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Hey all. I've not written in a long long time

2006-09-19T00:34:00.000+12:00

Hey i just decided that i could try and remember to blog again. I havn't done so in so long and although i was able to use the excuse that i was in China and it didn't work over there, i can no longer use that excuse so i'm gonna try and start blogging again now. hehe

Anyway, i think the other reason is, is that i have not had really late nights studying in a while so i haven't been using my blog as procrastination. Anyway it is now 12.30 at night so you can prob guess that i am procrastinating. Don't tell Kylie. She told me to stop looking at flights and get back to work. hehe. That was about 10mins ago. hehe. Anyway, i'm quite annoyed this week coz i had a 50% test today, which didn't go too badly in my opinion (hopefully i'll get the same opinion from the markers) then i got home and found out that my assignment due tomorrow (or today i suppose it now is) is actually due at 8.30am instead of the usual 5pm. So that stinks. At least i'm almost done, i think. I keep getting stuck. But anyway, then i have a Maori aural test on Weds and another assign due Fri (this one is due at 5 i think, but has to be done by 1 coz thats when i'm leaving for Nelson).

Yay. Its my 21st on Sat. I can't wait. I was given an idea from my aunty today about what i can wear (gotta dress up as myself exaggerated. thats quite hard). So i'm looking forward to that. Just gotta find the costume if i can. That could be the hard bit. hehe. But it should be really fun. I'm really looking forward to it. And i must say that i am impressed with the Chch turnout. 23 people. Not bad really. Thanks Air NZ for having cheap flights and making it easier for me to sort out rides. hehe. Now there are just the right number of people going. Yay.

Anyway, i'm gonna get going coz my shoulder is in agony from sitting at the computer for too long. I think i need to find a better place for it. hehe. Maybe i'll go sit in bed and type. Man i love laptops. hehe

Hey all

2006-03-04T14:57:00.000+13:00

Hey peoples. I just thought that i would quickly write a post since i haven't written one since i got here. The main reason for that is because i havn't been able to view my blog so i didn't realise that i could post. However i have now found out that i can still post on my blog for you guys to read, but i cannot view it myself. However I'm hoping that the problem can be fixed otherwise I shall just get someone to forward all the comments on to me so i know what is being said.

Anway i have been in China almost a week now. Tomorrow morning at about 6 or 7am (my time) i will have been here a week. I started teaching on Weds, not really knowing what i was supposed to be doing. But i am slowly figuring it out. I have finally been given a list of words that i am supposed to teach the children (for one kindergarten, hopefully i will get a list for the other two kindergartens). I know just have to come up with ways to teach the words and phrases. I have also been given a few songs to teach, but they are all written down and i have no idea what the songs are. hehe. Hopefully the kindergarten will have the song on tape or cd or something otherwise i will have to make something up. But that shouldn't be to hard i hope.

Last night Lucy (the chinese person who is looking after us) translated my schedule and instructions for me. Now i know that i am also supposed to teach a riddle (i thought the sentence was kinda odd) and i also have to teach a tongue twister. I would never have guessed that was what it was. hehe. And it doesn't really twist your tongue that much. But i'm still not really sure how i am going to teach these sort of things. It's all so different from what i am used to in NZ.

In one kindergarten i have to teach 12 different classes twice a week. That takes up my mon, tues, wed and fri mornings. On Thurday i only have to teach another 5 classes at a different kindergarten. And on all the rest of the afternoons i have to teach in another kindergarten but i haven't got my schedule for this kindergarten yet so i'm not really sure how many classes i am teaching there. For most of the classes i get 20 mins to teach each class then i move onto the next class. On thursdays i have 40mins to teach.

Anyway i have my own apartment on the first floor of one of about 10 buildings in the block. It is a two bedroom apartment but since i am living there by myself, one of the bedrooms is locked so that the principal can store some stuff in there. But my apartment is very warm. It is quite a big apartment for just me, i have a bedroom (obviously) with a queen size bed, i have a laundry (although i'm still waiting for a washing machine), i also have a bathroom which has everthing in it but at least it has a proper toilet and not a squatter toilet like i have to use at kindy. I also have a kitchen which i have yet to use coz i get all my meals provided during the week, a dining room, a lounge with a nice big tv and dvd player (i still need to find out where i can buy dvd's) and a sunroom. So it is quite nice really.

Outside there is a playground which i at first thought was for the children. But then i noticed that there were some adults using some of the equipment and i realised that some of the stuff looked like gym equipment (like walking machine thingys). So i might have to try those at some stage although by the time i normally get home from kindy it is too cold to be outside

Anyway i'm hoping to buy a camera sometime soon (when i find a camera shop). So when i do, i will get some photos on my blog for you guys to see.

But i shall catch you all later

Singapore!!!

2006-02-25T01:36:00.000+13:00

Hey all. I was told that my first mission was to write a post when i got to Singapore. So here i am, in Singapore using free internet. It's great. Anyway it is now about 8.40pm on Friday nite. Or my body is telling me that it is actually 1.40am Saturday morning and i should be in bed. I'm so stuffed...

Anyway the flight was really good. Although it was a 10hour flight it didn't really feel that long. I managed to watch The Legend of Zorro. Highly recommend it. And also i saw The Cinderella Man. That's quite good as well. I also played a few games on our screens, drunk about 8 cups of juice or coke etc. I was a little gutted at dinner time (which was at 10pm...) because they had run out of lamb. Although the chicken was really good, as were the potatoes.

Anyway it is really hot in Singapore and that's in an airconditioned room. I'd hate to be outside. I think we were told that it was about 29C when we arrived at 7 their time.

Anyway my mind is no longer thinking. I'm going to sleep soon. Gotta catch our flight at 1.20am their time so thats about 6.20am your time. So i'll catch ya all laters

Finally i have news!!!

2006-02-20T15:41:00.000+13:00

Well my flights have finally been confirmed. I am leaving Chch this Friday at 2pm. I will be meeting at the airport at about 11.30. From Chch there are just two of us flying out. We will then fly to Singapore and meet up with another girl who apparently will arrive about 40mins after us. We will then prob sit around the airport and snooze etc until we leave for Beijing at 1.30am. We will arrive there sometime Saturday morning i think. Can't remember exact time. We then have the weekend to get ourselves sorted out then apparently start work on Monday. (Still not sure if i have a kindy to teach in hehe)

The latest news!!!

2006-02-16T17:08:00.000+13:00

Hey i just thought that i would let you guys know the latest news that i have although nothing is set in concrete yet. We have been told that we will probably leave Chch on the 26th of Feb and arrive in Beijing on the 27th (still not certain though). However because i am no longer in Chifeng, i don't have a placement yet either. So there is a kindergarten that is wanting students but would like to have a phone interview with them first. So the teacher at tcol is going to get a list of questions that might be asked so that we will be confident in our interview. I certainly hope this goes well coz the kindy looks quite good and i would like to know that i have somewhere to go. hehe

Camps always have injuries

2006-02-13T12:07:00.000+13:00

Well we couldn't have had a traditional Navs camp without someone getting hurt. So now i have 5 stitches in my knee. Oh goody. And so close to leaving for China too...
Anyway i don't think that i will go bushwakking (however that is spelt) up that hill again and trying to climb a rocky cliffy bit without secure handholds (or footholds for that matter). Not until my knee is healed anyway. hehe.

And next time i will try not to crash into the back of someones car on the way back from Camp. It has been a really great weekend....

Although i did really enjoy camp. I was gutted having to keep my leg straight all the time though. And i don't like stairs to much at the moment (although there were quite a few at camp).

The latest news!!!

2006-02-10T10:02:00.000+13:00

Well the latest news that i have just read is that i am now not going to Inner Mongolia because they cannot accomodate a student for the first semester. grrrrr. I am now going to Beijing with the rest of the girls going over. man this is frustrating. After i did all that research on Chifeng as well. grrrr. But we still don't have flight details so i'm still waiting

Chifeng!!!

2006-02-07T14:52:00.000+13:00

Well i now have some news. I have now found out that i am going to Chifeng. I also have found out that i am now prob going about the 25 or 26. It just keeps getting later and later. grrr. But i will not be starting work until about 1 March so hopefully we will be going then so i will have some time to settle in. however i don't really know much more than that at the moment. Hopefully we will find out more soon. However the email that we got said that the person in China couldn't get hold of anyone til next week coz of Chinese new year. So we might hear then.
But i will let you know when i know more. hehe
Catch ya laters

Update!

2006-02-02T13:31:00.000+13:00

Hey all. I had my meeting for China last night. I think it gave us a chance to ask lots of questions but the problem was is that only small questions were answered. Questions like should we take gifts etc. The big questions like when do we leave, where in Inner Mongolia am i going, etc were not answered. And considering that those are the questions that i wanted answered the most it is kinda annoying. However we were told that the 3 girls (not me) working together in the same kindy would prob leave on the 12 or 13 of Feb whereas the rest of us will prob not leave until the 20-21st. Sigh. Hopefully we will hear soon. However i think it is quite good that i am the only one going to mongolia and the rest are all in Beijing coz they are all year 2 so will prob study together and now i am year 3 so i will be doing all the study myself anyway. But other than that we didn't really get all that much information. Apparently it is quite hard coz the Chinese people are organising everything and the Chinese new year is apparently on so everyone is on holiday. Sigh.

Anyway. We have a cat or kitten actually. It turned up outside our flat last night. We are trying to find the owner although at the same time we would like to keep it. hehe. But if anyone has lost a little tabby kitten let me know. hehe. it's so cute

Anyway that's about all the news that i have at the moment, although i'm kinda freaked coz i'm suppose to be going to get my shots tonight. eek. Hopefully i won't need to many. hehe
Catch ya all laters

2006-01-20T12:47:00.000+13:00

Still waiting!!!

