It’s been some time (about 4 years), since I finished my gardener training programme at a vocational school at the Jedlička Institute and that’s where I fell in love with ceramics. We had a ceramics course every Monday. After I left the school I went to study ceramic art.

The vocational school was designed for students with mental and physical disabilities and everything else was subordinated to this fact. It was fine, but – and I don’t want to make the teachers there angry – the vocational programme in the workshops seemed to me like a preschool. The level of teaching was definitely not what I would expect. After four years I feel that I’m no smarter than I was when I left the “Jedle” institute. Yeah, it’s good that I did ceramics for four years, but that’s it.

And so I decided at the end of my “studying” that I would go back to a normal school, where I can at least learn something that will definitely come in handy at some point and I will again learn what I knew before I left. Another thing that draws me back is that I already know the people there and I also want to bring my brain back to life, as it has become quite stunted during those four years.