schelle, deev, brad, europe, the adventure continues...

well at the moment, i am sitting in a hostel in zurich with a tummy ache, after just getting over a bout of vomiting a few days ago, so this trip has been fantastic for me!! no actually, it has!

so, schelle and i started very early on monday 22nd May with a flight to Alicante and then about 5 hrs trying to get to our apartment in benidorm (which was very nice, thanks dad!). the weather was beautiful, mostly sunny days and very warm, a nice break from London. then a few cloudy days and schelle's friend brad came. stayed till monday 29th with party party and fun and beach etc. sunday deev spent vomiting until nothing but bile was produced. didn't eat for 24hrs, couldn't even drink. lots of fun.

then flew to geneva, a beautiful city. i slept the arvo whilst schelle and brad explored the town. i was up for going out that night, went for a bit of a walk and had a kebap for dinner. on tuesday we wandered the streets of geneva for a while, then hit the train to zurich. hoorray for switzerland and lindt. now wednesday, HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUM!! its raining, but we went to the lindt factory and schelle and i bought 2.5kgs of chocolate to share... it was cheap, and i love chocolate! the rest of the day has been spent walking the town (oh and for those who know/care, i bought a love is... t-shirt, cool!!)

after a curry for lunch, my poor stomach is having a hard time (again,). so once again, schelle and brad are out wandering and i am resting. we have 1 1/2 hrs to kill till our night train to salzburg. where i am already practicing for the sound of music... the hills are alive.
then home sat to start school again on mon... ahhh, love back to reality

sorry this is a bit disjointed, it's all i can muster together at the moment. please bear with me!!

love you all,
update again soon

deev

Monopoly Pub crawl and Mathieu's birthday

well, sleep took preference over start of Monopoly Pub Crawl, so met my friends almost half-way through. My goodness, what troopers. Steve and Erin and Roo are leaving the UK, so what better way to send them off hey. we will miss you guys!!! but see you in a few years.

and then had to leave them on their pub crawl to get home to the rainy BBQ for Mathieu(new)'s birthday. busy busy arvo, but a fun one. there was only a bit of rain, so yay we could stay out for most of the night, just a bit of a mess with the mud in the kitchen. bummer. the bbq was a good night with mainly french speaking people.

so, for the photos, erin, steve and roo on the bus between two pubs. (sorry can't remember which ones). the smoke from the fire at the BBQ, and some people in it. and then me and the birthday boy, just after midnight and he didn't make it much longer after that, you can all use your imaginations.

ok, well back to packing, leave for spain tomorrow morning at 4:00am, so have to get everything done.

see ya
deev

red, the blood of angry men

black, the dark of ages past... yeah, schelle and i went to see les mis the other night. it was good. actually, not as good as i thought it would be, the voices weren't that impressive, but it was nice all the same.

and tonight, we are going to play tennis down the road with clement and maybe some others tonight. can't wait. luckily the weather has held off for us. and maybe off to the Da Vinci Code with the housemates on sunday.

had a shocker day at school today, crazy kids, but it's over not, so not too bad.

ok, that's all from me for the moment.

love you all,
deev

schelle and deev so far

once again, photos out of order, sorry... ha, oh well. so, schelle arrived in london and is at the moment living at my house. so good to see her again. and on monday we start our mini adventure to spain, switzerland and austria, shall be fun. and then i will be heading the weekend after to oslo with the housemates (schelle staying at home to apparently mind the house).

so, on sunday we headed to hyde park with tami and matt from disc'graceful (members of our frisbee team from gore hill) to have a bit of a throw, it was overcast, but lovely all the same. see the photo of the girls in the park. that was followed by a lovely house dinner (minus Jose, plus tami) in the backyard, sorry, the photo is out of focus... not sure what happened there, maybe a bit too much verve.

oh, me posing for the bbq, i didn't actually cook, but others did, that was saturday night... i think. and we had a fire in the backyard too, not sure if that is legal, but we needed to burn off our garden waste.

the housemates, lucia is the newest addition to the house, lovely lady from madrid, so now the official numbers are french 3, spanish 2, and lonely old me, but yay for schelle staying to bring aussies up to 2, equal second place.

