Hello! Sorry I haven't written in an age, the honest answer is because I'm already addicted to blogs and facebook and things like that I keep forgetting! Third year work and other comittments are pretty intense too but in a good way most of the time lol.

Went to the LGBT Activist Training Day on Monday which was really useful! We covered all the main NUS campaigns such as Love without Borders, Donation not Discrimination and Bullying Sucks and then had organisational skills training. That was probably the most useful, we went through the best ways of running a campaign to make it most effective and practiced planning an event! It obviously inspired me as I set up an event this afternoon.

It's not an original event as it coincides with the Same Sex Hand Holding (Sshh) day across the world but we're trying to get a hand chain going around Cathays and I'm hoping that I'll get time to make a banner or get some paint and come up with something cool and visual.

I've also been working on my research for more serious stuff. I've almost finished a motion for next week's council about gender neutral toilets. The idea is really close to my heart so I want to make sure that I can make the best case for it possible. The trouble is, most of my friends already see the need for it so I have to try and think what people would object to. The NUS briefing makes the process of getting it in quite scary but if we do we'll be following a great precedent including Manchester, Liverpool and Edinburgh!

Tomorrow I'm meeting with the Student Counselling Service to talk about LGBT issues and also with the communications manager in the union to give me an overview of what they do.

I want to attach the poster for my event but I forgot to send it to my home PC! bummer. Will post it tomorrow.