Day Fourteen, Antigua

Gloria and Annie

This Friday we had a free day to take for ourselves. In the morning I slept in to catch up on my sleep and to take the morning to relax.  got up around 10am and took myself off to the Casa to work in my studio for the day. my studio has grown in size; three large tables have been moved into the room, and since only one of the three spaces is being actively used by another student, I have taken over one of the large tables instead of using the small table I was originally using. My reason is comfort level mostly; the small table is really low and I was really hurting my neck and shoulders work at it. I will be looking for a shorter chair, so that the third table can be available to the other students in the near future, though it seems none of the other studio majors are currently interested in utilizing the available space.

Leslie and Gloria

I stayed in my studio from 10:30 till 5:30 when all of the students still at the Casa were asked to leave for the evening. I took that time to finish Gloria's portrait in the Codex. I really wanted to make sure that the portrait truly expressed how I see Gloria, particularly since I have gotten to know her so well in such a short amount of time. I also ended up talking with another student at the Casa, Leslie, for quite a bit of time while working in my studio. She was very curious about the Codex and what it represented, as well as where I pull my inspiration. We talked for a long time and I reaffirmed in my head that it is very important to be socially active with the rest of the students at Casa. When Leslie invited Gloria and I to her house for a study group that night, I jumped at the opportunity to get to know the rest of the group better.

Irina

So, later in the evening, after dinner with our host family, Gloria and I walked (in the rain) to Leslie and Kara's home stay for a study group. Two other students showed up as well; Irina and Annie. The other students were scared off by the rain. We stayed for several hours, discussing our classes, the homework for the weekend (which is over 130 pages of reading), and our impressions of the group and Antigua. We also discussed the elections this weekend.
Our group stayed for quite a while, though Gloria and I were the first to leave at 11pm. We were concerned about walking at such a late hour, and we didn't want to walk into our home stay too late.

Kara

Unfortunately, we did arrive too late, since our host father had already bolted up the door, and we were forced to ring the bell. He had thought we were already in bed. It was a lesson in leaving clarifying notes for our host family in the future, so that they are in the loop about our actions. We ended the night continuing our homework in our own room.