It’s all good

I love the teachers they’re all very helpful

It was very expensive but I think worth it for being away for the first time

Best aspects: meeting new people, learning about a subject I am very interested in, getting to make historical garments, independence. Worst aspects: living with new people who I don't know, steep learning curve on my course and very heavy workload, isolation of being somewhere new with no strong friendships yet.

Best aspects: course content, very much enjoy learning how historical garments are made Worst aspects: depending on what studio you're in there may not be enough sewing machines, and people end up not being able to get on a machine even after the lecture is over. Our lecturers mainly read from the PowerPoint and you feel like you didn't really need them there, you could just read it yourself and work it out. We are also not given context on many things we do, so we are left thinking why on earth are we doing this, then 3 weeks later we do something that connects the dots. If we knew why we were doing things and had a sense of the whole picture we would learn better and understand better the construction of the garment. Our contact hours are spread unevenly, all our making happens on 1 day a week so a weeks worth of work must be done in one day, which is very stressful and exhausting.

Best aspects: good location, walking distance of town and the beach with a bus stop very close by and the Co Op too. I do feel safe here, there are multiple locked doors between me and the outside and we have a security guard in reception. I am happy with my room allocation and the wifi works fine. Worst aspects: management isn't great, broken things don't get fixed for ages and then not always well. We aren't notified about fire drills. Some of the reception staff can be kinda rude, talk to you like you're stupid.