I went back to school only to find my ‘personal space’ invaded! Not cool 😐
But not only invaded but in my seat. All of this happened because of a girl’s stupidity (that was supposed to be stubbornness but stupidity works just as well). A girl wanted to be by her friend but she also wanted to be in a single desk. So with one person in between them (Tamlin my best friend) which is a good length to ‘fool’ a teacher. Another girl wanted to be by herself and had ‘booked’ the seat. So she was really making a cow of it all. I was innocent and in my spot (this happened before I left). Tamlin and I are smart enough to realise that we shouldn’t be next to each other and that this was a good arrangement because we can signal each other and still concentrate. Mrs Gerstner didn’t want the girl (the one with the fool proof plan) to be so close to her friend but couldn’t find a spot where she’d be okay. She then had to move another girl (the most ‘popular’ to be accurate) next to me. This was also Not cool :|. It was okay I was still close enough to Tamlin to be okay. Mrs Gerstner was happy, the girl (one with the plan) was in the right spot, ‘popular’ girl was lucky enough to be next to me (kidding) and I was going to last. That’s until she came and told me she’s left handed so she needed to be on the other side (MY side) so I politely gave up my position and let it be. I was on the verge of losing my sanity after I cleared all my things into one small (very small) pile and she said
“I don’t really have much space do you think we could move these books?”
I took 7 deep breaths until I said why of course! I then made a good plan. I didn’t want any of this on the day that I left for America. I have now dealt with her for so long. She’s very nice and there isn’t any cattishness between us but boy it’s frustrating when you try to pick up your pencil and you get flashed from her unbelievably short skirt or when she won’t stop talking when we have to do work. UGH!
It may come as a shock to people (or not if they know me well) I am actually looking forward to school. I loved my holiday. It was perfect. I spent it in a huge continent that is well known for being huge and then came back and spent the remainder of the holiday in the theatre if not helping around the set helping back stage and if not helping back stage just watching the play.
The Haunted Through Lounge and Recessed Dining Nook At Farndale Castle
Which is being directed by my stepmother Miranda and stage managed by my father, which is the best because it means that I spent even more time at the mask theatre. One of my favourite places.
I then went to see the last Harry Potter with my best friend (Tamlin) and then slept over at her house and then went to a renewal of the vowels with Wouter’s (my stepdad) brother and his new wife and that was beautiful and all in all this holiday was funky but I still can’t wait to see the rest of my friends and go back to school. Although I still haven’t come to terms with my new neighbour.
I’M HOME!!!! Don’t get me wrong I loved every moment of America (except when Jessica was grumpy) but it is so good to be home where the coke tastes right and the food isn’t all deep fried and (this is the best part) the toilets aren’t filled to the top with water and they don’t self flush and everything. And the adds aren’t creepy like this one that we saw on T.V. Have you ever been sexualy abused and then sold as a sex slave and escaped call now! Oh sure all the time! Every Tuesday. JUST PLAIN CREEPY It’s good to be home and I missed everyone here.
