Carnival

Carnival 2013

Absolutely fucking mad. 

I would never have seen so many people over a 4 month period. 

I have never been asked if "I'm alright" so many times. 

Never drunk so much Jamaican lager. 

Never danced to so much reggae. 

Never been surrounded by so many smiling faces. 

Never been so high and not known how. 

Never been so unprepared and unexpectant of what I was walking into. 

Never experienced such madness. 

Carnival 2014?

Location: Notting Hill, London

The Depression

 

Just come back from beautiful Dorset. It definitely feels good to be home but I'm well and truly questioning my choice to live in London.

 



 

Beautiful beaches, sunny skies, warm days. Butterflies and countryside. Waking to humming birds instead of screeching trains.

 

And I come home to the depression.

 

 

It has rained all day non stop today. 140 more days of terror.

 

Hurry up Cornwall 2014.

Cheers For The Memories

I still love you.

xo

London Downfalls

Krispy Kremes and bagels.

You will be my greatest London downfall.


Location: London Bridge Tube Station

Sunset Views

Cheers to the sky for making me feel at home wherever I am.

Troughton Lane aka my "home" The walk down my street has never felt more welcoming than it did today with the sky looking so amazing. I wish these photos even slightly captured it.

I felt so inspired that I took a walk down to my local pub - Anchor & Hope. An unbelievably dodgy location but the views of Woolwich Ferry and Canary Wharf are pretty sweet. Maybe these views will one day inspire me enough to risk hanging out there for more than 2 minutes.

Dear Housemate

SERIOUSLY!

Every morning you wake me up to you talking on the phone.

Every day you get home I listen to you talk on the phone.

Every day I try to fall asleep listening to you talk on your god damned phone.

Firstly you are going to end up with some sort of cancer.

Second, it is seriously unnecessary to talk at volume 10! The phone will pick you up at volume 3!

Third, you sound like a girl.

One of these days I'm going to malfunction your phone.

Work

Tomorrow I have an interview at a pub at 4pm and am doing my first shift at Rooftop Café at 6pm.

Why am I stressing about finding a job?

Settling In

Things are finally starting to look like we're getting somewhere.

I've managed to open up a new bank account. Cheers Barclays for being the only helpful, friendly and supportive bank that I've come across here.

Still getting no where on the job front and still got a hundred and one things to organise.

But I have finally moved into a new place in Charlton!

My room is just big enough for me to walk alongside my single bed and my housemates seem to enjoy pretending I don't exist. But give it some time, I'm sure I'll be calling this place home soon enough.

Sorry Woolwich, I really did give you a good shot. Not sure if I can really handle the human shit smeared pavements, bed bug infested houses and being asked if I'm a hooker during all hours of the day. I value being able to walk around my own neighbourhood without worrying about getting raped. Maybe some other time.

Still going through a bit of a culture shock. I miss Margies more than anything right about now.

Day 4

So overwhelmed by everything that's going on right now.

Silks Roller Derby Performance

 

Yeeeooowwwwww cheers Jimena for being such an inspiring trainer. The performance was heaps of fun!

Couldn't have asked for a better last night in Margies.

Huge shout out for the small handful of people who came to watch me. Will never forget.

The Beginnings

Day 2

Still sleep deprived.

Already hating sleeping with 12 other people and sharing a shower and toilet with 24.

Struggling to open up a bank account let alone organise NHS and a tax number and NI.

Still have not got a job.  Just got a phone call for a trial shift at a restaurant along the river.

And already have had dickheads running down streets to chase me down and say hello. Not to mention the guy that stopped in the middle of the road and held up traffic just to get out his phone and take a picture of me and drive off.

Oh and I'm not sure what made me think living in London was a good idea when I hate crowded cities.

But I couldn't be more excited right now to be soon calling this place home.

Just checked out an amazing room that I hope to live in along the river in Woolwich. Literally a 2 minute skate from Aircraft circus. Which by the way, is AMAZING. I am so incredibly excited for this foundation course to start!

And I couldn't believe what just so happened to be right next door!

Yeeeeoooowwwww! Time to unpack the climbing gear!

Also a huge shout out to my Aunty, Uncle and cousins for making me feel part of the family :)

I can definitely feel the beginnings of something great.


Location: Dover Castle Hostel, LONDON

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Finally today is the day! Waiting at the Perth Airport to board my plane. 

I have waited for almost a year for this day to finally come. I have stressed for weeks to prepare and now I suppose I should feel excited, maybe relieved, maybe nervous. 

But all I can think about is the fact that in 25 hours I will be 14761km away from you.

8 months ago I had a one way to ticket to the other side of the world and could not have been more excited to go. Then I met you and you were the last thing I wanted. 

But the only thing I wanted. 

I still don't understand everything about you. How you could spend $400 to watch a game of soccer or how you can drink wine every day and believe its good for you. No idea how you get away with being so ridiculously amazing at sport and for an average person your brain should not be able to hold so much information and random trivia. I don't think I'll ever understand why you loved me even though you knew I would leave you. 

But I thrive for the unknown and you have been everything I could have ever wanted and more. Thanks for bringing me sunshine during winter. Thanks for being the logic through my senseless chaos. Thanks for making me smile. 

James Cameron Revie, I fucking love you. This feeling was worth it for every second I got to spend with you.