I have never been very good at describing myself and what I do. I chalk it down to shyness, but on a blog there is no real need to be shy. After all no one else is likely to read it except the people you ask to specifically.
I like describing what the other people in my family do, I am very proud of my hardworking brother who hopes to be an actor, and look up to my parents who seem to know so much about everything. They seem to know so much they have even written little books!
I come from a long line of teachers but I couldn't imagine anything I would like less, I would get stage fright all the time! My grandmother was a librarian and I know that my love of reading is definitely an inherited trait.
I am trying to forge a career where I get to do interesting things and look at very interesting objects, like silent movies and things like that. I am worried about film history because I don't want people to forget how old hollywood told majestic tales and how glamorous the actors and actresses were. They are completely irreplaceable.
I decided that I wanted to breath life into my blog once more when I was sorting through my travel photos. I have so many and can't print every one. I want to develop my writing skills so I can find new ways to talk about myself without using sentences that begin with "I" every single time. Maybe I will be able to become more articulate and write better letters that help me to get the career that I dream of.
There are many interesting things that I am doing at the moment, and these revolve around my internship at the Victorian College of the Arts, and my devotion to volunteering at the community radio station PBS (the music is what brought me there but it's the endless cups of tea that are the reason I won't ever leave). Here I am gaining an insurmountable amount of experience, and have been given the opportunity to help guide terrible interesting projects that have such a satisfying conclusion to work towards (and perhaps involve some lovely parties).
As a compulsive tea drinker, and when I was meandering down the King's Road in London last December, my dear travel companion and I stumbled into T2. My friend was so excited because we were about to return home after months of travelling and she waxed lyrical with the sales assistant about all we had been up to. I stumbled across the Earl Grey Royale for the very first time and ever since its has undeniably been my favourite.
I hope to return to London in the guide of a research trip, where I can research interesting institutions and the ways that they keep their material, and study at the University of Edinburgh or the Courtauld Institute, but really what I want to do is get lost in all the beautiful streets of West London and St Germain des Pres in Paris.
When I visited the Lourve I made sure to do my best impression of Audrey Hepburn next to the Winged Victory of Samorthace.
xx b
