I moved into halls on Sunday 26th September, in the evening we had a ‘meet your mentor’ session in the Stannary, where I met most people from my course. The next morning we had a Lecture with the whole of the writing department to meet the lectures and learn about the department.
They gave us a task to do in groups of 5-8, I went into a group with people who were sitting closest to me and it turned out we were a pretty good group. Our task was to map a certain part of the Falmouth/Penryn area in an unconventional way. So my team met up the next day and we through a lot of ideas around, by the end of our meeting we had so many ideas that we hadn’t actually chosen one idea. We met up later and drove to our location we had been given, we had decided to map the puddles in our area but we all thought that wasn’t a crazy enough concept for our group so someone suggested we put really random objects in the puddles. We got back to the library after taking the photographs and started photoshoping random objects and characters into our photos, and our plan started to come together.
When the presentation of our mapping task came about everybody showed us their projects and some of them were very creative but others you could tell that there group had not got along. When it came to our presentation we all divided the photos up so we would talk about each photo individually. I talked about a photo where Mario is drifting round and puddle, when we had finished we asked if there were any questions and many people put there hands up, most questions were along the lines of ‘what drugs are you taking?’ and ‘why?’ but we were very pleased because our project was very different from others and that’s what we thought the task was about not just mapping the area we were given.
So my first week was a lot of fun, and I went to all the freshers events including the Pirate Party and explore de Fal, I met of lot of new people and I really enjoyed the mapping task because my group really bonded and I made some good friends.
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