mi primer blog

It feels very funny to have a blog. But seeing as I am here in españa and I like to think there are masses in England and Joburg and CT hungry for news it does make sense! I am sitting here in a grimy internet cafe around the corner from the flat where my family live on Granvia. I have reminded myself not to bite my nails because it seems so grimy! After another large lunch my great aunt and aunt and cousin are all dozing happily the siesta. When they wake up it will be time for tea and biscuits! I was very happy to discover that the local supermarket the Carrefour stocks chocolate digestives. Sorry, it seems that all thats coming up in this first historic post is miscellanea. No architecture no stirring tales just chocolate bicuits! Maybe I should also be having the siesta.

I arrived in this city on Monday. I had met my english aunts and uncles and my uncle Dov at a hotel in London for tea and croissants in between flights which was lovely, and then my Barcelona family met me at the airport and they were veru warm so with so much family I missed that feeling of forlornness you can get at being alone and jetlagged in a new place and everyone wanting you for your euro. In fact I am so well taken care of by my great aunt who makes sure I have at least 5 meals a day which is much more than I do in my spasmodic student existence in C.T!

Very soon after my arrival I got a letter from the centre of contemporary culture to say there was a place for me. I´ll be working from 3 to 7 every day in this centre which is next to the Museum of Modern Art in a beautiful old part of the city with two vegetarian restaurants close by! I had a meeting with the director yesterday and I was very nervous for how my Spanish would hold up when talking about things like culture and concepts of boundedness but in the end it was fine. The director, Juan, is very interested in making links with South Africa and most of my work will be researching good South African peformance/spoken word poets/graffiti artists/young authors with a view to importing some to take part in the various festival the centre hosts - something I feel very well placed to do!

As I only start on the 11th I will go and visit my gran before in Alicante for a few days and I´ll write more on my return...love to everyone.