Eat, Pray, Love.
Sounds pretty good to me.
Julia Roberts finds herself running away from New York to ‘find herself’ and do some self counselling after a divorce and inspired by a visit to a healer in Bali on a previous trip. So she works her way around the world, to Italy, India, and back to Bali where she eats, prays, and tries to learn to love again. It was pretty cheesy in parts, and I’m sure massive generalisations of whole countries’ cultures but it’s definitely a feel-good type of film. Kind of a chick-who-travels-flick. As a fan of feel good films and anything a little bit cheesy with some lovely scenery, gorgeous sunsets and gorgeous people, it was just what I needed after a stressful few days, and the soundtrack is beyooootiful! In the part set in Italy, they describe one of the most important elements of the Italian lifestyle; ‘il dolce far niente’ literally, ‘the sweetness of doing nothing’. Quite cute and lovely but at the same time doesn’t make for great ease in finding out things like an academic timetable.
If I was Julia Roberts, swanning off around the world just soaking up cultures and using them to ‘find my inner balance’ as it goes in Bali, I’m quite sure I’d be perfectly happy with ‘il dolce far niente’, but as it is, I’m not always it’s biggest fan. And like some of the other Erasmus students, it would be nice to get some things sorted out once in a while!
It’s taken me three weeks to find out when three of my six classes are…one of my other teachers is unknown as yet, and another is apparently uncontactable, no-one has any details for her. Great. A little escapism may be in order this weekend…
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