Well it was a great conference and a truly superb location. I’m certainly no Arsenal fan, but the stadium is superb, although you did have to look hard for ‘Arsenal’ which was not always obvious amongst the mass of Emirates advertising! Interestingly I met a Gills fan who was one of the security guys there who let me in – seems the Gills can infiltrate everywhere!

I’ll blog more about the conference later as I need to check and print off 2 essays as it’s the dreaded deadline day tomorrow! Always amazes me – they have been written for over a week and yet I still leave them to the last minute to check and print off! What’s the betting that the ink cartridge runs out half way through!

Today I am attending the NCVYS Annual Conference which is being held in the new Arsenal ground, the Emirates Stadium.

Apparantly there is a chance for a tour of the stadium during the afternoon for a cost. I don’t know if I’ll take up that offer, but whatever … it is going to be so so hard not to ask ‘so … where are the goals in this stadium then?‘, if I was feeling really mean I could then suggest they should show Henri, Fabregas and co … If you have no clue what I’m on about then read of the mass of misses last night here.

I am also looking forward to the conference!

This is a great video to use on self esteem and beauty.

It’s amazing to see what lengths are gone to in order to present an image which others want us to see and believe not just to be real, but to be what we should be aspiring to. It’s an amazing illusion, but one that can really start to mess up some peoples lives as they sart to think that this is how they should look.

Thanks Ian for drawing my attention to it.

This is a cool flyer for the best youth work conference around – click the pic to see more and wait for the video to load.