Saturday, October 07, 2006

How I got to uni!

Well I've just finished my 2nd week at chester university, seems strange saying that. It's been good and I've enjoyed it, getting to know my classmates and tutors has been great!
It's strange how God works really, because I remember when I was 13 going on a Christian Youth camp and one of my Dorm leaders went to Chester College (as it was then). I remember saying to my friend who i went with that i was going to go to Chester for uni. Then when it came to applying to university I wasn't even looking at Youthwork (even though God had put it on my heart to become a youthworker.) I was looking to do Photography because I did it at A level and fell in love with it. Went to an open day in Derby and was looking into doing Photography, when one of the tutors there said that I would have to do an Art foundation course and as I am no good at all other art apart from Photography that was just something I couldn't do. So there I was crying my eyes out about the fact that I couldn't do Photography at university.
We went home, when my friends rang me and asked me if I wanted to go and see our Pais worker from our church in Manchester as there was a service going on there. I went along and the speaker talked about our dreams that God had given us to do, and even though I had totally forgotten about becoming a Youthworker, it poped up into my head! I just felt like this whole thing God was invovled in it and at first I was like well I'm not going to uni I wanna do Pais for a few years, then hopefully that will help me become a youth worker.
Luckily my mum and dad pushed me to apply to uni but at the time I had no plan on going.
I applyed to 3 different uni's Chester, Lancaster ST.Martin's and Manchester MET. All to do youth worker but only Chester did Christian youth work. I got invited to interviews for each one and I hated Manchester Met., and I wasn't too keen on St.Matin's, but when I came to Chester I just fell in love with it, it felt so right and now I'm here it is right and I know God want's me here.

So that's I got to be here, but I'm worried about all the work as I've not done work for the past year well not to do at home!
I better go because this is now quite long.

2 Comments:

Blogger thoughts of a person on a journey said...

just go with it ruth, you have been doing stuff with young people, so apply what you know already to what you hear and read,and then apply what you read and hear to you work and you will be fine...

12:22 AM

 
Blogger moira frew said...

welcome to blogging Ruth and of course to Chester Uni, looks like we will all have an exciting time this year...no chance of being bored with Dot and Rich as tutors!!!
As far as the work thing goes....I'm banking on us being a team and supporting each other....

2:35 PM

 

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