A week of firsts

Hello again,

Another week has passed, so I have some more news for you. Just a quick reminder: I'm studying Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship, Music Pathway, at Goldsmiths College, University of London, just to set the record straight and there's no doubt :)!

This week was a week of firsts at uni. First introduction meetings with the 3 different departments I’m in: the department if ICCE, Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship which is my main home; the department of Music where I will be taking my option courses; and the department of Cultural Studies where my fellow students and me will be taking one course on their programme. It was also the first time that I met my fellow students: they are all very nice and interesting. There are about 35 of us, all selected for specific reasons according to the director of the programme- I felt quite honoured when she said that. However, I am one of the youngest there. There are about 5 of us who just came from uni, and everybody else has several years of experience in the cultural industries: web designers, film directors, journalists, digital designers, performance artists, you name it, we got it! Plus, I think that with 35 people we have at least 20 different nationalities: Belgian (of course, little me!), German, Greek, Italian, Columbian, Egyptian, Czechoslowakian, Brasilien, Spanish, British ... This makes it all very interesting.

Our tutors are extremely nice and will be following us closely to check our personal and group progress. I don't have many classes but we're supposed to read a lot and really stay up to date. We are also supposed to go around London for interesting lectures, exhibitions et cetera, so that is just awesome if you ask me. This week I went to the Design Museum at the Shad Thames (very nice area anyway) where I saw a very interesting and inspiring timeline of design related highlights in London, from the sixties till now. Yesterday I went to the Victoria and Albert Museum where I saw a very nice exhibition called "Telling Tales", where mostly Dutch designers showed furniture inspired by the various elements explored in tales, very beautiful, I can definitely recommend it. The V&A museum is amazing anyway, it's free and I didn't have time to go all around but I will definitely be going back at some point. The museum is situated in Knightsbridge where Harrods is as well, and god, if I would only have the money ;)! I did buy a nice dress at H&M, more my kind of budgets!

Anyway, the first week was great. Met a lot of interesting people, and I'm actually now meeting up with a German girl, Sibylle, to go to some design related exhibitions and Spitalfields market! The sun is shining, and I'm in London, I think you'll forgive me if I leave you now and go out and enjoy myself! But I'll be back!!!

x cam x