So, one of our assignments for TAFE included attending a council meeting, and reporting on one of the issues that was brought up.
I have been so tired lately with TAFE, homework and life in general that going to a council meeting was one of the last things that I wanted to do.
The council meeting was at 7pm, which made things a little hard as well. On Wednesdays we finish TAFE early so it was a little inconvenient knowing at 2pm that we still weren't done for the day, even though we'd left TAFE.
After spending a few hours doing homework, I thought I'd better head over to the council chambers. When I left the house it was miserable and raining, and I hate driving in the rain.
Once I got to the council chambers I walked to what I thought was the front door, and saw a sign saying that their hours were between 8.30am - 4.30pm. Luckily I decided to walk down the street a little, because I realised that there was another entrance.
When I got inside, I noticed that almost half of my TAFE class was there. Everyone looked just as thrilled as I was to be there.
When we got inside, we were no more excited. Most of the issues brought up were neighbour complaints regarding development and complaints about certain roads.
Most of the class were there for probably less than half an hour, but another girl and I wanted to stay to try and get a slightly more interesting story.
The only remotely interesting story that came up was a debate regarding funds to build up the city of Blacktown similar to the CBD.
Certain councillors are trying to convince state government to fund building up the  Blacktown area by giving large companies incentives to bring their business to the Western suburbs.
Their argument there is that the majority of the workforce are from the Western suburbs, and people are sick of having to travel all the way to the city for work each day.
Another councillor debated that even if the large companies did bring their business to Western Sydney, they would still have similar issues regarding public transport, as many of Western Sydney's industrial areas have no train stations, and bus services don't run frequently enough, late, or early enough for people to be able to get to work on time.
One councillor's argument against this, was regarding the city of Blacktown itself. He says that Western Sydney is a rough area, and most people are afraid to be out in Blacktown CBD past 6pm. He even went as far as saying that the only way that they would be able to entice large companies to Western Sydney would be if the entire city of Blacktown was demolished by an earthquake or fire and they were able to build Blacktown CBD from scratch.

Lela xx

Hey, I'm Lela and I'm currently studying communications and media at TAFE.
My ultimate goal is to score myself a magazine job, so I quit my day job and enrolled here at TAFE.
This is my first class-related blog.
I have had a lot of fun here so far, and have learnt so much already. It is quite a bit of work, but I know that in the end it will be well worth it.
We are only a couple of weeks into our studies and we have been given plenty of assignments and homework to keep us busy.
They tend to get us to do a lot of things here to push us out of our comfort zones. There's lots of talking in front of the class, presentations to be done and last week we even shot a video. It can be a little intimidating at times, but I know that the more that we do things like that, the easier it will become. It will help too when the class gets to know each other a little better and things aren't so awkward any more.
I'm not usually the shy type, but for some reason I'm not quite myself in this class yet. I'm not worried though, I know that it won't be long until my true personality comes through, so I'm looking forward to becoming my usual, confident self.
I am hoping that by the end of this course, I will have more skills then I need to land my dream job.
I have work experience with Girlfriend magazine in  September, which I am really looking forward to. I am planning on impressing them so much during my week of work experience, that they will hopefully offer me a job. If not, I will study at uni until I can get where I want to be.


Lela xx