Happy New Year to you all! Yes, I know I am a bit late with that, but hey, a girl’s got to do what a girl’s got to do, and frankly, I shouldn’t even be here writing. Instead, I should be working with some of my scanned images from my New Year Trip to Gdańsk in Poland, but I thought I would take a very quick break. So enjoy it while it lasts.
So, 2010 was the year for and of waiting and I decided that 2011 should be the year for and of words. A celebration of written and spoken languages, both English and German – a carnival of words, stories, poems and sentences. Jap, I am going back to my roots and I will write in German again. I have lived in the UK now for six years and I think it’s time to pick up where I had left off when I packed my bags to move to this Island.
I’m starting my Masters in Applied Imagination in a couple of days, and I believe in organic growth of one’s personality and being, so returning to my own culture can only be beneficial for my future work.
Furthermore, thanks to this incredible project called “the art of waiting” (visit the site by clicking on the link: http://theartofwaiting.wordpress.com/ please please do, it ROCKS!!!) I have discovered a new found love for words or maybe more like an addition to my current obsessions. The website’s winter contest instructions were recently published and are as follows:

“This one is simple. In the comments, write a haiku.
Every haiku that meets the rules of five-seven-five syllables, and incorporates analogue photography, Christmas, and “waiting” earns a chance to win an invite to my next project.”

Pick me, pick me, pick me!!!

So I sat down and wrote some haiku in English. So exciting!!! And now I am thinking of writing 52 haiku in German, one for each week of the year, a kind of exercise of the German tongue – might be the way forward.

But I guess I better go and get some work done. I shall leave you with my first ever haiku – be gentle!

a year has passed now
the wrapping paper is torn -
pinhole picture joy

snow and icy roads
roll film in the camera
waiting for Christmas

Christmas and turkey -
joy of the long expired film
family and friends

wrapping paper torn
plastic lens on camera
Christmas wait over