Day 2
back in tuesday, i left home nice and early with it being a long trek from Bangor and halfway there disaster struck! my car over heated on the dual carriageway, so i drove to prestatyn hoping it would make it and went to the train station, north wales trains are not the most reliable and i made it into wrexham at 11am! nightmare! after collecting stuff from the print centre to finish setting up the space i got there just in time for lunch.
i then spent a nice afternoon pinning stuff to the walls, its so nice to have a whole space of blank walls just for me, i’m so used to sharing spaces or having them intertwined with my home life it feels a bit indulgent to have all this room just for me.
Cath and Mike who run the art department have been very nice, they seem very relaxed, i’m looking forward to bouncing ideas off them, i think i am going to learn a lot about teaching art in schools which is great and also i think they are going to get a lot out of having a fresh perspective from someone who hasn’t ever worked in a school.
so it has felt like a slow start but i’m telling myself thats natural for any project, two days havn’t seemed like much time and i’ve planned to only be here two days a week due to financial constraints and travel costs, but i feel i’m going to need to be here a lot more than that, so either i have to move closer by or be very poor all year.. hmm
and so the day ended by me getting a lift with Sue from the science department to my car which i then tried to drive to see what would happen and it blew up! the head gasket went! horrible experience, lots of smoke and steam, i spoke to a man at a garage and came to the conclusion it wasn’t worth fixing so sold it to him for 50 quid and got the train home!
what a weird day!
and now i’m car less in north wales, not the most convienient place to be without a car, so we shall see how journeying to wrexham on the train on my small budget goes…
