It is much colder in here than in the actual library. The door opens. I bet he thinks I am quite weird sitting on the stairs writing notes compared to sitting in the library. He ran up so he must be in a rush. I don’t really feel that I am actually part of the library here. I feel like I am more outside in the cold, well that is because it’s really cold here. Oh, they are two more people coming up. I think they are Chinese. They passed me, they looked at me in a weird way too. Oh look! It’s trying to snow again, better not settle. What was that? Oh, it’s the door but I don’t hear any footsteps. They must have forgotten something.
This is just some of my thoughts from sitting in the library stairwell. It was very interesting to see how the stairwell is used and the different people who go up and down depending on whether they were in a rush or not. It was also interesting to observe how, even though I was part of the library sitting there, I didn’t really feel a part of the conventional library atmosphere where people are in there to work. It felt like I was outside walking into the library and not within the building itself.
Samantha Foster