Week 3 - Weekends are THE best!!

Hehe - weekends ARE the best, I'd tell ya,

especially now when I noticed that I've not taken any photos during week 3 - only friday-saturday-sunday =D So yeah, I guess it's easy to see when the action takes places - but don't be mislead by me, there's heaps going on during the weeks, although I was too busy this week...

Monday:

Hairdresser!

my hair was a completely mess - and when mamy's not around, a girl has to satisfy with the next best - the schools hairdresser who's name I've forgotten =) He was alright, but mum - you're the pro, that's for sure...! He didn't really know how to comb my hair (aie...), and a lot of extra stuff that I haven't actually taken notice of before when I've been in mum's salong, but I suddenly missed them...

But yeah, my hair got trimmed just as much as I requested, so that was perfect! =)

And the rest of the evening, after spending some time by the pool, was dedicated to try and finish my examination assignment for Gothenburg Uni, that had been sadly neglected for way too long... It wasn't possible to get it done when I was travelling - and well, as you've seen, I've had my hands full ever since I moved in on IH..!

So now was the time to get this over and done with!

Tuesday - continue with gothenburg assignment

Wednesday - work 11-16 at BotH, and watch Madagascar 2 that evening =D

Thursday - freaking out about Easter Holidays - where should I go?!?!?!

Spent a fair amount of time at STA Travel on campus to get some advice - which left me even more confused and stressed... So on the shuttel bus to Jesmond (Peter's still tha' man drivin' the wheels!) that night, Katie gave me some real advice - "Let it go, don't think about it until Saturday, that way your brain gets some time off" - and it worked perfectly!

Friday - tjoho! Assignment 1 done! (just one more to go..)

This afternoon we went to the beach =)

We were supposed to go to the beach, but around 1pm we realised we wouldn't be down there until at least 3... so we cancelled and decided to go to the pool instead.

IH/South Pool - closed due to cleaning (lots of stuff in there you don't want to know of that had to be cleaned out, and lots of stuff in there you don't want to touch to make it clean)

Teds/North Pool - closed due to vandalism... I'm not a fan of public punishment...

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So we resigned, went to Wade and Pru and begged them to drive us to the beach (bus would take forever at this point...) - turned out they didn't need that much begging - they jumped out the sofa and into the car! Whieha!!

We played for about one and a half hour in the water with a ball - soo much fun! We even had a little bit too much fun... The waves are quite big down here, and my upper bikini part is not that steady... Thank god the lower piece staid on tight at least =D could've given the guys an embolism (judging on their reactions to some exposed chest)...

Later that evening we headed out to the Keg Party in Jesmond! Whoho!

For those of you, including past me, who doesn't know what a keg is; It's the big "barrel" (sw. tunna) that you keep beer in. So a keg party is a party where they've brought in some kegs =) And there was a shisha - waterpipe! Man! That was a long time ago - Lisa, Emma!! Where are you - come here!!

this party also had a lube...

- and this would be a small pool with lube (and maybe water)

The idea is for people to strip down into their underwear and wrestle =)

Now what is lube? It's short for lubricant (spelling? so sue me..) - and you have to figure that one out for yourself, it's not something for older relatives/grandparents to read about here though.

Here comes some pics and a film from the partayy;

(we ended up tossing each other in clothes or no clothes =) and then the wet people gently hugged the dry people)







































On the way home (after five wet hugs, some relieving behind a bush, and food from Hungry Jacks (their version of Burger King, 'cause one guy down south had already named his little hamburger place Burger King, so when the giant chain came to Australia, they had to come up with a new name)), we spied on a possum.














Saturday! Surfday!

Oh yeah baby - here we go!! Surfing yay!!



Had a lesson with SurfSchool at 11-13

Man that's hard!







Me, Trent, Daniel & Edwin

(we're missing Dan and Brian - they got a bit lost and came a couple of minutes later)



An optimistique gang heading out to conquer the waves!!

more pics will come - there just not on my camera right now...

Anyway, I did tell you that the waves are pretty big aye?
Hehe - today it was unbelievable - some smaller waves followed by huge monsters!! =D And since we're.. well, maybe stupid.. we were waiting for the bigger waves before we took our stand and - got lost in a swirlwind of salt, water and more salt... The guys did better than me, I have to give them that - but I did manage to stand up once, for one second or something =) But it was a proud second!

Otherwise I just got smacked in the head with the board one too many times.. aie..
- or swallowed whole by the sea.. phiu..
- or got my leg stuck in the safety line just when the waves pushed the board away (taking my leg with it..)
- or scraped my knees trying to stand up
- or got my leg AND an arm stuck in the board line (taking the entire me down and under...)

so I finally figured out why they call this place Down Under - 'cause there's where you'll end up!

