While I was in Brighton at the end of April I sent off a three page application to the Digital Methods Program Summer School at the University of Amsterdam. Earlier this week I washed my hair and put on my freshly dry cleaned blue Maje dress shirt for a Skype interview with the program after I got shortlisted! The peeps emailed me back less than an hour later saying I GOT IT. I am totally making the biggest deal out of this. I’ll be leaving at the end of June to study and work alongside researchers and designers for two months until end of August. I have a break in July in between and I might go WWOOF again. I was wanting to go to Europe this summer, for various exciting projects but knew I could not justify the expense without a concrete need and then it happened! I’ve been going to Europe a lot because I want to move there, but like with everything I dance around on the edges of committing and think and think about it until I believe it to be actually happening even though it totally hasn’t. When you think about something so much, you get exhausted before you even begin. I hope that this program will give me what I need and push me to apply for a PhD for September 2011. University of Bergen and University of Edinburgh are top contenders. They both have really well funded and serious digital culture PhD’s.
Although I wasn’t fond of Amsterdam when I first visited, I’m excited to re-live it. I was 19 and missing my boyfriend at the time way too much. I’m mostly excited because I know people in many big European cities, I know no one in Amsterdam. This makes it way more difficult to find a place and have help adjusting but that’s what I want. To just be alone.
Have you ever lived somewhere for a short time?
Now comes the great apartment hunt. If possible I want to live in a box, but live alone.