The first day of Disney. We got to Florida quite late and we still needed to get to Disney and book in. So we got in one of the Disney busses. I thought I might fall a sleep in the bus but I didn’t. We were too freaked out by their creepy child slaughter music (it was that ‘I’m so innocent but really this is a lullaby to lure you in and then we’ll eat you’) But it could be me. We stopped at practically every other resort before we got to the All Star Music resort where we bailed and got our tickets. Now it was the 4th Of July. We needed to get to a spot where we could do some of the awesome rides and still see the 4th of July fireworks displays. Mom did some research and we found out that the Hollywood Studio park was staying open until 01:00 so we decided that that would be the place to be. We went there and some of us (Jessica) were a little grumpy and so we got the wondrous thing called a Fast Pass. A fast pass is a thing that you use your card to get. You get in a short Q and get the fast pass and then return the fast pass and skip the Q at the certain Fast Pass time and you could only have another fast pass a certain amount of time later. They were really awesome. We got one as soon as we entered we got it for Twilight Zone Tower Of Terror. We then checked out where we could eat. We found a nice short cue and got some of the world renowned Disney burger and checked out where we next wanted to go. The next place we wanted to go was the AroeSmith Roller coaster. So we finished and still had some time before we had to see the fireworks or the ride. So we wandered and looked through a bunch of shops when we came across the Muppets IN 3D now mom is a big fan so we got in the short Q. WE were shortly ushered into a smallish well decorated room with 6 screens and a box of 3D glasses which we instantly put on and were highly disappointed because when it went on we didn’t recognise any of the characters and the 3D was TERRIBLE! Then we were told to rise and follow. We did and found ourselves in a beautiful replica of a big opera theatre. Ohmigosh the 3D was amazing it was right in front of our faces the whole time and there were many well known and lovable Muppets that we remember. When we got out we had a little time before the fireworks and the fast passes were ready. So we got into the spooky looking castle thingy (old hotel) and were ushered into a room where we watched a small movie thing that was the story line of the ride. We waited in a small Q then we went into the ‘elevator’ and strapped ourselves in. We continued and then just as we were by the ruined Hollywood sign that we’d seen on the way in and over looking the rest of the theme park we suddenly rose slowly and nearly gave us a heart attack because we thought that we were going to be dropped and then just as we thought NAH it’ll be fine it dropped as in that’s the same speed that we’d be going if we were falling over a cliff. The only reason that I wasn’t stuck to the roof was because of the seat belt. Then it stopped abruptly rose again stopped…(suspense brewing) and dropped while the camera flash went off we realised that was another photo we didn’t want to see from these roller coasters. It continued upping and downing for a while we finally came back to the ground where they never forgot the gift shop. We hurried out and found a spot to watch the 4th of July fireworks. Which were BEAUTIFUL! I couldn’t believe my eyes (I also couldn’t stop thinking that it would be the perfect time to go on a shooting rampage while the finale went on). Once that was done I chose to use the opportunity to get in line in the aero smith. I walked (needing to keep my dignity) to the line but I don’t just walk I can do some serious super walking. But lots of other people had the same idea and when I got there mom said that I must go to them and that it was rude to push in front like that. Just then the people in front of us invite 5 people to come in front of them. When we finally got inside we were deceived and we were not even close to the ride but it was nicely decorated. We were in a sort of hall of fame where we saw Queen (the brilliant) and Jonas Brothers (the not) in the same room. Which was kind of wrong. We then got into another sort of music museum where they had some old equipment and signed guitars. Then we got to the story part where they had the aero smith crew and it was cute. Then we got to the ride and the nice people behind as were telling us about how cool the ride is and how the camera is right when we take off. So we vowed we would try and smile. When we got there there was a count down and it took off at an unhuman pace and no we did not smile (another photo that wasn’t going to be very pretty). When it was done we were shaken up pretty well and thought that it was 12 and that maybe it was time to go sleep which we did and got stuck in a whole bunch of going home traffic.
We slept until 9
Got your messsge. Oh my gosh. Please anyore info would be great. How is everyonne and how is Shane especially. Last I rememberis the wedding. how is her husband (wrong but I’ve frogotten his name). i really hope we can make the funeral.
I hate r.i.p it sounds so inpersonal so.
My dearest concerens go out to Shane and her husband Steve. I can’t believe this whole thing. it was a beautiful wedding and one thing she wanted to do was to get married again and she did. We’re thinking of the family and you Janice.
It’s a tad warm here in N’awlins. Okay that’s like saying the artic is slightly cool. It isn’t such the heat thats the problem it’s more the outraging humitidy which of course equals the most grumpy of people. Which will remain nameless. We spent a lovely day wandering the shops where alot of jazz was buzzing with activaty! Lots of Voodoo was being sold and I reminded myself of Tamlin’s dad when buying the presents that still need to be bought. It was alot of fun and we decided that we might do a tour.I wish we hadn’t in retrospect but went on the Swamp Tour. It was hot and I think I become the sweatiest woman alive. Seriously! There was some thunder which mom and I were glad to hear. We wished it would rain but it didn’t. We had a very funny instructor who showed us around. we saw two very hot aligators and a thousand year old tree we heard alot of ‘fun’ facts on the swamp. But in all honesty we were dieing out there! It’s round 6 here and it’s still excrutiatingly hot.