and finally, ahhhh, a photo of me and schelle.... ahhhh. not much else to report. oh, i gave blood on friday night and now have a huge bruise on my arm, stupid person put the needle in wrong, it looks like i am a druggie or something. have to make sure the bruise is covered for school.

ok, to bed so that i can get up early for school tomorrow.

love you all,
deev

one sleep to go.

well, today i am baking banana cake, and have just watched home and away, ahh, i miss the beaches. and for some reason the ABC news theme is in my head. i was a nursery teacher today (pre-school). i had so much fun teaching the little tuckers. and tomorrow being a high-school english teacher. really have to be a jack of all trades over here.

anyways, am excited, cos tomorrow my schelle comes. yay. can't wait to see her again. i just hope that she gets here before i have to go to school tomorrow. might just make it. don't know what to do tomorrow evening, probably just walk along the themes down near hammersmith. really looking forward to it.

anyways, better go check on the banana bread. it was smelling good, but not quite cooked... might be by now.

love you all
deev

today is a good day!

well, today is a good day!

start out yelling at clement while he is laughing in my face because he threw out one of my containers (it is a bit of a joke, but apparently i am precious about my containers, so i have to make sure that I am). but, it was 7:30am and the sun was shining, so it had to be a good day. so i continued to be angry at clement but let him know that he wasn't going to ruin my good day, but that we are no longer friends. (and no, i am not sorry for maybe waking up other housemembers, because today, i don't care!!)

anyways, walked to school and saw the speechy from my old school, was nice, and the sunshine was adorable. yet another part of a good start to the day. got to school teaching ummm, i think they were about 17/18years old, the oldest class in the school and they were ever so helpful. we had a good day (well one kid said he would smash my face in, but at least today no biting and no hitting and not much spit, so another reason for a good day!)

and lunchtime was on playground duty and had to guard the door to stop a runner getting out (as we couldn't manage to get the lock to work) so stood in the beautiful sunshine feeling a slight burning to my face, something i hadn't thought possible in London, so even though it wasn't probably good, it felt great, so another reason for a good day.

and then i walked home with my i-pod in my own little world in the sunshine and now i am sitting in the sun in my backyard typing this. i have no school work to do and not a care in the world (well, maybe a few things to do and a few cares, but hey, today is a good day!)

so well, i suppose i just wanted to say, 'today is a good day,' and share that with you all!
ha.

xx

my little fox story

well, it all started on Wednesday night. I was asleep and then at about 5:30am i heard this screaming like a baby coming from outside my window. I went to the window and saw a mummy and baby fox in my backyard. the mum ran away, but as we live in a terrace, the baby couldn't jump the wall and so was fenced in. I tried to go back to sleep, but the baby kept howling. I tried to catch it, to let it over the fence, but it was so scared it kept running away from me. and it's lots of fun chasing a fox by yourself in the garden at 5:30am.

anyways, i told my housemates and they looked for it that day, but it had gone. so, Thursday night at about 3:00am same thing. the fox hadn't actually gone, it was hiding under some garden rubbish, so that we couldn't see it. Jose had just got home from work, so he was up and Lucia and i couldn't sleep from the noise, so we were up. Jose and I chased it around the garden for about 15 mins when i thought the only way to let it out would be through the house, cos we just couldn't catch it.

so, i closed all the doors off the hall, opened the front door, and let it inside. but, forgot we had a sticky mouse trap on the floor. so next thing i know, it is stuck with its tail and two hind feet on the sticky trap. so, Jose had a towel around it and i carefully peeled its tail and hind legs from the trap (very hard to do, so many little bones in its feet) and let it go out the front. it went running off.

the mother kept looking for it from the back of the house, but the baby would have found its way back to mum by crying. they know the streets very well. and Jose saw the foxes together the next night on his way home from work, hooray, ahhh, what a nice story. and then i was able to sleep well as the fox now no longer screams outside my window!

never thought there would be foxes in London, but there are and the squirrels and all the other wildlife too. ahhh, bring on the summer, and loving the spring.