When I first found out I had to learn a new occupation for my PO2 class, hundreds of ideas filled my head - all of the things I had daydreamed about learning and doing were immediately running through my mind: learning French, travel ideas, learning to play guitar, or creating something crafty - to name a few. I started researching a few of these ideas and wondering which one would be best, I really wanted to learn French. I have been to France - Paris and Cannes, and though I would attempt to bring out the fluent sophisticated Parisian inside of me. That plan was foiled however by the Clubs and Societies timetabling - Their French course ran to suit the University, not the Polytech and so I was on placement or on holiday when the class was running. So sadly I had to give up on that idea, the Parisian inside of me will have to wait to get her moment... 'Toutes en bon temps'. :)
After a few more of my ideas fell though I sat back and tried to think in a different tack, I had been hoping to do something in a teacher/student like atmosphere like taking a class - but then I though I could have anyone teach me anything, anywhere, as long as I didn't need an 'actual' teacher. It was around the time I had this great idea that my very crafty friend Nicola popped by. We talking about a hot water bottle she had just knitted from scratch, and by the end of the conversation Nicola had become my new Knitting teacher!! We scheduled to meet once a week, and hopefully the result of our 9 weeks is for me to have made a hot water bottle cover myself!
When Nicola had left I had a great feeling of excitement and enthusiasm about how the 9 weeks were going to pan out. I started looking up knitting online and emailed my Granny who is an avid knitter telling her that I was about to join the fold - so to speak :)
Nicola's flatmate Kate is going to learn too, and I persuaded another OT friend Ashley to join us as well, so now we are a true knitting club.
All I have to do now is to find some wool and knitting needles and I'll be ready to go. :D
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