- I am trying to locate my classrooms and get lost
- I need to fill in a form from the uni to obtain a certificate to take to the police station and get an NIA...but the form is in Catalan, and my translator is shit.
- I have fashion history class in Catalan
- I have to design and make a collection for Desigual by the end of Christmas
- After that I will be designing and making a collection of my choice for the final part of this module, finishing in June.
- In my pattern cutting class I am learning the very techinal side of building patterns from scratch
- All my lecturers are lovely!
- The university had a welcome party for all of us
- I realise that this year will be tough, these guys produce so much work, but I know that I will learn so much.
- I am gaining a new perspective on things
- My Spanish is improving, and will only improve more as I go along
- I have made lots of Catalan friends, they have helped me so much already, they are so very kind and have made me feel like a part of this great big design family.
These are a few snaps of my first week, what the studios look like, what the reception building looks like and the bottom left is what the start of the welcome party looked like. It started off quite sophisticated until the vodka guns came out!
And the photos above are of Friday night at El Bosc de les fades and some Irish bar off La Rambla, at this point I was looking slightly worse for wear after having too many drinks at the earlier uni party. The slightly more beautiful photos were taken at an art exhibition, in a gorgeous building near the metro stop universitat. It had the most beautiful gardens, I couldn't stop taking photos...I've missed the English countryside since being here (which is strange because I always complain about my area back home, I didn't appreciate the quietness and farms, now I miss them) and Barcelona city centre isn't very green, so to see this was a treat. There were local artists and designers selling clothing, jewellery, prints and illustrations. I couldn't resist this really unusual dress, of course it's black...like most of my clothing. Photo to follow, it's too late to get out of bed and take one. I have uni tomorrow...and I'm about to present some of my initial ideas for my first collection here, it's a live project set by Desigual, 6 outfits of womens wear...motto being 'happy' and apart from my work generally being the opposite of happy...I feel challenged but this is a good challenge, I need to be forced out of my comfort zone. I have decided to look at Russian tradition for my inspiration. So wish me luck for tomorrow, I have no idea if they will love it or hate it and my self doubt is creeping.