2006-01-20T11:43:00.000+13:00

Well i am still waiting for my flight details for China. I kinda needed to know when i was leaving so i can plan what i was gonna do til then. So this morning i rung the lady at tcol to find out if she knew anything and she said that there is still no set details yet but i would probably be leaving on the 16-17th of Feb. So that's exciting. At least i know that much now.

I am probably coming back down to Chch on either Tues or Weds next week to start packing up my room and moving flats. So that'll be exciting too. Hopefully i'll be able to catch up with you all then ay. yay.

I was also talking to my sister this morning. All the way from England (so much for my sleep in. sigh. hehe) But she seems to be doing fine which is good. She's going to go and visit another mate of hers in Oxford tomorrow, then next weekend my aunt and uncle are going to come and pick her up and take her back to their place for the weekend. Then i think she said that a lot of the people at the school shes at are going somewhere the next weekend. So she'll be busy. But she seems to be enjoying herself so that's all good.

Anyway we had our staff party last night. Just for the students. There were 10 of us who worked there with a couple of extras (boyfriends and guests etc). But it was a great night. Quite hilarious being the only sober one there. We tried to get one guy to cry coz he had told us that when he was drunk and he hears the song Iris, he starts to cry. So one of the guys decided that when the sun was setting he would play the song for him. But no tears. I was quite gutted. However as the night wore on it got less entertaining coz being the only sober one there, i was trying to stop some of the guys from picking fights with the campers. hehe. Luckily no-one got hurt. However it was still a great night. Not sure how everyone is feeling today. It's quite funny since i was the only one not drinking and yet i don't have to start work today til 2. Yet i am probably the only one who could possibly feel like starting earlier than that. But oh well. They knew they had to work this morning. hehe.

Anyway, i'll catch ya all laters.

Still no sign!!!

2006-01-18T14:35:00.000+13:00

Man. I'm still waiting on my flight details to China. I was supposed to get them Monday. I hate it when they tell you something and then you don't hear on time. I would much rather have just received them without knowing that they were going to be so many days away. Now every time the emails say that there is "1 unread email" i get all excited. Then it is just an email about national pens or something else boring like that. But at least i do know that i am going to China. And i suppose that since i am not paying for any of my flight, i can allow them to sort out the details and let me know sometime. (Hopefully soon. hehe)

Anyway, this is my last week of work. Yay! We are having our student staff party tomorrow. Hopefully it will be good weather, coz i'm not too keen to be inside. Much rather be outside. Less chance of slipping on any spilt drinks. hehe. But at least that is something to look forward to. Even though i don't drink, i still enjoy spending time with all these guys so that is good. Expecially if we go have a game of minigolf or play some volleyball. Hehe. I've played minigolf with them before after we had a small party after work, and their co-ordination was hilarious. I was cracking up. hehe. One of the guys was so stoked to beat me coz i beat him in the last game. (and his dad apparently teaches golf hehe). But unfortunately he has figured out that when he challenges me and tells me i can't do something i play better. But if he tells me how well i'm playing and calls out the score, i do real bad. I was kinda hoping he didn't click onto that detail. But oh well , too late now. hehe.

Anyway i can't wait til the end of this week. Then next week i'll be heading back down to Chch to move all my stuff and catch up with everyone. So i'll see you all soon.

Update

2006-01-14T13:13:00.000+13:00

Well i havn't written in ages so i thought i had better write something. hehe. Not that there has been a lot going on. Although my sister left for England last week. Very sad. I didn't realise how much i was going to miss her until i felt myself start to cry while taking her to the airport. I was definitely no stronger support for my mum. We just had to look at each other, and tears would start dripping down our faces. And it certainly didn't help that i had work 15 mins after seeing her off. I was trying real hard not to cry at work. Succeeded most of the time. But one good thing that did come about with her leaving, is that i now have her room. hehe. Sorry dee. I think my brother is a little more upset than me though, although he is doing a good job hiding it.

But my sister and brother grew quite close while i have been in Chch, since they were the only ones at home. I definitely felt them growing closer whenever i was around, coz they would team up and see what they could do to annoy me. I always felt like i was being picked on so much. Apparently they had to make up for the time that i was away. But then my mum told me just recently that they actually plan just what they are going to do to me to see if i get annoyed. Apparently they get more annoyed at not being able to annoy me, so that's all good. But anyway, every now and again i catch a look on my brothers face that makes me think how lonely he is gonna be. I certainly don't think it helps that i will be going to China this year as well.

But anyway, i will tell you more about China next time coz apparently i will be receiving my flight dates on Monday. Hopefully...Catch ya all laters.

Go New Years!!!

2006-01-02T07:12:00.000+13:00

New Years was great. Well a few hours before 12 was anyway. I was working that night (i was supposed to finish at 8 but security couldn't come and replace me til 10.30). One of my workmates was a huge crackup that night. Apparently he had been drinking "L&P" (a.k.a Gin) all morning while he was working. So when i arrived i was told to get a radio on quick and he was told to get out of there. He then went to drink over at my brothers house (Since my brother is going out with his sister. all very tricky). About an hour later i drove past him down the end of the camp where he was drinking with all the teens. From there, i think he worked his way forward drinking with whoever he wanted. Eventually we got a complaint from a couple of girls down in the middle of the camp, saying that he was absolutely wasted and trying to pick fights with everyone. So we went down to pick him up. It took 2 security guys about 5 mins to try and get him in the car (where he collasped on the floor, after trying to pick a fight with the security guys who were probably about 3 times his size). On the way up to the front of the camp he was trying to pick a fight with the other security guy who was in the car, trying to get him to hit him.

When we got him to the front of the camp, we told him to stay in the car til his mum got there. But he was out and stumbling around trying to pick fights with all the security guys (of which there were 3 or 4, all bigger than him) and trying to race them. hehe.Eventually a security guy tackled him and two of them took him over to the gate and pinned him to that til his mum came. When she came they then took another 5 minutes trying to get him into her car. I was cracking up the whole time. I burst out laughing when i was reminded that he would have been on two cameras focussed on the gate. Hehe. He is now trying to get a copy of that tape so he knows just what he did.

Anyway yesterday was great when he arrived at work. It seems as though everyone student there had seen him sometime during the night and we began to tell him what he did (since he can't remember). In the end apparently he woke up under a bush in town. hehe

Anyway, that was the entertainment of my new years. I didn't really do anything after work. Although my dog ended up in my tent thanks to all the fireworks. hehe.

Christmas!!!

2005-12-25T21:41:00.000+13:00

Oh Christmas tree, oh christmas tree. Oh how i love my christmas tree.
Hehe. Christmas is great. Especially when you're working Christmas day with someone who thinks we should ban Christmas. Hehe.
I dressed up real sparkly today. It was fun. I was wearing a bright green tinsel wig, and i decorated my uniform with tinsel on the sleeves and down the bottom of my shirt. Hehe. Lots of fun. At least it made a few people smile :)

But i have decided that not many people actually travel Christmas day. However we were able to set a better golf record than we did last year. We managed to get the golf ball into traffic control from the other side of the carpark. hehe. Took all morning and half the afternoon to get that far. hehe.

We also have a 4-wheel motorbike at work. Oh yeah. Lots of fun. Especially on the gravel area where no-one is camping yet. I can get the sliding action there. hehe. Pity the speedo doesn't work so we can go as fast as we like and still not reach the speed limit, since it tells us we are not moving. And us uni students studying some degree are obviously not clever enough to figure out that we are moving. hehe.

Anyway, tonight was fun with my family for Christmas. Although i do hate those laughing headaches.. Although i normally have to do a lot of laughing before i get one. And i certainly did tonight. We had all my cousins at one table outside (adults were inside), and we were bored so we played a game. It was an imaginary game where we passed around nothing. We made hand actions as if we had something and then had to figure out how to pass it on to the next person. Like the "icecream" flicking from the spoon across the table to the "brown sludge" that landed on someones foot.
Hehe. Lots of fun. hehe

Anyway i hope you all had a great Christmas. Hope not too many of you actually had to work like me.

China!!!!

2005-12-19T17:03:00.000+13:00

Well i have now applied to go to China next year. And i have heard that pretty much everyone who applies goes. So i'll probably be going for sure now. I will be gone for 5 months. Hopefully i can learn a bit of Chinese before then. hehe. I have heard that when i go in Feb, i will be going to our hottest month, to their coldest month. eek. Although apparently you can buy really cheap clothes over there, including really thick jackets etc. So that you look like a snowman. hehe. Hopefully i'll adapt ok. Problem is i have to do it all over again on the way back home. I will be coming from their summer to our winter. sigh. I miss out on two summers. hehe. oh well.

Anyway i have just been to Fairlie this weekend for my cousins wedding. She's only 22. How awesome is that! Anyway, it was a lovely wedding (managed to watch it twice thanks to my bros video camera). There was quite a few hours in between the wedding and reception and i didn't feel very tired during that break. However about halfway through dinner i suddenly felt exhausted. But it was still a great time. We got back home to Nelson at 11 or 11.30 last night. I was completely wasted since i had driven the last stage in the dark with my bro and sis both asleep. But we made it alright so that was good. Anyway i better go tidy the house before my folks get back home.

Tuesday!!!

2005-12-13T17:44:00.000+13:00

Yay its Tuesday. That means its almost half way through the week. That means its getting closer to Friday which means i won't have to work again til Monday. Yay!

