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28th September

 I really like doing this journal. I am a talkative overthinker with a lot to say about everything, but not everyone wants to hear how activity task 2 went in great detail, especially as most of my friends either haven't done it yet or don't do graphics and don't have a freeking clue what I am talking about. It is nice to have an outlet for all those thoughts.

Today I watched the stage meeting and the lectures then did activity task one. As last week I rushed the tasks a little and then found I had time left, I was careful to take my time and do it all properly. I looked at lots of different pieces of work on multiple platforms. I really enjoyed doing this. There is something really nice about just looking at lots of lovely pieces of work. I struggle a little to describe why I liked my chosen favourite, but I figured out a way to express my self pretty quickly. 

Whilst doing this, I had a teams chat in the background with some of my friends from the course. we chatted about what we were doing but also about other stuff, and it was really lovely to have some company. 

Despite purposefully slowing down and chatting the whole time, I had still finished everything by 1.30pm. It feels wrong to be finished that early on one of our main working days. A lot of my friends think we have tonnes of work, but I don't feel like I have enough to do. I should point out I went to a private school where it was the norm to stay until 5 doing extra classes, then go home and do 2 hours of homework, then spend most of your weekend studying too, so it is probably more about what I am used to that a lack of work!

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