getting out... 01

I sat with my father in a falafel restaurant around the corner from my home in Kreuzberg (only for another 9 days:-( ). And for the first time we talked a little about the fact that since he has visited me in Berlin everyone refers to me as He. And he does too. Well almost all the time, I guess he realised that it was a little more serious when we both walked into the same toilet at the Gallery. Before it was just howit was for me, I was affraid and to articulate gender and sex on a political and personal level... guess we will take it slowly.

I just can out to my mum via email as a He. I wish that I could be everywhere and in Melbourne so that her and I could go to the Transdestinations conference:
http://www.gasworks.org.au/festivals/transdestinations2008.php

Richard in Berlin

Hey mum, promise I'm taking good care of Richard here!... here are some photos from new years and on the U-bahn.(u remember?) Today he is off to see the Daniel Libeskind Jewish Museum while I organise stuff, prepare for return (ie which jeans I will bring home) and do some study, and organise crafting and diferent fun things for my last two weeks... look forwad to your fig jam!!

Barshelonya

Isa, Jess & Felix: "testing chairs"
Gaudi: "really big church with frogs and snails"
Jess & Marti : "on a hill"


Gaudi: "hanging model"
sometimes exhibitions are mindblowing: Erina Matsui from Japan (www.obieg.pl)

Blue Velvet Pony Girl wit "Gramps' stil got it , yeah"

Gramps has still got it... Both grandpa stan and fooks. was to get on stage and say good bye to 2007. The best part of the show was colllabarting with wonderful Pony Girl and Velvet... bit of fun between friends, and with a very appropriate anti-ageist undertone! Was the first New years spend away from the beach with all my lovely homies around me. first time in a city since being 18.. and what a city... decribed best as a warzone as the clocks ticks over to 2008 as every child and grandma lights there own fireworks, a haze of smoke settles through out the city and red dye from the paper covers the streets for days after.
It snowed here the forst dy of 2008, which was lovely for drinking more mulled wine. Glühwien whcih is the savour of christmastime in Germany. Christmas was spent down south, gettin some real german tradition up me... if it wasn,t for the snowboardin and isa i could have done with out it!

Northern Italy

Isa and Marti poland, netherlands, italy, bavaria and should have gone to Morrocco. I love traveling with Isa. Our different interests together meant we always saw so much... and we always managed to eat somzink varm! Tourism is a nasty path which can drag you in and through a city, seeing the place like everyother visitor. We always see that but much more...

Budapeshht

Wilhelmshagen Wald

Isa, Jess, Dango and I had an adventure to a forest to frollick amongst the nature and the Autumn and leaves and stuff. It was totally lovely to get out of city and breathe fresh air for a bit. Berlin doesn,t overwhelm me physically so sometiems I forget i need to get so nature in me! We even saw a woody wood pecker! It had a bright red belly. It totally fun being in a yellow forest, although some parts where bright red... We adventured of the path and after a while we stumbled upon, well we dont know what exactly. But old bunkers. We wreckoned must be from DDR keeping poeple in and out. But it was really crazy everthing just still there. Hooks to old not only one electric wire fence but for at least 10 cables. Bizarre... these abrubtly abandoned spaces till laying dormant in the forest, grown over by nature and graffiti artists.