Documentary Subject

Hi again

I think my last blog sounded like I am not optimistic about my year ahead. This is not the case. I am very excited about the prospect of this year for the things that are happening. I am going to do a media writing subject at uni which involves script writing and documentary making! Something I have never done before!

How exciting! I have friends who are working with kids in Africa and other parts of the world and ever since I was very young I have wanted to help people. With a camera people can be helped a little easier, because other people can "see" what's happening more than just with words on a page, although we all know I love words on a page!.

I am excited by the prospect that I might have skills that could help people in a tangible way around the world. Ever since I visited Nepal years ago I have wanted to do this. Actually, before that. That is why I became a journalist to travel and shed light on people's struggles around the world. Somewhere on my journey the path veered off from this.

However, it's not over till it's over. So now I am still contemplating my subject choices and whether to enrol in the Masters or stay in my current course. There are lots of considerations in my life - probably most of which I haven't gone into on my blog.
But I will keep you posted on these subjects.

I am missing the Hemingway world I just left and I am looking for a new book to dive into. Maybe if I do the novel subject I will be reading novels or if I do Advanced Narrative then I wont have novels to read...now I am just rambling.

See you at the next post.
:)

Fine in 2009!

Hey, anyone who is reading,

2009. Well, I love New Years. I always have hope at the beginning of the year, which quickly diminishes as the months wear onto into the disappointing realities of mundanity, and then quickly return to another New Years day where somehow I am tricked again into a blind optimism. But I think it is necessary and should be embraced every year and a new start. It's also great at New Year to sit back and see the good things that happened in the past year.

For me, this past year has been quite traumatic. So I think this year ahead can only be better, hey? My friend at work was hassling me to write another post, and I have been wanting to do it for ages, but I am so busy.

Well this year, promises a new year of university, changing subjects and maybe courses and in the middle of all this what does one do with all the gloomy economic news?

Well my mind goes back to Bob Dylan - (where it often goes, sadly) and how in the sixties when everyone thought Cuba was going to bomb the USA, (one particular night everyone was bracing for Nuclear War) where was Bob Dylan? He was playing his guitar in a little bar in New York.

Everyone thought the world was going to end and Bob did too, but he was playing his music, performing and creating. I think of the orchestra who apparently played while the Titanic sunk - not sure if that is legend but the idea is amazing anyway. Some people were made to create and should this stop when the world is ending or perceived to be, or do we need art even more then? Amidst all the gloom we need to see a movie, watch a play, read a book, sing a song to get some relief. I think I want to be playing in the orchestra while the ship is sinking, (although dying a horrible death doesn't fun).

So contrary to advice from people around me I am going to continue to travel to Brisbane every week for my post graduate study in Creative Writing. What else can I do? My next post will be about The Sun Also Rises. Wow, what a book!

Amazingly intricate and spine tingingly, complex characters, fabulous Hemingway. A world I was happy to dive into every night. So superbly painted and done with such compassion and insights into the characters. Now I am starting to talk about it already.

I am going now and will be back soon so I can talk about Hemingway. His first novel. Wow.