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Day 60 - The BBC - Aberystwyth

These first two months have been phenomenal. Coming to terms with PhD research has been a struggle at times. Teaching in an FE college in Mid-Wales was pretty straight forward, and unlike this research project, teaching, by and large, gets done simply through it's doing. There have been times in these first two months where I have felt lost without the structure that teaching provides and at other times an incredible sense of freedom.

I've been to Blackwood, Krakow, Gregynog, Blaengarw, Cardiff and Swansea. I have sat in the National Library hoping that the answers will be in a book. I have barricaded myself into my hotel room for fear of unwanted visitors late at night. I have found myself lost in a city on the edge of the east of europe. Discussed the plight of Welsh language theatre with Eddie Ladd, talked wedding dresses with Alan Harris and at the end of this week I will plot a course for the months to come. Things are beginning to take shape... I meet with Mike Pearson on Monday morning at 9am...

... Tomorrow morning I am meeting Sam. The BBC are trying to make a documentary about Karl, in Krakow. The same documentary that we shot a month ago...