CATO Academy

And so my Gap Year Fun continues and as promised here is my blog post about my first real adventure on this gap year. I'm now on my third week of CATO and so I can officially call myself a Cato Academy Student. Here's a little bit of information on what exactly the Cato Academy is, taken from their website (http://www.catomusic.com/#!education/c1du9)

Ever since I went to my first massive concert at the LG arena when I was about 8 years old I've been madly in love with live music, ranging from the arena tours to the tiny little gigs in venues that are hardly known of. I kept asking my teachers and parents if there was a course I could take in 'bands' to which I was always laughed at and told to not be so stupid, and so I continued with my subjects, took some A Levels, applied for a course I thought would be okay and was academic enough for everyone around me, then inevitably pulled out last minute because it wasn't what I really wanted to do. Then through a bit of searching and by some miracle I discovered the CATO Academy. One interview and a few months waiting over and I finally get to be learning and studying for what I REALLY want to do. The moral of this is, these days there's pretty much a course for everything, don't study something just because you can't find what you really want to do, keep searching until you find it.

SO an update on the course itself. The lecturers are great. Really great. Their work is what they're teaching, they've got plenty of experience and therefore can tell you exactly what you need to know (they're also proving to be pretty entertaining and fun too). I was a little worried before I started that I'd be the odd one out because I have next to no experience already, however I haven't felt that way at all AND I can now properly change a guitar string neat and pretty all by myself. The opportunities that have been offered to us already are high in numbers, and I don't expect that to change at all. That's the great thing about Cato, it's a functioning business, so we get the chance to learn and get all kinds of hands on experience at the same time.

Now I've settled down a bit I'll be able to keep this updated with all my new skills and what I've learnt to give you even more of an insight into this if you're interested. I'm genuinely loving every day of the course so far, and I can't wait to see what the remaining weeks have in store for me.