almost week 2 and hardly nothing....

these extracts are taken from various emails i have sent since i got here, all of them to Chris I believe. I think it will give a good idea of what has been happening here and will get me back on updating schedule...

June 22nd
...." today i woke up pretty late and went for a swim; mum showed me around a bit more and tonight we went to the movies with marc and mothe (lolo is on a business trip) to see a pretty stoopid and really funny movie, Nacho Libre... we laughed a lot.

Oh yeah; we went foodshopping as well at one of the two main supermarkets. that one is the "fancier" one and it had some really nice looking stuff and i got plenty of things for a delicious barbie one of these days; probably when lolo comes back; they are sooo boring; they only cook steak on the barbie; i'll teach them!!!! "......

June 23rd
We went to the Kimbell museum, designed by Louis Kahn in the "cultural disctrict". The building itself was awesome and i took quite a few photos of that. i wanted to write something a bit more complete about it but have been too lazy so far... and i don't think it will happen... the museum is pretty small and the exhibition inside is mainly oldish stuff; which is quite pretty but not my favourite. Still; I was there for the building and I was not disappointed. Hey Christo, I was wondering if you had heard of Louis Kahn....?

June 24th
....." i went swimming with Emmanuelle, from laurent + mum's work this morning at the unipool, their pool is not as good as ours because it's not as wide and there is only one 25m long pool + a diving area. well, they also have an outdoor pool though; i didn't go check it out. on the other hand; their gym bit is a lot nicer than ours; well from the outside anyway and they even have a climbing wall so i thought of Chris. i swam 2.2K ....pretty good hey; i think that's further than ever so far so... i'm still trying to teach myself freestyle but i really look like a wet dog... oh well, it does get better after a couple tries...i'm not sure what we'll do today actually but it's time for me to get into the shower; wash the chlorine off and see what happens....."

A few hours later
....." today was pretty good; this arvo, we went to do a bit of shopping and we got me quite a little collection of new clothes already... it's a good start.
We also went to the Museum of Modern Art; also in the cultural district and this time designed by tadao Ando. This one is much bigger than the Kimbell and has a lot of interesting artworks.
tonight; we went to the stockyards, the part that looked so western on those photos my mum sent the other day. I didn't take any photos there because it was night time and i don't have a flash but we'll go back during the day so nothing to worry about. we had really tasty ribs for dinner and walked around a bit. it's where they have rodeo and cattle auctions and stuff... and heaps of stores for hats;boots; saddles, you name it... it's pretty fun and we found me a really good looking winter rain hat, it's not totally cowboy and looks really nice; you'll see..."

June 25th
......"today was good; we went to dallas at around midday and went to the Kennedy musem actually called the "6th floor museum". the guy who killed Kennedy was on the 6th floor of this warehouse and you can see Xs on the road, 6 floors below, where Kennedy was shot. the museum was good; it told about that time in the states; the 60s, what kennedy meant at the time with all the civil rights things happening; and the cold war etc... and what he meant after he was assassinated, "what could have been"...well i can tell you that you walk out of there wondering how such an idiot as G.W.B can be in the office now.... also; I'll have to say that his wife Jackie was really quite beautiful and sophisticated.We walked over to the Kennedy memorial designed by Phillip Johnson and well; i can't say i was very impressed with it... it's a pretty ugly structure but it has a "concept" about an open tomb thing which isolates you from the world outside but you are connected to the earth and the sky; it's basically 4 concrete walls and you can walk through it and that's all....after that; we went to a place called the Spaghetti warehouse....sounds tasty hey. well, it's about 10:30 pm now and i was just getting hungry again...when we got back home; i went for a little swim in the pool with marc and i kicked his skinny ass at volleyball... well not really, and i think i would be totally useless at waterpolo..."

June 28th
..."today has been good. we started by my second appointment at the dentists so my teeth look really nice now although they are a bit sensitive still... they do look nice!!!this arvo; we went to yet another museum; the amon carter museum and it's all american art. a fair bit of stuff about indians etc.. and some more recent stuff. A lot of beautiful paintings and we even got some prints of two paintings by Georgia O'keefe... hopefully we can hang them somehow...i'm also starting to stock up on goodies for everyone; it's pretty exciting..
tonight; we are going to the musical Oklahoma and that's downtown in a very handsome looking building, the Bass Performance Hall, although i have only seen it from a distance...
oh yeah; and we dropped off two loads of film today; although one was started in sydney when we walked around the stables... i have a feeling the photos will look funny because the films spent quite sometime in the boiling car... oops; we'll see.i can't rememeber all the things i wanted to tell you so that's all for now; plus we'll be leaving really soon..."