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Game On
My only excuse – at least the only one I can think of at the moment – is that, after a month out of town, I've had a cold for five days. Therefore: dislocated habits, grogginess, slow response time… well it's an excuse. After a shower, vacuuming living room and laundry and feeling a bit…
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Adjudication
At home, after nearly a month in Zürich, six interviews to become a student at the Jung-Institut, and working out a detailed chart of requirements and expenses to complete their degree program… oh, and today was Gay Pride in Newcastle; fun and full of friends, if extremely wet/rainy/muddy. Followed by Skype contact with the Greek…
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Last night
The last night in Zürich… after my final interview, and a very rainy day. The interview went well, I thought – in fact I'm hoping that all six went well; we will see, of course. I was tired and a bit dazed afterwards, wandering the city in the rain, trying to find a place to…
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Genève
On Sunday, after three weeks of classes at the Jung-Institut, I took a train to Geneva to spend the day with Barbara, another student who has been counselling refugees for some years. (It always seems as though the German name for the city, Genf, is an irritable attempt at vengeance by the German-speaking on the…
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Lingue
A good day at the Jung-Institut – the middle one of three hot days. Tess's writing seminar was very good – why in fact doesn't she do this for four hours a day for three weeks? that would work – and when people chose to read their work it included a man with a beautiful…
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As in a dream
Küsnacht/Zürich: classes, seminars, meetings. Although everything is very organized and conscious, especially the way I do it (iPad at the ready, taking many notes and tracking various things to do), we sometimes mention to each other that there is something strangely aware and resonant about things – we may dream more, we all get into…
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Paul Attinello 