Day 13- GIMP Part 1

Awesome. The girls did an absolutely wonderful job on the still life photographs. Everyone had a ton of different photos of the similar thing, different backgrounds, objects in different places, different angles of the same thing, everything. I could tell they put a lot more time and effort into these ones than they did with some of the other ones where they just snapped a photo on the way to class.

This class was scheduled on the same day as one of Afghanistan's national holidays, independence from Russia or England or Rome or something like that, they've freed themselves from so many people in their past it's hard to keep track of them all. At the end of the last class, my girls told me that even though it was a holiday and school was cancelled, they still wanted to come to class and asked if I would still run the class even though it was a holiday. I said of course, but we'd have to find a way of getting a classroom. So Hameed talked with his friend who could help us get a key to a classroom, he said sure, not a problem, he'd meet us just before class started to open up the doors.

Come class time, he shows up, and asks what we needed again. A key. Oh, right, let me call someone and see if they have a key.... So 45 minutes later we have a classroom. To make things run even smoother, one of the girls started bitchin' at me because it was a holiday and all schools and classes are shut down and this is illegal for me to make them come to class. Before I could even respond the girls that spoke english started explaining she's just mad because she has somewhere else to go and can't stay the whole class and to just ignore her. They all wanted to be there.

Rona

Rona

Shahnaz

Shahnaz

Shahnaz

Shazia

Maliha

Not being in the FabLab has its challenges. Todays class was learning about uploading photos from the camera onto the computer, uploading them in GIMP, and doing basic editing, such as crop, rotate, brightness, contrast, etc. Hameed, Rahmat, and I gathered as many laptops as we could and made sure they all had the proper programs on them prior to class. We set up a temporary portable lab in class so the girls could practice editing their pictures, and seeing the different effects moving certain tabs has on photos.

As for the assignment, it was the same as the second half of the assignment I gave the first boys class. Two pictures, one of a tree, and one of a creative way of portraying wind in the photo. The next class I'll teach is another girls class, so I'll do 2 girls, then a double boys, then a single boys, final girls, final boys, double boys. Good God these holidays really mess things up...

Maliha

Maliha

Maliha

Maliha

Masooda

Suraya

Suraya

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