Falmouth Interview

Had my Falmouth interview today! FINALLY... All my interviews are over and I can relax. 
Thought I'd just write a bit about how it went in case anyone reading this has one on friday or in the future, and it might help!

Well I was absolutely wetting myself with nerves for this one because it seems like such a big deal compared to the other uni's as it's much further to go but once we met with some of the current students in reception I felt much better about it as they were all lovely. There were about 13 of us in total (5 girls didn't show up) and we then went to one of the lecture rooms to have a talk with the course leader Di, which wasn't too long or boring so don't worry! :) She was very reassuring and made sure that we knew which group we were put into (groups of 3 or 4). 


Then as i was group 3, the last group, we went on a campus tour first and saw the accomodation and stuff and got to talk to the students a lot which was good even though I'd already seen it at the open day. Then went to go get a drink at the cafe and to look round the studios and see all the 1st and 3rd year spaces and look through their work, SO GOOD! Forgot how much I loved Falmouth and how amazing the facilities were.. :) 


Then we went to go have our interviews, which they were using a new technique for this year which they'd never tried before. They usually interview each student individually with just one member of staff but this year there were 4 members of staff, each focusing on a different area of the subject... One member of staff looked at your creative process in your sketchbooks, one at your essay and research work, one just generally through your portfolio to talk about your work and see your range of work and the last one was a 3rd year student asking why you chose textiles and why you chose Falmouth :) So they just rotated around the room and had 5 minutes each, with each student.
That sounds really REALLY scary I know but it was actually SO much better because it made you talk a lot more as you knew you only had 5 minutes with each person. Also it's reassuring knowing that if you forget to say something you can just say it to the next person to interview you. And instead of one person deciding if you get in, there are 4 different opinions :)

London Fashion Weekend

Right so today me and Georgia were very lucky as we got to go to London Fashion Weekend today, we went round all the designers 75% OFF COLLECTIONS, where I picked up a Twenty8Twelve top and very nearly some Junky Styling but I'm poor. Best of all we saw the Catwalk! (and got lots of freebies YAY) Which was full of beautiful collections and inspirations such as Holly Fulton, Jasper Conran, Twenty8Twelve (Sienna Miller's collections), Louboutins and tonnes more! The "Prim Rose" trend catwalk was my particular favorite and I was Oohing and Aahing all the way through :) Though typical that it would be the day my camera decides that it doesn't want to auto-focus so I had to very quickly manually focus my camera whilst the model was moving to take a photo! Pftttt.


Here are some of the best snaps I got from the day (with the back of some lovely heads)....

Miss Molly (the stylist of the whole show) talking to presenter Zoe Hardman

So that was my day :)  And very nice it was too, no relaxing for me!

Best 5 days of the year.

We're back from Istanbul! (well actually we got back on Monday but I've been pretty much sleeping/working since) 


It was such an amazing trip and I genuinely just want to go back and stay for an extra week! Thanks for Ivan for organizing it for us all it was so worth it :) It was great being out every day, and out the door by 9.30 latest, I've seen Mosques, been on a boat trip along the Bosphorus, shopped in the Grand Bazaar and seen the Whirling Dervishes. 


And when I say I've seen the whirling dervishes, I mean I fell asleep during the performance, oops. But no fear, I did open my eyes JUST long enough to see them spinning. 


And I am now obsessed with Apple tea and can't stop saying "Hello pretty lady" in a really bad Turkish accent ALL the time :) Also so nice to get to know people better and I love youuuuuu all! Here's a couple photos from the trip!

my suitcase before it was scattered about several rooms

Grand Bazaar BEFORE i realized how creepy the men were so stopped taking photos

 Beautiful ceilings!

 In the snow outside the blue mosque 

Rach's sexy sarong she had to wear because she was inappropriately dressed! GASP

 Viki and her Lemon Shisha

 How we spent our evenings.....

 Istanbul modern, basically their Tate.

 Yet another Mosque ;)

 Pip taking some inspiration from the Whirling Dervishes 

And that was our trip!     I LOVE TURKEY.

See you Monday!

Reet HO, I'm off until Monday! Going on our Art block trip to Istanbul, and I couldn't be more excited. Naughty me for deciding to go and missing out on 5 days where I could be doing coursework ;) 

I'll leave you with an image of one of the famous Whirling Dervishes, (who I get to see, YIPPEE)

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A quiet place :)

Something I'd just like to share with you quickly as well... 


My friend in Fashion/Textiles recommended this to everyone on our class blog and it's actually so helpful. Its basically a project set up by this guy where you can escape from social networking sites when they are distracting you. Or somewhere to go when you need to de-stress etc... 


Genuinely made me feel 100 times better and helped me chill out a little. 


http://thequietplaceproject.com/thequietplace



Enjoy x

Interviews are nerve racking!

So amongst other things I've been up to such as projects, portfolios and being hungover I have been prepping for Uni interviews!

My second one is tomorrow EEK 

My first interview was last Wednesday, at Nottingham Trent, which was actually the only uni I didn't visit! When I got there I loved it. I loved the city, the campus, the tutors and the facilities! So now my decision has been made even harder, uh-oh. 

Anyway I was terrified but really needn't have been. There were no weird unexpected questions and the tutors were lovely to me, I only wish they'd said what they thought of my portfolio but that'd be giving their game away... Here are some of the kinds of questions they asked me in case anybody is having troubles with interviews too. 

What made you choose Nottingham?

Why Textiles?

Are there any designers that inspire you, who are they and why? 

What magazines do you read? 

What are you most interested in within Textiles and why? 

Can you draw from both photographs and real life? 

What will you gain from being on this course? 

And there were some more, but again, all fairly basic questions. Not like one I heard a previous student was asked... "IF you could save any member of girls aloud who would it be and why?"

Yeah right. I'm sorry WHAT!? What do Girls Aloud have to do with Textiles. NIL.

Anyway I HOPE that was helpful to someone out there 

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