Busy 2/11

Today I was very busy. I’m working backstage for the Macbeth performance ISK is putting up, and today was the start of two busy weeks. My teacher tells me I should expect to get out of school at 6 pm this week and 8 pm next week. I’m working as a stage manager and props manager and it’s very interesting to practice the things I only studied. I love drama and really enjoy the work, so the only problem I’ll have over the next weeks is fitting in my schoolwork, my training and of course CAS. I will not have the opportunity to go to the Nest in a few weeks, and that is quite sad.

I did however manage to find some time to make a poster for the Swedish Christmas market. We applied for funds in April and got what we needed to buy 16 new blackboards and almost 90 new lecture chairs. One of the conditions from the Swedish society is to bring a 70x100 cm poster to the Christmas market and give them all the receipts. Luckily, I’ve taken the photos on my visit to the school - but I still had to design the poster! I knew that the deadline was coming up, but had a hard time getting myself to do the design. I finally decided to do it very simple: Write some headlines and print them and a lot of photos, and finally glue them to this big poster. To make it look a little more professional, I begged my parents to give me a nice frame to put it in and luckily they did (because of IKEA there's always old stuff around). 

I’m actually quite happy with the result, even if it took ages to decide what images to use, print them, cut them out and finally glue them. The whole operation is very important though. It will inspire the Swedish community to buy more (expensive) Swedish candy and other Swedish foods, buy more drinks and food on our parties and be OK with that most of it is overpriced. 

As I’ve blogged about before, I’m planning to apply for more funds for Excellent School in Mathare in april and the Christmas market is a way to earn the money. I know I’m going to have to work hard at the market, selling food, candy and lottery tickets, so hopefully the board of the Swedish Society will consider my application. I can only hope, write a good application and wait....

Work in progress........

Finished!