Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Apologies to the people of the nation of Australia


Surfers
Originally uploaded by Mondayne
So we've been back here a week and we've managed to offend everyone with our melancholy attitude, our complaining and our comparing everything to London ( and usually favoring it).

Why would we be like that? Aren't we in Australia? People are beautiful, there's great weather, you're close to the beaches? Shouldn't we be really pleased to leave behind the rainy skies of London?

First of all if we were staying in the center of the city things might be different, but we're about 50km from the city. The closest station is about 8km away from us too. We feel a bit trapped here. The buses from the city stop running at 6.30pm. And they only run once every half hour.

We're staying with Soryi's sister and her fiancee, and they've been great to us. I was surprised by their generous hospitality, without them it'd be much worse. But still, compared to where we were in West Hampstead we're pretty isolated.

I'm working on my portfolio right now and it's not going good. I needed some inspiration so I went to the ONLY design book store in the city and they only had old books and a very limited selection. It's really just a normal bookstore with a small, and crowded by hipster students, section.

I did manage to visit my lecturers from uni. That was pretty cool actually, possibly the most exciting thing I've done since being here.


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So why am I missing London? Because London is awesome. It feels like there is always something happening, even if I never go to anything. Brisbane feels like... nothing.

The worse thing about being here is: It feels like we never left. Like the last 2.5 years never happened. They were photographs of other people and a notebook full of tickets from trains and busses we never rode. No memories. No interesting stories. Only a mind wiped clean from being here for a week.

We've moving to Sydney in a few weeks. Soryi said she thinks it'll be good, and I told her I agreed. But I fear it won't be good. I fear that it'll be a disappointment too. What if London was the best place I'll ever live? What if those 2.5 years were the best of my life and now I have nothing to look forward too.

Pretty bleak. And a little over-the-top. Sorry.




So blah. I can't upload photo's onto Flickr untill I move to Sydney. But Singapore was nice, not how I remember (and much more boring) but still alright. Estonia was awesome.

Take care everyone.
IESSO