed. Flaming Testicles is one blog that each student needs to read and interact with, they even call their followers ‘testes’ now that is something that gets one interested in getting involved with the crazy Testicles writers. They are flaming as their name suggests and flaming they will continue to be.