I am so stuffed. I have been picking up branches and leaves all day. Then attempting to empty the on the wormfarm. Not all of it gets on top of the wormfarm (But we do manage to get it close hehe). Anyway after doing the same thing yesterday we finally asked how to tip the truck up so we didn't have to keep raking it off the truck and throwing it for miles. Now we just have to rake it off the truck and throw it a short distance. I'm slowly getting better at backing the stupid truck (of which i don't actually have a license for since it requires an HT license). I have backed it about 6 times so far and can now do it without a lot of help. Although i still like to have help there since i can't actually see anything out of the rearview mirror (Really don't know why trucks even have them) and i have limited sight through the side mirrors too...

But yeah. i'm kinda stuffed now. And we have been told that we get to change with the guys tomorrow and paint the fence instead. Yay...

Anyway, i am now also cooking every night this week for my fam since my mum and sister have gone down to Fairlie. So i suppose that i had better go and check on dinner before it burns. hehe. Catch ya all laters

Hey all.

2005-12-11T15:14:00.000+13:00

Hey everyone. Just thought i would continue to write about progresses and happenings. I am still thinking about China. Thinking quite seriously in fact. I have had heaps of positive comments about going. Pretty much everyone is telling me to go which is encouraging. However i don't have to decide until about the 20th so i still have time. And my mum is going to a meeting in Chch for me this week since she's gonna be down that way and i won't be going through Chch until the following day for a wedding in Fairlie. After that i'll hopefully have enough info to decide. Although i'm pretty keen to go now. However i still have the small matter of deciding what to do with the flat that i am already in.

Anyway about other matters. hehe. Mum has told me that while she is away this week i am allowed to decorate the house however i like. Muhahaha. Excellent. I've got lots of plans and she's getting excited coz she's not allowed in my room at the moment so she want's to know what i am doing. hehe. I can't tell you what any of my plans are at the moment just in case she reads this. hehe. i don't wanna give anything away. hehe. But i'm sure gonna have fun... (If anyone has any ideas of what i could do, i'd love to hear from you). We have to get our tree this week too. Yay. I love Christmas trees!

Anyway i should go and tidy my room i suppose. I have been making a mess and now i have to tidy it up so i can make a different mess. hehe. Catch you all laters

China?

2005-12-08T17:44:00.000+13:00

Hey. I passed all my courses this year. Yay! I'm so stoked. I even passed the uni one that i was real worried about. Got a C. Yay! Anyway at the same time that my results came through i also got a newsletter that said that tcol is looking for people to go to China next year to teach English at Chinese Kindergartens for 5 months. And i'm a thinking that that could be a really great opportunity. In fact i was thinking about it all day today as i was painting a fence. Still havn't got very far in the thinking though. hehe.

Anyway if i was to go my flights, visa, accomodation, food and i think pretty much everything would be paid for. And i would get a monthly allowance. I would continue my study long distance (which is apparently doable) and would be credited one teaching practice. To me it sounds like a really good opportunity but there are as many if not more problems for going rather than going. Such as i'm already signed on for a flat. But i think i would really like to go. (Anyone know of a Christian looking for a flat? hehe)

Weekend is bliss!!!

2005-12-04T12:22:00.000+13:00

I love weekends. They always mean so much more when you are working all week. Although i havn't been able to sleep in any longer than 8.30, no matter how tired i am. I think that the reason for that may be a combination between being used to getting up earlier and also the sun shining through my curtains. Although i think that the heat may account from my sleeplessness, coz i can't seem to handle the heat very well. I wish our house was air conditioned. hehe.

Anyway, this weekend everyone in our family has been trying to drive my mums new Rav 4 that she bought in Wellington on Friday. hehe. I was the first one of my brothers and sister to drive it. hehe. It was great. Its a nice smart looking white rav that my parents are going to signwrite so it fits in more with my Dad's van. Then Ma will look like she is part of my Dad's business. That will be cool since she has just given up guitar teaching to help Dad with the business. Now she'll get the job on quoting and applying vitroglaze and showerdomes. hehe. And she even told me that she will put vitroglaze on my Windscreen. That should make it easier to clean coz water is supposed to just drip off. Hopefully it works. hehe.

Anyway, ma and me went out and chose a christmas tree yesterday. Yay. I love real Christmas trees. The smell is absolutely gorgeous. hehe. I'll probably head out and pick it up sometime next week. hehe. Should be fun. We are still trying to figure out what to do with Santa this year. Two years ago we had him hanging out of my brothers window as if he was trying to climb in. However we took him down Christmas eve so kids wouldn't get upset. hehe. Christmas day we had him collapsed on the roof. Apparently one lady called in later in the day and thought that it was so funny coz that was just how she felt. What made the Santa thing even funnier was that we hadn't painted our house then and Dad didn't want us to decorate the outside coz it would draw too much attention. Pity the picture of Santa ended up front page of the Nelson Newspaper and the Blenhiem newspaper. Hehe. But we are trying to figure out what to do with him this year. If anyone has any ideas, it would be appreciated. Anyway, i gotta go. catch you all laters.

Work can be so boring!!!

2005-11-30T21:30:00.000+13:00

Hey again. I thought that i had better write since i havn't done since friday. Hehe. Anyway i am into my second week of work and i am already bored. I can't wait until the other 7 students come next week. At least then i will have some more girl company instead of just two guys. However i think that the boss is running out of jobs to do until Christmas. I was picking up rubbish, sticks and stones pretty much all day Monday. (I managed to fill about 1/2 rubbish bag, found about 10 stones to pick up and am really sick of cabbage tree leaves). One of my workmates threatened to surround my future house in cabbage trees. I then threatened to surround his house with children. That seemed to work a charm since he doesn't like children. hehe

Anyway yesterday i got the wonderful job of raking up sticks in an area where no-one goes. (Not really sure what the purpose was, but it sure beat picking up rubbish)

And today i got to stain the two tables outside the shop. Oh wat a wonderful job... i somehow managed to coat one arm in the horrible stuff, i got it all over my hands and got splotches all up my legs. Took me ages to scrub it off using all sorts of soaps and scrubbers. And i still don't think i got it all. (Sigh).Really bad day to come home blotchy with my mums concert on tonight. And we were supposed to go coz mum needed us to help. I really hate staining stuff. And to think that i still have to finish all the minigolf tables plus the ten new ones. Luckily the other students will be here before we have any more stain. The boss was quite wonderful today. He decided that with the tiny bit of stain that i had left, i could start on the underside of a table at the minigolf. Unfortunately he forgot to mention that the tables were actually bolted to the ground. So i carried all the stain and brush to the minigolf, couldn't lift the table coz of the chain. So because there were children playing minigolf, i had to take the stain all the way back to the workshop just to get a spanner thing to undo the screw. Then i only had enough stain to do half of the underside of the table anyway. So i was a little annoyed.

But hopefully i will be able to work alongside the two guys again for the rest of the week, just coz i get so bored working by myself. Although me and another guy (who is actually my brothers girlfriends brother) keep bickering just for fun. At least now i am starting to win some of the more important rock offs. hehe. Anyway i think i have written enough now and i'm real tired so i'm off.

Hi again

2005-11-25T21:29:00.000+13:00

Hey everyone. Just thought that i would let you know wats been happening up here in litte ol Nelson. I have been working this week at Tahuna Holiday Park. Great place. However since my job is supposed to be bikeboy or bike person, and there are not enough people in the camp at the moment we get to paint siteblocks and dig holes in the road in the rain. Lots of fun... So much for the hole being easy to dig coz it's just sand!!! I don't think they realised that the sand would be a whole foot of digging before we got to it. Sigh. We were pretty pleased when we finally got the sand.

Anyway i am working with the two guys who were bikeboys with me last year. Not too bad really. They are quite nice guys although i'm hoping one of them will show up to work sober more often this year than he did last year. We are thinking of organising our shifts so he does night shifts on Sundays, so then he has the whole day to get over his hangover. hehe.

However today i have decided that i no longer like playing paper, scissors, rock. We keep on rocking off for jobs every time we want to trade. However i keep losing every time so today i want up and down all day with the stencil for the siteblocks while one of the other guys got to read the map pretty much all day. I think those fumes from the spray can were getting to us by the end of the day, and i had a headache...

Anyway we had a bit of fun before we left for the day. The boss had given us a map to use while we were numbering all the sites since we couldn't find last years map. He told us that we were not to get any paint on it since it was the only one left and it was the one he used coz its normally on his wall. Anyway yesterday we found last years one which is absolutely covered in paint and crinkled, so we decided to play a little prank. hehe. Anyway we took the old map back to him today covered in paint and said that we were sure that a little bit of turps could probably get the paint off. hehe. He was not impressed. He asked us if we actually thought that he could possibly put that map back on the wall. We said "sure. just need to clean it up a bit ay". Anyway he wasn't to pleased at all. Just as we were about to head out the door we told him that the real map was still in the car. hehe. He was like "oh you little (so and so's)...". Anyway it was a great crack up and he laughed so it wasn't too bad. hehe. Anyway, i don't know if it's very funny reading it, but it was a lot of fun. hehe

Anyway, i'm kinda looking forward to when the rest of the students arrive in another week. There is 7 new students coming so hopefully they'll get here in time before we have to do all the really budget jobs. It would be great if they could help us put up the Amp theatre. Coz its real heavy and hard to do. Last year we had 5 people doing it. And that was quite a mission. At least this year we will know what we are doing. hehe

Anyway i'm gonna head off now. Catch you all laters

She Won!!!

2005-11-21T17:30:00.000+13:00

What a winner! Zoe won the large dogs catergory. What a clever doggy she is!!! She didn't chase any dogs in the first few races. She did look like she was about to but i think she decided that that dog was much too slow so she took off to race down to Mum. She is so fast. However after she had won the large dog catergory there was a race for all doggies. Zoe won that one too. However the stupid rabbit skin thing that the dogs are supposed to chase didn't work. And so Zoe realised that Mum had actually left and that she couldn't see her. It took me ages to get her back. They then redid the race before and because Mum was no longer there Zoe finally chased the other dogs and came about 5th. Then she was running round and bowled a small dog head over heels. It was hilarious. But oh well. She won. And it was great fun. It was quite fun being able to race Zoe on my bday. Hehe. Lots of fun.

