Frantisek in Australia

Franstisek is now in the southern hemisphere. He wrote me a mail from the Melbourne airport saying he is now officially living in Australia. It feels weird that he is now living in Australia. The foreigness of the country/continent (being not Europe and not Asia) makes me feel like he is as far as outerspace. When I think about him I wonder if I should be looking at the floor instead of looking at the sky. I am very bad with orientation.

He will start working on Monday and what is left here (Hong Kong) for me to do is to pack everything in boxes and ship them to the new country. Since the university will cover most of the cost of the move, we plan to ship everything. It is nice to surround oneself with things that one likes and is familiar with. I have learned to be attached to inanimate entities since I left home for the first time. Even an old sock can fill me up with emotions now. Frantisek thinks I should be more discriminative in selecting the receipients of my sentiments and should also donate half of the clothes in my closet.

I am looking forward to my next trans-continental move. I thought my life will be more settled after my around-the-world schooling, but sometimes one should really be careful with whom one should date. Some choice might add a lot of miles to your life.

Joanno

Fatal wound

The play 'Fatal Wound' was staged sucessfully on the 17th, 18th and 19th of May. I was playing the lonely/depressed/sick woman role well, though my friends thought I was playing a schizophrenic woman who thought of herself as super-ugly and thus was reluctant to leave the house. I wasn't sure how my face had managed to mis-communicate such complicated feelings of oneself in the absence of any lines in my part.

One thing I did not expect to realise but did anyway was that I was totally night-blind. I bumped into a wall with my prop mirror once. Another time I was hit chest to chair by a girl who was walking towards me during scene change, with a chair. It hit right into my lungs since I wasn't really well-endowned in the breast-area. I also walked into several assistant stage-managers. They of course could see me, but they did not expect that I would walk right into their faces. In total darkness, people shall not assume.

Joanno

The Netherlands summer 2007

Frantisek finally defended his thesis! He is now a Doctor who can cure no one. He, however, got the chance to wear a ‘White Tie’ or informally referred to as the evening dress. The Dutch called it a ‘Rokkostuum’ I refer to it regularly as the penguin suit. It was a present he got for his defense. He, being old-fashioned and all, was absolutely thrilled by the present. In fact, before the defense, he had been telling me all types of excuses as to why he should not get a ‘White tie’. His obsession in repeatedly telling me all those reasons only showed that he really wanted one.

The trip to Holland was nice. We stayed with Boban and his two women. Lidija, his wife, is as beautiful as ever. She is also very funny at times, though you need to catch her off guard for her funniness. Dunja is now a very bossy 4-year old. If anyone dares to stand between her and the TV, she will pinch you real hard with her little fingers, which turned from pink to transparent when she used the force. I shall never irritate Serbian women.

Joanno