Nana, Papa, Uncle Andrew, Auntie Nay, cousins Jess (9) and Oliver (5) and I went to Mousehole tonight to see the Christmas lights. It really isn't anything like what we have in New Zealand.
First we drove around looking for a fish and chips shop that had tables we could sit at, but everywhere was either shut or didn't meet our requirements, so we went to the Meadery, which was built to be a cinema in 1905 and was coverted to a bar & restaurant in the 60s (see you can tell I read the history).
I had Meadery style chicken and chips, and they made us eat everything with our fingers. They don't give you cutlery at all. It was fun, actually.
And I had a pint of cider. Plus the rest of the bottle. It was really nice. I saved the bottle but then I left it in Andrew's car so oops. Auntie Nay was apparently quite surprised that I managed to drink half a litre and stay quite sober. Bahaha.
And then we drove to a carpark and got out to walk around the harbour. There were lights everywhere. They had a whale and a sea monster in the water and mice and birds and trees up on the hill, plus a huge sign that alternated between saying Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
It was freezing cold (I wore two jumpers and a coat, and gloves and my new jeans- which are unfortunately quite thin) but I'm still glad I went. Although I didn't really have a choice.
Christmas Eve tomorrow :D It has snuck up so fast!
I'm moving up to sleep here in the attic (which thankfully has heating!) so that Nay and Andrew can have my bed downstairs.
Tomorrow I'm supposed to go to midnight mass. I don't really want to because I'm not into going to church, but it was the church I was christened at and that means that I have to go. And Nay doesn't want to go on her own.
This has been longer than I intended, so I'm going to stop typing now and go to bed :D x
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Um
Just sitting here scoffing some chocolate. Yup.
I have a lot of things that I could say right now. Um. Umumum. I don't know. I just feel very unfulfilled right now. Like I could be much happier. I want to do something meaningful. I want to... I actually really want to cry right now. I feel like I have tears welling up behind my eyes and they wont come out. It probably doesn't help that I've been listening to like the saddest song in my life ever. You know when you identify with a song and you feel like it was written for your situation? Ugh. Just. Jesus Christ.
I know this is not a very happy post but I'm allowed one of those every once in a while.
I wish I were back home. England is great but I miss New Zealand. I miss my people. All of you. So much. How am I going to survive at university? I'll be wanting to come back to Feilding every five minutes.
I have had way too much chocolate.
I just drew a reindeer wearing a santa hat and sunglasses.
And now he's smoking a cigarette.
Oh look it's 23:23.
I think it's time for bed now.
I have a lot of things that I could say right now. Um. Umumum. I don't know. I just feel very unfulfilled right now. Like I could be much happier. I want to do something meaningful. I want to... I actually really want to cry right now. I feel like I have tears welling up behind my eyes and they wont come out. It probably doesn't help that I've been listening to like the saddest song in my life ever. You know when you identify with a song and you feel like it was written for your situation? Ugh. Just. Jesus Christ.
I know this is not a very happy post but I'm allowed one of those every once in a while.
I wish I were back home. England is great but I miss New Zealand. I miss my people. All of you. So much. How am I going to survive at university? I'll be wanting to come back to Feilding every five minutes.
I have had way too much chocolate.
I just drew a reindeer wearing a santa hat and sunglasses.
And now he's smoking a cigarette.
Oh look it's 23:23.
I think it's time for bed now.
Monday, December 20, 2010
I Didn't MEAN To Buy Any More Books Today
But I did.
They're just so cheap *shrugs*
We did go to Waterstone's again. I just cannot keep away from that shop. I bought Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, by Johnathan Safran Foer, and the new Richard Dawkins book for Tori, which is about evolution. I hope she likes it :/
I also bought a watch (only £7) and a CD- Snow Patrol's "Final Straw" for £5.
My Aunty Naomi also bought me some boots & a dress, and I gave her money to get me Misfits (still £10 and sadly still R18) so I'm glad I have that now!
We had to come home early because my poor little cousin Oliver is really sick. He's ony 5 and he had no idea what was going on. We think it's the flu :/
They're just so cheap *shrugs*
We did go to Waterstone's again. I just cannot keep away from that shop. I bought Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, by Johnathan Safran Foer, and the new Richard Dawkins book for Tori, which is about evolution. I hope she likes it :/
I also bought a watch (only £7) and a CD- Snow Patrol's "Final Straw" for £5.
My Aunty Naomi also bought me some boots & a dress, and I gave her money to get me Misfits (still £10 and sadly still R18) so I'm glad I have that now!
