TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Thursday, October 4, 2007

2:44 PM
Posted by jodi rose

I had an entire conversation a few weeks ago about breakfast choices.
Now, having grown up in Australia, I am a big fan of breakfast in any form. Cereal, toast with vegemite, scrambled eggs, orange juice, a latte, all or any of the above make me happy. I will never become European enough to wake up and imbibe black coffee and cigarettes. But, there are evidently some people in Germany who eat breakfast, as the range of museli options here is quite extraordinary. Normally, muesli is a healthy choice, right? As long as you avoid the ones with high sugar content and too many preservatives. Here, there is a fantastic variation on the fruit/museli axis which involves chocolate. I kid you not. At least five brands make some form of shoko-museli, and for some reason I find this blend of health and decadence incredibly amusing. To the point where I rarely eat anything else except chocolate museli for breakfast. Start the day laughing, I say. Now in the bio-shop, I even found a version of Amaranth Shoko-Museli. So, you get the ultra-wellness giving ancient aztec grain (!?!) along with nice subtle wafer thin chocolatey bits. Genius. Apparently, the invention of breakfast cereal was originally for a more sinister purpose, but I'm not entirely sure that I follow the logic of this theory.

For lunch, I've moved on to something that is both very german and not at all - tofu bratwurst. Yep, it's very tasty with some frozen veggies and scrambled eggs on dark rye toast with gouda cheese. Not sure if that's a healthy meal or not, but it's all part of my new relationship to food; ie: how can I fuel my body most effeciently and cost-effectively. Somehow managed to melt two-and-a-half dress sizes without thinking about it, until my clothes started looking wrong. Ah, the wonders of the Berlin Artist Diet - Starving and Cycling all Summer. There's gotta be a book in that somewhere. 'How to move to Europe without any income or savings, and have no-one realise you've gone for good this time for at least the first six months'.... Call me now with an offer!!!! (I have to pay back those loans somehow ;) That or the philosophical travel memoir: Bridge Girl Triumphs!

A friend told me that she was talking about my writing with someone and they both agreed that I should be paid just to write. Well, I'm acutally making an income from words now, which is amazing. That and a tiny little bit of corporate online research which even I don't quite understand. But the writing is very very cool. It's also opened up space in my imagination to go back and find the joy, playfulness and inspiration in other art projects again. Working on a series of collaborations for impossible bridges with people I'm meeting here. See, everyone wins! And also just started contributing to a fantastic new street mag in sydney, LOOP. My copy arrived in the mail yesterday, and I've been loving catching up on local events, artists and bands through this excellent publication. Great writing, and captures the vibrant, incredibly diverse music/art/cultural scenes in Sydney - Newcastle and more. Read it now!!


OK, well, that's all I can think of to procrastinate with, best get to work now. Over and out. xxxjr