Surrealistic Drawing Games, Hand Massages and Wine

Today was my third session at college. I'm doing a City & Guilds course in learning how to teach adults. Since I left my job in June last year I have had the privilege of only seeing people I choose to see. Apart from my clients of course but they are so lovely that I don't mind seeing them.

Attending this course has unfortunately reminded me of a couple of things:

a) I quite often don't enjoy having to interact with people I haven't chosen myself to interact with

b) as a learner I have always undermined my intelligence. For some reason I think I am less smart than the loudmouths, but really... it usually turns out that I'm smarter than they are!

My objective for today was to make my voice heard!


There's a guy in my course who just shouts out the answers to all the questions and nobody else gets a chance to say anything. Well, I can only say that I tried. Did I succeed? Not really.

For today's class we had been teamed up with another person and was going to demonstrate a skill to them which they were going to repeat. I was teamed up with Justin, an artist who I haven't had the chance to speak to before. I knew he was going to teach me how to make a drawing and I've been feeling sorry for the guy the whole week considering that I can't even draw a straight line. Well, he chose to teach me how to play a surrealistic drawing game. Basically you fold a piece of paper into four sections. Start by drawing a head at the top of the paper, fold it and give it to your partner. Your partner then draws the torso, folds the paper and gives it back to you. You draw the legs, fold the paper and give it to your partner. He draws the feet and voila! You can be as creative and crazy as you like when doing this. Unfortunately I did not bring my camera to class today so I haven't got any pictures of our fabulous drawings but I found this one on the web.

I taught Justin how to give a hand massage. He understood what I was going on about and managed to give me a hand massage at the end of it. It was a confidence boost to learn that I can actually teach someone how to do something.

I had expected lots of homework this week but it turns out that we don't have to do much at all. When I found a tenner on the street on my way home I thought... no homework, no brain power needed this evening... guess what I spent it on?! Yeah, this...