Since I have bought the air ticket in advance to back home on Feb. 24th and 25th , I am making preparations on Monday and Tuesday, packing up my luggage and doing nucleic acid testing. Quarantines began on Friday at a hotel in China. In order not to delay the progress of the course, I brought back any tools I might need and also have already bought part of the materials when I was still in the UK, and put the others in the shopping cart first, so that I can place the order immediately after I arrive in China. The first week of unit 8 was spent in such a hurry, and I couldn’t lift my spirits to work in the weekend because of jet lag. In the second week, I started my life again like previous two months. I woke up at 8 am and started to work，keep working until class start at 6pm and fall asleep at 0 am.
Both Eileen’s and Daniel’s classes are catched up. This unit requires two more corsets of different periods. Because of the previous Victorian bodice as the basis, this time I’m making them a little more skillfully. I bought a thimble to keep my hands from hurting and swelling because coutil is too hard. Since Eileen and Daniel have their own habit of making clothes, I combined the methods they taught us and simplified them to improve the work efficiency in the future. There was one problem, though, that I hadn’t thought of. Although the paper pattern was placed correctly according to the grainline and the way to save the cloth, it was not until I assembled them that I found the fabric of the Side panel was completely opposite to that of the center back and center front. Fortunately, the side panel is not very big, but I really need to pay special attention to it in the future to avoid the same problem just to save the cloth.
Besides, I have read all the articles and extended reading required by Creative Research, which makes me understand why the college gives this course a score ratio of 20%. It says that different races, genders, sexual orientations, nationalities, personal experiences, history, and so on all have profound and different perspectives on how people view things. Various versions of the same script have relevances to all of the above mentioned aspects. I was so intrigued by these articles that I searched for them on a Chinese website and, to my surprise, they were available in Chinese, so I took the order. I will read it carefully when I have time, and I believe it will be of great help to me in the analysis of the script and how to carry out the relevant design and interpretation in the future. Moreover, with a critical perspective, people will have a more comprehensive and anatomical ability when looking at all things, and will not be confused by the superficial phenomena. I think the reason of this book is available in different languages is because the ideas are so unique and classic that people don’t want to miss it.