The First Day Questing.

The days questing started slowly in the High Street with very few people stopping us and asking about what we were doing, this led to a rather worrying thought of not having anything to present by the end of the two weeks. However, we pressed on and headed towards Tesco and entered the crowds surrounding the entrance. Success, two young men asked us if we would perform the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet which we were happy to do.
I then decided that the best place to find people might be the green surrounding the Cathedral so we gallantly headed off towards it. Several quests were completed here including Joe proposing to a local elder whilst I sang (rather poorly) 'I Will Always Love You', Joe and myself singing Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen to most of the students on the green and a rather shabby performance of YMCA with Joe on my shoulders.
Because people just started requesting songs which began to steer away from the idea of knightly deeds, Joe and myself left the green and headed towards the McCoy's Arcade, hoping to meet some interesting types. Here we met a rather young couple sitting outside one of the shops who didn't have a quest for us but were very keen on talking about our thoughts on modern day chivalry and the theme of the young boy's photography project: 'timeless'.
After finding no one else near the McCoy's Arcade we decided that we should head onto Campus and see what happened. We popped into Thornlea on the way to rest our feet and I performed a quest for an unnamed Drama student by reading a book on Grotowski aloud to him so he didn't have to read it himself.
Having trudged up to campus, very few people were about so we decided to call it a day and head home. A few interesting points came to mind during the days questing that I will outline here and hopefully explore later:

Firstly we noticed a large difference in ages when it came to requests. Young teenagers and adults over about 25 gave interesting and often thoughtful ideas to us whereas people in our age range would often suggest ridiculous ideas.
We also found it interesting that most people when offered the chance to have ANYTHING done for them would go for a purely entertainment based request. This could possibly be because of the highly entertainment driven generation that we are, possibly not. Hopefully later trips will reveal more about this.