botanical gardens become poetry readings

Sketching, drawing, rubbing, plants, leaves, cameras, trees, and more plants = a trip to the botanical gardens. I guess I liked it, I've never really done anything like a native plant drawing roadtrip before. I kind of went off on my own buzz and looked at the native plants, which to be honest, have never held any particular interest to me before, but I surprised myself by enjoying the challenge to sketch a lifelike picture of their texture and lines. So that about covers the morning, we then headed back to MSVA and found we were to be attending a (drum roll please) 'Poetry Reading'. I was thinking, 'what the hell?!' I mean native plant sketching to poetry readings?? Attending a Poetry reading was definatly not what I had in mind for the afternoon. If I'm honest with myself, I probably reacted like that because the idea of attending a poetry reading freaked the tripp out of me. Don't get me wrong, I love poetry and have even written some dark stuff of my own, but I mean what does one do at such occasions? Soooo I went along with a skeptic mind not knowing what to expect only to find I really enjoyed it. Each of the poets were incredibly different. A guy with awesome dreads had a worldly rap feel to his words, I reckon he got a lot of his ideas from the news on tv and thus spoke poetry the world could identify with. A young-ish dude sung his poetry with a reggae kind of a vibe. And there was this lady from North America, she was part Indian and her poetry was deeply affected by her heritage. Her style of speaking was buzzy, she moves her whole body to match her words which speed up then slow down depending on the feel of what she is saying. It was so intense, it was hard to concentrate on anyone but her. So even though I don't remember their names (sad huh), I reckon I won't forget today easily. It was certainly random annnnnd we got to head home early, which means an early night to get over this crap cold that has taken over my head..
peace
xo
K

-heres some pics of the dudes at the botanic gardens...

smurphy

class president Jakob eyeing out tutor William lol

the dudes. Luma, Stirling?, Liam, tall James, Jakob, and Paul