I'm now sitting in an internet cafe at Incheon airport, about to head off to London (has it been a week already?). I spent most of the night trying to figure out how to pack my accumulated luggage into two small suitcases - and managed to succeed (just). Hopefully the domestic flight to Yorkshire will be ok with some excess baggage! Korea, like always, has been exciting, fun and tasty. The other day I met up with my Primary ed friends Susan and Zaye for a day o...

So, I'm travelling once again - this time for a 10 month stint abroad. I'm going back to the Motherland (UK) to continue my Professional Puppeteer's Diploma at the London School of Puppetry... but not before a short pit-stop in wonderful Korea! I arrived on Wednesday night to a hot and humid city (which was quite odd, since I usually associate Korea with the freezing cold and snowy weather of the winter season). The plane trip over came with a lovely surprise - ...

So I'm now back in Sydney (it's raining over here too, but the food is fantastic!) I arrived on Thursday (after travelling for 23 hours) and graduated the next morning. It was definitely a treat to wear the academic gown (my friend Kate thought that this was an occasion for Harry Potter music, though none such orchestral pieces materialised in the Great Hall - organs were the sound of the day). After the hoo-ha of graduating (which also involved photos - lots and...

It's now my last day in London and I'm doing my final preparations to go home (I'm going home! Yay!). I've now finished my Applied Puppetry module (as a probational student), and was overjoyed to be offered a place to complete the Professional Puppeteer's Diploma! That means that I will be coming back to the UK (probably in June) to continue my studies. I'll be preparing a glove puppetry piece (based on 'Shakespeare as Caberet') to perform at a few festivals/sh...

I'm now only a week away from finishing my module and have no idea where the time has gone! We've just had 4 days off for the Easter weekend, which was lovely (though many of us have managed to catch colds, including myself). To go back a bit, I have now presented my project on Humpty Dumpty and am very happy to say that it went splendidly. The girls created some beautiful mock-up puppets and sketches for the show, and have informed me of their enthusiasm for w...