drilling the wall

Matt and I don't do DIY as much as we would like to do it. Simply because we don't want to kill ourselves to save a few quids and plus Matt thinks we should get things done professionally.

Fuse in the security camera in the garden went dead a few months ago. I couldn't unscrew the screws to change the fuse. (durhh,,,) then Matt came out with a better solution that we should actually change the unit itself as they are so old and rusty. Now it became from changing the fuse Job to electrician job as its plug is actually on the kitchen wall through the wall. It has been our agenda for a few weeks sporadically as it needed sorting. If only I had enough money to do everything I wish to do...

30mins. no charge...
A colleague of mine came around and did it there and then for me.

How many of you had drilled the holes in the house? How many of you actually put the shelves up? How many of you know how to connect electricity? How many of you know how to put a wall paper straight when the walls are not stright? How many of you actually know which type of screw plugs are for which type of walls? How many of you can lay the carpet down? How many of you can replace a bath tub?

Why is life such a struggle to me? This is why.

꿈

이상하게 요즘엔 이화여자대학교가 길이 꿈에 자꾸 나온다. 이젠 기억이 가물가물해 법과대학이 어디에 있는지 확실치는 않지만 꿈에서는 2번째 후문에 바로 연결되어 있다. 학교 근처에서 걸어가고 있던차에 커다란 dam(아마 20m정도 깊이, 50m 정도 넓이)이 바닥까지 말라 있어 잡초들이 날정도로 메마른 땅을 바라보았다. 항상 물이 차있던 곳을 걸어가보면 어떨까 하는 호기심에 비스듬한 언덕을 조심스럽게 내려가 잡초가 많이 난 dam 바닥을 걸어보았다.어느새 물결이 찰랑찰랑할듯 복숭아뼈까지 밀려오다가 2-3초사이에 무릅까지 출렁거리고 밀려오더니 생각도 할 겨를 없을 정도로 빨리 초록색물이 내키 2배만한 파도를 이루며 밀려온 무게로 나를 넘어뜨렸다. 수영도 못하는 나로서는 나중에 깨고 나서 든 생각이지만 아무리 꿈이라고 해도 너무 한거 아닌가 하는 생각이 들었다. 운좋게도 가상자리에서 걷고 있었기에 파도에 의해 밀려가다가 enbankment에 있는 암석을 잡고 버티다가 위로 기어올라와 dam을 빠져나왔다. 문현선언니,, 교회언니가 dam밖에서 내가 죽었는지 알고 마구 울고 있었다. 상봉을 하고 나서 dam을 내려다보니 dam 중심쪽에서 걷고 있던사람들은 100% 죽어서 시신이 밀려와 마구 너저분하게 널려 있었다. 정말 끔찍한 꿈이었다.

Since my job title was changed, I realised a lot of my work is to do with being diplomatic. It's not what you know, it' normally who you know and how you make others perceive yourself as.

Reading books used to be my escape to reality but I have not been ready to pick one up to read for a while. I picked up sons and lovers by D.H. Lawrence the other day but the tone of the writer threw me out. Is there any happy book to cheer me up at all? That's one of the reasons I am dragging matthew to watch the move, mamma mia next week.

dziękuję!

Town we visited is called Klodzka less than 2 hours away from Wroclaw, Poland. It's our friends, Magdalena and Thomas's hometown.

This trip to Poland was not preplanned at all. We didn't have any clue as to what to expect from their polish wedding or from their country. Well the only connection we had with poles was that Matt used to have school friends back home in Toronto when he grew up and the fact that I have a few colleagues from poland at work. That's about it.

As soon as we landed in the airport in Poland we were quickly whisked away by our friends and put into the prepaid hotel which we didn't even got out until the following afternoon for the wedding. Matt supplied a delicious home made sandwich to me the night before and the next morning. Guess matt's saving money plan worked. As for the wedding, well Maggie had everything that a bride could dream for her wedding. Maggie and Thomas walked down the isle of the most beautiful cathedral with background of music from choir and she even released a white dove and lots of flowers and kisses were given by guests. It lasted 45mins then 80 odd guests were put into the mini bus while bride and bridegroom were transferred into limousine to the reception area. Food?Oh my God, We kept being served maybe every 2hrs with diferrent foods also inbetween we had blindfold games and polish dance then cake cutting then some polish dances, inbetween though, vodka with another polish dance session, after that salution to the parents afterwards there was another polish dancetime. This reception? It literally lasted until 5 o'clock in the morning and it started again the next day till 6 o'clock in the evening. By midnight I must have chatted with everybody in the room including the young lad who drooled over me and made me feel that I was in the zoo by repeating that he has never seen a korean girl in his life. Well, in the meantime my darling matt managed to get himself totally drunk and started to dance incessantly, which made everybody talk about how rhythmically this drunken canadian guy managed to hold himself in balance.

Magdalena and Thomas were kind enough to show their town around the next day of their wedding. It is a very old town with character and history. They showed the bridge which alledgely was built in eggshells to start with, star shaped fortress on the hill, numerous underground tunnels that were used to transfer soliders at world war two. At one point we had to crawl on our hands and knees in the unlit,claustrophobic space which scared me a lot. It was an unforgetable trip with fantastic people around us and it really changed my conception about them and made me realise again what travelling can do to one another.