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)