CMOJ's Hearing Life: First half term of college

Saturday, 27 October 2012

First half term of college

Finally! I've completed my first term at college.
From what I think of that, it's been extremely amazing! However, there were few problems but I managed to solved them.
The college is much much much different to secondary schools! I'll have to admit, I'm glad I didn't stay in sixth form! College is just so much better for me, and it's great to feel like I'm an adult too. Secondary schools weren't a thing for me, as I feel like I've matured a lot in last year so I wanted an environment where I can feel like a grown-up. I was rather surprised to how my college seem to never have any bullying or so, that differs a lot from secondary schools. The support have been amazing, and I'm really happy with my assistant as she is a lot funny and she watches out for me, making sure I understand everything.
Now that the first term is done, I'm being tied up with 17 pages of art sketchbook and roughly 20 pages of photography sketchbook to do! Warning, A Levels are actually a lot more than GCSE's!
I've decided to run a new blog where I will contain images of my artwork as an A Level example, so I will include the link of the blog in the next post (if I can remember! My memory isn't great.)

Have a great half term!

TIP: Choosing what to do after secondary schools are much far important than you think! Colleges have great support, as they always make sure you have support.

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BIOGRAPHY

Cathy, also known as Catherine, was born on the 11th of March in London. She was born hearing until the doctors were unable to diagnose that Cathy had Meningitis at 9 months old which left her with sensori-neural deafness. She was given a pair of hearing aids and still they did not work. At 3 and a half years old, she was under the knife in Great Ormond's Street Hospital and activated her cochlear implant at 4. Since then, she had been coping very well and moved out of London to East Midlands which she was transferred to Nottingham Cochlear Implant Programme.

In December of 2011, Cathy was operated for her second implant and activated at the end of the month. Because of the Meningitis, her surgeon was unable to fit the rest of electrodes, she will might find it more difficult to adjust to the new hearing experience. Currently, she is coping well and have started to learn British Sign Language again.
She has graduated from Nottingham Trent University and is now working as a Customer Service Assistant, which encourages her to improve her communication skills.