HAI Since I am pretty monumentally bored being back home I thought i may as well upload some pages from my battered notebook that I took traveling. There is lots more BUT i didn't re size them and uploading is taking a million years and my patience is zero. The other ones are all similar to each other anyway, they probably warrant their very own entry. Lucky them.
Oh wait this wasnt done travelling BUT OH WELL I LIKE NUCLEAR THINGS.
Fatty Kiddies Painted in the brief sunshine of Spirit Base Festival <3
[this is me and Charlotte in our tent that a nice man gave to us for free. because we had a Tesco tent and he was utterly horrified at the thought of us camping around europe in a Tesco tent.]--> These are some weird stickers we stole from a very high up club. It had a million stairs and i had to stick these to my body to preserve them for the book haha. HORRIFICALLY OFF IT, RATHER VILE was a song we made[its gonna be a big hit]:
I missed Berlin more than anything, also I LIKE THESE COLOURS they make me pretty glad... THE END. LaLalala...so i am basically at a massive loose end. Viewing places in Middlesborough on Monday!!! Which is the third time i will of been out the house in this past week!! [I am festering] I am excited but i need to convince them to let me let for 6 months only....but who knows... If i can then i will be stayng in the new student halls DOUBLE BED + EN SUITE luxury ones. :) wheeee. if i cant....well i am most likely buggered for accomodation.
erm anyways. I have been knitting [it's difficult] and I am trying trying my best to buy spray paint and paint a WHOLE BIG THING very soon. It will be pretty horrific I guess since I have never ever ever spray painted before [well there was one incident but it was pretty horrific...and all photographic evidence has been destroyed...]
Also I am making my very own CHILD IN A SLEEPING BAG. It will be a brilliant creation hopefully, just waiting for Becca to come back from Holiday to give me the sleeping bag I need for my NEW CHILD so we can have a CREATION day and I will take photos galore and hopefully My So Called Life will be a bit more interesting...
soon soon soon... p.s I nearly died this saturday just gone...ROOF AND FOOT DON'T MIX and this is a very valuable lesson
My extra special ability to never finish anything I start means I've just decided to start a new blog instead of carrying on with that other one from another life time. :)
THE end of the story is that I passed University [lalalalala wheeeeee] and now its time for THE REAL WORLD and REAL LIFE and BEING OLD and all those horrible things.
What I did over summer condensed into bullet points:
Left Uni a whole 2 days after the hand in date and flew to an obscure Austrian Psytrance Festival. Learnt that: Austrians and Germans are maybe the nicest most helpful people ever.
Left Austria on a beautiful [TERRIBLE] 20 hour train journey to camp in Croatia for about 5 days [hot and nice but boring]
Left Croatia for Hungary meeting our friend Horrible Man who had a
flat in Budapest [hi free accomodation!]
Wanted to live in Budapest forever. Met some more lovely people <3>
Went for a SERBIA ADVENTURE because Horrible Man was DJing there. It turned out to be a fairly horrific idea. We met some lovely Serbians but we were basically in this tiny little town outside of Novi Sad with nowhere to stay...but they did cook us FISH SOUP and chips, which was nice of them. However, nowhere in the world will exchange Serbian money, apparantly it is "worthless". So if you ever go to Serbia GET YOUR MONEY CHANGED BACK TO EUROS WHILE YOU ARE THERE. OR if anyone wants to buy some sexy serbian money let me know...I have like £20 worth.
Got train back to Budapest for a few more days without Horrible Man and met up with some more lovely people and saw some very odd things.
TRAIN FROM BUDAPEST to VIENNA. We stayed for one day. It was very hot and we do not understand the currency.
TRAIN FROM VIENNA TO BERLIN. We sit next to the toilets and try not to have panic attacks.
BERLIN for my 21st birthday[yep i am old now]. Probably the most ultra lush city I have ever seen. We meet up with a lovely German girl Vicky from the festival in Austria and she DRIVES US TO OUR HOSTEL AND INTRODUCES US TO ALL HER FRIENDS plus tells us the best places in Berlin to go. This is an unbelievable luxury compared to the past 3 weeks.
BERLIN HOSTEL fucks up our booking...theyre fully booked so we have to have the apartment which is basically an amazing 2 bedroom flat with bathroom and kitchen and is pretty much the best place ever, for 12 euros a night!! Unfortunately we only booked for 2 days and they wont let us stay there any longer so we spend our last night in an 8 person room hostel...
We leave Berlin and make the final journey to Amsterdam where we meet two more friends.
Amsterdam rains. And we have no money. And we are camping. And our friend's tent is leaking. We make the best of it. We cobble together a BBQ and buy books [LOL] and relax. this is fine BUT THEN
Last day: Some evil evil man sneaks into our tent in the night and steals my friend's money. NOT TO MENTION my travel partner's camera [WITH EVERY SINGLE OF THE 900 Ish PHOTOS SHE TOOK THE ENTIRE MONTH]. But don't worry he's going to Bad Karma central and probably all his limbs will fall off and everyone he cares about will die horribly in front of him and THEN HE WILL GO TO HELL. I hate him I hate him I hate him. [oh yes, to add insult to injury he also stole A BAR OF CHOCOLATE and the pen knife which was our only cooking utensil OH i hate him]
We stay in a disgusting hostel/hotel thing the last night. I buy a head*
We get the ferry home.
BACK HOME:
I have two days to wash everything, gather my senses and go to GLADE FESTIVAL!
DANCE AND DANCE AND HAVE SOME FUN
Have to leave Glade alone on Sunday...get the bus to the train station, the train to London, the Tube to the Coach Station...the 7 hour coach back to Newcastle....yumyumyum. Actually it was ok because I had a pillow and a window seat. Except a man kept leaning asleep on me and in my half asleep state I elbowed him in the ribs loads really angrily hahahah. I mean, sorry sleeping man....
GOT THE METRO HOME at 6am...slept for a bit...went to Sunderland...met the GROUP of fellow recent graduates.
Plan our Super Impressive power point and presentation to show the Digital City people.
The next day we go to Middlesborough to DO our super impressive power point to the people who decide whether we get the money and the chance to try and make an animation company with their help...it is like dragons den but MUCH scarier and we leave feeling very very non confident...They tell us they will let us know tomorrow...we drown our sorrows in McDonalds [I try not to think of all my friends who are still at Glade Festival].
Next morning Jay rings me and does NOT sound confident.
BUT he is lying to me and we got the £4 grand each and the 6 month fellowship!!!!!!!!!!!! yay yay yay yay!!!!
AND THAT IS THE END. Well...that is the beginning :) Our first meeting is on the 20th September and I am moving to Middlesborough and everything is gonna be super mega!
I guess I better link to my final film. Hmmmm......I know its pretty horrendously horrible but it makes me laugh, and thats the main thing. Basically my Animation Degree taught me that I am no Animator. Well...maybe i could be if that part interested me...but I prefer pre-production etc blah blah...so anyway basically I am just explaining that, yes, I know the animation and technical ability is pretty laughable in my final film. But its ok cuz I just like characters and pretty colours and textures best anyways...my official role in this digital city thing is pre production and character design so blah blah, enough excuses...here you go...
ahhhh. Next entry: Gonna scan and upoad my travel journal of various drawings and stuff I did when i was away...
:)
byesies!
* p.s this is a head...MY FAVORITE POSSESSION EVER!!!
^^Stickers and flyers from some cool little shops in Vienna. Must go back there..
