Assessments
Quite a stressful week this week due to assessments at the DAI. What this basically involved was everyone having to present their work in front of everyone else plus tutors plus two guest assessors over the course of three days (Tue, Wed, Thurs). I was pretty much in the middle, and of course had failed to prepare myself very well at all. Seeing the savage way that some folks who were on before me were shot down in flames didn’t exactly help, but in the end mine went not so bad. Perhaps this was because I talked for ages and ages and they were just glad I had stopped, but at least I did get some pretty useful feedback and encouragement. And people laughed at the bits which were supposed to be funny which is always reassuring.
The problem is though that I made some quite ambitious claims about what I am going to do in the future, and now of course I have to actually carry them out. In particular, I intend following up my Journey with a Chair (see an earlier post) by carrying something extremely heavy from one end of the Netherlands to the other, and although this is a small country that is still a tall order. Should be fun though. I might try and film it as some sort of road movie.
For the first time in ages I am in quite a relaxed mood today. For once I have been paid on time, I don’t have too much to do, and of course now that I have my passport back I can go home for Christmas. I havenae seen my wee sis for a year (and the rest of the family for nearly six months), and of course I miss them all a lot. And naturally mama’s cooking too.
