My really short skirt in Torquay - with one of my fave pair of heels...
My nail colour scheme...
My new business cards...
The new Plant in my room....
Remodeling of my calendar...
One night I went out...
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Bits and Bobs
You look bored. Here are some photos so you see what exciting things I've been up to on a daily basis...
My really short skirt in Torquay - with one of my fave pair of heels...
My nail colour scheme...
My new business cards...
The new Plant in my room....
Remodeling of my calendar...
One night I went out...
My really short skirt in Torquay - with one of my fave pair of heels...
My nail colour scheme...
My new business cards...
The new Plant in my room....
Remodeling of my calendar...
One night I went out...
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Three O Nine AM
Dear Stupid Undergraduate Students that Live in Horton at Swansea University,
Please stop being complete douchebags and setting the fire alarms off at inconvenient times, such as 3am on a Wednesday morning. If you are unsure of how to avoid this, these tips may come in handy:
1) stop smoking in your room
2) shut the bathroom door when and after you shower (as it says on the back of the door, and you are told every time we congregate outside and the big red truck comes along)
3) stop spraying sprays in your bedroom (again, as you've been told)
4) stop breaking the fire alarm switches and setting them off
5) if you require any help following these handy hints, please don't hesitate to come and see me in room 503. I would be glad to teach you the lesson of how it's done.
Love and Kisses,
Your Friendly/Livid with Rage/Don't Mess with Me Neighbour,
Claire
xx
Please stop being complete douchebags and setting the fire alarms off at inconvenient times, such as 3am on a Wednesday morning. If you are unsure of how to avoid this, these tips may come in handy:
1) stop smoking in your room
2) shut the bathroom door when and after you shower (as it says on the back of the door, and you are told every time we congregate outside and the big red truck comes along)
3) stop spraying sprays in your bedroom (again, as you've been told)
4) stop breaking the fire alarm switches and setting them off
5) if you require any help following these handy hints, please don't hesitate to come and see me in room 503. I would be glad to teach you the lesson of how it's done.
Love and Kisses,
Your Friendly/Livid with Rage/Don't Mess with Me Neighbour,
Claire
xx
Friday, October 23, 2009
Who is Bill Bartmann?
When I look in my guest book for this site, this is the latest entry I find...
Yes, I may be able to help you Bill, if I
1) knew who the hell you were, and
2) knew how to contact you. The internet isn't telepathically powered, you know.
| Date | 2009-10-09 |
| Location |  |
| Message | Hey, great blog...but I don’t understand how to add your site in my rss reader. Can you Help me, please  |
Yes, I may be able to help you Bill, if I
1) knew who the hell you were, and
2) knew how to contact you. The internet isn't telepathically powered, you know.
AHA! I have discovered the meaning of life!
Just kidding. That was to get your attention. Now, I have an important announcement to make. Actually, I don't. I am just kidding again. Oh what a trickster I am! Does anyone else turn into a supreme gift-buying person when they are away from home? I have already bought Stella (she's my bestie fo life, write that down) her birthday gift for 2nd December, as well as my parents Christmas gift, plus I have chosen my brother/sister in laws Christmas present, and planned each of their birthday presents (mid-Nov and late-Dec), plus the other few Xmas gifts I must buy. Not to mention the stack of Christmas cards I have already delegated out to 24 of my closest friends and family (Limited number in the pack you see), and I have already asked my parents if it is okay to send them over in one package for them to redistribute in New Zealand. Organised? Definitely. Neurotic? Most likely.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
The Truth about Life in Wales...
Hello hello hello...
I suppose it is a good sign that I haven't written a decent post since before I left Wellington... shows I actually have a life. I thought it was only fair to have some sort of news here so when I tell my friends "I could write you a letter, but how about you just go read my blog? It has everything on it." I'm not lying so much as exaggerating the truth. Good.
So! My life in Wales is pretty exciting, if any of you get the chance to go overseas I would take it with both hands. In saying that, I would really recommend making sure you are at the right place in your life when you leave NZ though... I am fortunate enough to have the last 6 and a half years of my life consist of 2 terribly homesick years, 1 party year, 3 emotionally draining years at uni, and 8 months of getting used to the idea I would soon be 20,000 kms away from anyone i knew. So I was ready!
