my room

figured i'd share some pics of my room with you, see how it turned out and all once i was properly moved in and all.
if you have a lot of spare time as well one day you should really check out the videoblog me and renate have started.
http://dadeadlyduo.blogspot.com
other than that, uni have started again, doing some interesting modules like creative writing and british cinema in the 1930s, so i hope this semester will be better..
me and some others also sent a massive parcel to Ann as well, with a film of all of us saying we miss her and stuff. she loved it..
i will make you another video this christmas, where i will actually film myself and stuff.. will you be able to watch it? i mean with your internet connection.
how does it feel to be almost done with your degree? i envy you so much hun.
i still have another 1 1/2 year left.

but oh, news.. i bought myself a macbook its so pretty! i love it.
on less positive news, it doesnt look good towards me coming back downunder to visit soon:( i really wanted to come after christmas but after having checked the prices it's terribly expencive.
i miss you hun, so much i dont even know where to begin.
<3

OMG!

I haven't updated in yonks now.
sorry about that hun, it's just been so much work stuff etc.
i've been meaning to ring you as well..
get skype and we can talk on that? i think that's a great plan.. and cheap plan.
i am finally back in england now,
it's pissing down nowadays tho, so yeh, not much to brag about but it's good to be back..
i had the weirdest dream the other night.. well about a week ago.
i had booked tickets for new zealand and on the plane there i panicked because i realised it was only 6 days till i was going to uk and i didn't have a return ticket and it would cost me shitloads to get back..
i freaked out so much i woke up haha...
kinda wished it was true tho.. i am hoping i can afford to come down, but i need a new laptop first..
looking to my a mac, but they're shit expencive really. but so is the tickets for new zealand in dec/jan,
i wish i could come down for your graduation in march instead, but it's like 2 weeks before my easter hols so it would kinda be impossible for me to do so :(
i am allowed to hope tho and i will keep hoping till all hope is lost hehe...

anyway i'm safely back, and just awaiting to start uni,
im a bit excited about this semester i'm doing a shakespeare paper and also one called popular texts, which is basically based around recent films and stuff. last year they did films like fight club and v for vendetta.
there's also two more but i forgot which ones hehe..

i also bought myself a new phone..

oh and i brought a friend with me to england, she's gonna study photography here..
which is ace. me and renate also got a goodbye party before we left;) which was nice.

Rachel my dear, i miss you so much nowadays, especially now that uni is starting up, i need some Rachelness to help me get by.
sounds like you're doing great tho, i am so proud of you hun, i mean you've almost finished your degree, and then you can move on to do what you want to do:D
i will be as proud as anyone the day you finish and especially the day you get your bachelor.
say hi to everyone i know yeh?
i miss you,
and i love you sooo much.
hugs and kisses from the rainy land that is called England.

love,
Ida

HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

Long time no write or so to speak. I am sitting here in class for a lab session and am meant to be blogging so i thought i would blog to you. How are your hoilidays going? you must be heading back to school pretty soon. What kind of classes are you taking? I would love to know how it is different. Right now i am so stressed with co-op and then all my classes. My husband is studying again so goodbye to the great helping husband.
This is just a quick note to let you know that i am thinking of you and miss you heaps and heaps.
Lots of love Rachel

SOOOO CUTE!!!

You look so cute in your uniform, and i love how you were standing on the chair to take it. Sorry i haven't been on for awhile, the hoilidays were a nightmare. Slowly one by one everyone in the family got this horrible flu that was like a ten day flu, and everyone wanted 'mummy'.
I am so glad you passed all your classes, is it alot harder over there? go on you can be honest. So when do you start back up? I bet you are enjoying all that lovely summer weather, we are having a lot of rain, and a big storm this weekend. School just started back up and guess what Esther (Pacific Lit) is is having a baby in the next few weeks, and darryl is on sabbatical leave so i have Paul for all my classes except one. Co-op is interesting for my 150 hours i am the teacher for a reading extension program at my daughters school, there are some real brats.
Well i have to go but remember i miss you heaps and heaps.
Lots of love Rachel

i got a job!

well even tho i have no idea when you'll read this, i'll keep updating it for you.
i don't think i told you, but i got a job this summer..

at an old peoples nursing home, they have alzheimer's, they're lovely and sweet, and ask the same questions over and over and over and over again.

but i absolutely love my job, it's the best summer job i've ever had. i hope i get to go back next year tbh, it would be great.

here's a pic of me in my work clothes:

hows ur holiday been? done anything fun? i know Ann went down to christchurch to shireen's weeding:D i can't wait to see her pics tbh, i bet shireen looked gorgeous.

miss you heaps and heaps and heaps my dear..

love you <3

love,

Ida

Busy with exams?

i haven't seen you on here for a month!!!
and i dont have any credit so i can't text you either...
i'm home for the summer now, i passed all my modules, some of them barely, but i passed *phew*
also i've got 2 jobs for the summer:D which is all good:) i'm enjoying both of them really.. that was just a tiny update, but i wanna know how your first semester of the 3rd year has been..

miss you loads and loads and loads my dear

Happy Norway Day!

once again it's been 17th of May, Norway's national day. and i thought i'd show you a few pics from the celebration..

me and Trine decorated the pub before we went down to a friends house and had norwegian waffles, muffins and beer, we were all nicely dressed for the occasion and we even had our own parade with brazband music from my ipod on the way to the pub, a small but lovely parade.

it was raining, but with sausages on the grill and a pint of fosters everything was good:D

We sang the national anthem countless times, drank just as much beer, danced around, converted irish lads to norwegians hehe.. Barry had bought a book called instant norwegian, and it was hilarious.

all in all it was a brilliant night, and we had loads of fun.

