Thursday 25 February 2010

A community life

a community life
new experiences
a nosey old lady
new sounds
new sounds
a new path
a place on the hill
the shopkeeper
23 Belgrave Street
strangers
friends
my teacher
a mental hyper thing called Sofia
a toilet
a new sight
a new breed of dog
my home
my room

I walked towards...

I walked towards the chipman, he asked if I wanted salt or vinegar.
I walked towards an old man who was walking his dog.
I walked towards a bunch of guys who was on their coffee break.
I walked towards a woman with blonde hair.
I walked towards a big lorry that said ASDA Price. 

Communities

Communities are always there for each other, amazing parties and good laughs. water fights and snowball fights. We come together to organize surprise parties. Together we can do what we want. Play football, go on trips and have BBQ's. We watch movies and have sleepovers. With only a quick look at this community you are welcomed with warmth and kindness.

The School Community

The school community is important because we have different group like form, classes and then there's goths, chavs, geeks and more. I guess teachers have their own groups like the English department, Maths and Science. But at the end of the day they're all teachers and all want the same thing. To teach us and to give us knowledge to become as successful as them.
so like the teachers the students want to learn. So we all go to school and we all pull together to make it a successful, happy community.

House

The house across the road a old woman lives. first she looked like a little scary but after that she looked calm. I guess you can't judge a book by its cover. 
She had a dog, a cat. I guess they must be her life and they looked like it. She dressed ok and even though she looked scary who knows how she is feeling and what's happened. But she reminds me of a loving animal lady who cares so much for them which is good. 

My Community

My community is really good. Everyone knows each other and is quite nice. In the morning is dead and because people go to work and school and the eventually round about 4.30. It is really busy because everyone come home and come back from school and don't play quietly, they play so loud. Neighbours call in and out because they are really nice and share food with everyone a festival. Neighbours share stuff with each other. Nobody is nasty and are really caring. 

I walk towards...A Short Story

I walk towards a man who gave me a wave. He had a big house and an attic. All the pigeons standing on the slippery roof. It looks like he has a big plant inside his house. He had all the plants. even the man eating the plants waiting for him to eat his lunch. A fly ate it, munch munch, munch.

COMMUNITY

Caring
Organising get togethers
Making new friends
Meeting new people
Uniting different cultures
Needing to know people
Interesting people with different interests
Treat each other with respect
You can welcome new people


On the way to number 23...

Cars, cars everywhere
Nosey old people full of sarcasm
Bored, excited, dogs buying rolos for 55p?
Litter, poo on sarah's shoe
Drip damp, wet, rain, why?

Raining, neighbours walking, hair got wet listening to Iron Maiden
People talking, cars driving
Dog poop on walls
Tired, drousy, no central heating
Cold, wet, worried where to go, saw factories
People annoyed that the car battery had failed
Straightend hair turned curly

Splash, tired, mud, mud
Cold, cold, raining, wet
Cans, worried, chat, traffic
Dog, dog, white, big dog
Wet, phone, friends, houses, shops
Park, petrol station, railway track, school
People, cars, excited, friends, black cat

Running, walking, curly hair, twigs
Cars, doors open/close, houses, shops
people on the curly dressing up

what is good and bad about living in a community?

GOOD
  • nice neighbours
  • new friends
  • communication
  • cake-baked
  • walking the dog
  • helping each other
  • favours
  • you are not alone
  • trips
BAD
  • noisy neighbours
  • violence
  • domestics
  • deaf old lady (sleep all day telly on all night!)
  • yelling at you
  • kicking footballs
  • knock and door run
  • "I can see you!"

A community is like...

...a cinema because you all get stuck together like in a cinema or you are all neighbours in a community and you are neighbours in a cinema because you sit next to one another 
...a friendship that is never broken
...a family
...an egg that's never been cracked
...a car battery...sometimes it works...sometimes it doesn't!

I heard....

I heard "No, I'm going up first"
I heard STOMP, STOMP, STOMP
I heard "Ahh, I fell down the stairs"
I heard "ha ha ha"
I heard "Mum, Mum"

I heard food
I heard drip, drip
I heard the chair moving on the floor
I heard "I'm hungry"
I heard the kettle

I heard "All clean"
I heard flush, slam
I heard "la la la la" WOOOSH
I heard "Ohh, freezing water"
I heard "you've got 10 minutes"

I heard people playing PS3
I heard DIXIES
I heard crackle, crackle, crackle
I heard "let me play!"
I heard whispers

I heard private stuff
I heard solid fisherman pirate hat
I heard "Get to sleep NOW!"
I heard "Bang"
I heard loud horrible snoring

I heard people snoring loudly
I heard FLUSH
I heard people saying the toilets blocked
I heard "Open the door NOW!"
I heard "I want to go to the toilet now!"

I heard "Gimme that NOW!"
I heard CREAK
I heard "I like this place"
I heard SMASH
I heard "get out of the cupboard you stupid child!"

I heard GNR
I heard "Honey, I'm home"
I heard OUCH
I heard "It's freezing, brrrr"
I heard snoring secrets

I heard singing
I heard snoring
I heard Dixies
I heard crackle crackle
I heard FLUSH

I heard STAMP, STAMP, STAMP
I heard TOPPLE, TOPPLE, TOPPLE DOWN 
I heard "DAD"
I heard BANG
I heard "hello, whose that?"

I heard children going to sleep
I heard "that's my lego!"
I heard mum and dad talking
I heard "Where are my pajama's..ahh!"
I heard BANG BANG

I heard "that's my bag"
I heard "Not the blue one"
I heard "what time are the children breaking up from school?"
I heard " I need to put my clothes in the wash"
I heard "Where are my books?"






Friday 12 February 2010

Origami books

We carried on with the origami books..
I was hoping to finish them, but almost......! I want to photocopy the pages so each group member has a book to take home to remember the project and there will be one to hang in the house to show the groups` ideas around a sense of home.

Thursday 11 February 2010

Sunday 7 February 2010

2nd Feb Hanging the washing out!





Using the words we had thought of in the previous session we brought in old clothes and fabric from home and turned them into words that represented home and hung them on a washing line.

26th Jan A sense of home

In the second session we worked on making an origami book of ideas-each student created a page of the book. We each thought of five words that meant a sense of home to us and then created abstract shapes to express each word. Using the shapes and collage materials each student created a pattern for their page.

12 th Jan Catch-up




Apologies for not blogging sooner- I`ll back track. My first session with the textile girls was about trying to encourage them to think in an abstract way, so we created sculptures from white paper which represented a colour and then tried to guess what colour was being expressed.

Thursday 4 February 2010

4th February. Cold, some snow still about


Session went OK today. It was great that Sean and I were both there, as the boys could move from one activity to another, they seem to prefer this, and it feels like activities can feed into each other. Interesting discussion today prompted by one of the boys (I'm rubbish at remembering names) asked if I had a girlfriend.... I think its good that if WE are asking them to talk honestly, or with some 'meaning' that we do too.

Sean and I are going to try to coincide our sessions together from now. For my next session, I'm going to look at disguises, using props, costumes, characters, and take portraits from there. Hopefully this will all add to the mix.