Hello fellow Women's Studies students!

I apologise for the late introductory blog. I joined the unit late and it took me a while to get my head around 'blogging' as I hadn't done it before.

But anyway! My name's Carla Crago, I also go by 'Carlz' which is my name on here I believe..I'm in my third year studying Arts/Communications majoring in English. I've done a few Women's Studies units before like Sex, Bodies, Space which I really enjoyed. Early this year I was accepted into a Communications unit in Singapore (12 credit points=awesome!). We had 3 weeks of intense work and partying :P One of the assignments was to re-create a scene from a film or TV show of our choice. My group did the scene from the movie 'Taken' when the girl gets...well...'taken' from the under the bed. Some of you may have seen it. I played the girl so it was a good learning experience working on and off camera. I would definately recomend this unit to anyone doing Communications!

Next year I'm thinking of going to ECU to do a post-grad course in TV/ radio presenting. Another tempting option is working full time to save for a trip to America when I turn 21. At the moment I'm working at Gold bar in Subi. I'm trying to keep my head in the books but it's a little hard with summer slowly (but surely) approaching and the Southbound lineup being released. I'm wishing I had more time between uni and work to watch some classic films. If anyone knows a good list of 'top must-see movies' please let me know. I saw Sunshine of the Spotless Mind recently and was very moved by it.

Ah yes and onto the unit- something which stood out for me last week was what Allison was saying about technology becoming integrated into everyday discourse and language. I didn't even think about how the words 'network' and 'interface' have been added to my speech in the last few years. Even the term 'tag/ tagging' (referring to putting a face to a name in Facebook photos) has a new meaning on top of its original reference to the game 'tag' we played when we were younger.

So anyway, I'm sorry again for my lack of organisation with this blog- I promise I will be on time next week :) Looking forward to seeing everyone in our tute tomorrow.