Patricia
First impressions
WOW!!!!!!!
Massive, humongous, university with wonderful facilities. The Print rooms, and note I said print rooms were very well equipped and Sarah they had windows in them. The digital media suite was full of apple mac computers and the printer could produce a print that was bigger than two A1's together. The tech man there said that they can reproduce almost any size we require. The Arts Center housed the performing arts as well. The atrium in the centre of the building was spacious and opened up over the four floors giving ample space for exhibitions to be displayed to their full advantage. Off this atrium were theatres and also another very large gallery where our exhibition of the collaborative project will be displayed for exhibition next Thursday. Near the Harris Arts Centre is the library and Art Museum buildings.
Open, warm, friendly, generous spirited people, eager to share and learn both with us and from us. They have done everything possible to make us feel at home both on campus and at the homes where we are staying. On Sunday we went to a really nice family for dinner. The house was like something out of Grand Designs, set in acres of land.
The scenery is breathtaking and words fail me to describe the beauty of the mountains that surround the city with rests in the valley below them.
First day we also gave our presentations which seemed to go down well. The students were very responsive to all we threw at them. Especially our colloquialisms, Michelle was explaining how something could go west and further used the expression to explain this by saying that a thing goes pear shaped and later they said that they all thought she was saying they had pear shaped hips. OOOOOOPS!
Joe, Amy and Tolly have done everything possible to accomodate us both on campus and off. Such wonderful people.