We had to come home early because my poor little cousin Oliver is really sick. He's ony 5 and he had no idea what was going on. We think it's the flu :/
Saturday, December 18, 2010
More Books & An Adventure
I went back to Truro :D More importantly, I went ALONE this time, which meant I was free to do whatever I pleased.
My first stop, of course, was Waterstone's. I bought 3 more books:
- Strata by Terry Pratchett
- The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
- and On The Road by Jack Kerouac
We all know that I adore new books and reading :D
And then I kinda went... everywhere else. I had something like 4 hours before my bus arrived so I went into all the clothes stores and the music/movies store (called HMV) and then a couple more.
The bus, which should have taken me to Helston Tescos, instead dropped me off in downtown Penzance, due to a minor complication of route change caused by an accident on the Long Downs road. Yikes.
So I had to wait for an hour (after an hour & a 1/2 bus trip) for my Uncle Andrew to pick me at the train station. That was an adventure...
And it was freezing fucking cold.
It was 6.30pm when I got back to Nana's place, and 3.30 when I'd left Truro.
Today we're going to check out the place I'll be working at. Should be interesting :)
My first stop, of course, was Waterstone's. I bought 3 more books:
- Strata by Terry Pratchett
- The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
- and On The Road by Jack Kerouac
We all know that I adore new books and reading :D
And then I kinda went... everywhere else. I had something like 4 hours before my bus arrived so I went into all the clothes stores and the music/movies store (called HMV) and then a couple more.
The bus, which should have taken me to Helston Tescos, instead dropped me off in downtown Penzance, due to a minor complication of route change caused by an accident on the Long Downs road. Yikes.
So I had to wait for an hour (after an hour & a 1/2 bus trip) for my Uncle Andrew to pick me at the train station. That was an adventure...
And it was freezing fucking cold.
It was 6.30pm when I got back to Nana's place, and 3.30 when I'd left Truro.
Today we're going to check out the place I'll be working at. Should be interesting :)
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Yesterday, 15.12.10
Truro is pretty damn awesome. It's more like a proper town than any other place I've been to so far.
It was very very busy (what with Christmas being only 9 days away) and the pavement in the city centre isn't wide enough for more than two people to walk comfortably side by side.
We went to (in order, I think):
- This cute little market place where Nana bought me some new gloves (hobo gloves!). They're black and bright pink :D
- Marks and Spencers: department store. Didn't buy anything but saw a lot of clothes that I like
- Waterstone: A bookshop. This bookshop is amazing. Honestly, it's twenty times better than any Witchoulls or Borders or anything in New Zealand. It's bright and cheerful and there are just books everywhere. They don't really bother with stationary or toys, it's all just books. And they had this great deal where you get 3 books for the price of two, so I bought four (1. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, 2. One Day by David Nicholls, 3. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and 4. a Keep Calm and Carry On quote book, for trying times.
After that we just kinda looked in some clothes shops (all too expensive, even with sales on) and then had lunch.
And today I'm staying inside because it's quite possible that I have caught a cold, which is exactly what I need :/
It was very very busy (what with Christmas being only 9 days away) and the pavement in the city centre isn't wide enough for more than two people to walk comfortably side by side.
We went to (in order, I think):
- This cute little market place where Nana bought me some new gloves (hobo gloves!). They're black and bright pink :D
- Marks and Spencers: department store. Didn't buy anything but saw a lot of clothes that I like
- Waterstone: A bookshop. This bookshop is amazing. Honestly, it's twenty times better than any Witchoulls or Borders or anything in New Zealand. It's bright and cheerful and there are just books everywhere. They don't really bother with stationary or toys, it's all just books. And they had this great deal where you get 3 books for the price of two, so I bought four (1. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, 2. One Day by David Nicholls, 3. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and 4. a Keep Calm and Carry On quote book, for trying times.
After that we just kinda looked in some clothes shops (all too expensive, even with sales on) and then had lunch.
And today I'm staying inside because it's quite possible that I have caught a cold, which is exactly what I need :/
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
The Day So Far
Yesterday it was so, so overcast, and today the sky is blue and clear and there's sunshine. It's making me quite happy. I woke up reeaally early, at about 2am (went to bed at 6 last night) and sat up for two hours reading my new book- Eat Pray Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert. All the hype it's getting is well deserved, I think. It really is a fantastic book. At 4am I tried to sleep again, but only dozed.
This morning I got up and showered, and talked to Mum on the phone, and then came upstairs (to the attic, which is always freezing cold) to go on Facebook and whatnot for a minute, and I was sitting on the chair waiting for the computer to start up and I notice the sunshine coming through the skylight. It really made me feel a lot better about being up so early and having had so little sleep, because for the last few days it's been so grey and overcast. Everything looks depressing and kind of morbid, like the town in Sleepy Hollow.
