Seasons change
Here it is, almost May and I've written nothing here for weeks! Hmmm... what has happened respecting the trip...
The most immediate thoughts are about the Viewfinders International Festival for Youth. It's a youth film festival, which doesn't mean all the films were made by youth (I was wondering about that).
The SFTP were part of this by having a six minute assemblage of video put together for the festival opening. The Lieutenant Governor was there and many parents and friends of the gang. The Oxford Theatre was almost full. Kelly-Lynn Russell and Harrison Jardine gave a great intro.
The video was very nicely scoped to capture the extent of the entire trip. The narration was neat. Two voices told the story and described the major events, overlapping and melding at appropriate intervals. The titles were very professional looking and the sound was balanced. The audience took it all in. Great job folks!
Heather and I are still consuming Serbian coffee, which tastes almost exactly like the hotel coffee even in a drip machine. It's neat. I still have some Serbian shnapps homemade by an older woman from Kovacica. She visited at the conference in the Hotel Stari Rast outside of NIS. Her older son died a couple of years ago and she retired but she choses to remain involved in education and youth oriented activity in order to help with positive social change. Inspiring....
Over the past couple of weeks we've been treated to sister Carolyn's Serbian Beans, a recipe devised after a converstaion with Rajka. She descibed how during the NATO bombing she and friends, unable to rely on steady electrical service, met often in the hotel and dined on beans. Some people say beans in the national dish. Carolyn's recipe is piquant, not sweet and certainly provides a nutritious and filling meal.
In other news, I have a few projects at work keeping me on my toes, but am able to travel a bit around the province and in New Brunswick, so that's good. I'll be picking up an old franklin woodstove in Quispamsis, NB on one of those trips, for the backyard.
There's also a lot of web publishing these days, catching up and setting some pages and sites up. It's almost a full time job, but besides that I also have piano lessons, barbershop chorus activities, Samba Nova once a week and backyard work to do, so life remains interesting and fun!
Peter got a spot in a Flash animation workshop for Viewfinders and created two Flash slides for a countdown shown at Empire Theatres during the festival. It was fun for him and a great way to interact with the whole project.
The Students for Teaching Peace will be presenting their final documentary in the fall at the Atlantic Film Festival, so we are all really looking forward to that.
More later,
John
The most immediate thoughts are about the Viewfinders International Festival for Youth. It's a youth film festival, which doesn't mean all the films were made by youth (I was wondering about that).
The SFTP were part of this by having a six minute assemblage of video put together for the festival opening. The Lieutenant Governor was there and many parents and friends of the gang. The Oxford Theatre was almost full. Kelly-Lynn Russell and Harrison Jardine gave a great intro.
The video was very nicely scoped to capture the extent of the entire trip. The narration was neat. Two voices told the story and described the major events, overlapping and melding at appropriate intervals. The titles were very professional looking and the sound was balanced. The audience took it all in. Great job folks!
Heather and I are still consuming Serbian coffee, which tastes almost exactly like the hotel coffee even in a drip machine. It's neat. I still have some Serbian shnapps homemade by an older woman from Kovacica. She visited at the conference in the Hotel Stari Rast outside of NIS. Her older son died a couple of years ago and she retired but she choses to remain involved in education and youth oriented activity in order to help with positive social change. Inspiring....
Over the past couple of weeks we've been treated to sister Carolyn's Serbian Beans, a recipe devised after a converstaion with Rajka. She descibed how during the NATO bombing she and friends, unable to rely on steady electrical service, met often in the hotel and dined on beans. Some people say beans in the national dish. Carolyn's recipe is piquant, not sweet and certainly provides a nutritious and filling meal.
In other news, I have a few projects at work keeping me on my toes, but am able to travel a bit around the province and in New Brunswick, so that's good. I'll be picking up an old franklin woodstove in Quispamsis, NB on one of those trips, for the backyard.
There's also a lot of web publishing these days, catching up and setting some pages and sites up. It's almost a full time job, but besides that I also have piano lessons, barbershop chorus activities, Samba Nova once a week and backyard work to do, so life remains interesting and fun!
Peter got a spot in a Flash animation workshop for Viewfinders and created two Flash slides for a countdown shown at Empire Theatres during the festival. It was fun for him and a great way to interact with the whole project.
The Students for Teaching Peace will be presenting their final documentary in the fall at the Atlantic Film Festival, so we are all really looking forward to that.
More later,
John
posted by John van Gurp at 6:00 PM
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