Last weekend my two friends Jane and Olivia were here in Berlin. Olivia just completed a five month training program with Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company in Israel and is spending a few months dancing and traveling Europe. Jane has just climbed Mount Kilimanjaro with her boyfriend Jeff and is now exploring the European dance scene before she heads back to "sunny" Vancouver to dance her beautiful heart out. (OK, Bridget Jones...) When Olivia arrived, she allowed me to drag her to a museum basically right away. I finally went to the Pergamon Museum!!! I've been searching this one out for a while now. I have been to two others, thinking and hoping I was going to see the Ishtar Gate, third time is indeed a charm and I finally saw the stunning gates of Babylon. The thing that struck me the most was the size of it all. So humbling to stand before such an incredible artifact, I always wonder at the people who constructed these beautiful works of art. I wonder if they had any notion at all of the beauty or of what it was they were building, what kind of a legacy their hands, sweat, blood, pain and deaths were creating. Did they have any idea their work would be in a museum thousands of miles away from their location almost twenty five hundred years later? I certainly don't even think five years into my future let alone beyond my existence...
Over the weekend we laughed, and laughed and laughed. It has been ages since I have laughed so much and so hard. We told each other silly stories, brainstormed many a ridiculous dance/theatre work, reminisced good times had together, mimed absurd scenarios, took ideas way too far and then back again. Friends really are such a wonderful thing in our lives and I think we overlook them too often or are too distracted with our daily routine to appreciate how great they are for us. Being away for such a long period of time from my unbelievable pals in Vancouver and other parts of Canada, has made me appreciate their spectacularity (fully aware this is not a word, thank you, spell check) all the more. I will take this moment to say that I am so lucky to have met you all and I constantly keep you with me. (I really didn't intend for this to be so cheesy! My god!) Fear not, pals back home.... I am not just spending my days all alone pining for our happy reunion this August, I have met some incredible people here in Berlin of late, some people just passing through and others I am happy to say live here for the time being. I am honoured to have met individuals who are talented, creative, funny, intelligent, grounded, passionate and so much more. I will add them to my list of inspiring people who will stay with me for the rest of my life in some way, shape or form.
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| For my Mumsy, Petra Fitzner. |
Friend time is not over yet by any means, these next few months come filled with so many interesting people and hopefully many more will be encountered on the way. Caroline is here at the moment, Colleen from Seattle comes in five days. Head to Frankfurt on the 30th to see the always amazing Kidd Pivot and Julie-Anne, then off to Paris with Caroline, Rena, Jane and hopefully Olivia. Next stop, Groeningen where I will see all 36 smiling faces of the Arts Umbrella Senior Dance Company, kids I taught over the past nine years, not to mention Arty, Lynn and the parent chaperons. From there, Stuttgart, to see my family. Back to Berlin in May to hang out with Marcus and my best friend Annika. Come August, this lucky little gal gets to go home to work with the lovely Amber, Lisa, Laura and Dianne, attend a wedding of two very dear friends, become Auntie Lina and cuddle the best worst kitty the world has ever known.
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