Anyway, i had my first day of work today. Lots of fun. (cough cough). We got to clean up site numbers all day. (With a small break where we got to pick up rubbish). Hehe. Although when we did pick up the rubbish, we had to drive the big truck around instead of the ute coz it was about to go to the dump. And with there being two guys and me it was of course me driving. When we went past a group of builders they all cracked up. Hehe. Was funny. But i'm quite tired now coz i've been out in the sun all day.
I'll catch you all laters

I'm home again

2005-11-19T08:56:00.000+13:00

Yay. I am home once more. I had a good trip up yesterday. There were so many cops on the road. We had a rangerover pass us 4 times. After the 3rd time we saw him get pulled over by a cop. hehe. Quite funny really. We also got passed 3 times by a motorbike. You'd think i was going slow or something. Although considering the number of cops on the road you could say that i kept to the speed limit a little more than usual. hehe. But it was a great trip. I must remember never to wear black trousers again on such a hot day when i'm stuck for a few hours behind a wheel. It was quite hot. Cousin John had the air conditioner pointed towards his knee. hehe. Cracked me up. hehe. But i did have fun. Quite gutted though because i brought all my CDs to make up for the time that i only had 1 tape. And he didn't even like any of my CDs. So i had to listen to his iPod which he had a transmitter for. Coz his music is apparently way more tasteful. Don't know wat he was talking about. I didn't even know most of his music.

Anyway i am home now. Have been trying to convince my family that we should have a game of Rapidough (which is a really cool game coz you get to make stuff out of playdough. I like the peoples who bought it for me. They're awesome). Anyway i havn't been able to have a game yet coz we need 4 people to play and my fam keeps disappearing and leaving only 3 people. So hopefully tonight!

I'll prob head out to the a&p show later. My parents have a stand there so they'll be there all weekend, which is kinda stink coz i just got home and it's my bday tomorrow. But oh well. Apparently i'll have the honour of working on the stall on my bday. That'll be my wonderful bday pressie from my dad. hehe. I'm not so sure that he and me think the same in aspects to work. hehe. But the terrier races are on tomorrow. Yay. I'm gonna enter our doggy Zoe. She came 2nd last year. And that was her first race. She could've come first coz she was running real good. Then she saw the other dogs and decided that it would be much better to chase a dog than it was to chase some piece of rag. hehe. Wat a clever doggy. hehe

Anyway, i'm gonna head off now. I'll let you know how Zoe did. hehe

Hey strangers

2005-10-27T16:46:00.000+13:00

Hey. Yet again i have not written on my blog in ages. At least i'm not using my blog as a procrastination this time which is good considering the amount of assignments that i have had lately... Anyway i don't actually have that much to say coz my life in the last two weeks have basically been all about assignments. How i love assignments!!! (Sarcasm does apply). But i only have 2 assignments left to do and one test. Unfortuanately one of those assigns is worth 100%. Sigh.

I just remembered. I do have something to write about. I got a job for summer. Yay. I'm gonna be working at Tahuna Holiday Park again, hopefully as a bikeboy or girl anyway. hehe. So if anyone is gonna be in Nelson over the summer holidays i would love for you to come and visit me. Yay. Hopefully this summer will be a much better summer than last year. All that rain kinda turned all the people away from camping. But it should be fun anyway coz apparently students are gonna be replacing all the cleaners again this year so there'll be more people to talk to and have water fights with. hehe. Summer is so much fun. I love summer

Anyway i had better get going again before i start talking about summer too much. Otherwise i'll keep on yabbering away until summer actually arrives. Catch you again sum other time

Hi everyone. I havn't forgotten you!!!

2005-10-14T13:49:00.000+13:00

Man i havn't written on my blog in so long. Although i would've kinda thought that other people blogs would've also suffered during exam time. But some peoples have seemed to have doubled in size since i read them last week. So much for studying ay!!! But i have been studying. Flat out. Actually it was more assignment writing than studying but same diff ay. Only had 4 assignments due last monday. Which i thought were actually due on Wednesday so the weekend was pretty busy. hehe. Am now currently working on a group assignment due on Monday, but don't think that's going exceedingly well. None of my mates feel like studying anymore so it is hard to do anything. hehe.

But anyway, i really don't have that much more to talk about coz my life pretty much consists of just assignments at the moment. But with 8 more to go in a month, what do you expect. hehe.

Although i did have a bit of time off last night, Yay, and went to Maccas for a delightful dinner. Had our own table cloth, plates, cutlery, glasses. Stunning really. That's the first time i've ever had a proper dinner at MacD's. Hehe. Good work Michelle for organising that. And good work for finishing all your years at uni. Congrats. I really enjoyed the game of Cranium later that night as well. Might be because we won. Might also be because i got to make two things out of playdough (And obviously my creation mustve looked something like a lobster for my team to guess it, Good work team). Was also coz i got to laugh at everyone else. Still can't believe that mozzerella cheese comes from buffalo!!! Who wouldve guessed. Hehe

Anyway. Back to this assignment. I'll catch you all laters.

Ummmmm. Can't think of a title. hehe

2005-10-03T14:55:00.000+13:00

Just thought that i should probably write a post since i havn't written since i got back to Chch.
I'm back in Chch again. Yay. Got back last Tues and have been tidying my room ever since. hehe. I know that some people will be quite impressed with my effort (those who have seen my room) while others will think that a week is a long time to tidy a room. But i was sorting it out and trying to get it really tidy and throwing out more than i brought back from Nelson. hehe. But i think that it is much much better than it prob has been since the beginning of the year. hehe

Anyway, enough about messy rooms. I was a little gutted on fri coz i had been trying to get hold of work all week and finally managed to get hold of someone on Fri and they didn't reckon that i was working, so i was thinking Sweet, nice relaxing weekend. But about 10mins after i rang work, one of my workmates rang me asking if i could work on Sat and Sun coz he had stuffed his shoulder. So i ended up working 12 hours on Sat followed by Ray's 21st and then 5 hours on Sun. But i was pretty stuffed after that. I don't think i've done a 12 hour shift before ay.

But Rays 21st was great. Although i just missed the speeches by the time i got there. Kinda gutting since i helped to make the powerpoint show but oh well. At least i heard all about the stories while looking at the pics. hehe. But it was still pretty good. Kinda hilarious as well coz i hadn't met one of my flatmates for next year yet and she showed up as Snowwhite and i arrived as Snowwhite evil stepmum. hehe. Quite funny. I also had by cloak nicked off me by 'Batman' who handed me his cape/jacket. I didn't really want that though coz i didn't think i could get my sleeves into it. hehe. But he liked my cloak and went round the room covering everyone in it. hehe. But i was great. It was fun playing the weird game or watever it was called. hehe.

But anyway. i better get going coz i gotta do my assignments now. Hopefully i'll get heaps done before Wed when i am heading down to Fairlie to help out with tailing. Yay. I love Fairlie and i love tailing and lambing season. It's great. Anyway catch you all laters.

Boo hoo. :(

2005-09-23T18:26:00.000+12:00

Yip i cried. I knew i would. But i had to go and cry in front of all the parents...
I got to preschool in the morning with the muffins that my mum had made for me to give everyone coz i had run right out of time. And all the teachers were like "Wow. They look good. Yum." Then I got on with what i normally do and helped to set up then when the children arrived i sat down with them and 'interacted'. However i kept on thinking that today was my last day there and i would get a little sad and then i would kinda force myself to smile again coz it's hard to keep being enthusiastic when your sad.

After morning tea (Where all the children got half a muffin each), i noticed my associate going around some of the children with a big card and i knew immediately that it was for me and i almost cried then. But i managed to hold it in. Then i was busy again, coz being the last day of term we had a lot of tidying up to do and had to wash everything. However when mat-time came and the teacher up the front started saying that there was someone leaving i started to feel myself about to cry again. So by the time i was up the front and she was saying goodbye i did start crying and trying to smile as well coz i was having the card read out to me about what all the children had written and drawn. Luckily the teacher didn't read them all out coz i could have been sitting there for quite a while crying away. And all the parents were there coz it was the last mat-time and they were all picking their kids up.

Anyway then i went outside to say goodbye to them all and was sobbing away trying to keep my voice from cracking which it still did. However by the time the last ones were going through the gate i had managed to control myself again. Until one of the parents came and gave me a hug... Then i was crying all over again.

So anyway. I have now finished at preschool, I have had a pretty sad day and although i can't wait to get back to Chch, i will miss all the kids heaps. Luckily i have some photos of them this time to remember them all by. But hey, i'm sure i will get over it soon. I will be heading back on Tuesday then i got to do all my assignments.

1 day to go. :(

2005-09-22T23:09:00.000+12:00

Man. I only have one day to go at preschool. I'm so gutted. I think im gonna cry. I know i said that i was missing everyone in Chch, but i'm also gonna miss all the kids at preschool. I have gotten to know some of them so well and I don't wanna leave them all. It's such an awesome place with such awesome people. My associate is so nice and supportive. Sigh. I'm going to not talk about my last day anymore in case i cry.