Very different from the celebration last year in new zealand, but i was really good here as well, less people but loads of fun:D

now onto the pictures.. Enjoy!

What a week

Wow, thanks for the pics it looks so pretty there, but where were you in the photos? I would love to go to England one day.
Anyways what a week we have had. Someone sent me an email that had a virus attached, and it crashed our computer. And then we couldn't fix it, then we had to go but an external harddrive with money we don't have to try save what we could. Then it flooded and our cars computer got all wet and we had to take it to the machanic to try save, which ws a whole load more money we don't have. Also our garage was about a meter deep in water and we lost a whole load of stuff. Not to mention my husband being real bitchy because of all this stuff going on. My daughter had to get her tooth extracted, more $ and i couldn't do any homework because all this was going on not to mention not having a computer to do work on. So i am so glad that this week is over.
I am really sorry going on to you it is just i can't complain to anyone around here. I miss you so much at times like this. I really hope that all is well.
lots of love Rachel XOXO

Springtime <3

yes it's spring almost summer in england and it's so pretty..

i just wanted to show you.
quality of the pics aren't amazing, they're mostly taken with my phone.
i just added one of me and elisabeth in the park outside the church at the end, we'd just had ice cream and enjoyed the nice weather in wolves.
i miss you hunni, a lot. i hope the fall/winter in new zealand won't be too bad.. but u've had a nice summer already, now it's my turn hehe..

On my way from uni, the local pub hehe..

my new house:D

so i haven't written here in a while.. neither have you.. are you completely swamped with uniwork? i've been thinking about you a lot lately, what you're up to, how uni is downunder, how you're doing.. how your family is..
i really miss you rachel, so much, i'm still not used to going to uni and not see you there..
there's no one like you here.. NO ONE!
i've been thinking about the others too of course, Hanna, Jean, Min, Adnan, Aldous, Abdullah, Minnie how are they all doing? make sure to say hi from me the next time you see them ok?

i like it here tho, i'm looking forward to the norwegian summer and all, hopefully i will get a job..

but on to why i'm posting this blog.. i've paid deposit on the house me and Renate are gonna rent next year. it's lovely, close to uni, cheapish and all:D i really like it:D

Will post proper pictures when i've actually moved in in september:D

(and i will eventually post my easter pics.. from snowboarding and scotland and stuff)

oh rachel, why can't you be in england with me? miss you hun, i well and truely miss you a lot. *fingers crossed i'll get a job so i can come to new zealand in december*

love, Idapida (the one and only)

Liverpool

At the end of February me and Trine decided to join the international students on their trip to Liverpool, seeing as we're both internationals.

None of us has ever been to liverpool before so we were quite excited, i mean liverpool is the home of liverpool football club, my dad and brother's fave team and the home of the beatles of course, with so much to see and only about 6 hours we were in a hurry..

They recommended that we didn't go to anfield, because it was matchday.. but with my family being huge fans of course i had to see the stadium.

so after fighting our way through the crowds at the museum and going by the support shop to buy some souvenirs we were finally out and on our way back to the city central.

We decided to head for cavern quarter first to find somewhere to eat and look at the streets where the beatles took their first steps. we saw the bestles shop, cavern club and this really cool bench before we went to this irish place and got something to eat, international as i am, i went for the chicken tikka, whilst trine did the english version and went for fish and chips.

we really wanted to make the most out of it when we were there so after eating we set out for the cathedral, we did get to do a fair bit of walking, but in the end it was worth is.. on the way we passed chinatown as well an of course we had to get some pictures. After that we had a little less than two hours and about half an hour went by to get back down to the harbour, leaving us with just about an hour for the beatles museum, called the beatles story. we got this walkman thingy which played the info for us we just had to press the number we wanted to hear, so we managed to get through most of the exhibtion in that hour, before we headed back to the bus. pretty tired from a lot of walking, but in the end we managed to squeeze a lot of things into a thight schedule, i am well pleased and i'm definitely going back up to liverpool at some point.

HAPPI, HAPPI BIRTHDAY MY DEAR!!!!!!!!

Well i hope you had an awesome birthday, and loads of fun. Another year older and another year wiser. I bet you had a blast and got wasted as there is no school on the weekend. Anyways when i get some money i will send a little something from down under. But these pictures will have to suffice for now. so enjoy. this pic is us by our tent. Hiking and at cathedral cove.

your papers sound like alot of fun, we actually did some jane austen yesterday with daryll. Tomorrow we are going to be in the computer lab with Paul (you know him and blogging). so i will look at the video clip then.

Well i better go i am so stressed out with school and this kids group i am the president of. i just feel burned out and i don't know how to fix it.

missing you lots and lots

Arohanui Rachel XOXO

School is back, but where is Ida?

My dear Ida,

well Monday was the first day when i think i actually comprehended that you are not here anymore (yeah i know bit slow on the uptake). Anyways school started and you were nowhere to be found and i had to sit with strangers. It just wasn't the same. Lots of people say hi like Hannah (she was sad she diddn't get to say goodbye) and adnan, Aldous, Kelly and Ann (from Lang in Society not your Ann). Everyone kept asking me where you were which just made me sadder.

Anyway it is weird doing 3rd yr papers alot more work for three classes we have wikis, another blogg and another stupid podcast not to mention all the normal papers and presentations. But you would off been top of the class for two of the classes as in one we are talking about how english came from your way friesland or something like that. And in pauls class we are doing voluspa and volsunga saga.

I really hope that everything is going good for you how are your classes? what is the work load like? Missing you heaps and heaps lots of aroha Rachel XOXO

how to post pics on the blog

I decided to make instructions to you hehe.. maybe u will understand how to upload your pics now?

anyway, have a look at this.