I am currently sat chilled, feet up in a hotel in North Bristol watching the Britains got Talent Final which is a bit random but honestly theres an explanation! I mentioned in my last post about my course I am doing, you have to do some leadership workshops. The first one for my group was scheduled to be in Birmingham on Thursday but I had other more exciting plans for that day - thought I would pop over to Orlando :P
Anyway the workshops are mandatory and the only other date I could do was tomorrow and when working it out, it was actually cheaper for me to come down the day before and stay over so I did. I am actually glad I chose to do that as the journey was a little crazy and would have been incredibly rushed on a Monday morning.
I had a right palaver getting here. First I couldn't find platform 12 at Birmingham New Street because I had booked a train which meant I had to change. Basically I got off at Platform 1 on the complete opposite side of the station and the platforms don't run in order - there are 2 sides to them and platform 12 is round with 1-11a and b.
Then when I did find the train Virgin Cross Country decided in their ultimate wisdom to mix up the carriages which when your frantically looking on a busy platform is not good. I was looking for coach D which you would expect to be between C and E but apparently they felt it would be a good idea to go C, E then D...
Anyway I arrived. I have a lovely hotel room. Its weird though I've never stayed been anywhere like this on my own. I can defiantly recommend the Holiday Inn Express though.. Just look how fab this room is!
The workshop is actually at the Holiday Inn a mile down the road from here but they wanted £112 a room which didn't include breakfast or wifi!
This room cost me £60 and included free wifi (which actually is pretty amazing and not your usual hotel crappy wifi) and breakfast which for the sake of walking a mile up the road you can not fault!
I am looking forward to the workshop tomorrow, I am a little nervous because it is going to be all people who have all met each other in their previous tutorial but I am going to use this as a good opportunity for networking and meeting new people - I think sometimes it does us a bit of good to step outside of our comfort zone!
On another note, only 3 more days until our holiday begins!!! I am sooooo excited!
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