The workshops will start this afternoon and all of us are pretty anxious. We made some phone calls to ensure the presence of everybody involved in the project, both children, youth and adults. Also, we led the place of the workshops ready; we tried to make everything as perfect as we could.
The first workshop is done. The attendance of the young people was lower than what we expected but it was fine. Someone told us that is was because all of them are still on vacations and some are not in the town. It makes sense.
We started with the workshop called “basic formation in ceramics” which was leaded by a teacher and that explained the absence of the elders. Another reason responds to the fact that they are supposed to have a constant participation in the workshop called “intergenerational transference of the ceramics” that is going to be every other week.
The workshop run as it was planned: we introduced ourselves and made a presentation of the project, every question they had was answered and then the teaching–learning activities started.
The teenagers were shy but I think that’s normal. We asked them how they felt and they said it was nice being there; they really seemed interested.
We are having a meeting with the adults in 15 minutes. Let’s hope they like the proposal of the project as much as the others.