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“What sort of idyll have you wandered into?” my husband wrote in his email to me recently…

My 3rd Week in VSC is reaching its end soon! How time flies! I’ve been having so much fun here: making new friends, meeting fellow artists and writers – enjoying their company, making art, attending Resident Slide Show, Resident Reading Night and Visiting Artists Slide Show, enjoying good meals, relishing bon fire night – tasting my first ever S’More (it’s yummy!), visiting Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Factory to see how they’re made and get a taste, celebrating St. Patrick’s Day drinking Guinness while listening to Irish folk music played by a very talented young boy with his fiddle and dancing to a live band playing James Brown music afterwards… I’ve been much more sociable than I’ve ever been in the past few years! Oh boy!

(More pictures at my flickr site: http://flickr.com/photos/fhung/)

And this weekend, more fun is a-brewing! We’ll have a dance party at the Life Drawing Studio at the Kahn Building this Saturday! Yay! And before that… there’ll be a puppet show by the famous Peter Schumann’s Bread & Puppet Company. I have never seen their performance before, but from what I heard from people here and seen from books – they sound like a fantastic visual feast! Their puppets are huge and extremely artistic they could be sculptures belong to museums of art or something. And guess what! They need 10 volunteers and I have signed up! I was hesitant at first since I didn’t want to miss the show… However, I figured that I probably will get another chance to see their show. But an opportunity to take part behind the scene of such great puppet theater? It will be an interesting experience. I heard that we’d get to help with the puppet’s strings and singing etc. We’ll see! The show will be at 8 p.m. this Saturday and all the volunteers have to arrive at 4 p.m. How exciting!

Oh and did I tell you that I’m volunteering to assist teaching art class for 1st graders in Johnson Elementary School every Friday morning? Well, I don’t really do any teaching, I just give attention and help whenever needed. Last week was my first time ever and it was quite overwhelming in the beginning. There were about 20++ children aged between 5 and 6 y.o. and there were only 1 real teacher plus me. It was very interesting and fun though!

So no wonder that I’m exhausted! Now I’ve gotten back to my ‘normal’ schedule which is staying up all night working in the studio and sleep in in the morning. It’s fantastic; I could bang my hammer at 2 a.m. and sing along loudly while working in my studio and no one will be bothered! Cool eh! Here are some pictures of my work-in-progress that I’ve been working on since I got here:

All this doesn’t leave me any time to do any Ztampf! things except for some customer service emailing – unfortunately! But I’ve been collecting ideas and inspirations to work on once I manage to get the time to do them so worry not :).

It’s snowing heavily today… since last night, actually. I love watching the snow flakes falling from the sky, I love walking on soft fresh snow alternating with crunchy ice beneath. I feel so very fortunate and privileged to be here; so very grateful. The VSC people is doing an excellent work running this place. Positive vibes resonate so warmly – life is good. I am happy.

And thanks to each of you who has sent me emails or left messages here :). Thank You for all your kind words and well wishes! And to Tracy (http://worksbytracy.blogspot.com), I’m staying at the upper floor of the Red Mill itself so it’s super convenient! Downstairs for meals and slideshows, a short walk across to the Schultz Sculpture Building for my studio! Awesome! Re the Laundromat, some people told me the one with the card is cheaper so I went there but later on I heard some other people said the one with coins is cheaper! Oh well! I’ll email you more about VSC later! How cool is that you found my blog entry and you’ve just been to VSC!

Well, that’s it for now, folks :). Have a wonderful weekend!