Monday 12th September (Birthday Presents?)

So for our first task we were asked to just try and think about all the presents we've received till our recent birthdays. And our tutor proved us right as most of us wToday was pretty straight forward and slightly random. We talked about how our minds recall certain events in our lifetime it could be a good experience or it could've been a bad experience. As humans apparently we cannot recall exactly what we've done already directly, it's he experiences, our senses that allow us to piece together what we are trying to remember.
ere having a hard time what present we received, but some were able to remember getting a present from one of their family and friends.

We were then asked to write out these presents on a piece of paper and see how far back we can remember. I had a hard time remembering anything from 8-10 years old, all i could remember from those ages was my primary school days but nothing about presents. I did remember my favourite birthday presents such as yu-gi-oh cards, Beyblades, the legendary gameboy advanced sp and an life sized action man car that my brother got me and hurt myself on as soon as i saw it... I tried to pick it up. But I remeber it so clearly because I had a painful experience with it. And that is what our tutor tried to get across to us that our mind remembers events depending on the experience you had especially with your senses.

Our next task was to put all of our words into typography form on paper, I didn't hear that bit so I ended up drawing out the gifts that I could remember. Of course when I realised what I was doing was wrong I started drawing the words out. But it turns out that what i done at first was the second part of the task, to draw out the gifts that we received on our birthday.

And lastly we had to cut out the paper we drew on but around the words and images we drew out. It got messy but it was a creative messy. We even hanged them up around the classroom and started to connect them with one another...I must say the outcome was actually pleasing.

To finish off the day we were all asked to cut out silhouette of one of our presents and put them on the floor at the front of the class. At this point we were all asked a question about what we learnt from today not just today but in general and i answered "The older we get the less presents we get, or the size of our presents are not as big as they were when we were little". Which I only realised after doing all of this... It's funny how all of this can tap into your past and reminisce your childhood.