carnival

ok, so i was in Arhnem, but not in australia however, in the Netherlands. Visiting a friend I made at a jamboree. it was a fantastic weekend... with lots of fun to be had by all.

very tired at the moment and have some people over for pancakes for pancake day dinner, so will go, and tell of my weekend fun a bit later, but just wanted to put some photos of my weekend up.

toot toot

love ya
deev

Bristol...

well, I did end up getting away... to Bristol. Had a nice overnight.

asked Michaelmichael what to do and spent Thursday walking around in the pouring rain. I forgot to take raincoat and umbrella (stupid stupid, but i packed at 6:30 in the morning before i left). so had to buy an umbrella. I started with a crepe and coffee and then explore the town, walking to nearby Clifton and the famous suspension bridge, to Abbot's leigh and then wandered some shops in Bristol. Very good, very good. Then went back to Bristol Backpackers where i met a girl from perth and a canadian boy and went out on the town with them.

went to one pub and had dinner where some spanish friends from the backpackers joined us. we then ended up in the walkabout (but of course!!!) to sing the night away. We got kicked out of there at closing when we went to the dungeon of the backpackers to sing songs (i heard some spanish ones too) and then at 4:00am, called it a night. was very fun, my whole 3 drinks and all (big night.. ha)

and today i went outside to explore, and ended up seeing one of my new spanish friends and went and had breakkie with him at a cafe. We went to some markets where i bought some beef and some lamb sausages!! mmmmmm, and then spent the day helping them write job applications. Had to leave at 15:45 to catch the bus which was 1/2 hr late and then delayed, so didn't get into london till 20:00. very tired, but hey, had some nice sausages, mash and cabbage for dinner just like my pop used to make.

and now am home. was going to go to Brighton tomorrow with Mathieu (old) but will probably just bum around at home and see some sights of London. maybe go to the Dali exhibition.

well, that's all for the moment, just thought i would tell you all about my new spanish friends, yay.


love youse all
deev
hugz

Happy Valentines Day!!!

well, all of us being single (well almost, Mathieu new has a girlfriend but decided to spend most of the night with us!!) we decided to have a Happy Valentines Day dinner here... it was a lovely night with crepes all round, good aussie beer and cute little bottles of Veuve Clicquot to celebrate!!!

what else have i been up to... well, it is the half-term holidays and i had grand adventures, which have evented to nothing, so tomorrow i am off to see Bristol for two days, Saturday will be another trip to Brighton and then Sunday i think a house visit to Dali... so not too bad. oh and i bought a bookshelf. very exciting for me!! now i have somewhere to put my school books and my printer and other stuff i have accumulated over the last 6 months (a few recipe books, thanks to those who have given them!)

ummmm, last weekend i went to a LSE (London School of Economics) party with Mathieu new and met some great Germans. Went to their house for dinner on the saturday which was pretty fun. and whilst carrie was still here, i caught up with Ben Warner... was great to see one of my narweigan (that's right, Narwee not Norway!) friends. ahhh, i miss hanging out with my narweigan boys.

well, i think that is about all for me. have to get some school work done at some stage in the half-term, hopefully ummm, ummm, another day!

love you all, enjoy the photos.
deev

sorry, to try and decipher the photos... the clicquot with fandangle sippy top, the new german friends Nausikaa and Florien (with me and matt), clement and carrie, ahhh, roses for valentines day and ben and myself on the tube on the way to ice-skating

just an update

on tuesday night we went to the Moroccan restaurant around the corner... not too bad. £15 for some excellent couscous with lamb and a few glasses of wine. the dessert pastries were pretty yummy and the shiesha (sp?) well, i didn't have the full experience of it, but it smelt quite nice. apple flavour... apart from the mexican married to a french and the iranian who spoke french, i was the only non-french person out of a table of 11... not too bad. although, unfortunately my french is not getting much better.

anyways, what else... haven't really been up to much. it is getting lighter in the mornings (or otherwise i am leaving home too late.. whoops) but it is still very cold. We have half-term beginning tomorrow. yay, although i don't think i will get away because i left the planning a trip too late. i will see what i feel like next week, but will probably explore London a bit, do a bit of school work and probably get to Brighton or somewhere similar for the day.

as for school, Silver class have a new teacher who comes for a visit tomorrow. I will stay at school until the end of the Spring Term and then maybe a handover period, not too sure, but i will not be there much into summer term. which will hopefully mean slightly later starts and earlier finishes to my day and maybe even a little more travel.

think that is all for me at the moment.
i am starting to branch away from the stir-frys (thanks to people giving me ideas and recipes) and i am quite proud with some of the dinners i have cooked so far. even some of my housemates eat my food now. ha

love you all and miss you too
deev

am still smiling over here and loving it!!

snowing.

oh my goodness... oh my goodnes... it has been so cold the last few days and then in the classroom at lunch i heard a child say 'it's snowing'. I went outside and lo and behold... there was very small snowflake.

I started jumping up and down with excitement and one of my teaching assistants was wondering what was wrong. NOTHING was wrong, it was snowing. She decided I was worse than the kids. ha.

so there you go. Lunch time is half over and it is beginning to snow. yay!! hopefully booking a ski trip this weekend, will keep you all posted to how that goes.

love you all,
deev