(take a deep breath, and blow out through your nose!)

You might think I had a terrible time - but no ! It was soo much fun!!
I don't think I'll pay for another lesson, but I'm bound to find someone with a board here on campus, so next time we're on the beach I'll try and make it another go! (or get a cheap bodyboard and just splash and bob around in the shallow water)

So after surfing, we found our true calling!
Sand modelling!!



























Penis Edwin!

(do I have to clearify that it was the boys' idea?)

Then we played around in the waves for about an hour (or a half - my head was still a bit knocked off..) =)

I love beach life!!!
(and yes - suncream's on!)






















Here're some pics of Newcastle, walking back from Nobbys'
(the area I never found with mum and dad)















































Saturday afternoon - Battle of the Blocks!!

Every block's fighting to get as many points as possible, among the "sports" we competed in, you'll find egg throwing, dodge ball, rope pulling and three legged run displayed here:


















Sunday - Wine day!!

Took a wine tour in the wine district Hunter Valley with Katie and Trent










First we went to Vinden Estate, and tried approx. 6 wines






















That's what we looked like after Vinden =)

and don't get me wrong - wine tasting here is not like in France!

First of all, a glass of wine in France (Sweden, England - Europe basically), is not that much - a glass of wine in Oz is like two european glasses... So a taste of wine in Oz is double the amount you get to taste back at home..!

Next place - don't remember the name..
tried some seven different wines


















Don't we look a little bit happier now?? =)

Okey, third place!










Here we're in the cellar trying out so many drinks we couldn't count them all - nine?? no, there was more right??

We didn't just try wine here - no no, they gave us liqueur, baileys and the devils schnapps!















The schnapps burns for at least fifteen minutes (15!) - and by burns I mean BURNS!

jävlar säger ja bara...


chilli me here, chilli me there - chilli frickin everywhere!!

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Luckily we had lunch straight afterwards =)

Unluckily for me, I had ordered a small portion of chips with pepper sause
- the portion was huge
- the pepper sause combined with the rests of the chilli wasn't successful...










HOW do a person finish this giant serve of giant chips?!?!

(seriously Trent, I need an answer...!)

could barely get them in my mouth..



And here we are - stomachs are full and we're getting more and more tipsy =)






The fourth vineyard I don't have any pictures from - didn't have the energy to take out the camera...

We voted unanimously to skip the fifth vineyard and headed straight to the chocolate shop, champagne boutique, and Smelly cheese factory!













Icecream and cheese - dessert for the dessert!!

I'm soo happy =)




So in total, with the two different types of champagne we tried, we had had around 33 drinks...

Not big drinks, but add them up and they fill a rather large bowl..

So after leaving the rest of the group at their hotels, we got an exclusive bus ride back to Newy!




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Week 2 at Uni - Townies 100 club and Swim Carneval

yeah yeah - I know!!!

It's been too long again...
and I can see that you're punishing me for it by not commenting on my posts... =P

Well, at least it's only been three-four weeks now, and not more than that!

So not that much to catch up on - ah okey, stuff's happening all the time so I guess there's some things to catch up on =)

As you all now, I lived to see the end of my first week at Uni of Newy (and since I've already given away the fact that I lived to see my 23rd last saturday, week 2-4 went alright too), and now it's time to tell y'all 'bout week 2 =)

This was supposed to be Murder Week - well, it was, only I missed out on it... I thought I could tell them during the weekend that I was in, but they had already done the knives, so I was too late... For those of you who've never played the murder game, it's about you having a plastic knife, and a name of the person you're going to "kill" by touching the upper part of their body with the knife and saying 'You're dead' - and yeah, no one else can see this! Then it's not valid! And since it's a circle - everyone having a name etc, and the ones you kill you get to take over their names and murder on further =) but you still need to stay clear of the person that's after you!

So in a way I'm happy I missed out on Murder Week, it would've been impossible to live a normal life - fearing even going to the bathroom in case someones luring in the hallway! Always needing someone else to walk to class with in case someone tried to kill ya... But it also would've been heaps fun - but now all I could do was watch and scare everyone =D

I managed to work 18 hours this week at BotH (Bar on the Hill)... man! I'm going to murder those guys!!! I was completely wiped out... okey I made a fair bit of money, but hey - I had absolutely no life... So they actually made me hate that place.. Even though I'm only working five hours a week nowadays, I'm still finding it hard to motivate myself to go there... And the people I work with are 50-50, some good, some baaad...

So I'm really lucky to live on campus, 'cause that means that there's always funny stuff going on to distract you from the lesser things in life, like for example the Townies 100 Club!

