And where have YOU been?!

I've been putting off updating this blog for the last few weeks because, even though i've finished uni (completely) now i've still had loads of things on. Apart from ignite Hope Local, there has been a string of get-togethers with people who are leaving dear old wales for the real world, and a few worship evenings.

Ignite Hope Local was different from last years in that the local churches took the initiative to help with local projects and needs instead of being directly co-ordinated by ignite. As part of one of the film crews (soundie!) i was able to see a lot of the work going on around the cardiff area, ranging from painting school railings to playing parachute games and football in roath park.

Car Washing in Thornhill


Litter Picking in Penarth


Gardening in Llanishen


And on the monday to round off the weekend, everyone crammed into Cardiff SU for an evening of worship, talks, and magic tricks!

Myself and another brave soul volunteered to edit together the footage from the weekend in the 3 hours leading up to the event, pure video madness is there ever was need for an example of it!
Originally we were supposed to create a DVD, with an advert from Third Day in front of the feature. The third day footage didn't work, but was going to be played from a separate source without anyone telling us! The video was completed with half an hour to spare, which gave me time to take some snaps of the night.

The storm has passed

It was amazing going into uni today and seeing the faces and moods of everyone who only yesterday were in a mix of panic and sleep deprivation. Everyone was chirpy, cheery and wanting to get the rest of the deadlines out of the way so they could get their lives back to normal!

1/3 of this years marks will be derived from a joing honours group project, whereby Music Tech, Sound Tech and Media Tech all band together in one big techy mass and work in groups to create a product or business.
my group has created a Web-based project that attempts to join together people from all walks of life in the Cardiff music scene. It is this project that we are to present to a panel of 4 lecturers and a few dozen of our classmates on tuesday.

I'm not very optimistic about our groups presentation as the meeting today wasn't as productive as we would have hoped and because of various commitments acorss the group, we aren't able to meet up again until the morning of the presentation (the presentatation is in the morning).
The next few days will be a test of communication and co-operation as each member prepares his or her part, practises it and compiles it inot one stramlined presentation that flows as if i were actaully written as a group effort! Wish me luck.

On a different note, the reason i'm busy all the next few days is because of an event called IgniteHope. I mentioned Ignite in a earlier post, Ignite like to take on projects and events to promote the good works of christians in their community. One way of showing this is to take the Hope '08 initiative and keep it going every year.
The Hope '08 initiative involved christians going out into their communitys and doing various activities including painting fences, running youth clubs, gardening, building, washing and cleaning and cooking; all for people in their community who need help or just want something done. The groups aren't paid to do this, on the contrary the delegates PAY for the privilege of painting a fence or a scout hut for three days.

As part of the IgniteHope event I'll be going round some of the sites in south wales where the projects are taking place and filming them as part of a camera crew. The projects run from Saturday to Monday, culminating in an evening celebration at Cardiff SU.

Hopefully I'll have some photos or footage of the weekend up soon, but for now here's something from a site I came across earlier which may become a favourite of mine!