Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Fast and slow funCategories: Life in progress Adventures Travel Tales
This is gonna be the quickest entry ever:
Sean and I went to Kangaroo Island for the weekend, to stay with his mate Fraser and to buy a motor bike.
There were these amazing shell clouds in the sky as we went over on the ferry. There was also a whale, and that was about as close as I had ever been to a whale. We were all running around all over the ferry trying to see it and get pics, and the ferry was bouncing around in the chop chasing it. Great fun!
We were supposed to be on the Friday night ferry, but there were a few car dramas which delayed us until Saturday morning. Eventually we met up with Fraser and Mia and started having delicious, relaxing fun.
Sean did in fact get the bike and then the next morning he rode it home. I stayed until Monday evening, hanging out by the fire and reading GIRLY FICTION! I only felt the vaguest amount of guilt about not having brought any study stuff with me.
Fraser and Mia’s place is pretty cool, they built lots of it themselves and it’s off the grid, heated by the sun, a big old fire and good design. It is filled with sunlight and shadows, wooden boxes and handicrafts, old bones and books, and surrounded by farmland. It was hard to get off the couch and out into the starlight or down onto the beach.
But sooner or later the world intrudes, and here I am back home, one day of work finished already, another to go and then second semester starts. Im actually looking forward to it. This semester I will be working on a bunch of practical stuff - Cultural heritage management and the law, a semester long practical project with an industry partner and a step-by-step walk through a cultural heritage management plan. With a break in the middle. Bring it on!
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