Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome. I'm Rob Davies, a Londoner in Cardiff with a fondness for the written word but no real ability to manipulate it as yet. This is the first of many entries, but hopefully the only one with no real point. The aim, broadly speaking, is to comment on the process of becoming a journalist. It all seems rather egocentric to me and this blog is my only flirtation with internet self-publicisation. Normally i couldn't think of anything worse than advertising myself to the world. But as a trainee journalist at Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, it would be laziness not to. Feel free to comment, especially if you have a talent for comic invective or can correct me on something.