We got up around 6 moms tent was down and she told us to avoid too much noise and take too long Wouter would do our tent while we got ready which took the same time as taking down our tent when Wouter did it. It was actually a lot quicker and less aggravating. We started the really long 61/2 hour drive to Salt Lake City where we’ll take a Delta flight to New Orleans! YAY!!!!! I can’t wait or the land of Voodoo Magic and Jazz! Look Out!
We woke up at 6 and got ready for Cody. It was a 2 hour drive to get to Cody. We all had our reasons. Wouter wanted to look around some museums, mom wanted cowboy boots, Jessica and I wanted to go to Wal-Mart for gifts. We took the long drive to Cody and when we got to ody it was so Old Cowboy film. Seriously! We went Cowboy Boot hunting first. We found the coolest boots ever! They were blimin’ expensive and barely fit though they would have been really cool too wear even though it takes 2 people to take the shoes off. We decided that maybe it wasn’t what we needed. We went to the next door shop which sold hilarious shirts. One was: I Would Rather Be Fishing And Thinking Of God Than In Church Thinking Of Fishing. Another was Determination: Is The Feeling You Get Just Before You Do Something Stupid. And the one Wouter got: Cody Wyoming on the back and on the front it says: If God Wanted Us To Be Vegetarian Then He Would’ve Made Broccoli More Fun To Shoot At. Now that wasn’t meant to offend anyone and Wouter doesn’t shoot at animals only targets. We went to the Buffalo Bill exhibit for Wouter. Jessica and I weren’t too keen but we did learnt things like Bison fur is incredible soft, Polar Bears are huge and that the one in the Buffalo Bill exhibit was shot by a girl (YES!!!). The one they had in there was huge and was only the 71st biggest. It was about a head bigger than the tallest person I know and I know some TALL people! You also saw a lot of heads of lots different animals. It was gross actually. We then went to gun museum for Wouter. It was hectically boring although some of the guns were quite nice. I’m not only talking about the colour and look. Jessica, mom and I were always fighting over the chairs placed sparingly around the museum. It was okay Wouter was having fun and we got to go to Wal-Mart. Where Wouter did his impression of us from the gun museum. We got what we needed and some witty buttons! One of my favourites. It has an eye on it and around the eye it says I See Dum People. Another is You’re Just Jealous ‘Cos The Voices Only Talk To Me. And things like that. We were driving back to our camp site and joking about how only need to see Wolves which were just about to come out and prance around in front of our car when there were another million of cars. We couldn’t get close to the place so we dropped Jessica and mom off we quickly went to the lace with the lady who had a huge telescope thing. As we passed them Jessica shouting they thought it was wolf. We parked and made our way but they were already coming back. They said they really weren’t sure it was a wolf. There was only one of them and it just didn’t look like one. But the lady had insisted. We looked at moms photos and instantly that it was only a coyote. It was still cool not as cool as a wolf but still cool. We got back to the camp and chilled for a while we drove around again and saw A LOT of Bison. Which are my favourite wild animal! It was our last night and we had to get up early. It was difficult getting to sleep but I did eventually.
