It’s a Bank Holiday today, so time for some well earned rest – or so you’d think. Actually it is just a lull between several hard weeks of the Summer Training programme some of which I got drafted into at the last minute due to a last minute lack of numbers (“can you be at the TUC in a few hours for a pre-briefing on tomorrow’s training course?”) this on top of my allocated training events. That said, it has been a lot of fun, I enjoy delivering the part of the course content that we do get involved in and it’s good way for new sabbs to settle into their year with a more personal and helpful environment than convention.

Key dates from my diary this month…

• Summer Training – Participate and Develop (TUC, London)
• BYC Democracy Commission
• Summer Training – People and Money (Aston, Birmingham)
• NEC Meeting (London)
• BUSA Equity Seminar (Southampton)
• Education Campaign Meeting
• Summer Training – People and Money (TUC, London)
• Education Team Meeting
• Meeting with HEFCE – National Student Survey (HQ, London)
• NUS Services Informal (Heriot-Watt)

All in all a very busy month, three weeks immediately swallowed up with training courses which I’ve had to juggle meetings in, on and around. A couple of time I’ve had to leave the training venue in a break to go to a meeting and get back in time lunch.

The BUSA Seminar was good, some great speakers from a variety of organisations attended and delivered presentations to delegates. I was pretty tired as I’d arrived in Southampton at 2am the previous night and then got bounced around different halls of residence by the various security guards who didn’t have a room for me – finally ending up almost back where I started. Got to bed at half 3, not an untypical day in NUS.

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