Anyway on Wednesday i got to do a mat-time which i knew about since last friday so had plenty of time to plan it. I knew i had to do a welcome song, another song (maybe an action one), a bible story with a focus on love, maybe another song, pray then transition all the children into afternoon tea. Well on Monday i borrowed some of the centres CDs and figured out what songs i was doing. Tuesday i thought that i might do the story of the widow giving her few pennies and Jesus saying that she gave more than anyone else. Tuesday night i couldn't sleep coz i was planning out the best way to tell the story (I hate how my brain does so much thinking at night). Wednesday i had everything ready to go about 1/2 hour before i needed it so i kinda just went round making sure everything was right. Then i finally called all the children onto the mat and started. I think that it went pretty good. Managed to keep most children listening although the younger ones were a bit restless but the older children were interested and keep telling the younger ones to be quiet. I managed to do all the songs and the story and then got them off to wash their hands thinking that it had gone pretty quick. That night when i was at the board meeting, i realised that i had completely forgotten to pray at the end. Sigh. I knew i'd forgotten something.

Anyway today i was told about 1/2 hour before mat-time that i was taking it, so i rushed off to find some songs and during mat-time i used two songs and told the story of the rainbow fish with my puppets. I'm sure it went much better coz i had had more practice and was more assertive. Also i only had older children so didn't have younger restless children. This certainly makes a difference.

Anyway. I'm going to bed coz i had a late night last night, have had a headache all day and still need to do a little work tonight although it is already after 11 so won't do much.
Oh by the way i am heading back to Chch on Tuesday so will hopefully be at Navs that night. Can't wait to see you all

Freezing!!!

2005-09-19T15:19:00.000+12:00

Man its cold. It was such a beautiful morning in Nelson today. I even considered biking to preschool, but i had to take my guitar and a poster that i didn't want scrunched. I'm mighty glad i didn't coz now it is freezing cold. We had about 15 mins of hail earlier which is probably why i started putting more layers on and trying to stay warm. However i did hear from a few parents today as well as one of my mates in Chch that it was actually snowing down there in the city and all the schools were closed. How exciting. And i don't even get to go out and play. It's quite hard to play with hail... However it is still quite cold at the moment. Maybe i might go and put a skivvy or something on under my jacket, instead of just a tshirt. hehe.

Anyway i had another great day at preschool today. I got to make the playdough this morning and one of the teachers said that i was supposed to choose a colour without any input from the other teachers. One teacher loves autumn colours like green and orange and another loves blues and pinks. So they both decided that since i would make up my own mind, they would try and have an input and made all these suggestions until there were no colours left to choose from. I eventually got out the pink and blue to make a purply colour and started mixing that in. Then my associate quite nicely came up and said "Oh that's a nice fishy colour". I quite quickly added some more colour then to make it darker coz i don't like fishy colours... But it was quite funny really.

But i was quite pleased that the sun was out the whole time that the children were at the centre and the hail only came during our staff meeting coz i hate having all the children inside where they can't run around coz they make so much more noise. I even used a little bit more maori today. I was quite pleased. Although obviously there is definitely room for lots more.

Anyway i hope you are all staying warm and healthy. Don't go out and get a cold just coz it has snowed. I vote stay inside and work work work. I know that's what i'm doing, much as i'd rather watch a movie or something. But no. Get those assignments done.

Almost 3rd week down!!!

2005-09-15T19:59:00.000+12:00

Aaarrrggghhh. I have been at preschool for 3 weeks now and only have 1 week left. Eekk. I had a lecturer come and visit me to do a report on how well i was doing. Freakyness plus!!! I hate when they come coz they sit there watching you for about 1 hour then you have to go and talk to them and then they talk to your associate... And it's all kinda freaky.

I was quite gutted coz that is the day when i am supposed to use lots and lots of Maori phrases and she only heard me say 2 along with Ka pai (although i was again gutted when one of the children asked me why i kept on saying Ka pai, with my lecturer sitting right behind me). I apparently have to stop using 'Wow' so often and use more descriptive words like 'I like how you have coloured that turtle in green' or 'Ka pai. Well done for tidying up those blocks so neatly'... so much more effort.

She also said that i was kinda borderline for my use of Maori and also for my ability to lead group activities instead of relying on my associate. She also said that i have to use my voice well and make sure that children hear me and know immediately what they are supposed to do.

So today i lead a group activity with the children and we went fishing for pretend fish. I also used a little of Maori, although i must admit, it wasn't that much. I didn't stop using 'Wow' although every time i said it i realised so i followed it up with an informative comment. I was also quite stoked coz i did quite well at directing the children to stay out of the rain. One child who would normally not listen to any teachers directions and would normally have to be asked a few times to do something, almost stepped out into the rain when i saw him and said "B. Stay out of the rain". And he did. I was very pleased. (Sorry about the initial, but we are not allowed to say any names due to confidentiality).

But anyway, i had quite a fun day today. My hands are currently dyed green from the finger paint which also quite nicely decorated my pants and stuck to my watch. But i had better get going coz i need to go and get some of my assignments done and finish making my fish puppets to do the 'Rainbow Fish' story at preschool tomorrow.

Catch you all soon

Lots of fun!!!

2005-09-12T18:20:00.000+12:00

I have been having lots of fun. Today at preschool I took the outside group activity. So I found the song that i wanted on the right CD in the morning, and when it got to group time, i realised that i hadn't got the beanbags out to throw and catch. So my associate went to grab them for me. I also hadn't quite co-ordinated the group time with the inside teacher coz for her group activity she also needed the CD player. So when the beanbags arrived i just got all the children to place the beanbag on different parts of their body. When the CD arrived it went much better. But other than not being prepared, it all went well, and the children all seemed to enjoy themselves. However for the rest of the day i had the beanbag song in my head. So all day i've been singing "Throw the beanbag. And catch it. Turn around, turn around. Stamp, stamp, stamp." Man i love children's songs!!!

But this weekend i had lots of fun making stuff. I started making some fish to do some fishing with, i also made a rainbow fish puppet, and i also started making a musical instrument poster to replace the toy instrument on in my centre now. But i have now been blamed by my sister if she should happen to fail her English Exam tomorrow coz she wanted to help me to some of the painting of the fish. But yeah. Wat can you do ay. I'm sure sisters will blame each other for everything anyway.

I was also looking on the internet for monkey stuff to do at preschool, and kinda got a little distracted and ended up looking at a page with lots of jokes and questions on it. So i thought that although i have already shared some of them with some people, i will share them with everyone else. So here goes...

* If olive oil comes from olives, where does baby oil come from?

* Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.

* What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

* When i'm not in my right mind, my left mind gets pretty crowded.

* I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out.

* I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

* How is it possible to have a civil war?

* Whose cruel idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?

* If the "blackbox" fight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn't the whole airplane made out of that stuff?

* Why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address, you turn down the volume on the radio?

Yeah well that's pretty much about all the ones that i had time for coz i don't wanna write them all on here. So i'm gonna go now and i'll catch up with you all again soon. Good work to everyone who wrote on their blogs. I'm impressed!!!

Hi again

2005-09-10T18:24:00.000+12:00

Hey everyone. Just thought that since everyone is on such a rampage of writing posts on their blogs that i had better write one too. hehe.

Anyway, i finally finished one of my assignments yesterday which was good, since it was due yesterday. I was quite pleased coz i didn't have to send it down to chch coz one of mates was handing it in for me. Although we did have a bit of trouble getting our faxes working coz i had to fax her my cover sheet with my signature saying that it was all my own work. We managed to get it to work just as she was about to walk out the door. Whew...

Anyway it has been a beautiful day up here in Nelson today. Had some family friends turn up from Blenheim and had my bro turn up around the same time with his girlfriend. Managed to get into town today and was quite stoked coz Ma brought be about 5 t-shirts and a pair of shorts. So i'm quite stoked indeed. Our Japanese student also came to town with us coz Ma is teaching her how to sew, so she was getting some material to make trousers. And my family has been quite entertained for the rest of the day coz the material was quite... um... interesting lets say. Hehe. Fine with me if she wants fluffy leopard skin pants. Hehe. Anyway i hope she doesn't read this. hehe.

I have now been on placement for two weeks and only have two weeks to go. It is going so fast. We went to the aqaurium yesterday to look at all the fishies, and the sharks, and the eel (they were so fat), and the seahorses (i'm sure at least half of them were pregnant), and the stingrays (i never realised they slept with their tails up), and the turtles, and the octopus (we could only see a mass on tentacles coz it had attached itself to the window), and the starfish and the crabs and there was even a display on all those really scary fish deep down in the ocean, like that one off 'Finding Nemo' with the light on the front. Anyway it was quite fun. I've never been there before, so it's quite cool going when it's free. hehe. But i have been doing lots of observations over the last two weeks on the children as they do socio-dramatic play and technology. I have noticed that the children like 5 little monkeys and playing doctors etc, but now i have to come up with two activities that could extend their play. And i have absolutely no idea. Maybe i should've gone to the library today. Only just though of that... And then there's technology... (sigh)

And my associate also wants me to come up with 3 group activities for the children to do after mat time in the morning. I have to do two outside ones, and an inside one. I have no idea wat to do. My associate has been doing stuff like throwing, jumping, balancing, listening post. She told me to do something that is in my strength. Which to me is music. But i have no idea how to make this such a group activity. Sigh. Maybe i'll listen to my music tonight and figure out what i have that i could use... There is always the parachute... That's lots of fun. But hey, i'll figure it out

I also have my visiting lecturer this week. Aaarrgghh. I better get my Maori phases going before then. I've been so bad at them this time. I did have them written on my hand for a couple of days, but that didn't work too well. There are lots of posters around with Maori phrases but a lot of them are covered with toys etc. I just gotta practice before i go i think... (deeper sigh).

Although that reminds me. I was quite entertained the other day coz i have been looking at this horrible poster ever since i got there. It is a poster telling the children wat all the musical instruments are. However it is picturing colourful toy instruments. Hideous. The children know that it isn't right. However i finally got the courage to talk to my associate about it and now they are going to get a new poster and cut the old one up for the one child who does look at it. Maybe i could make one with the children...