Obviously when I first got to the UK I was jetlagged, so didn't really know up from down (I was going to say left from right, but I get those confused 95% of the time jet lag or no jet lag). I switched into business mode straight away, and was really calm finding my way around heathrow airport. Except the ONE internet cafe they had was broken! I had to call my Papa at 5am NZ time to get him to log in to my email to get a reference code it turned out I didn't even need! Anyway, thanks daddy :D The next day, in Reading, I explored like a good tourist would. I took heaps of photos, because in my jetlagged state I couldn't decide what was good and what wasn't. The first 4 days in Swansea I was with Mair, the Rotary president of my club here. Anything she suggested, I just said yes to. I gave a 30 minute presentation to the club, but luckily it was about myself so I could wing it with the help of the slideshow I made. That weekend I was in the halls, but there was no one around. I went on a trip to the national botanical gardens of wales, not because I desperately wanted to see them, but because it was free and something to do. About this time I was ready to meet people and get into it!
Since then, I have joined the student radio station, the engineering society, been to leicester, mumbles, torquay, llanelli, have gotten books out of both the public library and the university library, been shopping several times, and am hoping to join the volleyball team. It is safe to say I am pretty much into it all over here. My best friends here are a pre-dental from Iowa, America, and an international development/politics from the Netherlands (that's Laura and Elise if you hear me talking about them again). I have met some other really cool people here as well, but not everyone can expect a shout out can they? Yesterday I spoke to my University supervisor, and I'm going to start experiments late next week. On Monday I move into my office in the Engineering department - I share it with 2 others, and our names are on the wall outside the door! I have my own key to that and the labs, as well as after-hours access to the building. Am I grown up or what?!
Rotary is going well too, I have already done 5 of my 10-15 activities for the year - 2 presentations and 3 visits (Scholar conference in Leicester, District conference in Torquay, the Swansea Coastguard with the Group Study Exchange (GSE) team from Adelaide, Australia), plus I have another 4 or so booked. My host counsellor here is amazing - her name is Gwenda and she works way too hard. She is a specialist nurse, and she is absolutely fabulous to have looking out for me. I also have the scholarship co-ordinator for the district, Gareth and his wife Jan, who are just so hospitable and fantastic to have around. Laura is another ambassadorial scholar - next week we are doing a joint presentation and we've decided to speak back and forth as opposed to one after the other - so I'll let you know how NZ stacks up next to America!
For Christmas I don't know what I am going to do yet - Elise is having a Christmas party in Swansea on xmas day, and i've been invited various other places with other people too (Mum and Dad's friends in Haverfordwest, Gwenda's family in Aberystwyth, London with another friend)... Elise and I are quite keen to head to either Ireland or Scotland for a few days over the xmas time, so that might happen too. I'm obviously not loaded with money at the moment, studying in a foreign country is not the lightest on the pocket :-) ... so I must choose my travels carefully! I'm pretty much just trying to meet people from different areas of the UK so I can stay with them! The scholar conference was pretty good for that, and a guy from London is here this weekend visiting Laura and I. Mainly Laura, as I am here typing this. But I will be on the d-floor tonight, I promise! The district conference meant we got to meet Emily, a scholar from Australia studying in Cardiff (capital of Wales for those of you that aren't good at Geography - and if you don't know where Wales is, go see Mr. Fleming). Laura and I are real keen to head over to see her - even though Cardiff is right there we haven't been yet!
Living in the halls is pretty lame, but in the mornings I open my curtains and if the sun is shining it is a beautiful view out over the ocean. No kidding - it really is amazing here! I have lots of photos of Stella and me on my walls, need to figure out where I can print some off of all you other people I also miss. I do miss you all, and I miss New Zealand too - I miss the fresian dairy cows, I miss the rangi-ness of NZ, the kiwi party scene. I've been really getting into Katchafire, the Black Seeds, and Fast Crew. I can't wait to go camping here, and see if it is like camping in NZ.
I suppose it is a good sign that I haven't written a decent post since before I left Wellington... shows I actually have a life. I thought it was only fair to have some sort of news here so when I tell my friends "I could write you a letter, but how about you just go read my blog? It has everything on it." I'm not lying so much as exaggerating the truth. Good.
So! My life in Wales is pretty exciting, if any of you get the chance to go overseas I would take it with both hands. In saying that, I would really recommend making sure you are at the right place in your life when you leave NZ though... I am fortunate enough to have the last 6 and a half years of my life consist of 2 terribly homesick years, 1 party year, 3 emotionally draining years at uni, and 8 months of getting used to the idea I would soon be 20,000 kms away from anyone i knew. So I was ready!
Obviously when I first got to the UK I was jetlagged, so didn't really know up from down (I was going to say left from right, but I get those confused 95% of the time jet lag or no jet lag). I switched into business mode straight away, and was really calm finding my way around heathrow airport. Except the ONE internet cafe they had was broken! I had to call my Papa at 5am NZ time to get him to log in to my email to get a reference code it turned out I didn't even need! Anyway, thanks daddy :D The next day, in Reading, I explored like a good tourist would. I took heaps of photos, because in my jetlagged state I couldn't decide what was good and what wasn't. The first 4 days in Swansea I was with Mair, the Rotary president of my club here. Anything she suggested, I just said yes to. I gave a 30 minute presentation to the club, but luckily it was about myself so I could wing it with the help of the slideshow I made. That weekend I was in the halls, but there was no one around. I went on a trip to the national botanical gardens of wales, not because I desperately wanted to see them, but because it was free and something to do. About this time I was ready to meet people and get into it!
