Monday 26th April

So today was our first day at the factory. Up bright and early we arrived at the factory and were met at reception and taken to meet Pierrigianna Vivllia. After talking to him he told us that as we were there for such a short amount of time (normally it is a minimum of two weeks) they weren't really sure what to get us to do. We were taken to an upstairs room and told to have a look at the trimmings samples on rails in the room. We were left here for about an hour and a half at which point we were starting to get a bit fed up as we felt like we have been forgotten about.
After this we were shown a display that they are working on for next year 2011. We weren't really sure why we were being shown this as we were then taken to a different room as asked to make some hand sewn samples. She told us that we could do whatever we want using trims that had already been made and manipulating them into new trims. We did this until lunch time.
After lunch we were again shown to the display and told we would be working on this for the afternoon. The display consists of half a car (the famous fiat) that is going to be decorated and have a giant flower on top that is decorated with their trims made in the factory with the idea of selling them. Our job was to take apart the flower- it is made of mesh cut and shaped into petals with 5 big and 5 small petals in all. We had to take a large and small petal and cover in trims. We had to masking tape these in place to see the layout. As well as the flower they wanted the trims to hang of the petals and over the car. From what we understood this was going to be done once the petal was on the car.
At 6.45 Pierro and team came over to look at what we had done. At this point we had finished both petals but had no trims hanging. They were really pleased with the petals but were annoyed as we had nothing hanging off. It was frustrating as it was hard to explain ourselves because of the language barrier. Although Dora was able to talk sometimes the communication was still bit difficult.
Overall it wasn't a great first day. Me and Dora were both a bit fed up and tired. This was down to the fact that we didn't really know what we doing and it seemed like they couldn't be bothered as we are only here for a week. Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day....