3rd Week

Wow, most of the time that I am in London has past. We try to see what we can this week, but when work is done the most shops and museums have closed.

But first start with Monday. In the evening there was a meeting with a councilor, where disable persons can speak to him. There were also problems with the microphone and while Canon fix it I have to do the film. I saw a woman which was that angry about the cuts and some people which use the services of Lambeth Mencap and filmed her. We finished late and come home at ten o’clock, no much time for sightseeing.

The Tuesday started normal till we pass the door of the Lambeth Mencap office. Alan came to us, told us where the Channel 4 building is and that we can go and see the meeting there. We were so happy that we are allowed to go to the building of Channel 4 and so we take the bus. Over an hour later we stand there at the reception and tell the woman why we are here. She was very kind and so we came in to listen to the last part of a speech from a professor. But the workshop that followed was very interesting. After the speeches we went with Steve and Sabrina to Westminster Abbey and Downing street, the street where the prime minister lives to do some shoots. Brave Sabrina, she knows that much about the cuts and fights so strong against them. We were back at the office at 2 o’clock without time to eat. I edited some pictures I had taken on Monday and then the work day was over. So hurry at home, do something to eat and let’s go to the city. But when we arrived at Elephant and Castle all shops was closed. Where are we? Chemnitz? This is London! You cannot close before 6 o’clock. That ruins my dream of London! 

But Wednesday we arrived before they close and I could by a new jacket. My work at this day was it to finish the editing of the photos and than a move on to help Canon with the video that should stop the cuts.

Thursday I want to begin a flash video that I prepared the days before. It should explain the cuts to disable people. When I started Charmain, a staff member of the Friends Service that will be cut comes in to say, that it would be better to do a presentation. So I started to work on a presentation with the animations I’ve already finished and did some more animations. Wow, when you work hard on a presentation with this lot’s of animations it can take some time. So I finished at Friday morning, but I wanted to try it on the Laptop it should run on and, tada the Laptop didn’t work. Five minutes before it was used our Supervisor told me that it should run with Open Office. But, I’ve fix it and it was done..

But now I should do another little flash animation. A shear should cut the Logo of Lambeth Mencap into pieces.

We decided to stay at the flat at Thursday, that we are fit for the weekend.

At Friday afternoon when everybody arrived we go to Waterloo to see the Imax Cinema. We had luck because there was cards for good places left and so we were able to see Tron Legacy. Wow, what a movie, what a cinema. 26 meters long screen, that’s amazing. At the begin we saw some trailers in the normal cinema size and it was hardly ¼ of the size of the screen. Tron is a good movie, too. It’s fresh and new and so Canon, Mietz and I were very happy. Mietz and I decided to see Avatar Extended at the next day and Adora came with us. But before we go to the Imax we also seen the Chinese new year celebrity at China Town and ate some Asian food, very delicious. Avatar was very good and the battles were really cool at this big screen, but after the movie my head hurts. We went home at 4 o’clock and slept long. Sunday we go twice to the Chinese new year at Chinatown and there we saw the parade with the dragon. We all don’t catch lot sleep last night, so we go back at 6 o’clock when the New Year celebrity finished