Wednesday, right after fulfilling my requirements at the day job, I took a great jet airliner (okay, something much smaller...) to London for a huge women's conference. No...that doesn't look right. The conference was not just for huge women, but for women of all shapes, sizes, colours, ethnicities. Yes, that is more accurate.
The conference was held within the rounded walls of The Royal Albert Hall and the inner transformation was amazing. This stunning old building was turned into something that looked much like a venue for a rock concert.
Anyway, the conference was a Christian women's conference. For those of you rolling your eyes right about.........now, I do believe that the basic ideas discussed could apply to any woman's life.
It was good for me to go, meet up with my friends, and as Owen Wilson's character says to Ben Stiller's character in Zoolander: Gain some perspective on [stuff].
Because my life is busy and hectic and I have just lived the most stressful 2 weeks of the 52 on offer in a year. I have been so high strung that I have not been able to sleep properly for many many nights. I have very stupidly taken on more work than I can handle with the teaching job, plus the art students have had to complete their major exam coursework by the end of this past week, plus something funky has happened to my website (which, although rather cool to look at, it is not actually functioning as it should!), plus trying to pull together artwork for an exhibition, plus all of the mundane crap we all have to deal with in the form of cooking meals, folding laundry, tidying, washing up, bathing, etc...
So, if anything, attending the event helped me to gain perspective on my wacked out busy life. It helped me to get outside of my head of To Do lists and problems and think about the bazillion other women on this planet and some of the atrocities that they must face on a day to day basis. It helped me to see that the people sitting around me are just as stressed out as I am in their own little bundle of problems. It helped me to prioritise the list of Things That Matter and to put aside The Things That Don't Amount to Much More Than a Hill of Beans.
Plus, my friends and I found this really cool room that, to be honest, I think it may have been off limits to the conference go-ers. The door was unlocked, we walked in and had lunch in this fabulous room! On the right you can see a photograph of the Queen and it is signed! What luck! Lunch beneathe a chandelier. It was obvious that someone had been having tea in the room previously, as the table linen was marked with tea cup stains.
Notes about London in the South Kensington Area: My advice is to visit the creperie on Exhibition Road and Thurloes Street near South Kensington tube station. Those babies are divine!
sounds like a great event. it's funny how often i let myself be sarcastic about something that would be very beneficial for my soul...but it looks absolutely so corny.
believe what you cannot see.
Posted by: caron easley | May 05, 2008 at 08:36 PM
preach it, sister
Posted by: Cassandra | May 06, 2008 at 06:27 PM