Where is time going?

It's April... 2014... I have no idea where the last 4 months has gone... I have been keeping myself so busy, I haven't noticed life whizzing past me at the speed of light.
I don't think I have recovered from the pressure you are under when racing. I don't know how to relax. To just stop still and do nothing. I get antsy and get up and do something, even though I feel like I don't have the energy to. I need to learn how to stop still...

A lot has been going on. Since December, I have been in a play at the local theatre. First time i've been on a stage and had to say lines. In fact, i've been in two. One was a radio recording called Downcast Abbey, which we recorded on stage in front of an audience. The 2nd was a play called 84 Charing Cross Road, based on a book by Helene Hanff.

I guess I like to be challenged. I do stupid things that scare me. We spent a few months rehearsing for 84, and rehearsals were fine. Although i had a tough job learning lines. In the midst of that we had 1 rehearsal for Downcast Abbey. I was totally fine with it... until 30 seconds before the curtains opened, when my legs went to jelly and I wanted to run off stage, never to set foot on a stage again. I got through it, but this scared me even more for the upcoming play... I had far more lines in 84 and we had to remember movement as well as lines... I was so scared of being so rubbish and disappointing my fellow thespians.
Anyhoo, got through that one as well. And I can now say I have been in a play :) As for whether I'll do it again... I might stick to photographing them instead of being in them...

On to photos... I had to go to Germany for work a few weeks ago. As I was already there, I decided to take a few extra days and go and explore Berlin to take photos and see the history. Berlin is an awesome place.  I don't think I have ever walked so much. I tried to fit as many sights as I could into 2 days. Managed a fair few! :)

I am currently in Prague, where I've just been on a week long photography workshop which started off in Vienna. It is the best thing I have ever done. It was also taken by my favourite photographer, Joe McNally. His work astounds me. I first heard of him when I first got into photography about 5 years ago, when I took a few photos here and there. I remember looking at his workshops back then, wishing I could afford to go one in the States... The time finally came... more on that in my next blog.

Right now, I am absolutely shattered.. time to go to sleep so I can get on a plane tomorrow and get home, learn how to chill out for 5 minutes and then get back on it again!