I had a lot of fun on Wednesday -it helped that the print workshop was a nice change of pace from regular class and the weather was really nice. Learning about the printing process was interesting. I wish we had gotten to use the clamshell press, since it looked really cool (mostly I wanted to see what happened if someone put a soda can between the plates of the press).
Anyways, once we got started with setting up the letters, Araseli and I found a good rhythm (apparently she had memorized the key that showed which letters were in which compartments by the end of the first sentence, which is a little scary if you ask me, and I discovered a trick in which I pressed my index finger into the grooves of letters to determine if they were the right way up, resulting in black lines all along my fingertip) and finished our two sentences fairly quickly. We originally planned to do two paragraphs, which was then reduced to one sentence and finally extended into two, but I really wish we could have done more and that we could go back again…
