10 octobre 2005
J-2
Pour tous les francophones, je suis donc bien arrivee sur Girdwood et j'ai enfin le temps de me relaxer un peu, faire des ballades dans les bois et generalement profiter de quelques jours de farniente, Euh on dit aussi farniente quand il fait 2 degres dehors, qu'il a neige sur le haut des montagnes environnantes et qy'il y du givre sur les vitres le matin...
je ne saurais vous decrire Girdwood, c'est une vallee environnee de montagnes avec des chapeaux blancs et les rues sont principalement de la terre battue. L'hiver devrait etre la d'ici une semaine dis-t'on et je dois avouer que je suis un peu blasee de partir sans avoir vu toute cette beautee sous un tapis de blancheur.
Il ne me reste plus que 2 jours ici et c'est direction le canada. Etre seule et faire le bilan de ces 3 mois me rpouvfe que cela ne fut que benef que je vienne ici. Je me sens plus posee, sur de moi et de ce que j'aimerais faire. J'entends deja de ce pas certains d'entre vous me demander et alors que desire tu faire? Et bien j'aimerais et c'est global reussir a merger mes connaissances scientifiques avec ma creativite/photo/media, en fait je commence a penser serieusement a me dirige vers une voie un peu differente tout en travaillant bien sur dans ce que je viens d'apprendre a grand frais, le GIS.
J'aimerais apprendre a faire des documentaires, cela necessitera certainement d'etre dans une grande ville car ce boulot est principalement un travail de groupe, entre editage, filmage etc.... Documentaire ayant trait a l'environnement... le tout maintenant est de revenir vous visiter par chez nous, dans notre belle vieille europe et mettre ca en marche...
Un peu de nature, d'air frais, de travail et Voila.... Il ne reste plus qu'a partager tout ca avec lui, mon tendre et cher que je vasi revoir bientot... Sur ce je me dirige vers les bois pour faire un marche dans l'air glaciale mais revigorant de cette terre lointaine..
05 octobre 2005
Xena
This is the sweet little warrior princess Xena I used to hang out with at home and who passed away about one week ago...May she rest in peace...
Photo de ma petite xena, chatounette avec qui je me comfortais le soir et qui est morte il y a de cela une semaine...Paix a son ame ...elle me manque...
04 octobre 2005
Girdwood
Je suis retournee sur Girdwood pour une journee du samedi au dimanche et je voulais juste vous montrer c'est quoi une station de ski alaskienne en bord de mer...
Homer Documentary festival
Alors voila un petit mot en francais enfin. La semaine derniere je suis descendue sur Homer afin de profiter de l'air marin et allez voir des documentaires. le premier fut la marche des pingouins et c'est tout simplement magique et "mad hot ballroom" un doc ou nous suivons des eleves dans 3 ecoles differentes de NY qui se preparent a un concours de danse. C'etait tout simplement irresistible.
Et puis bien sur je me suis promenee sur la plage...
Ais bue une biere dans le bar branche sur la peninsule, le Saltwy dog
Avec Mike l'autre volontaire
Puis j'ai reussi a rencontrer une Slovaquienne dans l'autre saloon ou nous allions pour ecouter un groupe groovie: "3 legged mules", alaskiens bien sur...
Andrea
Le goupe
Enfin apres une nuit dans l'auberge de jeunesse, un peu de marche toujours sur la plage, retour a Soldotna...
Bye for good Homer
15 septembre 2005
Autumn
Mandy is leaving for Ghana in a few days and I am heading to Anchorage, with Michael, for a wild party at her house. At this specific moment in time I am tide down to a bed, coughing with fever and wishing for this cold to vanish within 24 hours so I can enjoy the wil'times. I shall not predict anything and simply be patient with my immune system... it gives me plenty of time to surrender to writing tasks and GIS tutorials and sleep... I hadn't relax in that way for a while...
