it's good to be back

first day of school finished! and a good day at that. on mondays we have as said in the previous post, a class called Design Usability and the Community which we all kind of feared because of its pretentious name. What we learned today though, is the meaning of that name = PACKAGING. Woop woop - we have a whole class, four full hours per week devoted to packaging! I couldn't be happier!

We got our briefs, seems like such a fun project too. We've all got randomly chosen objects (I got a razor, Lou got golfballs) which we are supposed to re-package in an unexpecting way, for example I may re-package my razor for Tiffany's & Co. Exciting exciting! our minds are already working on full speed. And the teacher, Paul Devonshire, is so good. Well, so far at least (all he's done really is showing us his portfolio (which is massive btw) and describing and explaining a lot about the packaging business) and outlining the subject and briefs. BUT - he did all with a huge smile and that makes it all so much better. I like him a lot. So does Lou.

This morning I had my mentoring meeting. The other girl who was supposed to be there with me didn't come, she didn't know what time the meeting was, so I stood there up front, by myself speaking to a whole class. They seemed nice, and Michael O'brien the teacher said I did a really good job. Wo hoo for me

After school we went to the terrace, watched Control - so good! it's now one of my favourite movies alongside with Roy Andersson's A Swedish Love Story, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Talented Mr Ripley, Into the Wild ... there is one more I want to put into that list, but I can't remember it. I said it eralier today. Annoying. Anyway, my point is that it was very good. Beautifully shot and such great acting. It was so real. Well, I know its based on actual true events, but it is a movie.

Now, Lou (fasting as well) is reading recepies like literature, hi hi, that's what happens after a couple of days. She survived day 2 and is still going strong. We had wheatgrass shots today, maybe that's why. There's this great juice bar at school that presses their own juices and has all these shots you can add like acai, spirulina, echinacea and so on. and they also make a fresh wheatgrass shot which we had. Lou's comment "Oh, it tastes like grass" the guy who made it goes "well, it is grass"
Then we came back later for carrotjuice and they recongnised us so they wanted to give us a free muffin (they're all organic, lactose free and made with good ingredients, one's made with flaxseed). We politely turned down the offer though, we're fasting. No muffins for us. We bought a magazine with wok recepies to look at instead.

Now, it's time for tea.

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