Immigration statistics from 2010.

A news article from The Guardian about immigrants from Iraq trying to seek asylum in the UK.

 Writing a short piece on Roza spent her Christmas:

...Christmas at the hostel was....interesting. The younger ones were already running around screaming happily by 6 in the morning, screaming all over about how SANTA'S COME!! SANTAS COME!!  - but i guess they're allowed. The day was spent with Christmas songs on a loop and games being played. It was all good fun, but i swear, if i have to listen to Mariah Carey's 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' one more time, i will flip. The manager had organised a Christmas dinner that everyone, for once, managed to sit down and eat. It was nice, sitting down with everyone and forgetting everything else and just soaking up the celebration. Of course throughout the whole day the younger children were horribly loud but was the most excited they had been throughout the year. The manager had actually got round to giving everyone a Christmas present, although, i suspect that they were donated or a cheap buy from the charity shop - but i guess, it's the most we're all going to get this year, so we've all just got to be grateful. It was to have just a day without worrying about things, but as soon as the sun goes down, the bliss of Christmas is gone, and the worry just sets back in again.

Me and Imogen, whom i share the part Roza with - we worked together on creating a similar character that we could both work with, we talked together about aspects of her personality, her characteristics and then wrote them down on this character on-the-wall exercise that we had already done with Kojo, Ara and Cheung a few weeks ago.

This really helped us both develop the character and it helped me think about the best way to play her. It was really, really useful to look into Roza's character and to think about things that we haven't been given already from the actual script, it gave us a chance to think about how we see the character.