The guardian also has a couple of interesting articles today – one by Barbara Ellen highlighting the impossibly high standards we expect from new arrivals in this country (here), and another from Tim Leunig which shows the illogical consequences of the government’s benefit cuts, which are severely affecting our refugees right now. You can read that one here.

I would like to learn how to play guitar. I don’t have a guitar but I’m hoping to get one for Christmas. I didn’t get it up to now because I lived with my mum and she said the noise would drive her insane! But now that I live alone I might just get one. My favourite music is R&B! I don’t really know what got me into it. I listen to the radio more then I watch TV! A little bit weird…

I decided not to use the blog for calling social workers or key workers or anybody to account. In my old school some people posted entries in which they targeted some people and revealed secret things about them. This resulted in a lot of people being hurt and sometimes even worse.  I’m not sure what I expect from this blogging experience. I just like writing and sharing my views with people!

Please read and comment on my blog!

Arrivederci (a bit more exotic then Goodbye) from

Ben

This is the first time I did an interview with anyone! First we developed a few questions to ask the professional at the barber shop.  I am a shy person so at first I was worried about how am I going to ask the questions. Emina said that we will be asking questions on the street too. This worried me even more! I was concerned because some people are friendly but others are not. The interview at the barber shop was alright but the street interview was harder. At the barber shop I had my notes with the questions and it was not hard to remember the questions. Doing these interviews gave me the experience on how to ask interview questions. I was really nervous when we first went out but by the time I came back I was glad I did it. It was a useful experience.

Continue to read both of my blogs and find out more about what I do! Just a hint: next time I’m cutting the hair of one of our key workers!

Cheers,

Soran

Here is a link http://hair-by-soran.blogspot.com/

I have always wanted to have a blog! I am a student at City College doing Hairdressing and I am passionate about it! I wanted to share that passion with other people through a blog so I decided that the topic of my blog will be hairstyles! Blogging is just fun! I would like to teach others how to do your hair styles. Since I was young,  I always wanted to be a hairdresser. With blogging I get new skills, like computer, music and video skills. I would like to blog about staff I do every day, like gym and football.

Please comment to support me and share your ideas!

Soran

Welcome to THE BUZZ – our young people led blog!

Read and comment on our new young people led blog called THE BUZZ! The idea is to involve our young people in tailoring main stream services thought the blog, as well as share any concerns, ideas or basically anything they wish. Correspondingly, the topic will be very flexible and suggested by the new bloggers. Depending on the topics, the bloggers will engage with the wider community by taking pictures and statements. A particularity of Buzz is the fact that it will be written by several young bloggers rather than individuals. Each week four bloggers will share their thoughts.  At the start, the young people involved will get a high level of individual support in general theory, data collection, actual writing of their entries and process of updating the blog.  The hope is that after the first few months the bloggers will have the knowledge and confidence to work independently. Of course with commitments come the benefits. The obvious ones include gaining IT skills, improvement of English language skills, experience to be included in their CV’s, on-line journalism skills and in general improvement of cultural competency and communication skills. More importantly, it will certainly be fun! And, maybe there will be other perks involved as the process develops!

In addition to the young people written content we will still continue to bring you the lasted in the news on various topic of interest!

And now for the reader involvement…. The blog is open to all so if a young person in your care is interested please do get in touch. Furthermore, our blog would not be possible without readers. A conversation cannot be held without the response of the “other” side. Get involved, read our blog and most importantly comment!

Warm regards,

from the Editorial team!