Anyway i think that this post is getting pretty long. Which is interesting coz when i started i didn't actually have any idea what i was going to write about... Hehe. Amazing how the thoughts just burst out. I have noticed my posts getting bigger. Hope i'm not boring anyone too much, if at all... Maybe next time i'll think of something short and sweet. Hehe. Catch you all laters.

Nelson rules but i'm missing Chch

2005-09-07T19:54:00.000+12:00

Hey everyone. Just thought i would let you know that you are all loved and you are all missed. I never realised how much i would miss everyone and how much you all mean to me.

Before i came up here, i thought that whenever i studied with other people i did less work than i do by myself. That may be true at times but i have realised that i actually do need to study with others in order to make myself accountable to them. I now know that even though i do spend a lot of time at some peoples houses "studying" i do actually do more work there and it does help me more than by myself. Probably because we get a discussion going about our assignments and what we don't understand and we normally end up helping each other.

I also realise that i miss being able to just head round to someones house and catch up or relax or watever. I don't have anyone to do that to up here. And i miss it. It also doesn't help that some certain people starting with the letters A and M who used to be on msn quite a bit talking to each other are now hardly ever on msn coz i think they now talk to each other face to face!!! This is pretty stink coz even though i didn't get much conversation out of them while online i got more than i am getting now. Which reminds me, I would love to get random comments or random emails or anything to keep me up with what is going on down there.

I also miss my small group and all the fun that we have on Tuesdays. Especially considering i missed getting to make a birthday cake for a 21st. Quite gutted. Maybe i'll make one when i get back down anyway. Just to make up for it.

I'm also quite gutted coz i have already missed one 21st (of which i heard hardly anything about) and i am missing another 21st on Friday (of which i would like to hear about). Hopefully i'll be back just in time for another 21st (of which i will need to find a costume). Why is everyone have to be born during these months?

But anyway, i am enjoying my time up here. I'm slowly getting my assignments sorted out, one of which i have to stop procrastinating about and get back to work. Even got to hold a baby today. Yay. I love babies. Also had stamps out today and the sheep stamp reminded me of Mr. Flocker himself. It gets pretty sad when a sheep stamp reminds me of people down in Chch. Hehe.

Anyway i gotta go. Love to hear from you all. I think everyone should post more often

1 week down!

2005-09-03T10:53:00.000+12:00

Well i have now been at the Ark Preschool for 1 week and am thoroughly enjoying myself. The names are settling down again although i have met new people every day. I am now able to call most children by name, however i do sometimes get some names mixed up. I was calling one child a name all morning yesterday and then found out that his name was actually not what i was saying but a completely different name. Silly me! But i was quite stoked yesterday coz i had one child talking to me and asking me questions and then my associate told me later that it normally takes a very long time for her to get to know someone enough to talk to them. And that was the first time that i met her!!! I also got a very good report from my associate yesterday which i was pretty stoked about. She reckons that i am fitting in really well and all the teachers seem to like me which is great.

However i was a little bit annoyed with my assignments coz i don't normally do them on the first few days, i normally like to start my teaching practice assignments on the first thursday. That normally gives me time to get to know names, routines, etc etc... So i decided that on Thursday i would start observing for Socio-dramatic play which is what i have to focus one of my assignments on. On Mon, Tues and Weds the children were playing together, dressing up, pretending to be someone else... Just what i needed. However when i go to observe that activity they all decided to play by themselves, use all the equipment for what it was supposed to be used for and didn't pretend to be anyone else. I was quite gutted. So i didn't get that assignment started... I'll try again next week.

But anyway, i am really pleased with how the weather has turned out the last couple of days. I'm a bit disappointed in my packing though coz when i packed i was in such a hurry that i only packed about 3 or 4 t-shirts and a couple of those aren't really suitable for teaching practice. I might have to head to the op-shop later on sometime.

But anyway i really should be going. I have already started making Dad's Father's Day present (hope he doesn't see it, and if he does, hope he doesn't guess what it is). But now i'm off to work on one of my assignments, and then i might do some reading for another one of my assignments. What a nice relaxing weekend this is gonna be... Catch you all laters

Teaching Practice!!!

2005-08-31T16:35:00.000+12:00

It is now my third day of teaching practice. I was beginning to think yesterday that i was doing quite well with all the names of all the children i knew. However today i met some more children and now all the names are just becoming one big blur... But i figure that by the end of four weeks i should know pretty much all the 100 names of the children. The problem is i then have to spell them as well when the children do paintings and i write there names. Most names are fine but then there are at least two Rebecca's and one is spelt Rebeka (I think that's how its spelt) and the other is Rebecca and i gotta know which one is which. And then all the children who have the same first names, i gotta learn at least the first initial of their last name so we can identify their work... And then there are all the parents (sigh). What a mission and a half!!!

But hey, i am enjoying it although i am coming home completely wasted each day and then heading to bed about 8 or 9ish. But now that i finally have my room to myself without visiting friends, i can find my assignments and get some work done as well. Oh goody, i can't wait... Well if i could, i would but i can't so i won't. Just coz i gotta do about 7 during teaching practice that relate to teaching practice. + the ones that don't relate. I'm just glad that i have holidays straight after teaching practice so i can concentrate on my assignment work afterwards without having to think about class as well.

Anyway i am off. I would love you to comment coz i love comments and also coz i want to know how everyone is and what you are all doing coz i am missing everyone. Catch ya all laters.

Home Sweet Home

2005-08-27T16:45:00.000+12:00

Yay! I'm home once more. We had a pretty good trip up yesterday after leaving Chch at about 4ish, stopping in Cheviot to get food for AJ who was hallucinating from lack of food. We also met AJ's brother which was a kinda random place to meet. We then made it to Blenhiem around 8ish where we dropped Kelly off (since she had missed her train that morning hehe). We then went back to Maccas for some more food then headed out to Nelson. We finally got to Nelson at about 10ish, drove down the main street to catch up on city life (of which there was none), dropped AJ off and finally got HOME. Yay! I love home! So far i've been to town twice (once with Rach to visit the flea market and once with the fam), played 5 games of table tennis with Rach (I only won 2 so we'll play again later). I am heading out soon to make sure i know where i am going for teaching practice and also to get Ma some supplies to make my sister a birthday cake for tomorro. Maybe i'll play table tennis after that. Tomorro i am heading out to Rabbit Island for my sister's birthday. That'll be good. Hope the weather is just as good as today. But right now i had better get going or i'll never get anything done.
Catch you all laters

Photos!!!

2005-08-23T12:58:00.000+12:00

First of all i'd like to thank my sponsors.
*Irvines Pies. Opps. No i don't thank them...

*Michelle for having the photos on her site so i can copy them onto my blog.
*Cam for letting Adam have them to give to Michelle to put on her site.
*Aaron for actually making that awesome cake on a tight time limit. It was awesome whether he thinks so or not!
*Gena for doing my hair
*Annette for helping me attach my wings
*Peter for putting up with me laughing at him. Hehe
*Anyone else who thinks they need to be thanked.

Party Party Party

2005-08-21T19:58:00.000+12:00

I have just got back from the coolest dress-up party ever. Barbie Rules. And for a 21st as well. Good work Michelle. Your awesome. And although my shoes were the most comfortable heels that i have ever worn (I managed the whole night) i do now have sore feet. But it was well worth it. I mean you can't be Barbie without wearing heels or being on tip-toes. (Although i think that you should be able to coz it is far more comfortable). And I was impressed with the straightness of my hair, although i am slowly getting my curls back. I throughly enjoyed my wings though. I only got snagged on decorations 3 times. Thanks Annette and Peter for taking so long to pin and sew them onto me for me. That could have been a mission if i tried to do that by myself. Quite stoked that my wings weren't too heavy coz my shirt might not have stayed up otherwise. Hehe. That could've been fairly embarressing.

It was a great party though. I'm impressed with the amount of people who actually dressed up. Full marks to Lynton with a fairly thick layer of makeup. And to Peter in pink!!! I thought it was a good colour for you... Really ... Girl-like... But everyone did do a great job.

But now i'm off to bed. I can't wait til someone else has a theme party. I most certainly am for my 21st but that's not til next year. So i have a whole year to think of a theme. Can't wait!

More Blogs

2005-08-20T08:36:00.000+12:00

Yay. Lana has now joined us in the blogging world. Good work Lana. You're awesome.

One more week til i leave for Nelson. Yay. I can't wait. My associate at the preschool i'm going to sounds really nice. She said that she is real excited coz i am her first student. (I hope that means that she will write real nice stuff in my report hehe). But it's gonna be great although i'm gonna miss everyone down here as well coz they all going on holiday this week and then i'm leaving for four weeks. But at least i'll be at home instead of some random place all by myself.

But i betta go before my cake burns.

I absolutely wasted but i am back

2005-08-16T13:59:00.000+12:00

I'm back in Chch again. I don't think my cousin appreciated my effort in trying to find tapes. I went to the Warehouse to see what i could find and there hardly anything left and the ones they did have didn't look that interesting. So i had a look at home and found a few, all of which he thought was pretty boring. But hey at least i could sing along with them. Hehe. Kept me awake anyway. I have decided that 5 hours sleep really isn't enough to drive on. Coz i watched the rugga on sky so it finished at about 12ish then went to bed. Howeva i couldn't sleep for the next 2 hours coz my brain just wouldn't switch off. So i finally went to sleep sometime around 2ish. Then because my cousins were leaving to come back early, one of my cousins had asked her fiancee (staying in the next room) to come in and wake her up at about 7.30. It didn't help that the handle on the door was broken and he was kinda locked into his room so was knocking on our wall until my cousin realised what had happened and got up to let him out. Kinda funny although i woke up too!

