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Auckland Blues and other Hues |
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Wednesday, 16 August 2006 |
It's been six weeks now since I've been living in Auckland. Six weeks of unemploydom, chaos and quiet contemplation, a huge supernova of ups and downs. I remember how frustrated I used to feel in Sweden when I couldn't work, and in some ways this is similar, but in that case I had classes to go to and a language to savour. Now I am trying to hold my soul afloat and preserve vitality in my life.
I live with three extraordinary human beings, and their constance in my life has helped me immensely. Ben's company does me the world of good too, it strips away my selfishness and needless self-analysis. I feel fortunate to have a veritable forest of such people in my clutches. Learning to keep my rural integrity in an urban area is really difficult, but I feel the wisdom of this lesson creeping up on me.
This week I have been doing a small business course in Devonport through the Depot Art Space, I actually have discovered the joys of bookkeeping. It's funny the things one never thinks one will be taken by. Bookkeeping I relished. Being in Devonport is lovely too, going on the train and then the ferry feels appropriately removed from the salivating streams of traffic that pant through the city in the early morning. I just clack with the train and roll with the waves and it's calming and plain good fun.
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