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!!

Hey guys, hope all is well!! and that you have had a nice relaxing weekend after you have all probably been busy as with stage challenge. Its a real bummer about the results...maybe they have it in for high school!!!. I hope you had a great day there anyway!! Well i am finally putting some pic's up from Paris...we had a really good time there. I just couldn't get over all the smokers and how many areas smelt like piss and food was really expensive there. We had four nights and five days there. Each day we walked around different areas and we started in Marais and Bastille as we were staying in the area. The next day we looked at the Lourve, Champs-Elysees & Montmare...it was a really long day walking around...the Lourve is so massive and we got lost at the start as the map was really hard to read. That night we walked up the sacre-coeur to watch the sunset...but didn't last that long as some guys started having a fight so we decided to leave. The third day we walked the Latin Quarter, St-German & Islands and we left the Eiffel tower to the final day.....which was the coldest day and there was a lot of fog around=( but it was still cool to go up the tower...a bit scary being in the glass elevator though. I have realised now that i really need to invest in some good walking shoes....and that im at least a 3 star traveller unfortunately....I'm really just not a fan of the toilets...everything else i can handle. The next trip is Morocco...which should be a bit of a culture shock, but am looking forward to something different....lets hope i don't get food poisoning.... I will be trying not to use the toilets as much as possible=).
I'm deff counting down as work is doing my head in at the mo...so will be good to have a break. Am going to try and last there until at least the summer holidays and ill go from there. Anyways hope you guys are not to busy, missing you all, thinking of you xoxox

Easter

I spent Easter weekend with my sister and her flatmates. We went out to Eastbourne on the Saturday just to have a relaxing day by the beach. We were lucky with the weather as it turned out to be a nice sunny day...still kind of chilly but nice when you were out of the wind. We decided it was a retirement town as there were so many old people everywhere, but it was a nice change from the fast paced London. And to just sit and relax by the beach=) We even had fish and chips by the beach and the fish was alot nicer then I was expecting...yum!!.

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Hey everyone, hope you have had a great break, hope the exhibition went well!! cant wait to see some pic's. And hope you all had enough time to relax. I have done a few things over the holidays so will add some pic's soon. I heard the sad news from Amy about Brad Martin...was really gutted to hear that...its so sad, Mollie will be lost without him. I hope that Monday goes well and I will be thinking of everyone=(

Hey guys hope you have had a good few weeks!!! How is all the stuff going for your exhibition Graham...hope it is all comming along well??? Very exciting not long now...you will have to take heaps of photos!!!..how is the new boss..I had a look on the website but it didnt say much about him?? bet your all glad he has arrived!!! How is everything else at school going??

I haven't done alot the last 2 weeks. Have been busy going from school to school and still finding my way around...which i think i will be doing until i leave London. An art job has come up at a school my flatmate works at so he has taken my cv in and they sound keen to interview me...so they may be asking you for a reference again Graham (sorry i know its such a pain...they make things very hard over here...I deff owe you). Its at an educational behavioural school...so the kids will be tough but I would be teaching the kids with the emotional problems, which i think could be a really good opportunity (and would help me get into counselling and maybe even art therapy later on). So will let you know how that goes. Other then that i haven't seen to many jobs.

What are you all up to at Easter??? Relaxing??? Bet you are all counting down!!! I deff am as Greg arrives on the 7th!!! I have booked flights and a hostel for Paris for 4 nights..so am really excited about that=) Yay. And a friend of mine from school lives south of London so I may go visit him for a day/or he may come up to visit me=) I am also looking into buying a wide angle lens/ or fish eye for my camera but still haven't decided what to go for???I think I will take some more photos this weekend.

Hope your all not to tired and have a great last week of school, hope the exhibition opening goes well Graham, will be thinking of you. Thinking of you guys xoxox

Hey guys, hope you had a great week/weekend=) I had four days teaching and more and more work keeps coming up which is good. Had two good schools and two really bad schools that i do not want to go to again. There was no teaching happening it was just crowd control and stopping them from fighting...kinda scary really. Have got one day a week until at least Easter if I want it teaching art to yr 9,10 & 11 year olds at a really nice primary school. So will do that until something else comes up, may also have some work helping out at a little catholic primary school working with some kids with different learning difficulties (still get paid the same)...so might go with that to..will see how things go. Had a day off on Tuesday and the weather was really nice so I thought I better do some sight seeing...went to Westminster...its so pretty...did not do my frottage yet Kaye but had a look around for some good places to do it=)...will do it next time=) Thinking of you guys xox