My life and the World around me.

Hey people ! I just want to update this about some going-ons in my life.I recently started studying Journalism and Photography at the Waterford College of Further Education. I have been learning so much the past few days and I am really enjoying it. It's very insightful and detailed and I hope I have a really good year. The people I have met there are very amicable and approachable and are always on hand if one of us are in need of help, but hey, maybe I spoke too soon, 6 months from now we might all be tearing the heads of each other hehe.Pretty excited about the photography element  too, as I have never put some serious thought into learning photography until now.

Every time I turn on the news lately it seems that there is something always on about conflicts going on in Ukraine, and the IS(Islamic State) insurgency in Iraq. To be honest , its quite frightening for anybody to watch these events unfold before our eyes, I hope we do not abandon peaceful discourse either.When the 21st Century began , people were optimistic and hopeful for a progressive and peaceful century unlike the precedent bloodbath of the 20th century.Since 2000 there has been many conflicts across the world, many have sadly gone unnoticed by the mainstream media.In this year of 2014, there is believed to be at least 50 million people displaced around the world due to conflict and persecution , the highest number since WW2.  We must recognize this fact and accept that we can't sit back idly. We need real solutions to real problems, if we want a to live through a peaceful century rather than a return to pernicious barbarism of 20 century conflict.

One of my favourite poems.

The Road Not Taken

BY ROBERT FROST

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

A series of Updates

I am once again back, the summer has passed, and we are now into Autumn.I had a wonderful summer which I enjoyed.I have also been busy trying to brush up on my Irish with Duolingo which released its Irish beta a few weeks ago. It has definitely helped me a bit and so I wish to complete it. I still can't believe that I have had this blog 10 months !. I should update it a bit more though.

I have been reading a little lately, I finished reading "Status Anxiety" by Alain De botton. I thought that it was a really interesting to see how important status is in our life's. I'd recommend it to anybody. It has some wonderful pictures of paintings in too which I really enjoyed.