Thursday, November 12, 2009

48-hour video race

48-hour video race? No no, it was more like 5-hour video race, because I had a lot of other projects due on that week.
I wanted to do something related to my life here in Wilmington and put some effort on it to make it a little dramatic. I live in International House, a place where 75% of the students are internationals (25% americans) and, the fact that everyone is from a different part of the world makes it really interesting and peculiar, we literally do everything together and the culture shock sometimes is really amazing, it's a hell of experience and what there's no price for what I've learned so far. It's a pretty strong subject that I had in my hands and I felt I had to explore it. So as I was expecting, I did used my laptop's webcam.
I went out of my room asking my friends to pretend they're talking to their parents on skype for one minute in my laptop, and that I'd be recording them for this project. I got Irene speaking Spanish, I got myself and Rodrigo speaking Portuguese, Bianca speaking Sinhala (language they speak in Sri-Lanka, don't worry, I didn't know too), Jane speaking Danish, Milla speaking Finnish, William and Fred speaking French and Kamil and Tanya speaking Polish. It was awesome! I had so much fun when I was recording it, cause it really looked like a kind of commercial or something, a cheering advertise, encouraging people to learn different languages. Now you might be asking, what about the BABY JAAAR?! Chill out, right when I started to record my friends I asked them to insert the baby jar at some point, so that made it funny, because we don't know what they are saying about the jar, we just have to guess.
Was a great experience, I love it and I think this class is turning out my favorite one, all my friends were jealous that I had such a great project to work on, while they had test and essays to write about.