The 100 Club is a fancy thang!
The main idea is to have 100 songs mixed to a cd or whatever - and everyone only plays for 60sec - and everytime the song's changing (ie every 60sec) you drink! So you drink a hundred times in a hundred minutes =) of course grandma, I'm talking about lemonade (no, I'm not...)...

And why is it called Townies 100 Club - well, because this Wednesday night it was held at Townies - my quarters! =D






















Block 2 - my block! And my girls - Katie and Michelle =)











We also had some punch - hehe, not the one you drink, my hair's not flying that why from standing still... and we had some push-ups-competitions

Then we got lured into 930 - Ash was making pancakes =)
we all love her for that!!

































And I don't know if it was the pancakes that night, or something else that happened a while back, but I suddenly found myself with a bun in my belly - I think it's a boy, and I'll name him Beckham! =) Don't let me down boy!














We, especially me, needed to burn some calories off after those amazing pancakes, so we went to the Green Room for some pingpong! And here they don't play it the ordinary way - oh no - here they go all the way! If you miss the table, you have to turn around and hope that the person behind you misses your back!... aie!




















We got a bit bored, and bruised, after a while - so we sought out to find new adventures!

Yeah, I know, it's still the same night =)

One of the guys I hang out with, Brian, had gone into town with some other people after Townies - but the smartass as he is, at least he thought!, he'd left his keys with the other guys =) Just so he wouldn't lose them or anything... Hehe - we decided to have some fun with his room!

First we put every single thing upsidedown - and I mean everything;
clothes, chair, bed, shoes, phone, books, lamp, camera - all that we could move

But then we realised that it needed a bit of a kick!
So we toilet papered it as much as we could =) Check out the videos and the pics - especially you Brian!

























It sure was heaps fun =) although I kinda wish I hadn't broken my toe on some of the stones walking to and from Brians...

It wasn't that bad - just looks like it... =) and it healed completely within three weeks =D






The rest of the week passed quietly, I had lectures (steered clear of the bitch this time), studied a fair bit, and had some quality time with myself =) lots of cheese, fruit and red wine, in front of YesMan and then Atlantis, on thursday. And friday we were a combined gang from 210 (just me), 830 and 510 who rented movies and bought way too many bags of crisps (chips, for all you swedish people)...











Saturday! Candy day!!

It sure was when I was growing up, and this saturday was no different =)
Went to the beach with Katie and Kim (haha! we can actually shorten that to Kat and Kim!!! hilarious if you know what I'm talking about..!), and then we took a trip to Beaumont St - via a small detour thanks to me... well everything's upside down in the southern hemisphere, so the maps might as well be...!




And there we had an ice cream revelation!!

Cold Rock - THE place to go to if you want all kind of weird stuff in your ice cream. Like mine here for example - chocolate mint ice cream, with mashed mars bar and sour worms!

Kims must've been the worst though - bubblegum ice cream with sour worms and gummy bears!!

sorry Katie, yours was a bit too normal - chocolate with snickers =)


We also took the time to visit Nauti & Nice, a cute little shop where you can find perfect gifts to everyone you know! Don't miss out!

Sunday - day of rest, as it was intended!



This is the IH pool - well, now it's only called the south pool I think, and Teds pool is called the north pool - hey wait, that can't be right - it sounds a little bit too cold for me.. Maybe it's just the east and west pool...

Anyway - it's got to do with the fact that the pools should be open to everyone living on campus, not only people from IH in the IH pool, or Teds in the Teds pool (Teds - Ted = short version for Edward = as in Edwards Hall).

Okey, that maybe rather pointless - but hell, I don't care - you're the ones that have to read through it =)

It sure was nice to relax out here - but this was the Swim Carneval Sunday - so the rest by the pool wasn't that long...

Swim Carneval - a competition between the campus housings - IH, Teds, Evatt and Bara, and even Ourimbah came up to participate (they're from down the central coast, you know, where I was supposed to study, but then a lot of exchange students made a huge deal about the isolation down there last year, so now they don't want any more international students at Ourimbah, so they choose to let me into the dietitian programme up in newy instead).




































Unless you didn't notice - IH's colour is green!
and yeah, our mascot is a kangaroo =D

And here we've got some fine young men getting ready to get involved!
if only they could have turned round more... or maybe that would've been a bit too much to take, it might be better this way - now all we could see was eight fine guys at the time - might spare our hearts a bit ;)

And that lovely girl in red is Pru!! Go Pru!!!










That pretty much concludes week 2 - after the swim carneval (that IH performed really good in!) Katie and I had our own carneval in the IH/South pool. It was like being a kid again - diving, playing, standing on our hands =) heaps fun aye!!

Stay tuned for Week 3 and 4 - coming up next, on Blogspot.com!