We chose an image where the house was burning. We did a play around thisimage: we helped someone out and we had to pause the action when we sawthe image.
Afterwards, we did an embroidery of anything we wanted to do. The nextweek we got to put make up on. Most girls were nurses and most boys weresoldiers. In the first week we looked at embroidery of the war. Therewas one image of kids with gas masks on. It was all part of the summeruniversity. The best bit was where we got to be interviewed while acamera was running, but the batteries ran out.
When I'm older I'd like to be a designer. If not, I'd like to be afamous actress because in pantomimes at Christmas I'm usually the mainpart.
I've been the step-mum in Cinderella and the captain in DickWhittington.
- Rachel was speaking at 4Children's Roots and Wings Awards. She tookpart in Stitch in Time, a project that gave young people an opportunityto interpret the Overlord Embroidery at the D-Day Museum inPortsmouth
- Do you know a child or young person with a story to tell? Call TristanDonovan on 020 8267 4709, email tristan.donovan@haynet.com.