At 9.30 Papa drove me down the road to the school that my Aunty Naomi (Mum's half sister) manages and works at. I was there until 12pm, helping out with little kids (all around 3-5 years old). We made pinecone robins and practised the nativity play, and had story time and sang songs. They all wanted to sit on my lap :D It was so cute. This one little girl, Sicily, suddenly came up to me and gave me the biggest hug, just out of the blue. And another, Katie, gave me a story to read to her and as I read about four other kids joined in and all tried to sit on me, listening to me read.
We had to come home at 12 because I had to have lunch (scrambled eggs on toast) and the rest of the day will be quite lazy. I'll probably watch a movie or something. I have to stay awake until at least 8 o clock tonight so that I can set my sleeping clock right. Falling asleep at 5 or 6 pm and waking again at 2, and then not going back to sleep is really screwing with my head.
Tomorrow we're going to Truro, a big sort of town which has a beautiful church, and on Thursday and Friday it's supposed to snow. On Saturday night we're going to the pub for a music quiz ('50s-'90s). We might go to St Ives at some point, too, and Naomi says we're be going ice skating later... I don't expect to be too good at it, which is fine because apparently she's quite unbalanced and holds onto the side the entire time.
Okay, time to go watch a movie.
Will write again in a day or two xx
This morning I got up and showered, and talked to Mum on the phone, and then came upstairs (to the attic, which is always freezing cold) to go on Facebook and whatnot for a minute, and I was sitting on the chair waiting for the computer to start up and I notice the sunshine coming through the skylight. It really made me feel a lot better about being up so early and having had so little sleep, because for the last few days it's been so grey and overcast. Everything looks depressing and kind of morbid, like the town in Sleepy Hollow.
At 9.30 Papa drove me down the road to the school that my Aunty Naomi (Mum's half sister) manages and works at. I was there until 12pm, helping out with little kids (all around 3-5 years old). We made pinecone robins and practised the nativity play, and had story time and sang songs. They all wanted to sit on my lap :D It was so cute. This one little girl, Sicily, suddenly came up to me and gave me the biggest hug, just out of the blue. And another, Katie, gave me a story to read to her and as I read about four other kids joined in and all tried to sit on me, listening to me read.
We had to come home at 12 because I had to have lunch (scrambled eggs on toast) and the rest of the day will be quite lazy. I'll probably watch a movie or something. I have to stay awake until at least 8 o clock tonight so that I can set my sleeping clock right. Falling asleep at 5 or 6 pm and waking again at 2, and then not going back to sleep is really screwing with my head.
Tomorrow we're going to Truro, a big sort of town which has a beautiful church, and on Thursday and Friday it's supposed to snow. On Saturday night we're going to the pub for a music quiz ('50s-'90s). We might go to St Ives at some point, too, and Naomi says we're be going ice skating later... I don't expect to be too good at it, which is fine because apparently she's quite unbalanced and holds onto the side the entire time.
Okay, time to go watch a movie.
Will write again in a day or two xx
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Hello, Hello!
Jesus Christ England is cold right now. I probably should be wearing more clothes but bugger it, I'm sitting upstairs and my clothes are downstairs and it's tooo faaar.
Holy crap, the plane trip was so mega uber boring. 10 hours to LA airport and then 2 hours in transit, then another 9 hours on the plane to London (and then 5 hours in a car with Nana and Papa, travelling to Nancegollan, Cornwall). Do you have any idea how hard it is to sleep on a plane? It's BLOODY hard. Even with movies (watched 3- Tomorrow When The War Began, Salt and Heavenly Creatures- god that movie is disgusting) and books, I was bored out of my mind.
Complaining aside, it's lovely to finally be here. The house is quite warm (especially in the kitchen, where Nana is cooking dinner- at one fifteen?!), thankfully.
Anyway, I must go, because my aunt, uncle and cousins Jessica and Oliver are here. I'll write again later :)
x
Holy crap, the plane trip was so mega uber boring. 10 hours to LA airport and then 2 hours in transit, then another 9 hours on the plane to London (and then 5 hours in a car with Nana and Papa, travelling to Nancegollan, Cornwall). Do you have any idea how hard it is to sleep on a plane? It's BLOODY hard. Even with movies (watched 3- Tomorrow When The War Began, Salt and Heavenly Creatures- god that movie is disgusting) and books, I was bored out of my mind.
Complaining aside, it's lovely to finally be here. The house is quite warm (especially in the kitchen, where Nana is cooking dinner- at one fifteen?!), thankfully.
Anyway, I must go, because my aunt, uncle and cousins Jessica and Oliver are here. I'll write again later :)
x
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