The bus left at 7am from uni and we arrived in Calais sometime after 10 local time (GMT+1). First we visited the lace museum(and I learnt a new french word! Lace=dentelle)
The museum was actually more interesting than I had expected, all the large machines used for making lace through history, changes in fashion and just the beauty of such finely detailed textile-craft.
Then we travelled to Dunkerque where we had some time off to explore the city and have a coffee. Jennie, a girl from third year and me went to a cosy little café where we had a coffee each, did some drawing and got into a discussion with the people working at the place. I was very impressed with Jennies french-skills! Myself I struggled with remembering the words and phrases but it was so fun!
Then we met up with the rest at the art university of Dunkerque where we were shown around. They had some amazing working spaces, did not seem to be as strict with health and safety and they had old fashioned book printing machines and carved letters for making books. I got really quite excited and did feel I wanted to take all those letters home with me...I managed to not steal anything though.
Later, with some encouraging help from Jennie, I told some contact people from there about my Social Sleeve project and they got excited and talked me into asking some of their students to participate. And 9 students wanted to do it! So unfortunately one guy was left out since I only had 8 sleeves. But he was really helpful and assisted everyone with getting their sleeves on. Then they did a short and INTENSE performance! Jennie was filming, I took photos. It was great to have the performance done somewhere else and in a completely different way. Much faster and more aggressive.
After that I talked some more with the contacts of the university and I am seriously concidering applying there for my masters! Then we ran to the bus and went to the seaside where we saw two porpoises!! And then home, tired and cold and really really happy I had a cup of tea and went to bed.
Today I finished painting my boxes! Tomorrow I'll write the texts on the inside of their doors and then Jennie will drive them to Rachael's house(thank you!!) from where Rachael's parents will drive them to Crate later(thank you!!!)
Now let me leave you with the word PORPOISE in different languages(jus because I think porpoises are magical creatures):
porpoise(eng)
marsouin(fr)
tumlare(sve)
pyöriäiset(fin)
nise(no)
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