I visited What Cheer Studio with a few of my friends for a pottery class after seeing a deal on…read moreGroupon for it. There was a total of eight of us, so we were a pretty big group. I've done pottery in art class at school before, and I really enjoyed it. However, our teacher never had us finish the job - after forming the shape of our containers, we moved on to a different unit - sketching - and never got to paint our creations. My friends and I joked how doing this would be some form of 'closure' for not being able to finish what we started back in art class a few years ago.
I made an appointment with them to come at 6pm. We all met up at the station at around 5:50, but we took some time to find the place. It actually is not that far from exit B of Jordan MTR station, but we walked right past it and had to turn back so we took a while. We were about ten minutes late coming up, and it was clear that the teachers at the studio weren't very happy about it. I mean, yes it's our fault that we were late, and we're fine with having our time cut short, but they kept bringing up the fact that we weren't on time.
Anyway, the teachers did do a pretty good job of explaining everything and it was more complicated than I thought it would be. We had a little less than two hours to complete it and towards the end, we were all rushing.
A few weeks later, we came back to paint our pots. Not all of us did as some of my friends were going back to the UK to study, so in total, 2 of the pots didn't need to be painted and could be fired right away. When the remaining six of us returned, we found that they had accidentally fired one of my friend's pots. They apologized and told him that he could still paint over the fired surface, but since the surface was now glazed, the paint that went on was very watery and light. It was a shame - he had done a very good job creating a cute little seaside habitat with turtles running across it on his pot, and now it wouldn't turn out as nice after being painted because of that.
Overall, I thought the studio was quite professional and clean. We all had a good time working on our little project and I was glad that I had seen this on Groupon and bought the deal. I would knock a star off though because of their mistake in firing my friend's pot though!
