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Post by kats on May 27, 2004 6:31:43 GMT -5
btw- got offered a volunteer position with the most reputable pr company in the country. thing is, it's VOLUNTEER and i just don't have time to do the hours they're asking me to do. and i know their approach to interns which is 'leap everything onto them'. they've seen my work in board meetings, which is why they're willing to let me on board...but i don't want to say yes, if i know i can't show what i've got while i'm studying full time. full time for me is 12 hours a week, and only three days at uni...but there's a lot of work. not enough to keep me motivated, but enough to keep me engaged.
i think ill just wait till the end of the year and do it for a month in our three plus month break.
this is confusing. i hope i'm not throwing this away.
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Post by kats on May 27, 2004 6:33:15 GMT -5
and i don't care if that all seemed like i was blowing my own trumpet. i've stopped caring what lurkers think. i couldn't say hello without being self indulgent to some people. so, meh.
i think i'm just having a mid semester, first year freak out.
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Post by kats on May 27, 2004 8:32:55 GMT -5
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Post by limitdeditionlayla on May 28, 2004 2:17:58 GMT -5
Rocdoc - you've inspired me to detour my travels to eastern Europe. I have wanted to see that part of the continent, if only b/c I'm a sucker for anything historical, but now I'm sold. I'll let you know where I make it, we fly out of Spain soon & I can't wait to take on the rest of Europe. Kat - I'm a big fan of deferring uni studies. I had 12 months off after high school to work fulltime, travel around Oz & Bali a bit & save some cash. It gives you some deserved time off & a different perspsctive on everything. You're already enrolled & uni is not going anywhere. However, its VERY hard to go back to being a poor bum after having money & a social life. And do you want to end up like me? I still haven't graduated properly from psych & I have two or three years left to get my biotech degree, which I have to do in England before I become a washed-up hag. Whatever you decide will be right for you. But like my dad says "just don't ask ME for money, young lady"  |
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Post by RocDoc on May 28, 2004 13:13:39 GMT -5
Layla, that's great!
Absolutely, you should....Eastern Europe has SUCH a wealth of all sorts of natural beauty, is generally cheap as hell...then the history and architecture alone!
And much of it, you see in a stage of RE-birth as their societies re-group following various degrees of Soviet repression, depending how far east you go.
Strange as it may seem, the actual geographic center of all of Europe IS in Lithuania itself....so 'Eastern Europe' regarding Poland, the Baltic Republics, the Slovakias, the Slovenias and the Czechs is a bit of a misnomer....but that's been in place for years.
Yah, thought I'd add that point-of-interest... ;D
Prague, Dubrovnik, Budapest, Bucharest, Warsaw, Karkow.....aaaaaah, St Petersburg!
ALL cities that I'm hoping to eventually get to....
Interestingly TONS of Liths travel to Turkey(the Turkish beach resorts)and Egypt(the same, believe it or not)for their vacations because of the very reasonable cost...
Croatia, on the Adriatic Sea, is another...THAT's supposed to be an incredibly beautiful country! Mountains fronting the sea....nice combo, eh?
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Post by RocDoc on May 28, 2004 13:21:09 GMT -5
Oh, and thanks for that Auzzie art-holdings website, kat...some very interesting stuff there.
Tho no Ciurlionis, booooo!
Ha, but they're rare...
I'd suggest you Google him when you get a chance...I think you'd love some of his other pieces...
*Mark the Ciurlionis Museum(in Kaunas Lithuania)on your 'itinerary-to-be', Layla!
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Post by limitdeditionlayla on May 28, 2004 23:32:47 GMT -5
Roc - Russia was always on my list, I have some distant relatives there but also an interest in the country. And I'd love to see Croatia as what I've heard of it tells me its a geographically beautiful country. Its not a volatile-ish place like Serbia though, is it? It doesn't seem to be, I don't think theres any travel warnings about Croatia.
But now I REALLY want to spend some time in eastern Europe. I love the olde-worlde charm those countries seem to be full of.
And my grandma here in Spain (who is Russian) told me we have distant relatives in Finland of all places! She wrote a letter out in Finnish that I'm supposed to give to my rels when I track them down explaining who I am. That should be fun, I'm making an effort to fit Finland into my plans & so it turns out I can add Finnish to the list of countries that make up my mutt DNA.
And THANKS for the inspiration! ;D
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Post by RocDoc on May 29, 2004 12:47:55 GMT -5
These days Croatia is just fine, no stupid conflicts at all...the expansionist Serbs sorta took aim at the Bosnians, after(I think)signing some sorta treaty w/the Croats...after getting their asses kicked BIGtime by the Croats a few times too.
At the Finnish-Russian border is a region called Karelia, that's got its OWN culture AND a bit of a mish-mosh of the 2 bordering countries....a very cool folkloric music comes from there...there also were a few Russian/Soviet Gulags near there, thanks to its Siberia-like remoteness...all the better to separate 'political' opponents in a shitty fly and mosquito-infested hellhole.
Of course the true locals, the natives, knew how to deal with what they had, and thrived in spite of it.
Eventually, many of the Soviet victims there thrived also, but just as many got sick and died there too.
Interestingly, I know a few Lithuanians born both in Karelia and in Siberia, thanks to those VERY fucked up times...
Maybe your relatives were part of that border region, Layla...
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Post by limitdeditionlayla on May 29, 2004 22:25:34 GMT -5
My grandmother's family history is pretty murky. All we know is that her grandfather left Finland for Siberia & then settled in Moscow where he married a Russian woman. As far as she knows it was due to a feud/rift that the family split (one of her Finnish great-uncles left for England & no one knows what became of him, the others all remained in Finland).
Family histories are so interesting, I'd love to try and follow up on this.
And what you've told me about the Finnish-Russian border is very interesting. Have you ever visited the area? I think you mentioned before that you were born in the US & you haven't been to Lithuania? You seem to be very in tune with the culture/history of the area. Is your wife of a similar background to you?
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Post by ScottsyII on May 29, 2004 23:01:02 GMT -5
My family history is reasonably interesting. Apparently the Buchheister family was quite a wealthy German family with some vague links to Nobility.
This was all rather broken and smashed by the rise of Nazism, which requisitioned alot of the family's wealth, revoked Nobility, etc etc. My Grandfather fought in the German Navy, but then was chased out of his home town after the second world war, during the beginning of Communist rule in East Germany.
Which led them to come to South Australia!
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Post by mellie on May 29, 2004 23:29:33 GMT -5
And a DAMN fine family they all are, might I add!!
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Post by ScottsyII on May 30, 2004 0:34:11 GMT -5
Well you are part of that family too, ya know.... ;-)
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Post by limitdeditionlayla on May 30, 2004 1:07:30 GMT -5
Thats really intrigiung Scotts. Do you still have family in Germany?
There seems to be alot of Germans who settled in SA. Isn't the Barossa a German region, or am I just imagining that?...
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Post by mellie on May 30, 2004 3:07:41 GMT -5
Ive never gotten a bigger reminder of that than I have tonight Layla!!! :-)
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Post by kats on May 30, 2004 6:06:03 GMT -5
rnr, two more good galleries, if not better...are the national gallery in canberra, and the museum of contemporary art which is a huge art deco building situated cosily in between the opera house and the harbour bridge. a lot of site specific works stem from there... if you ever come to sydney, i'll make sure to take you on a gallery tour, kat-style! which means public transport and lots of walking  |
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