27 Apr. 2010
TY students on work experience at The Model
We are three awesome students from Sligo Grammar School. Harry, Yasmin and Carolyn. We are here in the Model on a week of work experience. So far, it’s fantastic, we got a tour of the entire building, which is huge and Yasmin frequently gets lost in. Lots of the old building is still there, except the old entrance leads into a new restaurant and there are loads of new facilities.
You can now do a full circuit of the upstairs galleries as the performance space has been moved and the galleries have been improved.
The performance space- it’s super super cool.It’s got a balcony and loads of seating, a whole room dedicated to the piano, a projector room, a room with lots of unknown devices that look really complicated, crazy strip lights and one of our favourite spots, the green room! We spend alot of our time in there drinking tea and climbing in the window when the door is locked. Inside the Green room there’s a tiny room called the screaming room where the performers can vent their anger.
The new building has some very new exciting add-ons to the old building. Our personal favourite being a very big lift that would remind you of something from star wars! Amazingly it can fit fifty three people which is really quite something! Throughout the Model we have found some pretty groovy spots to hang, such as a balcony on the top floor.We spend a lot of our time here while doing our little jobs and at lunchtime sunbathing.It has the most beautiful view of sligo and it’s quiet and secluded.
We sometimes go to the boiler room when we get cold and hug a few pipes, we often have strong urges to climb on the roof but we supress these urges because that would be bad.The toilets are also very exciting, they look like the toilets you might find in a five star hotel so we like to go there sometimes for that reason, among others.
The artists studios are so cool we are determined that one day we will have the honour of living there, it would be awesome. We also enjoy the front steps. we have eaten carrot cake on those steps and now they will always be memorable.
Underneath the seating in the new performance space there’s a crazy secret forest of metal, which we sometimes go under and pretend to be woodland creatures. There are some storage rooms that are quite frightening because they are temporarily empty and they are very small they have no windows. and are dark.We don’t go in these rooms, under any circumstances.
Over the week we had a series of small jobs one which involved arranging and labeling all the new keys to the Model. This meant that we had to go around the building several times in order to find the right key for the right door. This took a while and there was some confusion about some keys, I mean, what’s a fire curtain? Yeah there was quite a bit of confusion but we worked most of them out in the end. We also had to hand out flyers to a lot of shops we did this a few times.
Tomorrow we shall paint. This makes us happy. There is a huge, red balloon in the restaurant at the moment.
We would like to thank our wonderful supervisor Linda for looking after us and not giving us too much work when it’s sunny. ☀
Harry, Yasmin and Carolyn.
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