Getting started!

Coming in to this paper all I knew was that I wanted to look at drinking culture in New Zealand for my major project. That's it.

It was great to get set up with supervision groups and be introduced to the team of advisors/lecturers for our 4th year in Week 1 - but that was all it was good for. Many people hadn't picked a topic, and we were then just kind of left to our own devices.

Week 2 consisted of being told that it was ok if we didn't have a topic yet (stressful! But I do have a topic so what about me???), and doing 2 workshops that I didn't really find very helpful. I took the Semiotics workshop with Lee and Karl which really just consisted of bouncing ideas around with a group of peers, and then went to the Communication workshop with Tristam and Patricia which was a strange exercise that I didn't really understand.

Week 3 was a tough week as I wasn't well and missed the "bring a thing" discussion, but my friends caught me up and did the exercise with me which meant I didn't miss out on much.

So then Week 4 came around and I decided it was time to take this paper into my own hands, because clearly nobody else was gunna kick my ass into gear and get stuck into it. So it's from this point that the real research began...