Crafty

Today we started our craft classes. I had ceramics first, followed by glass class.

Ceramics was hard, I haven't working with clay in a looooong time, and even then it's not like I was great at it. We started off making an ash tray, followed by a tea pot. Our teachers were three industrial design students who were deemed exceptionally good in ceramics. Communication was a little difficult, but most of the time the message got through.

Glass class was more work with clay. We had to create a flower (composition) out of a clay square. Later the piece we carved is going to be set into a plaster mould, then we will take use the plaster mould and pour in melted glass to make our piece (called glass casting).

Tomorrow we have Chinese painting and [metal] jewelry class. I am really excited about Chinese painting class in particular, I think we are going to learn with their traditional brushes and learn some cool technique.

After classes and dinner, I went and worked out with some of the guys on the trip. Some of the things I see blow my mind. For example, in the work-out room there were guys and girls wearing jeans and outfits that I would never ever work out in. It doesn't seem like they were serious at all about it. One girl was sitting on the exercise bike just watching TV, no peddling, just watching. GO HOME! You don't need to be paying to work out if you are just going to watch TV.