BloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooG!

Wow… after an awesome and hectic summer, i somehow managed to abandon by beloved little blog. Woops.

Im gunna start bloggin again soon… so keep checkin back here!!!!

Nyon.

Burtigny’s downtown is a place called Nyon, around 35 minutes away. On saturday a group of us went down for a day in the sun on the lakeshore, as well as a bit of culture.

We went into a museum, which was in an old castle, where there was a modern art exhibition on display. After looking at the paintings, i was left with two feelings. They were:

1) These pictures could have been drawn by a four year old

2) Nearly all of those pictures looked like puke.

Saturday night was volleyball and pizza, although not at the same time.

Have a lovely day!

Sam

Wallace and Grommit comes to Switzerland!

A slightly abstract title, but it works!

As part of my work experience here, I have been doing media development and research. Yesterday we were making stop motion films, which was fun, as I had to animate a ball of paper coming out of a waster paper bin   and landing on a table, being dragged around by a plastic cow and then unravelling its self, to display some design work!

Stop motion is where you take a picture, move the subject matter (a piece of paper in this case, but it could be a wallace and grommit plastercine model or lego men, for instance) then you take a picture of it, then move it a tiny bit again. When you have done that 20 times, you have 1 second of film!!!

The other problem with this, was that I needed to do the whole thing backwards!!! This was so as I didnt crumple the paper up!

If you’re interested in software or computers, then I was using istopmotion to make it. Its a great app, very cheap and a world of fun!!!

Have a lovely day!

Sam.

Ready? Set……….. GO!!

OK! i’ve packed everything and am ready to go now! I’m at the dentst at 9, so a quick stop in Warrington before i go to the airport! I leave from Liverpool, with Easyjet (hopefully the plane will have wings!) As Im into planes, I should probably tell you that I’m hoping for an A320, as apposed to their fleet of 757s and 737s. (A320s are much smoother and quieter!) but hey – for the easyjet price, I can’t complain!

My random journey will be: Northwich ➙ Stockton Heath ➙ Liverpool (Speke) ➙ Geneva ➙ Gland ➙ Burtigny! so hopefully it will be good! I got my Swiss Francs yesterday, and they are very cool! all rainbow coloured!

I’ll also get to enjoy that Swiss eco-friendly public transport system, but hopefully they won’t come at me with pitchforks when they see the EasyJet plane arrive (being very environmentally unfriendly!!!)

OK… Here I Go!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGHHHHHH……… Passport???????????????

(a short while later)

Oh, ok found it!

Bye!

So, What Am I Doing then?

This is the Info of what I will be doing over the summer, so, hopefully I will have plenty to comment on and talk about! If there’s anything that you want me to talk about, then just comment/email me!

Thursday, 10th July
Fly out to University of the Nations, Switzerland, where I will be doing some training in media and work experience
Tuesday 22nd July
Come back from Switzerland.
Wednesday 23rd July
Go down to Midlands to work on a radio station www.amplifiradio.com

Sunday 4th August
Go to Newday and Utoxetter
Thursday 7th August
Come back from Utoxetter

Tuesday 12th August Fly to Canada to see friends

Tuesday 19th August, Drive to Niagra and then to USA

Thursday 20th August, Drive to Boston

Saturday 23rd August, Drive to New York

Tuesday 27th August, Drive back to Toronto

Monday 31st August Return to UK!!!

Wednesday 2nd School! (zzzzzzzzzzzz) lol

Have a lovely day!

Welcome to my new blog!!!

Hi this is is my new blog, and you’ll be able to see what im doing every day over this very very busy summer!!!   Lets see how it goes! You never know… I might carry it on after the summer!!!

Have a lovely time!

Sam.