Meeting tomorrow

Hello everyone

Just a gentle reminder that we're meeting with Emma tomorrow night at 6. It's in workshop 3 (the basement corridor one), so I'll be hanging around the court area to gather you all in. If you bring me your most up to date drawings of your cabinet ideas, I will provide you with biscuits!

Also - have a think about when you want to do your bit of the filming and we'll make sure that everyone is in a shooting team with a schedule and locations.

To summarise:

ideas = biscuits

George

Hosenbügler

Hello there. Sorry I couldn't make it to the Mela or World Party, although I thought that the excuse "I was in a youth hostel in Germany at the time," was a pretty good one. To make up for it, here is a picture of the Rhein:

There it is, in all its Rheiny glory. And the huge cathedral in Cologne (attempt to climb only if you have large amounts of water to hand, but worth it for the view):

And because I imagine that large German lakes/large German buildings may not awaken any particular interest in most people, here is one of my favourite signs of all time (from the Eurotunnel):

They've actually done a diagram to show you how to wait, and look, he's crossing his legs and leaning and everything. I think this is absolutely fantastic, and want to see more of these signs around. It almost beats "This sign is not in use" (which my dad saw on the way home from a concert), but not quite.

Anyway, see you tomorrow (or, technically, today), anyone who's coming to discuss the Arts Award/cabinets etc -- and get well soon Emma!

Hi everyone!












Final arrangements for our participation at the Croydon Summer Festival. As Ambassadors our main goal at the World Party and the Mela will be to promote this Autumn's Live Events. I will attempt to post a spreadsheet (!!!!how, ooo, arh, eee!!!!) timetable of when we'd like you to volunteer your help. And if you want to help out please email me the times you'd like to do. It would be great if you could volunteer 2 hours (1 hour to be at the stall and 1 hour to go around the festival giving out free prize vouchers - but some of you won't fancy that so that's OK too). The plan is to have a stall quite near the entrance of the event (near the Clocktower information tent). There should be at least 2 Ambassadors (South Asian and/or Young Ambassadors) at the stall at all times (I will be around all day) - we will have magazines and promotional fliers to give out. The fliers will promote the key performances for young people at the Clocktower this Autumn.

Saturday (World Party)

1pm - 2pm nihar / Jess / Neal
2pm - 3pm Nihar / Jess / Neal
3pm - 4pm Nasreen / Longxiao
4pm - 5pm Longxiao
5pm - 6pm nasreen
6pm - 7pm
7pm - 8pm

Sunday (Mela)
1pm - 2pm Nasreen / pritti
2pm - 3pm Pal / Sarah / Jess
3pm - 4pm Pal / Sarah / Jess
4pm - 5pm nasreen / moksha
5pm - 6pm Nihar / berni
6pm - 7pm nihar
7pm - 8pm

Croydon Festival

Hey!

The DV Workshop was fun that was...last wed. we made lil films using cameras. myself and andy realised that we really really needed a tripod. you can totally see the difference. we did a random horror thingy the spinning around thing worked really well i thought. u can see if u go next tue at 6pm.

btw gaby can do a brilliant crazy person

im going to the asian mela on sunday gonna rock!
need to help oly decorate the stall..need girls for this...or girls guys...

newayz we gona be going round with cameras talking to people. we have to get them to sign a permission form if they are under 16.

and then just talking to people in genral

i have a duck hairdryer... n kind bored...got my brit induction day later...n off to a party...still bored now tho.

cya soon,
love Sarah xxxxxxxxx

New Members????!!!

Ok guys......I am writing with a proposition! Would anyone object to having 2 fantastic people join the Group??? think they would be good for the Group and especially Croydon Now! It's your decision....you have by Wednesday midnight to decide and get your objections in now! Kaela and Ruth, both go to St Andrews and are 15....

la la la

Hey all,

Conference was boring, makes me glad that I have the Ambassador group.

Im tired and grumpy lol. didnt sleep cuz of the heat last night.

on the good side im playing pokemon yellow on gameboy and i got a boulderbadge last nite...around 4:23 am

My prom was brilliant I'll show a pic.

Love Sarah xxxx (I love ant!)

