Getting organised

The preparation for the sandwich year was, for me reasonably stress free. I knew pretty much from the beginning of the second year that I wanted to have a break before I went into my final year, I wanted to be able to relax for a year really become focused on what I wanted my work to be like and develop a style I would be proud of and wouldn't get distracted from. 


I had initially look at going to Finland to study but when I heard of the school in Besanҫon and looked at the teaching plans, really liked it. But to give myself options I applied to both schools. The applications were simple enough. The French application was a little more complicated than the one for Finland but mainly because they wanted a lot of information about qualifications and coursework grades. Both of the schools required an portfolio of work as a type of interview process. i photographed my work and created a Powerpoint presentation burnt to a disk to send with my application. 

These are an example of the work I sent on the disk.

 


I was accepted into both schools but by this time I had done some research into both cities where to schools were based and I decided that I wanted to spend the whole year in France. Now I had made my decision i had to go about preparing for the year ahead of me. the most important thing was arranging the accomodation, the english tutor at ERBA actually helped arrange it for us.