Anyway our trip back wasn't too bad, after driving right past our mates place in Blenheim where i was supposed to pick up one of my cousins. So much for the directions of "if you drive past the vineyard on the right, you've gone too far". I probably should've turned back before i even got into Blenheim. Haha. Anyway it was quite a tiring trip although quite entertaining watching my cousin sleeping next to me with his mouth open and my other cousin in the back seat with his head dropping further and further down in my rearview mirror. And it was quite funny when my music stopped (it was quite quiet music, so the volume was right up) and the radio came on and was really loud and my cousin in the back seat thought that it was his alarm going off and he had to go to work. (Man that sentence has lots of 'ands'. Oh well).

Anyway, i probably should've gone straight to bed, but decided to go to church so eventually got to bed about 9.30ish. And then had class at 10.30 which i almost slept through. One of my mates said she thought my eyes were falling out of my head. It certainly felt like that. Hopefully i will get more sleep tonight coz i have a Maori test tomorrow and i'd like to be able to remember my mihi and be able to pronouce whateva phrases i am going to have to say. But i suppose i should probably go and practice my Maori words. And i have to ring my associate at my preschool tomorrow morning. So i prob have to get up early. Gutted. Oh well. These things happen i suppose.

Ok bye

Coming Back

2005-08-15T18:34:00.000+12:00

I'm coming back to Chch. We had my bro's 21st last nite which was great. Lots of people, lots of fun, a few fairly embarrassing stories including crashing the parents car, sinking my uncles kayak and doing the whole macho walk with chest puffed out, muscles tense but looking relaxed. Wat a way to impress the girls ay. Hehe. But then started watching the rugga on channel 3 before deciding that i was pretty wasted so came home and watched the end on Sky. Thats the way to go. Hehe. But we have now tidied up the hall, nicked off with a few containers of food (score) and some drink (excellent) and now waiting til 1 when i said i was picking up my cuz again. Also gotta give my bro some time to get ahead of me coz my other cuz wants to spend some time in Blenheim before i go through and pick him up too. Howeva i might c if i can find another tape to listen to on the way back to Chch coz i don't think my cousins will be very pleased with me if i keep listening to the same tape that we listened to all the way up from Chch. I think i must have flipped it about 6 times at least before my cousin turned on his iPod. But gotta go. C u soon.

15 mins to go

2005-08-12T08:48:00.000+12:00

Yay. In 15 minutes i am leaving to go pick up my cousin and head on up to Nelson. Yippee. I can't wait. I'm heading home. I'm gonna see my family tonight. Yay. Oh wait. It's only 14 mins now. hehe. Anyway i can't wait. My car is all loaded up with bday pressies which i'm not gonna mention in case he sees this. Hehe. Won't be a surprise then. But then it's his 21st tomorrow. Yay. It's gonna be great. We gonna have a bbq dinner. Yay. I love bbqs. 13 mins. But i finished packing about 1/2 an hour ago and now i'm just trying to find something to do until 2. So i thought i would check my blog to see if there were any more comments, which there weren't. So now i am writing this blog, which is getting less and less informative as the minutes go on. 12 mins. Umm.... run out of things to say. Except Happy Birthday Michelle. Ur awesome. 11 mins. Anyway i suppose i had better get going coz i am actually supposed to be at my cousins house at 2. Luckily he only lives around the corner so it will only take about 1 minute. But i will be off coz i can't think what else to write. Hehe.

PHOTOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2005-08-11T18:15:00.000+12:00

Yay... I got my photos back! I been waiting so long and counting down... And now they are back and i already have so many orders for double prints. Howeva i was thinking of maybe accidentally forgetting to reprint one of my photos for Miss Fox who might just accidentally forget that she wanted it. (in my dreams i know, but there's always the chance). But i'm so stoked coz the photos came out so well. And with 3 films that's a lot of pretty good photos. Although there are some pretty random dancing photos with some people making pretty random faces or doing random things. Howeva i kinda like the shot of the ring-a-ring-a-rosie flat. Nice! I'm hoping to get some scanned and might even put some on my blog if i can choose the right ones. There's so many! Anyway if you wanna have a look let me know so i can figure out what photos peoples want. At the moment i'm thinking of getting a double print of them all. Don't know why i didn't do that straight away but oh well too late now. Anyway i gotta go. And i would most greatly appreciate it if some people kept their little rumouring mouths closed and stop trying to make hints that are so *subtle*.

The Ball was awesum!!!

2005-08-09T06:11:00.000+12:00

Our ball has finally been. Yay. It was so great. I'd been looking forward to it all day and all the previous day and the day before that too. Although i went to bed so early on Friday i was still exhausted on Sat. I think i woke up too often. Hehe. But it was so much fun. The setup made it feel more exciting i think coz we knew it was finally coming together. And then after a much needed lift plus i headed to Lana's where she did my hair for about 10 mins. Then 2 1/2 hours later we finished curling all of her hair. What a mission and a half that was. That left me with about 5 mins to do my makeup and get changed before i left to go to my cousins house where my Aunty was waiting to take photos of me (Thanks for that order Mum). And when i walked in it was kinda embarressing coz it was my cousins engagement party and her lounge was full of lots of peoples. But oh well.

Anyway about the ball. It was absolutely awesome. The backdrop was awesome (Good work Matt), the entrance was awesome, the food was pretty good (Especially after a lack of dinna. I was starving) and the people were great. I loved all the costumes. Good work everyone who dressed up. Everyone looked absolutely stunning. Howeva if i didn't get any photos of you, i'm sorry. I only managed to get 3 1/2 films of fotos. I hope my Mum appreciates my effort to improve on my lack of photos last year. But anyway i had a great nite. Wasn't too impressed with whoeva told the DJ that we had had enuf old music. That's the bestest music out. It's the bestest dance music. But oh well, the music was still pretty good. I had the sorest feet by the end of the nite. I was dancing and standing pretty much all nite with just little times to sit down to catch my breath. But then i would be straight up again. It was so much fun. The only problem was the next morning when i had to start work at 9. I was pretty tired. But i got a good sleep last nite so i'm ova it now. Just looking forward to my photos. I'm taking them in today. Yay.

But i beta go coz i got class soon.
Catch you all laters

Yay. I'm going to Nelson!

2005-08-04T14:07:00.000+12:00

I just found out that i am going to Nelson for my teaching practice. Yippee. I start my placement on 29 August. So soon. I am working at The Ark Preschool which is apparently a Christian Preschool so that should be fun. And i'm there for 4 whole weeks, working with over 2 year olds. I can't wait, although it does present a problem with all the bdays in September. But hopefully i'll think of something (probably that i won't come, but will see what happens). However i do know that Craig is having his 21st at the end of the uni holidays and i was thinking that if there happened to be some people in Nelson looking for a ride back to Chch, i might come down for it, so if you happen to be in Nelson and want to come back down on Friday 2nd September let me know and i'll let you know whether i do come back for it or not. Anyway that's my most exciting news for today (although i actually found out yesterday).

Don't forget the ball. It's on Saturday. That's like 2 days away. i can't wait. It's gonna be great.
C you there.

Happy 3rd Bday

2005-08-03T06:55:00.000+12:00

Happy Bday to you.
Happy Bday to you.
Happy Bday to Zoe.
Happy Bday to you.

For anyone who doesn't know, Zoe is my dog who lives in Nelson. It was her 3rd birthday today and i completely forgot about it (but please don't tell her). But anyway it sounds like she had a good birthday and even scored a pretty good looking cake that i'm sure my mum made for her.

I hope you had a good bday Zoe and if anyone else wants to wish her a happy (belated by the time you read this) bday feel free to comment and i'll make sure they get read to her.

Far too busy!

2005-08-02T13:22:00.000+12:00

Hey. Just thought that since I have a complaining boy commenting on my blog, I should probably post again. However if he had read my comment (I’m assuming he is referring to the comment I left on Michelle’s blog), he would have noticed that I was talking about how busy August is. However since he obviously didn’t notice that I will now also mention how not only is August busy but September is as well.

This weekend I have the ball, weekend after is my bros 21st in Nelson, weekend after is another 21st back in Chch, weekend after I should be heading back to Nelson on Teaching Practice (Which happens to be the same weekend as my sisters bday and also the same week as my other brothers bday). The weekend after that is CRAIGS 21st (Hope your happy Craig) which just happens to be down in Balclutha on the 3 September (a whole month and 1 day before his actual bday, although he did say that any time after that date is lambing season so he can be forgiven). This is also the same weekend as Fathers day…The weekend after that is another 21st in Chch (Remembering that I am still in Nelson). I then get one weekend off before heading back down to Chch after finishing teaching practice. And then I have work and assignments.

So now I have given you my busy schedule for the next howeva many weeks that was, I shall head off coz it’s almost time for Navs and I have to finish writing some of my notes for class tomorrow before then not to mention the 20pages or so of readings that I still have left to do… But don’t forget the ball on Saturday. It’s gonna be a great night.

1 Week to Go

2005-07-30T19:44:00.000+12:00

Hey. It's only one week to go until the ball. Yay. I can't wait. Make sure you come. You're gonna love it. It's not worth missing. Make sure you get a ticket. It's only $30. What a bargain. And get one soon or you won't get any food at the ball, so if you want food, get a ticket now! It's gonna be absolutely fantastic. I can't wait. I hope people are going to go in costume. That'll make it cooler. But do make sure that you come. I hope that if you were thinking of not coming, that after reading this you will now come because it's gonna be Absolutely, FANTASTIC. Right i think i have babbled on for quite some time and it is exceptionally late so i think i will just go to bed now.