At 4:30 we got up nice and early to see some of the early risin’ animals. Jessica and I didn’t bother with anything we unzipped the bottom of our sleeping bags and waddled to the car like psychopathic worms. We were nearly falling asleep Jessica said she saw some huge buck. It was too dark to confirm so we continued. I then thought I saw this bear! So I said so we reversed and outer and I were looking out. I was starting to doubt myself. It had moved though! We finally moved on. Okay so I felt really stupid when we past later in the light and there was a very interestingly shaped stump. I felt like a really big tree stump myself. We decided that it would be really clever to go down where the most wolf spottings. We got there and there was a big sign telling us that the road was closed because of road works in 8miles. We did travel the 8 miles because there still was a chance that we could see something we stopped when there was a Bison Jam. It was one Bison after another and they weren’t snappy about it either. We continued down and there wasn’t much except a stupid idiot in a red car that went screeching in front of us and then had to make a huge stop when the Bison decided they were going to cross the road again. We turned around and carried on we were now trying to find a nice swamp to find a swamp-donkey (moose). We went to the Floating Island Lake which is where we found a moose! We took loads of photos (shocker!) none of them turned out particularly well. If there was one thing I found out on this trip to Yellowstone it was that taking pictures of animals are very difficult (except for Bison they’re everywhere slow or sleeping) we continued and Wouter and I saw a little mouse thing which was so cute! Mom and Jessica who are on the other side of us didn’t and we didn’t get photos either but it was okay what we saw next made-up for it. After seeing a petrified tree (Oh wonder what it was that scared it? BaDump Bump) we went down the 8 mile road again and mom thought she might have seen a bear we assured her it was a Bison but mom wanted to check. I was but just then we saw a Marmoset. It is one of the sweetest things EVER! We called them Pikitue (from pokomon). Suddenly there were 2 one mommy (the first one we saw) and a little baby then another 2 babies appeared. Mom got her camera and started filming. As if they sensed her camera they stayed absolutely still and didn’t do anything. When mom stopped filming and just took photos it was all energy so mom tried again with the filming and again nothing. They were quite stubborn that way. We watched the little ones go under ground and up again and then we had to leave again. It was around 6:30 by that stage. On our way back up the 8mile road we were bombarded with Prong Horn Deer. They were mostly young and playing around and in the road. We got some good shots there. I was almost asleep so I told mom to wake me if we see anything interesting. I was barely asleep when mom showed us the coyote on the side of the road right by our car. This is what happened:
“Tamsyn look outside your window”-M
“Hmmm”-Grumpy Tamsyn
“Look!”-M
“Oh. Cool. *Snort and back to sleep*-T
I slept until 8:30 which is when we stopped at an unknown location that I now know which had the showers. Ah the showers. Very expensive but worth it. My really grubby body needed the clean and it was only the second day in Yellowstone. Now what I have just realized I’ve failed to mention. The ’snow’. There was unbelievable amounts. Every now and again Jessica and I stopped my the side of the road and had snow ball fights which I can safely say I won. Mom stayed firmly on land. Which was probably better for her health. There was even ice at our campsite which made for very entertaining new home movies. We carried on driving and looking for new and exciting animals. We went to Old Faithful and watched the water fountain like thing spout in all it’s glory. We carried on and saw huge amounts of people again. We guessed that there were bears. We stopped and saw too teenage bears. One was most definitely a black bear and the other one playing with it was a shocking grizzly together was odd but you couldn’t deny the facts which Jessica so nicely pointed out for us. Hey were down a ravine which made photo taking extremely difficult. We continued and went to see some gas filled swamp thing that was called Hot Springs which sounds a lot more inviting than it smelt. We were traveling back to the camp site when loads of cars. It had to be another bear and looky looky it was! It was another Black Bear which was very nicely posing for us. We continued and there was another Black Bear this was a very AWESOME! That was 3 black bears and 2 grizzlies in 2 days so exciting we were talking about how we needing to see grizzly because that would even things up. We went back to camp and decided because our campsite and shops lost power we should cook ourselves. They closed our shop so we decided that we needed to find some sausage and these smoor pack things. We did find the smoors but nothing but stupid bacon. On our way back there was a line of cars. We had 2 hunches the first was that there was a bear the second was that there was a Bison Jam. There was a teenage girl walking up our way and telling everyone so we asked. She told us there was a Grizzly. Wouter had to stay with the car but the rest of us jumped out. I was too short to see anything but I was assuming that the bear was close because Jessica kept saying in her loudest stage whisper that these tourist were way too close and that the bear would out run all of them and someone would get hurt. Mom got beautiful photos of this grizzly thank fully! W decided that we should go before it gets annoyed with the tourist. As we got to the car we told Wouter who’s response to Jessica’s anger was that You Didn’t Have To Outrun The Bear You Had To Outrun The Other Tourists. Which is quite valid. We were in the car waiting for a gap when we saw the most idiotic tourist decided to go up the hill that the bear was up to get better photos. The idiot. Although I will let you know that we never saw him return but we didn’t hear any human-gut wrenching screams either. We got a fire going and started marshing our marshmallows’ when the thunder started. Great we rushed our smoors and quickly got everything in order right when the rain began. I remember hearing one of the very load American neighbors of ours said loudly “It’s not thunder it’s a rain storm” Um. Never mind we had left over sandwich things that we had for dinner. When the trickles started coming we ran inside our tents and said goodnight to everyone from there. It was like we had never seen rain before. That night it was bloody cold! I was dieing and Jessica didn’t provide any sort of warmth manly because the bit of her I was trying to suck the warmth out of was her feet. We needed to get up at 6 tomorrow.
