The beginning of week two I have decided to approach with a clear head and to try to not let my anxiety and worries from week 1 take over an carry on to tarnish my experience of my first LJMU lecture. I arrive at my first lecture of the foundations module early, pick a seat and eagerly wait for it to start, the lecture did not disappoint as the lecture was so interesting and left me wanting to go away and read more on the topics discussed. Everyone in the group seems friendly and the lecturer seems so approachable. This continued to put my worries about University at ease as it confirmed that everything weren't as bad as I thought it was going to be in my mind.

The Wednesday lectures have gone so well that I feel relieved, although after working really late on Wednesday evening going straight from my lectures to work I woke up late on the Thursday meaning that I missed my first Skills and Perspectives workshop as well as my healthy humans workshop. My anxiety and worries came back as I did not want to fall behind on this module. I decided to spend the day catching up on the online lecture slides to see what content had been covered, I find having these slides so readily available put some ease on my mind as I knew what everyone else had learnt that day! 

I began to start to prep over the two assignments that were covered in that days workshop, making notes about what was expected from me and key things that I should include in my first assignment. As this was a summarising assignment I practiced summarising different articles or books that I had recently read but I was struggling to do this without waffling on using far to many words for it to be a efficient summary, I knew from this that I will need to look and develop an effective approach to this as the weeks progress.

I later learnt that in the workshop that they completed a task on summarising were you had to start off using only 5 words to describe the article you had read then when completing the summary you base from this without deviating. I found this tip very useful as it meant I had a structure to base my summaries on, making the summary less daunting to tackle. I also found trying to limit myself to a word count seemed to help me with this also as it meant when I had too many words to my goal, I would go through my summaries again and take out things that weren't as relevant or useful.