My days are so busy they that at the end of the each one everything is a bit of a blur, displaced events, all equally vivid but scattered around my memory, falling into the folder named London, ignoring the carefully selected sections like October the 8th or Thursday. Today's morning was days ago, so were todays classes and evening work shift. All I can do now is breathe and enjoy this moment of satisfaction and freedom – today.
Using my laptop's calendar to reorganise and sort my impressions of this week, I can tell you that Monday was the first of five, the briefing day – the start of it all. We met at JPS (John Princess Street) to hear about the plans for the first term (now – mid-December). In these few months we will be working on two separate projects. First one is called ISHE ([iši] how cute!) which stands for Introduction to Study in Higher Education. This one is to prepare us for bigger and more advanced project in later years. We were asked to choose an object which has a special meaning to us and would want to investigate it further. I chose a decorative tin storage box (http://prntscr.com/8p9kbw). We will have to visually explore this particular item in a min 20pg. portfolio and write a 1250 word essay – I'm really excited about both of these tasks!
Next project is called Product Technologies and it is meant to teach us about the construction of different shoes, techniques used for making them, different materials, use of the specialised machines...everything we need to know about the process of shoe making. The interesting thing about this is that we will get no special books on the topic, instead we will each write our own shoemaking manual, alongside with physical samples, which will act as a reference book for the next 3 years and more and will also be a 100% of the grade for this subject.
One of the first tasks we had to do was deconstruct a shoe, we got on our second day (we also got our own lasts and specialised toolkit!!). On Thursday we learned how to prepare our shoe patterns for a court shoe…there was a lecture on shoe illustration.... aaa my head is going to explode. Too much info, error, error. The thing I love about this course so far is that it’s really hands on, practical and real. All the people who teach here have had years of experience in different fields of shoe industry and are really helpful, knowledgeable and accessible. The other thing is, everything we learn, from day one is aimed at the real world. Alongside our course specific knowledge, we learn how to be professional, how to present ourselves, to prepare a portfolio. Examples are taken from real students and real industry projects.
Coming from an environment where the average is 4 written tests per subject, and you have 13 subjects, and oral questioning and extra marks, this is all very new. But having started on my projects, it is starting to show that this kind of work is even more demanding than studying for a test and takes up for more time. I hope that by working on the project I will actually learn and REMEMBER most of the information I need for later without hours and hours spent revising and all-nighters every other week of November. Cheers.
P.S.: Last = a form around which the shoe is moulded
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