Blog d) Describe the daily frustrations of a fictional neo-luddite at university now in the UK

Jake wakes up in the morning to the voice of his father shaking him. Not the usual thing that that many of us today would wake up to which is more like the latest ring tone blaring from our mobile phone. Time to get up you will be late. Nervously jake scrambled out of bed as he new he was about to face a new day at a new college. Whilst he washed and dressed himself he could hear vaguely the sound of the radio from next door through the thin walls.

Jake was late into college as he couldn't check the bus times through the internet and the timetable at the bus stop had been destroyed. He hadn't realised that they only run every hour from wear he was living. He hadn't been in in england very long and his english wasn't very good he struggled to read. Looking at the timetable for where he should be when eventually arriving into college was harder than expected. Untill he eventually met up with his translater who helped him get by.

After what seemed like forever jake finally arrived at the classroom where his first lesson would take place. He walked into the room where each student was sat down at their own computer typing away and scrawling through lots of different web pages on the internet. Jake has never really used a compuet before so felt a little worried and embarrassed at the thought of not having the first idea of what to do after turning on the computer.

After sitting their for about 20 minutes unsure of what to do after he had attempted several times at pressing different keys and dragging around the mouse to try and catch up with everybody else in the room. His translater finally met up with him agen and talked him through what he should be doing.

At dinner time Jake found himself passing many people who what seemed like they were in there own world with their mp3 players and ipods stuck in their ear holes listening to the latest music that they had downloaded from the internet. He longed to be back where he belonged where he could have a normal converstaion with somebody that could understand him. He felt so lonely.

Finally the end of the day arrived and everybody was getting their mobile phones out to swap numbers so they could meet up outside college and hit a few bars in town. However jake didnt have a mobile to put anybody's number in so had to scribble them down on paper getting frowned upon by many. He then walked out the college to the nearest phonebox to ring his mothern to come and pick him up which was quite a walk away. After all why would any of the students or teachers in this school need to use a phonebox when they had mobile phones attached to them all the time.