Friday, April 23, 2004

(Bounding back into the room she comes... A little out of breath, a little red faced, but smiling from ear to ear to see them all again. She takes giant steps and gives an enormous, wayyy over-emphasised wave. Finally she sits cross legged on a wheely, office chair and talks to the audience)

GILLY: I like the studio, it's going well. Today I have been taking photos of our ads around the place. New ones, down in the metro stop near my office. I have been speaking more Spanish than ever and this is a goooood thing, considering I need to. A lot.
Today was Sant Jordi so I had to fight to my desk in David Attenborough style, machety-ing through bright red roses left for me by admirers far and wide... ...
On St George's day the Catalans (is it just the Catalans?) celebrate a kind of far more classy and tasteful Valentine's day. He's their patron Saint, so the boys give the girls roses and the girls give the boys books. So this morning, all up and down every street there appeared stalls draped in Catalan flags and selling old and new books and roses wrapped in coloured paper and flags and just generally looking pretty. I haven't been down to the Ramblas yet but have been told it's totally packed.

(Without saying goodbye, she pulls her chair back to get momentum and kicks off, launching the wheely chair off into the distance...)

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