What Week Is It? Another Reflection
I sit here, about to do report card marks, wondering how the time managed to fly by so incredibly fast. It seems like yesterday that I was writing my last reflection, yet so much has happened since then. I have started to edit the yearbook. Because the students decided to create the yearbook in Adobe InDesign (an extremely hard program for a beginner to learn), they needed someone who had experience with the program. Thankfully, I have spent my last four years learning the ins and outs of the program and was able to be of assistance. But hey, I’ll do anything for a couple slices of free pizza. (Joking)…
I’ve also been running a fashion club. This is the best part of my day because we have about 7 girls who are really interested and willing to try anything. Right now we’ve sourced some white, natural fabrics and are about to dye them with wonderful, beautiful, natural dyes. The girls are just as excited as I am, and when it comes to my incredible passion for natural dyes, that’s saying something.
We stemmed this club from the fashion trip. Together, Marnie (my SA) and I took 32 girls to the Kwantlen Fashion Show in Vancouver. This was a great experience for me as I was on the other side graduating from Kwantlen last year, showing my final collection. It was a strange feeling to be on the other side of the bench. So much has happened in a year.
We took the girls to the Show, which was downtown Hastings and made my heart race 1,000 beats per minute. They got tired of my safety lectures pretty quickly. Then we took the girls shopping for fabric at Dressew and Button Button, a seamstress’ dream. The girls got to shop along Robson, where our hotel was and came back to be put to bed by 10:30. The next day, I conducted a small tour of Granville Island where we visited my boss at Bodacious Lifestyles, a women’s all inclusive clothing boutique, to talk about the business part of fashion. The girls then took a bus down to Kwantlen where I showed them around campus and talked to them about the fashion program, interior design program, and graphics design program.
After hitting up another fabric store, it was definitely time to go home. We hopped on a bus and drove 5 hours back to the Okanagan. What a great trip for both the students and myself!
Back in class on Monday. Lesson planning remains to be a giant that looms in front of me, and my students are the little soldiers pushing me to keep going. I feel like I’ve made such a strong connection with so many of my students, it’s going to be really hard to say goodbye.
Summerland would be such an amazing place to work…