As usual, forgot to write about something in the last blog & will give a brief overview of June's Roskilde Festival now. Ate lots of terrible food eg. cold frankfurts & stale bread. Showered once in 8 days & was rudely photographed by Daniel while making an attempt at personal hygiene by shaving my armpits outside the tent. Worked in the parking lot in order to get a free ticket. Only encountered a few crazy people, amongst them an incredibly stoned couple who couldn't remember where they'd parked their car & wanted us to help them somehow, a guy who couldn't afford a ticket and absolutely could not understand why they wouldn't let him in for free & a Swede who was quite convinced that I was directing him to a hash stall rather than the car park exit. Saw some great & some amusing bands, including Metallica (obviously they fall into the second category), Beth Gibbons from 'Portishead', Asian Dub Foundation, Iron Maiden, Melvins, Tomahawk, Blur, The Cardigans, Queens of the Stone Age, Massive Attack & Björk. All in all, a great festival.

I think I forgot to mention in the last entry that I saw Nick Cave in London - Twice! (7th & 8th June). The first night I was sitting next to two middle-aged Aussies who had been fans right from the days of his old band, The Birthday Party, and had seen him many times when he used to play in a pub in Brisbane which had disco on one floor, piano music on another and punk bands in between. The band's set was fantastic and included a lot of old songs, some which I'd never seen live and were wonderful such as 'Christina the Astonishing' (which was dedicated to Blixa, who was in the audience that night). The second night was even more incredible, basically because I had a 5th row seat and was therefore able to run to the front when the band came on stage. Nick danced on my hand & hit me (accidentally, of course) with the microphone cord. Was the Boatman's Call tour all over again. Yes, apart from seeing Nick, had a great time in London. Stayed with Mat Ho again & did more bumming around his place than actual sightseeing but that was fine with me. We did make it to Camden markets amongst a couple of other places.

As for everything else...

I have a part-time job as a glorified dish pig in a restaurant in a fun park in the middle of the deer park. Most of the job involves scraping cream potato and fried eel remains into the garbage bin but it's really not so bad. The people are friendly, I get to practice my Danish, I get free dinner & beer & best of all, I get money. It's in a really beautiful area. To get to work I ride through the forest, down the coast and through the deer park.

Sarah Holmes from high school has just been staying with me for a few nights, which was really nice. Didn't actually show her any sights - think I'm a bit over doing the tourist thing in Copenhagen. Having said that, I'm going to a museum tomorrow...) I did show her a copy of the Little Mermaid in my language school, which has to be worth something. After all, it is an 'official' copy. Speaking of language school, am going back in late August. Will hopefully get another part-time job before then. Have applied for supplementary uni courses in chemistry, physics & maths & hope to start them in October.

That's about it. Oh yes - coming home! It's not definite yet but I've found a ticket which may be my best bet (hard to get a ticket at the end of the year - all the bloody Aussies want to get home for Christmas & all the Europeans want to escape the hideous cold up here). Have reserved the ticket & if I buy it, will be home a couple of weeks into January. So save me some Christmas champagne!