I'm not ashamed to be me.

Apologies to all of you offended by nudity, but this is about body confidence and not being afraid to be you. http://www.mybodyisbeautiful.com/. I'm fed up of culture and society that makes us ashamed to be who we are. It really is time someone said enough is enough because there are some genuinely good people out there who think they are worthless because of what society does. If you are reading this and feel like you are that person. Let me tell you. You are not worthless, you are not ugly, you're a good person and you're not in any way at fault. Society glamorises unhealthy behaviour, and unnatural standards of beauty as well as vulgarising the human body. Enough is enough!

Paper bag culture.

A friend of mine today said the following:

"If only we all had paper bags on our heads, then there would be justice and equality"

This made me think about society and the way we percieve ourselves and others. Do we really go around with a 'Paper bag' mentality? The answer, quite honestly put, is yes. We hide our true selves and cover it over with what society chooses to give us. So my friend's statement should be reversed. What if we actively choose to remove the bag and look at the world and truly see the vulgarity that society and celebrity culture present to us? We'd have a much happier friendly world in my opinion.

Christmas joys

Hey, it's been a while since I've had anything to write about but here I am back again. I went to Switzerland over Christmas which was a new experience. We stayed in a Novotel overnight on the way down in France and I must say that was a brilliant experience. The hotel, for what we paid was really good. Me and my family went to Switzerland expecting a similar, if not better standard, only to say we were incredibly disappointed. The Hotel was pretty awful and there was no English television apart from CNN, which is great if you wanted to watch countless reruns of Kim Jong Il's funeral. Of course that would have made for a very merry Christmas. Not going to bash Switzerland too much other than to say the place was basically built for millionaires, not us ordinary folk who'd need to take out a loan just to buy a coke bottle - Not a large one either.

This having been said, the snow was amazing, we went to Engelburg at the foot of  the amusingly named Mount Titliss and we took a ride along the glacier express from Andermaat to Chur. The views of which were stunning. It was my first ever white Christmas and I enjoyed every moment of it, including the sledding on Christmas day. I sincerely hope your Christmas, was as pleasant and I wish you all a fruitful new year!

The second half of the story.

Had another amazing lecture today on behalf of the Global Skills Award. Learned some powerful techniques for getting myself motivated including visualisation. I honestly didn't expect anything to happen, but its amazing how much emotion can come into play when you visualise what you honestly truly want out of life in clear set goals.

Stalin's moustache, small turnips and bodily mutilation.

Yes, just another day in the life of the MEM's course! The title as I've included it are the 3 most memorable items that came out during a very interesting discussion in medieval theology and I thought they slotted quite nicely together for a title.

I do have a slightly bigger fish to fry than just rambling about how great my MEMs course is today though. My target today is Sepp Blatter, the blithering, beaucratic prig at the heart of FIFA. His comments regarding rascism were unnervingly stupid. Next time he'll be saying that rape victims should swallow. Of course this is just the latest in a series of stupid moves by the FIFA president whom it is rumoured, took bribes from Qatari officials of up to $1.5million. The idiot really should have held out for $15m.

Illness and a Birmingham conference.

Sorry for not writing anything for a few days but I've been a bit under the weather and so have been really quite unable to get to my computer. My technological reduction however was a blessing in disguise as I managed to plow through several books on my chosen topic for my essays - The Cathars. Quite an interesting bunch they were, what with their liberal viewpoint towards others and their extreme intolerance towards themselves. Quite the opposite of the people they faced off against. I may even get the chance to speak about them at a conference in Birmingham.

On the verge of bad taste.

Another day and another amazing conversation within the MEMS centre at Kent University! I think it started with an article in The Sun newspaper on online boob jobs and this rapidly spread to how Margery Kempe, a medieval Christian mystic and fanatic wept during intercourse with her husband (surely it couldn't have been that bad!). We soon decided that the husband must also have been gifted but in rather a different way to Margery and thus he must have 'stretched the limits of her faith' - or something else - whenever he performed.

This discussion lasted for several hours, culminating in a visit to Weatherspoons and soundly rounded off by a political debate and a comparrison of the holes of both Margaret Thatcher and Sarah Palin. Naturally of course, we decided that the best course of action would be to put Sarah Palin in one, up to her waist and in an ironic twist, shoot her with a moose fired from a cannon.

 Thus leading us to the point we are at now, we are getting hoodies, with 'On the verge of bad taste' printed in Latin and our own crest. I call that a resounding success for the MEMS society! I seriously love the course, the people and the experience. Just another day on the MEMS course!