Ideas:



-Decoupage elephant for Mum - MADE AND GIVEN

-Grandma's 'Sea' poem written up on a seascape background and framed

-Periodic table cushion for Ash

1. Raised £125 for Oxfam by making a silly mistake with the Oxjam money and donating my own money as well - I decided since I'd pledged to raise money for this goal I wouldn't correct the mistake!

2. Raised £100 sponsership money for Cancer Research taking part in the Shine walk. Larissa and I managed 16.5 miles; we plan to train properly and do the whole marathon next time!

3. Raised £560.05 for Amnesty International by organising another Hope gig

4. Raised £215 for Rhythmix by organising a metal gig at the Volks

1. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

2. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories - Nikolay Gogol

3. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

4 The Time Machine - H.G. Wells

5 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

6 The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens

7 The Turn of the Screw - Henry James

1. Oxjam Hope Headbanger (metal music) - £704

2. Amnesty Hope Headbanger (indie music) - £560

3. Rhythmix Fundraiser: Dead Empire and Idiom Live at the Volks (metal music) - £215

To complete the Day Zero task, I should teach at least 15 sessions in total to at least two different groups of people (so teaching 10 sessions to one group and 5 to another would count, for example)



-(2 sessions) Put together some stop motion animation session so the 'unsporty' ones at the Hearing Impairment Youth Group I volunteer at would have their own project; this was very well received, and they produced a really creative storyboard, made their backdrop and started making props (onion and orange with googly eyes!)

Idea-



the world's longest exquisite corpse? (Brilliant name apart from anything else)

films titles starting in 'the' do not count)



Another Year / American Psycho

Black Swan

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon / Catfish

Destino

Ed Wood

Fatal Attraction

G

Hero / How We Got Rid of the Others/ Hugo

It's a Wonderful Life / In Bruges

J

Kiki's Delivery Service

Lady Vengeance/ Lilya 4ever/ L'age D'or

M (by Fritz Lang)

Nosferatu

O

Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists

Q

R

Submarine / Sympathy for Mr Vengeance /Seven Samurai

True Grit / Tangled

U

V

W

X

Yes Man

Z

So far, I've written 2 letters about human rights abuses, attended my local Amnesty meeting twice and signed some petitions (which was interesting and I probably wouldn't have done otherwise), and made Kites for Human Rights on my commute to work (there is something wonderfully relaxing about colouring in on the way to work!)

Completed while staying with Dave and Charlie in Reading; Dave and I managed to construct a brilliant blanket fort despite it being four in the morning and having played the Mad Men drinking game immediately before construction started. We were able to give Charlie a nice surprise when she came home from work at 5.30am (we thoughtfully added a sign saying 'This is a Fort'), although by this point I had passed out inside it. I woke up impressed to find it had held despite Charlie and Dave having got in and out several times!

1. BSL practise group - went to a signed tour of Tate Modern followed by drinks at the BFI with some other BSL learners I met.
2. Femaura Sign club - attended a BSL practise session (met up with some people I met from the other meetup, and some new people)
3. Wake Up London Meditation Flash Mob Group - took part in a meditation flashmob on Valentine's day under the Anteros statue in Piccadilly Circus, right in rush hour! A great experience (especially the sound bath), and attracted a positive response from passers by. Afterwards we took part in random acts of kindness - I gave away origami cranes, while other people gave hugs, flowers, chocolates, quotes and poetry. Really uplifting.
4. Laughing Yoga Group - went to this at the Southbank Centre with David - lots of silliness and giggling! See 'Done' list for more details