Hope you're all well... Autumn is here, yellows and burned oranges are spreading over all deciduous trees and fire-weeds turned themselves into live white furr spikes, swaying in the wind. The earth is damp and nights are chillin', smells of rotten leaves and mushrooms are a constant reminder of this time of renewal and death intertwinned. I wish I could see snow before I go, temperatures have been chilier than usual so.....maybe it will come first october:)
27 août 2005
Heading out in the Wild
I woke up at 6:30 this morning. The sky was already lit and birds sang, most likely the woodywood pecker that lives nearby and a blue gey. My plans seems at last to take shape, I am heading out to the alyeska hostel in Girdwood and meeting up with David there tonight, the director from the alaska wild school that I encountered at the forest festival. We will head out to Bird Creek on Sunday for some "tuning into the wild" and camp over. Bird Creek is a place of its own, a haven where you can relax and stay away from society, tune into your true nature, true self...No I am not speaking like a lunatic or a hippie, i can hear some of you from here!!!... I will also keep practicing my photogrpahic skills, which are (in my point of view) very personal and not yet prepared to be truly shared. As Espen would say I have an odd sense of perspective and angles... but I might have to be prepared to get critics on tuesday as I am shooting the pictures for a very personal wedding that David will perform. In the states you can marry your friends as long as you're over 6 people or 10, can't remember, yeah I know everything is different over there but I like it:) They were going to ask a prof photographer, his webpage is there, but david beleives it will be good practice for me and as it is a small thing...
It is my 4th wedding of the year I attend to. First in Singapore, the last 2 in Norway and now in Alaska. If you had told me that last year I would have considered you insane or profoundly disturbed. I am still in awe at the places I have been to, living there for a few weeks or like in Norway a few months, or simply going through when I was onboard the QM2. I might have for the fun to retrace my steps on a map...yet why linger in the past lets livefully this week-end...
Have to get dressed. My boss must be awake and we're heading out in the field in 25 minutes. Another Culvert survey and elevation or flow meter measurements before heading out for a 3 day week-end that will extend til tuesday night.
Jim:THANX!!! Received your CD yesterday at work. Am listening to it right now, this is one of the only type of music I hadn't brought with me...Brighton parties come back to mind:)
Espen: Have changed my mind, love the album from Bertine Zetlitz, which one is your Fav?
Capucine: I know you've got my number. Call me soon, before you go to work, that's the ideal time. Missin' U girl.
11 août 2005
Silence....bliss...craze...PARTY
Silence is bliss sometimes. I have been silent for over a week, carried away by the stunning weather and the flow of my life. I don't know where to start:) I guess firsty and foremost I will thamk some of you guys for the support. Just had a "coup de blues" but it passed. Well, I'll move on to all the fun places I have been and people I encountered.
I left for Cooper landing, further inland where I was going to meet with Mandy,
Mandy
she runs an organisation called Volunteer for Alaska. All the different volunteer and governmental organisations of the area were organising a Forest Festival on saturday and their campground for the week-end was beautiful (pics up) right on the bank of Kenai Lake.
The festival was small but lively with bands playing and different stalls selling organic products/bead necklaces, proposing talks on bear safety etc.., and most of them explaining what their organisations did. Kids were runnign around with their face all painted in bright colours and adults were simply enjoying the day dancing and relaxing ...
The band
The crowd
A Stall
However, in the midst of this cacophonia aound mid-day I needed quiet, the smell of the woods and the shade of the undergrowth. I am a woose, do not dare go for a hike on my own because of bears, so I found a nice guy (I can hear some of you from here!!! quit it) who had just ran the thriathlon race organised by the festival, running, biking and kayaking and we headed down towards Russian Falls and Cabin...6 miles ( 9.6 kilometers) and 4 hours later we were back...
Garry
Small fall
The real deal
We came back to Cooper landing, rested, ate and went back to our campground where the party, the fun was going to blew us away. A myriad of cars were already parked on the sidewalks. I would say that easily 100 people were down the "Beach"....but this story of all night up, no sleep, great talks with amazing people, dancing, singing (smily to Seelie) and sunrise is for tomorrow. Time to head down to bed...Natta to all...
03 août 2005
Tom & Stephanie
They have been my foster parents and I am leaving them in a few days. So I guess I owe them a little space here, just to say thanx you for having been so welcoming, taking me to canoe, fishing trips, hanging out with their friends at parties and generally just being very neat, another american expression I am getting accustomed to. Thanx in pics then...
Stef
Tom
Tom & Boggy
Family times
Boggy