Since then, I have joined the student radio station, the engineering society, been to leicester, mumbles, torquay, llanelli, have gotten books out of both the public library and the university library, been shopping several times, and am hoping to join the volleyball team. It is safe to say I am pretty much into it all over here. My best friends here are a pre-dental from Iowa, America, and an international development/politics from the Netherlands (that's Laura and Elise if you hear me talking about them again). I have met some other really cool people here as well, but not everyone can expect a shout out can they? Yesterday I spoke to my University supervisor, and I'm going to start experiments late next week. On Monday I move into my office in the Engineering department - I share it with 2 others, and our names are on the wall outside the door! I have my own key to that and the labs, as well as after-hours access to the building. Am I grown up or what?!
Rotary is going well too, I have already done 5 of my 10-15 activities for the year - 2 presentations and 3 visits (Scholar conference in Leicester, District conference in Torquay, the Swansea Coastguard with the Group Study Exchange (GSE) team from Adelaide, Australia), plus I have another 4 or so booked. My host counsellor here is amazing - her name is Gwenda and she works way too hard. She is a specialist nurse, and she is absolutely fabulous to have looking out for me. I also have the scholarship co-ordinator for the district, Gareth and his wife Jan, who are just so hospitable and fantastic to have around. Laura is another ambassadorial scholar - next week we are doing a joint presentation and we've decided to speak back and forth as opposed to one after the other - so I'll let you know how NZ stacks up next to America!
For Christmas I don't know what I am going to do yet - Elise is having a Christmas party in Swansea on xmas day, and i've been invited various other places with other people too (Mum and Dad's friends in Haverfordwest, Gwenda's family in Aberystwyth, London with another friend)... Elise and I are quite keen to head to either Ireland or Scotland for a few days over the xmas time, so that might happen too. I'm obviously not loaded with money at the moment, studying in a foreign country is not the lightest on the pocket :-) ... so I must choose my travels carefully! I'm pretty much just trying to meet people from different areas of the UK so I can stay with them! The scholar conference was pretty good for that, and a guy from London is here this weekend visiting Laura and I. Mainly Laura, as I am here typing this. But I will be on the d-floor tonight, I promise! The district conference meant we got to meet Emily, a scholar from Australia studying in Cardiff (capital of Wales for those of you that aren't good at Geography - and if you don't know where Wales is, go see Mr. Fleming). Laura and I are real keen to head over to see her - even though Cardiff is right there we haven't been yet!
Living in the halls is pretty lame, but in the mornings I open my curtains and if the sun is shining it is a beautiful view out over the ocean. No kidding - it really is amazing here! I have lots of photos of Stella and me on my walls, need to figure out where I can print some off of all you other people I also miss. I do miss you all, and I miss New Zealand too - I miss the fresian dairy cows, I miss the rangi-ness of NZ, the kiwi party scene. I've been really getting into Katchafire, the Black Seeds, and Fast Crew. I can't wait to go camping here, and see if it is like camping in NZ.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Friday, October 2, 2009
Cadbury's Replacement...
The chocolate here tastes different to in New Zealand. This means I cannot satisfy my cravings with Cadbury Dairy Milk, or even Green and Blacks Organic stuff...
I thought all was lost.
Then, I found this.
All hope has been restored.
I thought all was lost.
Then, I found this.
All hope has been restored.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Video editing up a stooooorm
Hey everyone!
I just joined the radio station on campus here, I am hoping to be a music reviewer for them, should be great! If I suck at that, I will try to be in the events team, organising events and what not - you all know how much I love organising people and things! In the mean time, I have been putting together some catch up videos for Rotary - this first being posted onto my Rotary site www.RotaryScholarClaire.blogspot.com ... Check it out if you want to see me lisp my way through some blogs!
Had to post this photo as well, I was being a toitle.....
I just joined the radio station on campus here, I am hoping to be a music reviewer for them, should be great! If I suck at that, I will try to be in the events team, organising events and what not - you all know how much I love organising people and things! In the mean time, I have been putting together some catch up videos for Rotary - this first being posted onto my Rotary site www.RotaryScholarClaire.blogspot.com ... Check it out if you want to see me lisp my way through some blogs!
Had to post this photo as well, I was being a toitle.....
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