Hi all, (pic of me and my uncle Roger during my airport goodbyes.... he came all the hellway down from Kaitaia to see me off and drove me to the airport. legend)
Things are going well, my friend Alex is looking after me, I have a warm place to stay and Alex and Jay (his gorgeous flatmate) are putting up with me in their flat....
I have been keeping the house to say thanx. 30 hours on a plane.. crazy crazy time.... weird sleep patterns.... flying royal brunei so got blessed by Allah about a million times... they sure love to prey. The food was brilliant.. I really don't know what everyone is complaining about. I had stopovers in Australia....(major security, nice airport), Brunei (Malaysia...tiny weird airport...saw the sun set on these huge black hills....its SO lush there and booze is illegal), Dubai (Arabic place...beautiful airport it was too dark to see outside) and then to London....6.30 am... my friend came out on the tube to pick me up... kept timesing the price of everything by 3 (NZ currency is a joke) so wouldn't buy a coke....
The one thing I loved about flying was the clouds.... they were incredible... now I know why they call them the heavens.... huge billowing sculptures spiralling into the sky....you fly past them, these giant amorphous shapes........amazing frosty cotton....so SOLID looking......so WHITE. All amass and rolling into each other....greys and silver but frozen in time as you pass by. Touched by white hot sunlight and bathed in azure.... just so beautiful.... London is brilliant... the water comes out the tap chilled....and I can wear all my boots again... my coats... MY HAT (await photo for those of you who havent seen this hat) potos will come soon....promise....
Alex is being very kind to me....when i got here i crashed all day then woke up still tired at 6pm at night... be took me for a breakfast burger and some nutritious breakfast pints of beer.... they were haagen something and tasted like bananas.... I wasted no time in getting myself sorted. In my few days here I have applied for, interviewed for and am being sent my National Insurance Number, got a U.K cell number (07768704021).... a bank account.. applied for several jobs doing extra work on films etc...(good easy cash while job hunting) and this coming week I'm looking up real jobs, researching the galleries they are for, visiting them etc....
I have also spent a bit of time standing around like a half wit at the supermarket trying to figure out what everything costs, what everything is and why jif turned into cif...
I've bought a copy of the Time out paper in London(thanks Paul, Sue and Jas) reading up on the art spaces getting my head around it, booking in openings of import. Trying to spend as few pounds as possible! London is amazing....I was just walking down to the shop and there was this old church and graveyard...just sat there all ancient stones and cat iron twisted gates...a giant crow was piking through a plastic bag....crows are HUGE they walk like dinosaurs. Its was like something out of Poe....except for the plastic bag...but that's London, ancient meets modern.
Cant wait to see the art spaces!!! you look up whats on and its like Murakami, Messager, Richter,....not to mention all the regular collections...and the big shows on Picasso etc...... Alex wants to take me out to see the night life too, come sat I will have earned it! Miss you all, Glad I have thermals and jacket and hat...when the sun (big grey ball of light) goes down it gets COLD. I love it though.-- -S
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