May- June 2008

After i dropped Marc and Inneke at the airport, i drove back to work.
Waking up early in the night, doing my cleaning, To drive to my other work, but i was trying to save some money. To get out of town.
The cold was getting to me, yep, its cold here in the winter. It`s around 4 degrees at night and 18 in the day. I couldn`t even were my shorts anymore . The whole day with a beanie and jacket.

I painted in the weekends, and in the week i slept and worked and slept. The new relation didn`t work, more on my side then on Kate`s. Something deep in me wasn`t ready. So we decided to stop our relation, and to stay friends.

There was also a big bushjob coming up. At yulara, staying at a 7 star resort, would be nice. I saved up some money, and found out that my early nights were getting at me. In the weekends i had no more energy to do anything, so it was enough. I stopped with the cleaning business and went back to normal waking hours.
Every year in Alice , the advocate, Alice Springs main newspaper, has an art award for the locals. And after 2 years spending bush, seeing the todd river flowing, riding a bull, , knowing some slang words, using the f -word in every sentence, practising the mainactivity of an aussie and once a while taking a sickie for no reason then not feeling to go to work and having some roadkills on my name ,i consider myself almost local. So i thought , i give it a try.

Yes, i`m on the bushjob. Before i left Alice, i brought the painting to the art centre and off i go. So the next month i stayed more at the 7 star resort , then in my own 1 star unit. The days were going fast at the rock. On one of those days i received a phone call from Byanka . Before I left, I received an invitation from the art centre for the opening, i would be in Yulara , so i gave it to them. I knew byanka was interested in art, so they would go. I had won a price. My painting had won `the encourage price`, a 400 aud price to spend in the local paint shop. I couldn`t believe it. First time in my life i won something , and i wasn`t even there. And the problem was, i couldn`t even celebrate it with a large amount of alcoholic beverages , because the next morning , the next 12 hour workday was waiting.