Seachain an duine a bhíonn ina thost

 I spent most of this week in Leeds. I like Leeds. There's lots of shops. Shops that were fun to look at, but didn't extract any of my money from my wallet. Even in exchange for goods. There was a nice floppy hat in one of the shops but really it was too silly to spend £20 on.

It's been a fluffy sort of week, as NUS weeks are wont to be. We learnt about smelly pens, toys, the pros and cons of flipcharts, the inappropriate use of games and we socialised. A lot. I am now very tired and my liver is a little angry with me.

But it's made me all enthusiastic. I want to train lots of people to do lots of things effectively. I don't want people to not know how to do things. I can't wait to get stuck into course rep and councillor training. And I got such a kick out of using all the NSLP buzzwords when we were doing our very own practice training session: ground rules, safe space, accelerated learning, objectives, ice-breakers, co-training ...  the list goes on and on.

We also met lots of people from different places. Quite a few Unions send a group of sabbs and students on the training, which made it pretty different to Communication in Action. They lumped me, Frodo and Emma in the same group for the second two days so that we could learn how to train together (pretty sensible since that's what we'll be doing all year). The main other two Unions in our group were Hull and MEN -- what fun people! We've decided to send Sam to Hull on President Swap. Their president sounds just like Sam: sarcastic and un-PC. And it'll give us an excuse to go see them all again. Oh, and our trainer is part of the sabb team Sam has declared blogging war on. I want to join in.