wooooaah mad

hello sister!

so i'm back from womad, and i had a wonderful time! it was really nice to spend time with jonty!


we were working as campaigners for oxfam, so we had to go around the festival talking to people, and painting their faces blue. this was because we were trying to form this big visual petition of people with blue faces, to send to gorden brown and the world leaders who are having a big UN summit on climate change in december. people were being painted blue because of the slogan ' demand action on climte change until you are blue in the face' it was really fun, and really interesting to learn all about what was happening about climate change, and speaking to peolple about it. But we were covered in blue facepaint for the whole festival. We met some other nice campaigners and spent time with them too!


The music was amazing, i didnt know anyone who was playing before hand so everything i saw was new and exciting! my favourite by far i think was this guy called Shlomo, from the uk, who is a beatboxer. he's worked with bjork and damon alburn and jarvis cocker and was just amazing! The music by its self was so good, but then you remember its all just coming from his mouth! Then he had this group called the vocal orchestra come on with him, which was made up of other beat boxers and vocalists, and they did improvisations and it was just amazing! such talented people!

Other than them we saw this amazing Indian gypsy band, this hip-hop brass band from the US, an amazing singer from mali, a crazy mongolian man and various instruments, a amazing chinese man with lots of instruments making weird sounds, portico quartet that my friend from college duncan is in! and many other people!

There was also a steam powered funfair, where me and jonty went on the dodgems, and laughed in the hall of mirrors and attempted to win a coconut on the coconut shy. (but we're rubbish)

We ate amazing food including cake from a tent called the cake hole, churros!, sunday roast, curry, had lovely hot fresh ginger and apple with rum! The weather was really good, with occasional bits of rain, until sunday when it rained nearly all day, but it wasn't that bad!


I bought a nice hat, a fake fur coat and a flannel shirt from oxfam. on the last day they had a massive sale of all the stock! it was amazing!

So all in all i had an amazing time! i definatly would go again! i can't wait for greenman festival! i forgot how good festivals are!


I hopefully have a job in a pub down the road from me, i'm going to go in this afternoon and speak with the women. Today i'm also going to go into town and try and look for more jobs.

It's nice being in my house, in my cosy room. Last night i watched a few episodes of this show called 'kirsties homemade house' which has the women from location, location, location doing up this abandoned house she bought. but she was getting all the furniture from second hand places like antiques markets and scrap yards and street markets. she was also going to local crafts people and learning how to make special items for her house, like blowing glass, pottery, blacksmithing, spinning, knitting, stained glass windows and all types of things like that! which sort of goes along with what i want to show in my project, so i may be able to find these people or ones like them.

Anyway this is what i've been up to! I'm really looking foreward to greenman and seeing jonty and owen again, and going to see mum in cardiff! and everyone coming back here and starting uni!

speak soon lots of love!