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

This follows on from what I was saying about my friend from school although she didnt choose to go against technology, she just didnt know any different.

Brenda was from a small hamlet in the North Yorkshire Moors which consisted of only 10 homes although she lived in a farmhouse 2 miles away, therefore it was pretty disurted. She never needed a mobile phone but she had one for emergencies and only ever got the bus to school which took her 2 hours there and 2 hours back evryday. When Brenda applied for university she was excited at the prospect of getting out of the tiny hamlet she lived in and meeting more than the 20 people she'd seen evryday for the first 18 years of her life.

When Brenda began university it was more difficult than she ever would have imagined. She first walked into her new room to find a socket , she didnt know what it was. She asked the man who helped her move in and he told her it was and internet socket which this cable (which he held in front of her)connected from the socket to the laptop. The thing is, Brenda didnt have a laptop, when she ever had to do work she completed it at school as her family couldnt get internet where she lived. She then walked into the living room to find a girl sitting there, texting at a notorious speed on her mobile. The only time Brenda had ever text anyone was when she told her mum what time she was going to be in when she went out after her exam results.

This would be Brenda's average day:

She was awoken by her clock alarm, and old brass thing which her mum had given her for university. She got up had a shower, packed her bag and made herself some porridge on the hob in the kitchen. Then she left for lectures. Little did she know but she'd realsie later she'd left her mobile phone in her room, an easy mistake to make when it barely gets used. But it is frustrating when she meets some nice girls later and when they decide to swap numbers she has to write theres on a piece of paper and obviously she doesnt know hers. It then got more frustrating when they asked her instead whether she had "facebook". Brenda hadnt heard of this before but after several explanations later from her new found friends she began to understand and agreed to join up on her brand new laptop when she got back home. In her head she couldnt help but say to herself "where the hell am I going to start with that?!". They then invited her out that night to try the delights of the student union. When she arrived she couldnt believe her eyes, crowds of people queing up to get into one place. The only time Brenda had really been out was after she got her exam results and then she was back home at 11. As she walked in she found herself huddled round the bar being asked what she wanted to drink, should she really drink?why not, she says to herself. By the end of the night Brenda has found herself dancing to the type of music she has never even heard of, R'n'B she heard her friend call it.

Well after and eventful day of learning about all the latest technology she had been missing out on, she flicks the switch on her alarm clock ready for the next day. She then hear a funny buzzing sound coming from her side draw. She looks, its her mobile phone which she had totally forgotton about even after the girls had mentioned it. She opens up her first ever text message, its from one of her new friends saying "I know ul probs nt get this 4 a wk bt hope u gt home safe hun, cya soon xxx".