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Thanks, Ro. I'm so busy lately, this jobcentre course may only be 1/2-1 day a week but it takes up time for travelling as well so I lose half the day doing something I could manage without. We did about application forms yesterday morning and it was only things I already knew not to or to do on the forms. It is really bad there as they get new groups joining each week and it's the only centre for the courses for miles around so we get all the long-term unemployed from other areas. Yesterday they had to put my group downstairs with people from another course because there was a 1 day course upstairs that the trainers hadn't even known about. We had to find extra chairs and spaces at the tables which were already almost full. Another bad thing was that there was a group of school-leaver age girls and they were the types that were really misbehaved at school and talked and messed around a lot. One of them hardly stopped talking and there was some terrible words that came from her mouth, not just swearing I mean slang words for private parts and I really don't like that kind of talk in public. I didn't look at or talk to her because I've clashed with girls like that in the past when I did a mostly useless course a long time ago. Hopefully I won't be in a room with her too much in the future. The other complaint I have is that we were waiting around for about half of the morning while the tutor was photocopying pages and whatever else - no organisation at all. I'm not looking forward to next Fri when I said I'd be in all day. It's hard to handle being in only half the day.

After the initial 4 weeks on the course (this is week 2), we only have to go in for about 1 day a week to do jobsearching. Jobsearching that I can do perfectly well at home without having to waste about 1 hour travelling a day. So I think that will spur me into trying really hard to get a pre-school/nursery/creche job ASAP. Writing about that course is stressing me so I'm going to change the subject now.

Class tomorrow morning and it's easier now we just have to work on completing our folders. Our tutor is there if we need help. We can work from home as long as we let her know, but then we'd have to wait until the following week with any queries. I'm not going in next week as I'm attending that time-wasting course, but I'll tell my tutor I'm working from home. Then the week after is half-term so it'll be a few weeks to wait if I have any queries for my tutor.

Most of my Units are finished except for some bits my tutor needs to ask or observe me doing next month at nursery. I have a few gaps in places so I might need to ask my tutor if I have trouble writing accounts to cover them.

I wish I knew that my nursery could employ me after I finish my course, but they haven't said anything and I don't like to ask. Thing is that they might be closing next July but even being employed there for a year would help. I could start looking for a new job before next July. I don't want to go back with the jobcentre again after they sent me on the useless course which doesn't guarantee to get me a job although they said they'll help me get a nursery job.

One nursery I've been inside looks really attractive to work in. It's only been there about a year, is attached to a school and has a lot more facilities and more modern bits than my current nursery. I should really talk to them and see if they have any vacancies coming up. My friend's youngest daughter goes there so that's how I got to see it. Also the staff seem nearer my age-group than most of the staff at my current nursery. I would rather see if my current nursery might be able to give me a job first since it's a lot closer than the more modern nursery I like. I just don't know how to approach my supervisor and ask, I think I'm scared of her saying they won't be able to offer me a job as that would upset me. I would feel like a traitor applying for jobs at other nurseries. I think the jobcentre Work Trials scheme will help a nursery try me as they don't have to pay me for up to 15 days (still on benefits then). I gave the leaflet to my current nursery but haven't asked her yet if she followed it up, I'll have to today and see if I can get the leaflet back.

I'm on Facebook now and have been adding some old school friends or people I knew that weren't horrible to me. It's fun.

Got to go now, things to do before nursery later.