MY HOUSE

Here you go mom, finally, a tour of my house. It's a really nice house, done up during the summer. And we got a great landlord who fixes any problems that might pop up.



As some of you saw in the last post, I found sign language music videos on YouTube. And since that I've watched loads. I think it's so fascinating. It was actually these videos that gave me my idea for one of my documentaries. In one of the modules, we have a project called "Student Led", meaning it's free and we can make whatever we want. I want to make a doc about sign language and how it's like to live your everyday life doing that. Most likely I'm hoping to sign up for the Discovery sign language project. They will pay for my course in BSL (British Sign Language). In return I have to commit to the project, working every other Friday. That would be a great way for me to research for my documentary. One can not really understand another persons way of life before one puts himself  in their shoes.

I think sign language is beautiful and exciting to watch. The idea of communicating like that is to me an incredible thing.

Today's song: Miley Cyrus - Party in the USA (ASL)

SIGN LANGUAGE

I just came across some amazing music videos. He "sings" them in sign language, ASL. How cool is that?



I can say my name with sign language, but that's it. I used to know more, cause we had to learn it 6th and 7th grade. We mostly focused on the one-hand alphabet, in Norwegian, not necessarily words. We even had a test in one-hand sign language. This wasn't compulsory in my time, but our teacher said it was important. Till this day, I really appreciated that she taught us that. One of my little sisters, Christina, she's in 3rd grade now. Her class has had sign language classes from 1st grade cause one of her classmates is deaf. So she knows bits and pieces. I think that's really good.

I think sign language should be compulsory in school, at least to have a basic understanding.

I want to learn sign language, so I'm considering signing up for Discoverys sign language project. It would be amazing to be able to "speak" that.

Today's song: Jessie J - Price tag Sign language style

GOT A NEW JOB AS A PHOTOGRAPHER

I've started my new job now, for Student Swansea Events. Working as a promoter and photographer (film mainly). We had our first "trial" evening on Wednesday the 19th of October at Fuzzylogic (Oceana).



For now I'm working in the Monday team, promoting the concept iLoveMondays. Today I've been visiting Illustration course to tell the student about the Halloween flyer competition. Basically we want them to design a flyer within 36 hours. Can it be done?

I submitting a design proposal to, which I'm making later tonight/tomorrow. I do love my job, cause even though it's minimum wage, I get free entry to a bunch of the cities clubs, VIP and much more.

I LOVE HER NEW SONG! I've listened to it like 7 times today already. Check it out
Today's song: Rihanna - We found love

KIDS AWAY - FIRST ACTIVITY

Today was the first activity of the new project I'm in charge of, called Kids Away. It went absolutely perfect. First I would like to thank my 5 volunteers, who did an amazing job walking through the forest on treasure hunts and making sure everyone was having a great time. Thank you :D

For those that don't know, the Kids Away project take about 20 kids out on monthly activities, such as bushcraft, climbing, bowling etc. With the next week or so, I'll be launching the Kids Away blog (BETA site so far) were you can check out our project, get involved or give donations/support us. F. ex. for the December activity we need jam jars and toilet roll tubes.

Today we were in Gower having bushcraft courses together with Dryad Bushcraft. Andy and Rick were today's amazing instructors, who thought us everything from building a survival shelter and lighting a fire to making friendship bracelets from forest items. 

I felt so good finally starting up. All the stress and planning is worth it when you see these kids faces. They are an incredible bunch of kids, just that some might have had and have a rough time.

One of the boys doesn't speak outside his family, hardly even in school. He's really shy. Today we got him to smile and participate in all activities. He loved it. I also managed to get a faint whispers with the word "Okay" when I asked him "how you feeling?" after he tripped on a stick. One activity, one word. Just imagine, maybe after three activities we'll get a sentence. THAT is progress.

That's what I mean, many of these kids need help rebuilding, but even so, all of them smile and have fun. If I can say I've managed to improve the life of a few kids during my time I'll be through the roof.

Today's song: The Killers - Human