Double Lesson Friday 4th of October:

We continued on our work on puppetry, to do so we continued working on concentration an activity we did was 'Cars'. We were out in pairs and one person would be the car and one person would control in which direction the car would go in, the car would also be blindfolded. There were different parts of the body, tapping the head meant stop, tapping the left shoulder would mean turn left and the right vice versa. The aim of the exercise was to have trust in each other. Me and Axel were paired up and i didn't have a problem trusting him i was comfortable in Axel 'driving' me because i had nothing to worry i also felt like the directions Axel was giving me quite easy and i reacted quick to them up until Mr.Fearnehough started making noises i thougth this was unfair because it put me off and then i got less comfortable in myself and doubted myself where i was stepping. When we changed role i thought i would find it easier and i did i could feel that Axel trusted me just the same that i trusted him just until Mr.Fearnehough started making noises i felt sorry for Axel but he seemed to deal with it better then i did.

Another trust activity was we had to walk around the room with our eyes clothes and at the exact same time we had to coordinate when to stop and go. I found it difficult because i was unaware of where people were but i used my ears more to figure how far they would be or when they would stop and go.

Double Lesson Friday 11th of October:

At the beginning of the lesson we did the relaxation exercise which always seems to work so well and left the rest of the lesson in a very good dynamic where I thought we were all focused. Continuing on the relaxation mind we did an activity that required us to sense each other. We were paired up across the room and we had to walk towards each other with a blindfolds on and arms out. The aim was not to reach each other perfectly with our hands together but to 'sense' each other. I found this activity hard because i could not sense anything. The only thing i could sort of feel was how far Axel was from me. I did not understand the feeling something in this activity and it could just be down to luck.
After this quite concentrated exercise it got ruined by us going outside and playing with balloons. We started playing the classical balloon game - 'Dont let the balloon hit the floor'. We did this and treated it like a game not thinking about consequences. After we got a hand of that we moved on too throwing a balloon to each other semi full of water. No we all knew what would happen an unlucky person was going to get wet that person turned out to be Lydia. We talked about the consequences that we treat a situation differently when there are worse consequences such as getting wet.

After that activity we did Pilates led by Lydia. I had already done some Pilates so i knew vaguely the movements Lydia would use but i still find holding the inner core a horrible thing. I felt uncomfortable doing it and always forgot to do it during the exercises.

After the Pilates we massaged each other - Now it wasn't as good as the lying down massage but it was alright ahha. We were put in pairs and shown a quicker way to do the massage standing up. I didn't find it very relaxing maybe because i had high expectations because of the lying down one but i didn't enjoy it as much.