We got up eventually and I was all packed so there wasn’t much to worry about. We booked out and left for Yellowstone. I was so exited! We drove and drove and then we spotted the Welcome To Yellowstone sign. OMG! We carried on and got to the tollbooths and got our slips and carried on. We drove a little further and this cute little buck was on one of the hills. Instinctively got out and took loads of photos. It was a female mule deer. Jessica was practically a free tour guide the whole time. She new a lot and when she didn’t she was looking in the books about Yellowstone. We drove on we knew that we were not going to see many bears, wolves, coyotes or moose. Even seeing ONE would be fantastic. We were discussing this when we saw loads and loads of cars! We kept asking each there what it was when Wouter said It’s a bear. We did ask if he was sure and he answered that he was certain. We abandoned the car and took so many photos. It was a long way away and really difficult to photograph. Especially when the grizzly kept going behind the trees and bushes. We were the most psyched people ever! We traveled a little more and mom spotted some buck on the left they were far away and were difficult to photograph. The odd thing was that all the people in the other cars were gaping at the right side. Suddenly we turn around and a few feet away are the cutest little buck things in the world (we found out later they were Elk). I got the privilege of taking the photos and movies. I was busy filming this cute little Elk making the cutest noises in the world. When suddenly huge mothers of Elk appear (ha the pun is that they were actually the mothers o the elk). I got quite a fright because my view of the whole situation was the screen on mom’s camera so that was quite scary! For the first hour in Yellowstone that was amazing! Now my ultimate favourite-that is very very common but still photo worthy every time-Bison! They may appear ugly but they are so cute and have the most personality ever! We saw A LOT of Bison. But they were so hard to resist! No wonder they had to put signs up everywhere saying Do Not Touch The Bison and Bison Are Wild, Dangerous Animals. Do Not Pet. I could’ve taken one of the small ones and trained it. Mom reminded me that they don’t really like people doing that so I didn’t. On our way to the campsite we spotted a lot of people and we saw nothing. It was really weird so we stopped. Even Wouter couldn’t see anything when suddenly I spotted this white dog looking thing. I showed everyone. Mom said it was a dog but when it came closer she had a change of heart. She got out and stayed the minimum 25ft away while the other idiotic tourist and Americans went closer and closer. It was a very sweet looking coyote. It had found something to eat more interesting than the stupid tourists. We went and set up our camp on the relatively straight ground (or so we thought. We did find out later that night not so much.) Jessica had banned me from the tent because I had done something to make her angry. It was stupid and while she set up the tent I only had to put my chair in the car down get a pillow and my sleeping bag. Although later mom said I had to sleep in the tent because I would have to leave a window a little open and then I’d get bombarded with mosquitoes which were already eating me alive! That night we just ate our supper went for a little dusk stroll (not really a stroll if its in the car but what ever). Nothing exiting but there was beautiful scenery. We then slept. We agreed to wake up early.
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