politics, poison and womens officer

so yeah its offical i got the womens officer position. the count for the position took place in the sketchiest place possible; the storage and delivery room of one of the student bars, which reflects the lack of interest in the elections. for the sabat elections there were about 1000 people from arts who voted, for the exective elections there were only just over a thousand in all of UCD. It was only a 5% turn out of the whole college. In comparison to uoft thats not so bad, since there you only get 5% in the sabat elections! the only candidate running againsts me was ron (re open nominations) . . . and the basterd won in science. I suppose when in comes down to it, i didn 't campaign in science at all. I had my posters up in a few places but i don't think anyone was flyering in there. So there you go. i would have been better if i was in town and was able to campaign myself but alas a week argueing and getting sick in ennis for the nation student union congress won that one . . .

but none the less next year i will be the womens officer, my mind is filled with so many ideas, i hope that their is interest in them and that a group of women can come together and work on campaigns together. . .

the reason i was not around for campaigning was I was at USI that is the union of students of ireland . . . they had their standing confrence where colleges around the island come together and debate motions and consitutional changes. so much happened there that I don't feel that i could fully explain it here. but I do have to say that i have gotten over huge amounts of fear when it comes to public speaking. i was able to go up and make agruements that i that were well spoken. What i have come to realize and may have always known is that the feeling of fear may not dissappear that it may not get any better before you go up to speak but once you are up there its ok. I find that I am getting better at talking in front of groups . . . if i could relax a bit more i may even be able to through humour in . . . but right now the way i can get up there is in a more structured manner . . .anyways the point is that i now feel confident and want to try other things that i was scared to try before, such as chairing meetings and so on . . .