It takes everything in me to do it but I have started filling out a new gfa application. It seems rather remote from my experience here and hard to focus upon as it somehow requires a shift of thinking. I am aware of having to shift my thinking and language when completing these forms when I am in the UK but here it seems more remote still. I don’t necessarily have many suggestions for how it should otherwise be, I simply note upon opening one of those Arts Council documents it seems like it comes from a very distant land. Still, I will force myself over the next few days to get into the thick of it as I have deadlines to respect.
I had the last language exchange with Kyky and Elaine last night and I will miss them and the not so Italian restaurant that we meet in. It is actually a cafeteria with a few Italian style pictures on the wall. The music cracks me up if I concentrate upon it too hard so I try to block it out. They either play Italian style classic songs, a sort of light opera, early hits of The Beatles or the cheapest imaginable cover versions of 60’s and 70’s Western pop banged out on a Casio keyboard. Quite often people from other tables come over to listen and comment upon our exchanges, one of the waiters took part a few weeks back too. I’m not so taken by the food and the drinks are very sweet but all the same I will miss this place.
The first press article came out about the performance on Saturday. It was rather positive and the link to it is here:
