Edgaras

Edgaras is from East Africa. He has no family here and lives in supported housing. He has a social worker, but has refugee status and therefore entitled to EMA. He started his Language learning experience with very little confidence and virtually no English.
He soon became an active participant in the video project. He was happy to be filmed, but had less interest in filming. The area that he really made progress in was his language and his IT abilities. He feels at home in front of the computer now, whereas before he had no real idea how to use them. He had some education in Africa but not much. He turns up to the IT session and demands in his cheeky way, to see the footage from the activity the week before. He laughs and calls people over to his screen once it has been uploaded onto his computer.
During the phase of choosing clips to edit Edgaras becomes even more vocal. Although the accuracy is not there yet, he is so confident in getting his opinion heard. In fact he stops everyone else from talking before making his point. He spas up to his African brothers in class and asks them what they want to include in the final piece. They just shrug and he talks for them too. He keeps asking for the clips of him kayaking. He finally finds them and advertises them to his gang.
Kahase attends the public performance. As his image is splattered over the Big Screen he scream with delight. He is jumping around asking his peers if they saw him. He is so proud, he starts shrugging his shoulders and swaying around, walking about with his trousers round his backside.
He is currently studying ESOL fulltime at Entry 3.