Today Terri and I filmed a hugging workshop, which the Kids Adventure society at uni ever so kindly accepted to help us
out with.
We made sure there were plenty of snacks, a B&M bargains trip was in order so we were stocked up on penguin bars,
haribo, muffins and biscuits- it was the least we could do considering what we were asking of these guys!
I was so nervous about running the session, I just felt like I really had no place to be talking to a group of people who
funnily enough are all undergraduate primary school teachers, it felt like I was taking on their role and I had convinced
myself they would think I was an absolute mad bat. I was so relieved at how co-operative they were and we really had fun
with it .I was also quite shocked at how much this intense and intimate workshop just did not seem to faze them.
I find it really uncomfortable to be touched by other people when I have not initiated the contact, especially if this is
someone I don’t know. But I completely baffled myself at how okay I was within this whole scenario- whether or not it was
the fact that I knew it was the last ever time I would have to be in an awkward situation as a result of making the
documentary, I don’t know.