From Service area we've moved to Creativity! It is divided between 3 teachers and 3 different areas of creativity! Unfortunately I've missed the first week of introduction with Mr Harle, but on the second week i was ready to 'create'!
First, teacher warned us to think of our favorite song - which is pretty difficult when you listen to everything -like i do, but when my colleague Diya was explaining me as she said 'the song you connect a lot of memories with' one of my favorite songs popped in my head and i knew it was the one. Before we had to talk about music, we had few exercises to complete. We were given papers and a pen and the idea was to create stories with everybody's imagination but without knowing what previous person said. We had to write answer to 1 question then cover the bit we wrote, scramble the paper and through it to the middle and then take another one and answer to next question. The story/questions were 1. Who? -> met -> 2. Who? 3. Where? 4.and said? 5. the other one replied?
It was challenging for us, since now, in this world of programs and fixed education which rarely lets us imagine things and think outside of the box it was hard to create a character which had to be funny, weird because regular characteristics wouldn't make the story as funny as if the characters where unique and different one from another and there imagination had to work a lot.. Creating 2 characters was more difficult for me, i took the most tim on those.. Thinking of opposite qualities and not mainstream images in my head.. Then the part of placing was the easiest - it was enough to mention something very extreme like Pick of the mount Everest and that would make the story different!
In the end there were as many stories as people in our group as each started with piece of paper. When we finished we had to chose two papers and pair up t create one big story! There the fun began! Luckily for me, my partner and I agreed on everything, lets say.. but i realized i was being bossy and usually I'd say everything and do it my way without letting him express his ideas, all though in the end we agreed that the way we both made it was funny and there wasn't something we'd do more! We distributed the dialogue and the narrator between us and had to present. We were third so previous critique for our colleges helped us improve our performance minutes before we were to start and everyone liked our story and so did we:) It was surprising how our imagination gone wild and the stories we've created were very diverse!
The final part of the lesson was the sharing of the favorite song with the group. Sincerely, music is there thing i can not talk about! It makes me nervous and shy. I don't like sharing headphones and Id rather listen to somebody else music than mine in a group of people, which made me like different styles and as i was almost the last one I realized i liked every song that played before me and then when my time came i was so nervous as if i was about to take an exam! We had to sharer a story and reason why we like this song and mine was mostly connected to my summer memories which i will remember for very long time and the people I've shared those memories with.. every time i listen to that song i remember everything and smile those 4 minutes non stop! It was hard in the beginning and i warned my friends that id not like talking about music.. but along the way i got calmer and more comfortable as i realized nobody will do anything to me ( :) ) After i put the song on, they all smiled and said they've heard it and they like it which was a great relief for me! I also have a problem that i cannot listen to the song until the end,, as this one didn't have lyrics and only beat and nice melody i need to change it so by the end i was looking at the minutes
This activity was VERY challenging and made me overcome my fear... just for those 5 minutes but still.. I think afterwards i became more confident with my likes as everyone is different and you never know if they like it or not, and its worth trying! The people in my group were friendly and this made a big impact on how i felt about sharing my song.. if there were people who i know would judge I wouldn't be so open..
+2h15 min of Creativity DONE
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