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Today we asked the students to listen and feel the rhythms of nature. In and around the most remote youth hostel in the UK, students worked in pairs to produce sculptures inspired by the natural environment and incorporating mans impact.

I thought working with Azooz will be difficult and that i have to do it all but the truth was that he was incridible and full of great ideas. Our work was about our adventure in offscreen using nature and other stuff made by man. We used a sign post written on it ‘Bridge’ as a sign that offscreen was a bridge for us to communicate with each other from and between different cultures and nations. We considered the idea of there being a door that separates people from different places and backgrounds and so we used a key to represent us unlocking and opening it. Also we used headphones to symbolise us lisenting to each other as we often do not and used flowers which are a part of nature that we all share. Most of the teachers and the students liked our work so we were lucky enough to get first prize.

i really enjoyed working in today`s  land art with abdullah because he was so helpfull and creative just like me :P  i think i was talking a lot while he was so quiet. We did our project in a very far away area and everybody was tired to reach it. Finally I think we did such a great job and we won the second best place after the teachars’ voting , i learnt from this experience that nature is very important in our life and if we just look at it carefully and take time to focus on it we will be inspired and full of energy to start new projects and also to believe more in our faith and religion .

It was amazing to make art and mix between nature and man-made stuff. It remided us that we cant live without something authentic … something true, pure… We love it because it reminds us that we are part of nature, that we must protect our environment. We made a wonderful butterfly from leaves and stones because I love butterflies. I love to imagine that i am a beautiful butterfly. We also made another piece using a candle, internet cable and batteries. It shows the power of life and how people make wars to have the artificial power when we are surrounced by the power of nature. Me and Mohamed were a great team and we enjoyed it very much. Acutully we made a beautiful gallary with many wonderful pieces.

Today was really amazing … mixing between nature and art is the most amazing and beautiful thing you can do. Well, working with Mohammed was a bit hard and he kept driving me crazy, but at the same time he was really helpful and the thing i liked is that he likes my ideas and that’s really important to me. Expressing your feelings by using art is wonderful, and what makes it amazing is being in a place where you can listen yo yourself carefully and listen to your thoughts, so in the end you would do a very wonderful art work. My idea was the miniature river with the bridge. I thought the river was the most beautiful thing in the whole area. When you feel tired and exhausted, the moment you see all of this and hear the water you suddenly forget all the pain and you feel fresh. And when you see these beautiful scenes you just feel beautiful from the inside and outside. My artwork was just about beautiness and the place that i thought it was just like Heaven.

Reports from Yasmine Pilot and Co-Pilots:

We left Edinburgh really early yesterday to race the students through Scotland to Inverness.. I think it was a tie but for arguments sake lets just say we won! However it has to be said that the one way system is rubbish.

We went to a farm where we met both a boyfriend and a soul mate for our dear Yasmine. A young, slim blue bodied Toyota and a fierce, spirited tractor, that nobody, not even Yas could mess with.

We then drove her through the Scottish Highlands, mountains and valleys. I’m pretty sure neither her nor us had seen such natural beauty before, (but who cares we were asleep). Unfortunately, when we reached the end of the road, we had to park Yas and leave her behind while we went on for that 5Km hike to our cabin. Despite Yas’s lack of faith in us ‘fattys’ we all made it.. but we missed her strength and good humour along the way (plus the music).

Due to human error, upon arriving at the most remote hostel in the UK (official, I’m not making that up), we realized that all our precious technology stuff had been left under the watchful guard of Yasmine. After a light jog back to Yas (I remember why I hate cross country now) I found her looking right at home in the rugged wilderness. Now back at the hostel we are safe and comforted with the knowledge that Yas is waiting for us……

The students feel we must all take responsibility for the natural world we live in… Eac and every one of us must sit in the seat of responsibility, but at the moment the seat is empty.