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my friend sent me dis n so i fort id post it on here. it well wierd

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if you can yuor not the frsit psoern ifnact erveynoe can do it!feraky huh? sratgne huh?

Conference tingy

Rite on tuesday me, Neal, Michelle and Sarah went to this conference ting at the hilton in purley. olly was ment to go but had a 'cold', pathetic excuse :p lol. basically every county/borough/town/random places gets given a sum of money inorder to spend by youth for youth. Croydon (having the most young peolple) got the most money! yey! so basically they wanted people to give their ideas. it was of the most BORING thing that we all agreed on we have eva been thro at the beggining as it did get better. firstly we were late to get started and then when we did we had a talk followed by anova followed by anova in which they were all saying the exact same thing but in the most loooongest and complicated way that they could find! then we had an 'ice breaker' in which we had to design a poster thing with pens and some glitter! and of course pens on which we could do our ideas on what we would spend the money on. (it was about £8000 btw) we did an under 18's nightclub, a park only for youths, a hostile, a smooothie bar, a cafe, a youth club and an activity centre. Our poster came 2nd!! then it was break!!! at looong last, but because we went to the loo first of all (which may i just add played the most strangest posh posh posh music which is really desturbing when your trying to do your makeup! lol) that when we went to go and get a drink it was all gone! so we got stuck with some manky orange juice or water. we then had a discussion time, which was alright, where we decided our top 5 priorities on what we want to spend the money on. the under 18's club was at the top and then a youth centre and a park and some other things that i can't remeber. we then played a fun game with stickers! oh and another thing is that we also went to the conference thing in order to chose a management team for looking after the money and so we had to use the stickers to stick on what qualities we wanted to the management team to have. and then it was lunch !!!! this has got to be the highlight of the day. the food was gorgeous! and the cakes were to die for but again all the drinks were gone in a flash. when we had finished we decided to go and sign the 'graffiti' board. (basically it was a board where you were ment to write your opinions but no one use it for that) where i met a very interesting young man who had made some interesting observations. oh and dw ollie we did our audience developing thing as we wrote about the clocktower and that the 'ambassadors were here' lol :p after we indured another loong and boring discussion where i was forced to ask a question and then didn't really understand the answer. during this we played a good few games of hang man and noughts n crosses, in which me and michelle won!!!! and then we were aloud to go home!!! wowowowo! any ways basically we have learnt that we can claim this money by filling in a form and the money can go towards whatever we want, well with in reason, like trips, buildings etc. and so we were thinking maybe we could use this money to our advantage?!? ideas please.....
Jess

Cabinet plotting

Hope that you are all still up for the DV camera training sessions this week and next (6th and 11th July). After the camera training there's a chance to talk about your box ideas one on one with Emma and plunder all her artistic experience.

Could you bring along the most detailed designs that you've got for the cabinets? We need to try and work out practical ways of making your ideas work! Sorry I'll miss you, I'll be up in the wilds of Scotland and Cumbria. I'll blog you some piccies if I can. Maybe even from the train back as I go through Preston - beautiful!

George

Random Stuff

Hey all,

Oly was right, phoenix was brilliant, Ant n I went to see and really enjoyed it. We have to get something done about the lack of/non existence of performances during the summer holiday. Seriously this is the only time of year when young people can or want to go somewhere different.

Next point, oh yeah, referring to a post looonnnng ago, I was in the group with Emma and Andy. We went to the Queens Gardens and apart from eating a box of strawberry's we found OMG BECKHAMS JUST RESIGNED!!!
sorry my dad just said....
anyways we found a really good spot by the water fountain that shows the clocktower, the grass in an archway sort of thing. It looks really good. So perfect place for a dance routine or something to take place. The noise of traffic could be a problem and lack of people at certain times of the day. I know that Fridays from about 3pm till late are nice and busy. With people of all ages chillin out on the grass, having water fights, that sorta thing.

On personal news, its my prom on Wednesday and me and ant have been together for 10 months!! woooo!!!

Also on Tuesday we have the "Youth Funding" thing at the Croydon Hilton. I'm going, not sure who else is though.

Babbled on enough. See ya'll soon.

Love Sarah xxxx