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I am finally settling back into Perth life, a full week after I arrived back. After procrastinating for a few days about even enrolling again I forced myself to go to the Uni to change my enrollment (yet again) I even managed to speak to the faculty advisor about what I can do with my degree, she was so friendly and so helpful that if I had been

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Fighting windmills..

[anonymous]

Hi Amber! How are you? Settling down a bit? You never came round the second time :o) I've just come back from a grand tour of central Spain, you'd loved it! Starting in Madrid for a couple of days, we walked around it's vast center to get the spannish feal; taking it slow, not because we were relaxed but because of blisters, yes, because of new shoes, baaad, bought slippers, yess, got new blisters in interesting places, baaad. It's really hot there, 40-ish but dry. Books always tell you how great the buildings are, how friendly the people, great food ladida but they never mention the smell. One of Monique's favourite questions was "Well Rick what ghetto have you got us in to now". From Madrid we went to El Escorial, an old Royal Palace(from the hight of Spanish might), from there to Aranjuez, an old Royal residence with big lush parks) to Valencia for amazing really old an new buildings(l'Hemispheric) and smells, back to Toledo with it's jewish, morish and christian heritige to Salamanca for the oldest university in Europe and back to Madrid for some last visits although we missed the Guernica painting of Picasso and the statue on the Plaza Mayor because it was packed in for a light show they gave every evening(imagine eating on the Dam sqaure and then getting laserbeamed by a suprise disco show with brilliantly tumbling colourfull images on every building). I have just unloaded my suitcase, sorted out, have big pile of mail next to me and some resetling to do; mañana! mañana! or tomorrow! tomorrow! I still have some of that spanish tempo left, want to keep hold of it as long as I can.

I'll keep checking out your blog!

Rick

P.s.: The subject line. Travelling to Spain I've seen a lot of the country out of various train windows and I've stumbled upon a lot of statues, streets, museums referring to "Don Quixote" a 17th centry novel by a spanish writer called Cervantes. It tells the story of an old enpovrished knight on a crusade with his sidekick Sancho Panza fighting windmills, he thinks are dragons('But master, they're mills!") in the old central part of Spain we travelled through. I have always been interested in old stories, like the Gilgmamesh story or the wonderfull Baron von Münchhausen. Just another one for my bookshelf of books to read.. I need two lives, one to see, read and experience and another one to think everything over.

Re: Fighting windmills..

[anonymous]

Hey Rick :)
Good to hear from you,I really miss all of you. It was fun to read your post because I could hear your voice in my head, and I know you write exactly as you would sound. I am glad to hear that you and Monique had a great time, although I can definatly sympathise about bad shoes and blisters. I now have pictures of Holland, spread all over my doors, they are made up in a patchwork style with lots of the Van Gough postcards that you bought for me, and others that I collected on the Cousin's night out, and from Paris. I am happy to say that although I still miss Holland alot, I am feeling pretty happy here, I have made quite a few new friends at Trinity, and I think the idea of only a little work, and just thee units at Uni this semester is helping me to relax alot. I was asked out when I was at the pub on wednessday night, I am still in a bit of shock because this guy was quite handsome,he was not really drunk and he did not try to hit on me, he just asked for my number. I am not sure that this has actually happened to me before, certainly not in that setting, and not that I can remember.
This last week or so I have just been re reading some of my favorite Terry Pratchett books, to enjoy myself before I settle into the hard analysing of study again, but I do know what you mean about all those classic texts, some of them are so beautiful. I definatly had to laugh when you said you needed two lives, I know just what you mean :)

Anyway, I will write again soon, I hope you and Monique are well, much love, Amber.