“But what are all of you actually exactly doing all day long?”

This question I heard a lot, especially during the application workshop and during the holidays.
And then I have a problem. The problem is not, that we are not doing enough, not that I do not know what to tell or that I do not remember.
No, it’s much more that every day looks different. Further more: All the students and also the Council experience the days different. And: We also do different things: there is no fixed curriculum.

When I heard that Natasha was going to send every day for one month an Email to her friends in Brazil with a detailed “what we did today“, to give them an idea of what we are doing, I thought I do the same, to share it here, on the blog. But after the second day I recognized that I wrote totally different things than Natasha did, so I asked her if I can post her list next to mine.
I leave you with the raw data below:

Monday, 2.6.2010:

Natasha:
09:00 – 09:30: Breakfast/Coffee together
09:30 – 12:00: What did we do on the break?/Sharing stories
12:00 – 13:00: Lunch
13:00 – 13:30: KLM meeting (What will the next steps be?)
13:30 – 16:30: Answering questions (What did you learn on the last semester, how do you want the next semester to be?)
16:30 – 16:50: Check-out

Manuel: (me)
09:00 – 09:30: Coffe & Tea
09:30 – 12:00: Extended Check In: Summits of my holidays, storytelling
12:00 – 13:00: Lunch
13:00 – 13:30: Building on a computer that is strong enough to cut movies
13:30 – 16:30: The third part of Tsilas Workshop: Answering the 5 questions and sharing afterwards (All Students)
16:30 – 16:50: Check-out
22:00-24:00: Working on the survey for the RHK Assignment

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Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday right after the click:

Tuesday, 3.6.2010

Natasha:
09:00 – 09:30: Coffee
09:30 – 12:15: Juggling workshop
12:15 – 12:45: Lunch
12:45 – 13:45: “How will we work” meeting
13:45 – 14:00: Break
14:00 – 15:45: Decision making:How are we going to divide our working hours?
15:45 – 16:30: Break/Self-working
16:30 – 16:50: Check-out

Manuel:(me)
09:00 – 09:30: Welcoming Guest, Practicalities, Check in
09:30 – 12:15: Workshop on “the art of letting go”, and on team structures/ dynamics with the method of juggling
12:15 – 13:15: Work-lunch Discussion about togetherness, obligations, structures, etc.
13:15- 14:00: Break
14:00 – 15:45: Decision making: When are the holidays, when do we start and end, what weekdays are we having workshops and when can we work, what are the obligations
15:45 – 16:30: Cleaning, Mailing, Internet, Finances, Blog-Strategy Meetings
16:30 – 16:40: Check-out
17:00- 18:00: Meeting on Blog/ Marketing strategy with Fran in the park
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Wednesday, 4.6.2010

Natasha:
09:00 – 10:00: Preparing the Brick-blocks and Prince Block meeting
10:00 – 10:30: Biking on the rain to get to school =(
10:30 – 11:30: Waiting and preparing e-mails to the clients
11:30 – 12:30: Brick-blocks and Prince Block meeting with Maartje, Marianne, Seul and Cornelius
12:30 – 13:30: Lunch (being entertained by people juggling)
13:30 – 14:00: Finding hard to concentrate again
14:00 – 15:15: Procrastinating
15:15 – 16:00: Contacting clients
16:00 – 17:00: Developing concept and storyline for KLM teaser
19:00 – 22:30: Finding scenes for the teaser

Manuel:(me)
09:00- 10:30: Taking the train to Utrecht
10:30- 14:30: Working in S2M with Naomi:
Dayplan/
Discussed the survey/
Discusison about the quality of the survey/
Call to Maartje for advice/
Reflecting on the workshop from Tuesday/
Worked on the blog for the Knowmadic Learning Lab Workshop/
Short preparation for the meeting with RHK on Thursday
14:30 – 16:30 Train to Nijmeigen with Naomi
23:00- 00:00 Discussion on Sustainability with Naomi, the meaning behind, and the importance of it, connected to the project we do for RHK
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Thursday, 5.6.2010

Natasha
09:00 – 11:30: Oversleep =(
12:30 – 13:00: Contacting clients
13:00 – 14:00: Working on the teaser
14:00 – 14:30: Lunch
14:30 – 18:30:Working on the teaser

Manuel (me)
9:00 – 09:45: Preparing meeting, printing materials needed with Naomi
10:00 – 12:30: Meeting Royal Haskoning survey expert at RHK HQ in Nijmeigen: Tips on Survey, Feedback, Narrow Coach survey software instructions and Practicalities, Presenting Knowmads (with Naomi)
12:30- 13:30: Lunch with Renee from Royal Haskoning (&Naomi)
13:30 – 15:45: Meeting with Renee and Naomi, implementing feedback from the morning, Planning and dividing next steps and meetings, practicalities
16:15 – 17:15: Follow up Email writing with Naomi , Knowmads related Emails, Work Division Manuel Naomi RHK Project, Blog updates
20:45-23:00: Train back to Amsterdam, working in the train on the travel-expenses sheet (RHK Project)

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Friday, 6.6.2010

Natasha:
10:00 – 10:30: Contacting clients
11:00 – 12:30: finishing KLM teaser
12:30 – 13:30: lunch
13:30 – 14:30: publishing and sending the movie
14:30 – 15:30: chillex (chill-out + relax)
15:30 – 15:50: starting new project (ideas for plastic bottles)
15:50 – 16:00: Check-up
16:00 – 16:20: Cleaning
16:20 – 16:35: Check-out

Manuel (me)
08:00 – 08:45: Morning Swimming with Naomi and Maartje
09:00- 09:30: Check in & Coffee
09:30 – 10:15: Check up on the Knowmads Promotion Movie Project as a preparation for the workshop with Hiba in the next week, Dividing tasks
10:30- 12:30: Self-Work on RHK Project: Finishing the travel expenses sheet for all involved, check up with them, Emails to those who where not there, starting to script the survey for external company
12:30- 12:50: Break
12:50- 13:30: Meeting Lunch with Guus from the Knowmads Council about generation europe summit in december, how we can be part of it, dividing tasks, introducing idea about film-making-students
13:30-15:30: Working on the final script of the survey (RHK Project), back reading it for mistakes and linking-errors with Sebastiaan
15:30-15:45: Check up with Naomi (RHK Project)
15:45- 16:00: Check up with other team members about the movie project
16:00-16:20: Cleaning, Recycling, Dishes
16:20- 16:35: Check Out
17:00-17:30: Finish checking the survey with Sebastiaan
17:30-17:45: Looking at the text Guus wrote, talking about marketing strategy
18:15- 18:30: Trying to install permanent Internet line with Sebastiaan
22:30- 23:45: Writing Blogpost: “The Knowmads Week …”