Known World Dance
Dec. 5th, 2014 08:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinaI have been wanting to attend the Known World Dance Symposium since I first heard that it would be in Drachenwald this time. I didn't get to go the year it was in Australia, even though I lived in Tasmania at the time, because I was on a student budget, and that didn't stretch to a trip to the mainland. I debated this one with myself for a while, because, after all, I am only working 50%, so my budget isn't that big. However, this time I am sitting with what still looks like a reasonable number in my personal savings account from having had a decent income for the last couple of years. Therefore I decided that I should just go for it.
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lord_kjar hasn't been totally convinced we should go--work has been really stressful for him lately (too much to do, not enough time to do it, and the dispatcher keeps giving him new assignments, so the paperwork isn't getting done promptly after he fixes something, and, of course, the company can't bill the customer till they have the paperwork, which all translates into him being reluctant to commit to anything, even fun stuff, and we don't really know yet how finances will be looking at my new pay rate. Today I decided that, screw it, I was going to go with or without him. So I called the airlines (there really is only one that flies to Luleå> and asked them if I could buy tickets for he and I, and then if something came up and he couldn't join me let someone else come with me instead? They said that yes, that is possible, they need more than 24 hours notice, and charge a 500 SEK fee (about $68US or €53 at today's exchange rate), but so long as all of the flights are operated by them it will be fine. This was good enough for me, so I went for it.
We now have flights booked leaving here at 06:30 on Wednesday 15 April, and arriving home around midnight on Sunday 19 April, and I have booked and payed for the event site fee and room too. Hopefully he will come with me, but if he decides at the last minute that it is all too much I am fairly certain that I can talk someone else into taking his ticket and coming along (though I would hope that in that case the someone else would be willing to pay the 500SEK in exchange for my having paid for everything else).
I am really looking forward to the event. I know the site, an actual Medieval building that was used for dances back in the day, is lovely, having attended an event there in 2012 (when we flew down for SvartulvR's laureling), one can't go wrong with music and dance classes and more than one dance ball, and the town is interesting--I didn't see much of it last trip, and am looking forward to seeing more of it. I may not be a city girl, but I do like Medieval architecture.
Hopefully some of my friends from other Kingdoms will make it to the event. If any of you are thinking of traveling to Europe for it, I encourage you to also take a detour to northern Sweden to visit me before or afterwards! I wonder though how much advertizing has been done for the event--I asked a friend in An Tir (Calgary, Canada) if he was coming over for it, and he hadn't heard of it! I have been trying to spread the word a bit over on FB.
lord_kjar hasn't been totally convinced we should go--work has been really stressful for him lately (too much to do, not enough time to do it, and the dispatcher keeps giving him new assignments, so the paperwork isn't getting done promptly after he fixes something, and, of course, the company can't bill the customer till they have the paperwork, which all translates into him being reluctant to commit to anything, even fun stuff, and we don't really know yet how finances will be looking at my new pay rate. Today I decided that, screw it, I was going to go with or without him. So I called the airlines (there really is only one that flies to Luleå> and asked them if I could buy tickets for he and I, and then if something came up and he couldn't join me let someone else come with me instead? They said that yes, that is possible, they need more than 24 hours notice, and charge a 500 SEK fee (about $68US or €53 at today's exchange rate), but so long as all of the flights are operated by them it will be fine. This was good enough for me, so I went for it.We now have flights booked leaving here at 06:30 on Wednesday 15 April, and arriving home around midnight on Sunday 19 April, and I have booked and payed for the event site fee and room too. Hopefully he will come with me, but if he decides at the last minute that it is all too much I am fairly certain that I can talk someone else into taking his ticket and coming along (though I would hope that in that case the someone else would be willing to pay the 500SEK in exchange for my having paid for everything else).
I am really looking forward to the event. I know the site, an actual Medieval building that was used for dances back in the day, is lovely, having attended an event there in 2012 (when we flew down for SvartulvR's laureling), one can't go wrong with music and dance classes and more than one dance ball, and the town is interesting--I didn't see much of it last trip, and am looking forward to seeing more of it. I may not be a city girl, but I do like Medieval architecture.
Hopefully some of my friends from other Kingdoms will make it to the event. If any of you are thinking of traveling to Europe for it, I encourage you to also take a detour to northern Sweden to visit me before or afterwards! I wonder though how much advertizing has been done for the event--I asked a friend in An Tir (Calgary, Canada) if he was coming over for it, and he hadn't heard of it! I have been trying to spread the word a bit over on FB.