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it'll...be...great...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Ball

2005-07-20T07:39:00.000+12:00

Hey. Our ball is in 2 1/2 weeks. 6 August. Yay. I can't wait. Everyone should come. It's gonna be great. Everyone's invited too, so bring your mates. And it's only $30. How awesome is that? I'm looking forward to seeing everyone's outfits, especially those who dress to the Narnia theme. I'm thinking of going as Ramundu's daughter. That's the stars daughter from Voyage of the Dawn Treader. She then marries Caspian and is Rilian's (I think that's his name) Mother. However I can't find her name written anywhere. If anyone knows what it is can they let me know? It would be much appreciated. Anyway I can't wait and I really recommend everyone come. Even those of you from College House who have their ball on the same night. It's gonna be great.

On another note, I have my brothers 21st coming up on the 13th August and I have no idea what to get him. I hate buying for guys and I wanna get him something special since its his 21st. If you have any ideas on what to buy a guy turning 21 can you give me an idea coz like I said, I have no idea. He's an outdoorsy kind of guy who love kayaking, mountain biking, tramping etc. The problem is, is that he is thinking of heading over to either France, England or Spain next year to do some outdoorsy course but hasn't yet decided whether or not he will go. However if you have any ideas, i would be most grateful if you would be so kind as to share them with me. Maybe then i can figure out what i'll get my other brother for his bday on the 25 August and my younger sis on the 28th. What a mission. I don't think my parents planned well enough having 3 kids born in the same month. Although i know my ma liked it back in the day when she would just put all the birthdays on the same day... That was before we got old enough to realise wat was happening. Hehe.

Anyway must be off. Hope Nato appreciates my attempt at paragraphs.
Catch ya laters.

Camp

2005-07-17T13:40:00.000+12:00

Man camp was the coolest of the coolest camps I ever been to. I got to be a parrot and only repeat people or make parrot noises. Squark, squark. Suited perfectly coz parrots are annoying loud things and I had just had half a lift plus. Hehe. Man it was fun. Although very difficult to communicate my ideas about what we needed on our WINNING boat. And a very cool boat it was. Certainly didn't need sponsorship from two competing banks like the other boat, or two competing phone services like the other boat. Who ever knew telecom and vodafone to sponsor the same thing? And we certainly didn't need a collapsible cabin. Our boat was the best. Cool anchor, cool port holes, cool flag, cool steering wheel, cool crows nest, cool mast (thanks Jeremy for the use of your ball and chain), cool plank, cool electrical rudder (jigsaw hehe), cool mermaid, cool everything, (including warrent, rego, and guarantee). And wat an excellent salesman ay. Good work Chris. Anyway it was fun hitting Hannah with a pool noodle while standing on a plank and it was almost fun running down all those steps to find the treasure. Not so sure about the running back up. Anyway pirating was fun. And playing table tennis was fun. And making up essays while playing Balderdash (whateva it's called) was fun. First one to come up with the answer for why Jim Hogg was famous is really clever. But i quite successfully lost that game. Considering my last page and a half answer didn't even make sense coz i was having so much fun writing it that i left letters out. Hehe. what a moron ay. Also fun watching the repentence punishments hehe. Glad i wasn't late thats for sure. Not so sure it was fun trying to be kissed, licked and thrown over shoulders while someone attacked the leg of the guy whose shoulder i was on. At least Grandma was there to give me support should i have fallen. (Although i almost fell over as soon as i came down from the shoulder). But anyway, it was also cool learning about the keys that we can use to open Gods word to our friends and how we could prioritise and be there for our friends. That was something that really struck home coz although i quite often would meet up with my mates, i'm not sure that i am always available when they need me the most and that is really important if i want to share about Jesus with them. I think from now on i am going to try and use my keys to open more doors and not leave as many locked. Anyway i need to go find something for dinna so i'll be off now.

Engagement

2005-07-17T13:18:00.000+12:00

Yay. My cousin is finally engaged. Been waiting so long. It was so cool when we found out coz i was down at her parents place and she was in Chch and she rung her mum who put the phone on speakerphone and my cuz told us she was engaged and we all started screaming and congratulating her all at once. Very cool. And then... the next night she rung again and asked my sis to be the bridesmaid... Very cool. But wait, there's more... she then rung later that night (or was it the next night?) and asked my sis to make the bridesmaid dresses. Very cool. And to make it cooler my cuz's fiancee made the ring himself. Since he's makes a bit of jewelery. And it looks very flash from the photo i've seen. But must go

Blogs

2005-07-05T19:28:00.000+12:00

Hey just remembered that i wanted to ask everyone who reads this to write a comment or to send me their blog address if you have one so that i can add it to my blog list coz i wanna read other peoples blogs but don't know many. Thanks heaps.

Yippee. Its holidays

2005-07-05T19:12:00.000+12:00

Yay. I have finally finished all my assignments and all my tests and everything. And i am now half way through my course. Yippee. Finally managed to get my last assignment, due today, worth 100%, in about 4pm. And only 36 pages long with 13 references. Man i hate referencing. It takes almost as long as the assignment itself. But at least it is now in. I had the stupidest grin on my face from the moment the staple went through all the bits of paper. Hehe. Kinda had the whole mental drain thing going on again. But it sure felt good to push the paper through the slot. And then we went and watched the coolest movies with all the girlies from our small group. Would really recommend you see them if you have a chance. I know that i would certainly like to see them again. They were Scarlet Pimpleton (however that is spelt, hehe) and An Ideal Husband. Funniest movies i've seen for a while. Specially since they're quite old. But those guys are so funny. Hehe. Anyway i'll try not to ruin the movies for you if you ever feel like watching them. And i really recommend that you do. I also found out that i'm not a very good role model for playing pool. Doesn't really help when you sink the white one though. Don't know why people would want to use me as a role model for that game. I certainly wasn't the best one there. (Not that any of us was that good, although I must say, i reckon it's coz all the guys are always playing and never gives us girls a chance to learn how to play properly). Well that's my excuse for the night. I best be off to sleepy land to close my eyes and get some beauty sleep. (Not that i need it) Hehe. I think i'm gettin too tired. Catch ya laters

I REALLY HATE TESTS

2005-07-02T14:26:00.000+12:00

YAY. My test is over. I have yet again discovered exactly why i prefer assignments to tests. I really hate tests. Especially when you actually have no idea what to study and especially when it is worth 70%. I mean who wants to sit a test worth 70%. Not me. I don't want to sit any tests though. But i am so stoked that it is over. I was on a high for about 2 hours afterwards just because it was over and i no longer have to study for it. Yippee. But it did go well luckily. I found out that i did actually know more than i thought i did. hehe. Although i felt mentally drained afterwards. hehe. Now i just have one more assignment to do and then i'm on holiday. YIPPEE. For 3 whole weeks. Yippee. With a Navs camp smack dab in the middle. Nice planning guys. Always good to know that TCol people are respected too. hehe. But man i can't wait. Made it worse to know that my mate was going away to a camp this weekend and i have to stay back and study and work. But oh well. Can't wait till our camp. It's gonna be absolutely awesome. Anyway i must be off now coz mine eyes are beginning to fuzz over with all these words after looking at words all day and all week. Have a good week all. And i'll catch up with you sometime. If you feel like doing anything next week let me know coz i currently have nothing planned, unless my preschool needs help with relievers. Bye

Tidy break

2005-06-24T15:38:00.000+12:00

Hey all. Just thought that i might take a tidying break. I have been tidying my room for about the last hour and so far i think that instead of having a mess on my floor i now have a pile of random stuff on my bed. So i'll need to tidy that soon or i might have to find somewhere else to sleep. hehe. Anyway so far i have found 8 socks without pairs. Hopefully i'll find their pairs later ay. hehe. Otherwise i'll just carry on wearing odd socks. (yes i have been doing this for the last few days). But i decided to tidy my room since my folks are coming in less than two weeks. Hopefully i won't need to tidy up again before then. And hopefully my folks don't read this before then. Hehe. I just won't mention the fact that it was getting pretty hard to actually get into the room. (opps). Anyway as you can probably see, i'm quite bored and i think that you probably will be too after reading this posting. Anyway i had better get back to tidying my room. Have a great day all.

Exciting Europe Trip

2005-06-23T15:15:00.000+12:00

Hey all. Just thought that since i havn't posted anything in a while, i should probably say something. And since this is the most exciting thing to happen today, maybe I will tell you all about my sister. She just found out that she has been accepted into a GAP programme which means that she will be going to England next year. She is staying in a tiny little town starting with B. I just gotta find the text that she sent me. Right. Got it. She is staying in Bletchingley. I have yet to find it on a map, so if anyone can find it let me know coz the map i looked at didn't have it on there. Anyway she is going there for a year to tutor 3-7 year olds. Should be an interesting experience. The place where she is tutoring at looks fairly interesting, it even has a secret garden for the little ones. Not that there is anything very interesting inside the garden. Hehe. But hey, it's a cool name. If you feel like actually looking at the school where she is tutoring the website is: www.hawthorns.com/ . The website is quite cool coz it has a tour that you can take of the school. Anyway when i first heard that she had been accepted into this course after waiting all year to find out, i was quite excited for her. Until i realised about an hour later, that not only would she be missing my 21st, but also my graduation. Not impressed. And she hadn't even clicked. However she offered not to go until i agreed with that idea, then she quickly changed her mind. I have no idea why. Specially since she has never been away from home for that long, as she is currently in 7th form, and specially since it is costing her so much. At least she gets free accomodation ay. But anyway, that's enough of me babbling on. I have to get back to my assignment or i will never get it done in time. Have a great week all.

Wow. I have a blog

2005-06-16T19:17:00.000+12:00

Hey this is the first time that i have ever had a blog. It's kinda cool really. I hope that i remember to keep on putting more blog stuff on. Hehe