Todi

Rome!

Kia Ora

Hey Guys, how are you all? Hope your not to busy with portfolios....you will have to ass some pics! Im really missing not doing portfolios!

Anyway back from my Europ trip...it has taken me a while to get over it haha...had an awesome time! love Italy...it is amazing...the people,culture and food!! Really wished we had more time...started in Rome-really loved it all in Rome-vatican city is amazing, Todi-beautiful scenery and then florence for a few hours (missed the art as it was a monday and they close everything on a monday...I was very very pissed off...poor greg..) So I will have to find some time to go back to Florence. We then went to Venice- saw some amazing glass work...Austria-people were lovely and beautiful scenery, Germany- loved the beer halls-that was great fun, Prague- beautiful at night, Amsterdam (which is ver over rated really...crazy crazy place..odd experience really)We spent well over our budget..as food is really expensive in Europe!

Our tour from Vencice was very interesting...we joined top deck and I didnt know when booking that it is a bit like contiki so was not to impressed when we had heaps of 18yr old gap students...on the piss all the time! However we did meet a few older people around our age to hang out with which was cool...but it made me feel old as I wasnt interested in getting pissed every night!

I am still sorting through my 700 odd photos...so i will add a file soon so you can see=)When our internet is working again at home! I am off to South Africa tomorrow...am excited about seeing the family. I am hoping my sister is not as stressed out when I see her...as she hasnt been to much fun really...very difficult...I might have to just sip on some wine every night=)! Weddings aye! It is going to be very interesting meeting my future brother in laws family! And im not looking forward to my dress (its a bit short and tight for my liking)...I got myself a slimming suit..so the dress doesnt stick in all the wrong places...its really funny, but does a great job (since I ate a bit to much pizza, pasta and gelato in Itlay...dark chocolate gelto is very very good!)

Thinking of you all, miss you guys heaps and thought of you all through Itlay and even started thinking about what would work for an overseas school trip=)...hope the kids are working hard for you and that some top work is happening! miss you lots of love xoxox

Hey Guys

Hey guys, just wanted to say a big thank you for the bday wishes, cards, presents really made my day. I haven't opened the presents yet I will do that tomorrow. Really made me miss you all even more. How were your holidays? Graham I hope you had an awesome bday..have been thinking of you, what did yo get up to? Eat lots of chocolate I hope=) hope you all had a nice relaxing break=) Did you move into the new house Kaye?? any goss? I'm really excited four days to go and i will be in Rome and summer holidays!!! yay=) thinking of you all hope your first day back at school is a good one=) miss you xoxox

Happy holidays!

Hey guys, hope you have a great last day of term! and an awesome holiday break! do you have any plans?? thinking of you xox

Out and about London

Hey Guys, thought I would add some pic's from the weekend. We went and had a look at Greenwich, they had a cool little market with lots of funky things (I find it so hard not to spend money at them), this only guy sold all these cool old stamps! Lots of yummy different kinds of food as well! We went and looked at the old Greenwich Royal Observatory, famous for being the site of the prime meridian, or 0 degrees longitude & the National Maritime Museum etc, so it was a nice day out.

After that we headed to Westfield (the massive shopping complex...that I get lost in every time), anyway they have this really cool Elephant Parade all around London, this big charity event raising money and awareness about saving asian elephants. I thought they looked really cool so I took a few pic's and have attached the link=)

http://www.elephantfamily.org/how-can-you-help/events/elephant-parade-london-2010/

Morocco

Hey Guys, how are you all? time is flying!! Have been meaning to make a post since I got back from Morocco, Amy has kept me updated on different school things!! I'm sure Cat would have filled you in. We were lucky today and got to finish work early because of the England game ha ha. So had a nice walk home in the hot sun, which has decided to come out again!

Morocco was pretty cool even though Greg couldn't come. Had a very full on 5days with my sister!!! It is definitely hard work being a young foreign female in a Muslim country. It was so so hot as well (maybe because we tried to cover up more)!! Anyways we stayed in Marrakech for a couple of night at a really nice Riad, the people were lovely...it was so nice at the end of every day to go back to a quiet relaxing place!! We mainly looked around the city at the main sights and markets etc. It took quite a bit of getting used to, I got sick of all the people hounding you for money and to buy things from them, also all the comments about our butts, boobs etc made me feel like I was naked sometimes(at times it was funny as I think sometimes they didn't know what they were saying)!! We met up with Moa which was awesome (was nice to meet him) it made everything easier when we were hanging out with him!! He showed us around different parts of the city and invited us to his brother wedding celebrations lol!! So we went along and it was female only so we walked into a room of about 40 Muslim women singing and clapping at the new bride...total culture shock! Only a couple spoke a little english so it was mainly sign language happening!! They feed us mint tea and a selection of Moroccan sweets/cakes etc!! The celebrations continued and we then had a meal...sitting around a table of about 10 or so women..no knives and forks or plates and four cooked chickens came out and everyone started ripping bits off..it was pretty funny (they gave me and Ali a small plate and knife and fork haha) Anyways it was really nice to meet them all and awesome to have a good positive experience of the Muslim culture/religion as we always hear so many bad things on TV. It sort of reminded me of being on a marae with all the old women.
Anyway my sister booked tickets to fly out of Fes thinking it was only 4 hours away by train...well it was 7 but turned into 8....the longest train trip ever and so so hot that It made me feel sick the whole way.
We ended up in Fes, stayed in this huge Riad...(the boys down the road told us it was owned by Moroccan mafia haha..it sort of had that feel to it) We didn't really like it there, they people were quite rude etc. We looked around Fes and got very lost so many times as they have so many streets all closed in...which I really didn't like. We meet a nice Moroccan boy who showed us back to our Riad and then took us to his family's restaurant (not really sure it was), so we had a really nice/expensive meal...he then walked us home after (he told me he would give me 2000 camels to marry him haha)
So by the time we got home i was ready for another holiday!!