Goodbye Kingston

The end of an era, a short one, but an era non the less. My time here in London and at Kingston University has come to an end, Monday the 15th I, along with my fellow Erasmus friends, handed in all our projects for the semester, no exams, no big goodbyes, just 10 kg of paper and such, in a pile, presented exquisitly - Goodbye Kingston Uni.

It has been a back and forth experience being an Erasmus student, away from 6000 Kollywood, different school, different way of working, different way of handing in. I have had my share of good and somewhat bad experiences, but I think it has all taught me a lot. I wish I could give you a nice bullet point list of the things I have learned here, but it's not that easy, I teaches you things about yourself, about your style, your way of working. I don't think my work here has been any way near as good as what I could have done at home, and it might very well be my own fault - in fact I'm pretty sure it is (I have a bunch of excuses for that, but as my latin teacher used to say: "The road to hell is paved with bad excuses")

But I think all of us DSKD students agree that it has been an experience worth having.

While being here we have done three projects: Brittish Design Counsel Contest for Burberry (one of our fellow DSKD students made it to the secound round), a selfinitiated project (mine was with ECCO) and an MA Fashion Contex Course. In the MA-course especially, we have talked a lot about what we as designers represent, be it our cultural copyright, our beliefs or what makes us elligable for an MA in fashion. Putting these concepts in to words, especially english words, has really opened our minds up to what fashion can be, and pushed us in the direction we want to go in the future. 

Next semester will be all about the internships, I am so excited to go hang out with the awesome team at Envii in CPH for a few months. And after that it's back to DSKD to do my masters. I will say this, I will appreciate Kolding School of Design more than ever!

However, the best possible memory I take from this experience, is the people I have met here, my new family - the 22 Addison gardens family. Family dinners every week, weird parties and paint ball days - I know it's not academically interesting that I have new friends, but I would say this, I'd do it all again if just to meet these people.