International handicraft PBL was a project in which we learned and got to know more about other countries' patterns. Angie was the supervisor for this PBL and there were 11 students, including me. The PBL lasted for 5 days, from Monday to Friday and 6 hours a day which is from 8 am to 12 pm and from 1 pm to 3 pm.
On the very first day, some of us made our own presentations about the handicraft patterns in our own countries before lunch time. In between our presentations, we had a cookie break which we had some lemon cake that I made with Angie the night before (yummy!!!!!) After lunch, some people started to learn some basic knitting and crocheting. I could say that I am quite good at crocheting so I was learning how to knit and those people who knew how to knit taught others who didn't know. I also taught some people how to crochet as well while I was learning how to knit. During that time, we also had a discussion of what we were going to do during the next 4 days and then we made the decision by the end of the day.
On the second day, we got Sarah who is a Chinese teacher in the college, to come and show us how to do paper cutting and it was really interesting. She had 3 paper cuts before she left but then all of us want them so we played a dancing game to decide who to get them. And they were Halla, Nukaaka and Farhiya. Shortly after, we continued our basic learning about knitting and crocheting until 10:30 am, we went shopping in Dale (a small village in Norway) together to buy some stuff, such as wools, stretches, needles, paper, coloring pencils, etc. for our project and also some ingredients for making cookies or cake for the next days. We came back just by lunch time. After lunch, we still continued doing the same as we did in the morning, but some people started something else when they finished with their work.
Third day came, we decided that everyone had to make one piece of work which its size was 20cm*20cm, and there were 12 of us, including Angie, so we could sew them together and make a wall hanging. Some people did it by crocheting, knitting, embroidery or anything they wanted. It was really interesting to see people were doing stuff differently. It was a quite PBL because everyone concentrating on their own work and we hardly heard a word while they were doing. Luckily, we got some various types of music which was playing all the day long.
On the forth day, some people finished their 20*20 work but some didn't. So the people who finished started something new they wanted and others just continued their work. I did embroidery which took me quite a long time but I managed to finish it on Thursday just before lunch and I was happy to finish my work and I had mixture in between embroidery and crocheting on my piece of work. By the end of the day, Else who is one member of staff in the college and who is also an amazing knitter, came and showed us how she has been knitting almost all her life, since she was 6. She showed us a lot of amazing stuff she had made. I was very impressed to see those various things she had done.
Friday came, we managed to finish all our pieces of work and some of us sewed them together to make it one piece. After that, I got myself to knit socks for my first time. I was quite nervous since I was not really familiar with knitting and then I got some instructions from Angie and Marit on how to do it. After several hours, I made a sock. I was delighted since it was the first one in my life and I never thought I could do it and finally I did. By the end of the last day, we placed the big piece of our work in Kantina to show everyone what we did in our PBL but it was not all we did, it just represented our work.
I was really happy with my PBL, because I got to learn new things and also knew more about other countries' handicraft and also by practicing it on my own which was really nice. I also got to know some first years clearer which was great because I didn't know some of them before we got to the PBL. One more great thing was we got good cookies from our friends every morning which really made our days more beautiful. Thanks to everyone :)
