More Tipsy than a boat in the sea

so today is Ed's Birthday, must make a mentle note and send him a birthday e-mail every year.....well try anyway. so as par usual we all went down to the pub for hsi birthday i had 4 or was it 5, no it was 4 smifinoff ice thingys, the first one i finished uber fast because i was thirsty the second one i took my time on the third one i didn't reall want and got some help with and the 4th one i drank half and Jo was finishing hers faster than mine so i swapt but then the Pub was closeing so she made me drink teh rest of hers, actaully she said something like drink it or bring it, so i drank it. i had to take a wee so bad after that, i thought i was going to be on the toilet forever. Everyone was takign teh piss out of me becuase of my new down coat, thats brown adn poofy and realyl cozy and while they were taking teh piss and getting really cold, well only Ed was getting cold, i was really warm, muahahahahha. right now i'm uber tipsy, Ed for somereason knew or rememberd that i was Russian and yeah, thats cool. We were guessing peoples middle names today at teh pub and Ed sudjested mine was russian, it did come from my great russian grandmother but i'm not sure Grace is a russian name. mine was the last the tried adn they only came back to it after 10min of moving on, i think Jon came back to my name and my middle name got the biggest raction when i finally said Grace, a big 'awwwww' went out through out our group, kind of cool realyl. Pam and i bought Ed a piece of chocolate fudge cake and her really enjoyed it, YAY!
i'm becoming more comfortabel around these people adn i think they are with me, more hugs adn holding adn basic touching, people only touch other people when they are drunk or comfortable with other people
i also found out that Jermane still likes me *grumble* apprently according to Pam that he's liked me for a WHILE. and Jo asked why he went all red and clumsy when we walked in and apprently its because of me. ugh. yes very nice to know someone like me, awsome, but i think Diego tanted it, and so did Jermane with the whole 'look, i have pics of all the girls i've slept with on my phone' i think that if he's to shy to make a move before i leave theres no point. i might be nice and take a pic with him before i go and then give him a copy, but i'm not sure i will.
i'd like to go to bed, but i am tooo awake right now, probably because of all the vodka, yay mother land :P
i think i need to eat something or have some water
ug i smell like smoke, Pam, Diego, Ed and Jo were all smokeing, well Pam and Jo not so much, oh and Naiomi was too, gross!!!, yuk i'll smell like smoke tomorrow
now time to try and get some sleep, or food, food wrks too

Snow in Snowdonia

so last night i again felt like i was going to be physically sick and went to bed at 9:30 had i dead sleep untilla bout 1:30ish when i was awoken be something that sounded like golf balls falling on the roof of my room, well that was hail. Yesturday it hailed on and off all day and continued into teh night adn everytime it hailed the ice bits got bigger. Linda informed me last night around 10 then were almost the size of golf balls, omg. i figured when i woke up in the morning there would be no evidance of this, i got uparound 10 to 9 (i was almost late but managed to drag my but out of bed just intime and as i stumbled around my room, i should really clean it up, to my window i thought to my self, you know theres no snow theres no point in looking. WRONG! the snow however was the hail and had turned into snow and looked like those little styrofoam balls. in teh morning it continued to hail and snow and by 2 it was pooring, i ahven't been outside since this morning to see if the snow is still there, i think by now it has turned into ice, or melted completely away, tres sad. if its still there a bunch of us are going to go for a walk and then go bumb sliding, should be fun, i hope.

at the moment Melissa is still sick since wednesday, when she came in wednesday night she seemed prefectly healthy, i went over to her house adn left her a small carepackage, hope she sees it when she wakes up.










i'm dreaming of a white christmas

Russian Alphabit

why is Russian hand writing so different from the printed letters? like the printed character that looks slightly like an H had a baby with an N and is backwards, i'll make it simpler, like a backwards N its writing looks like a U. 'tis weird. and there are two letters that have no sound at all?! whats up with that?!
and theres these two hand writen ones that look the same but the printed letter is completely different. like the backwards N looks like a 'U' and the M looks just like a different person has writen out a 'U', what if you get mixed up or are reading a letter and its like japanese where two words that are completely oposite sound/look the same and you offend someone! what then!? Same with K and H their hand writen things look like two different people wrote out 'K'.
and the ones that look completely different from there hand writen brotheren ie T has this weird fancy thing and its baby letter handwriten looks just like an M!
has the russian alphabit stolen its lettering from English and just deiced to chagne it around?!
or wait, no! its one of those projects you had to do when you were younger like when you had to make a country or city and come up with your own language and stuff; some kid came up with this and the people liked it so much the scraped their original alphabit and applied this one.
OH GOD! theres another u!?! how are people suppose to keep track of these letters and know what them mean!?!?! no wonder Russia is so far behind the times it takes them forever to read and make out what everyone is actaully saying! and they are probably so quick to temper because they keep on miss reading things when they think it says war it really says peace.
theres also four B's!!!!!!!! maybe thats why i suck at spelling so much, my damned Russian haritige is messing me up!
i do realize that unless you knew the alphabit or were looking at one you'd have no idea what i was talking about, even then with out me pointing it out i'm not sure anyone would be able to figure out what it is i'm talking about, then again i barely know waht i'm talking about half the time, ok time for bed
i've had way to much chocolate
hehehehehe, theres one that looks like a fish. thats one of the ones that doesn't have a sound, which i must say is F'ed up. but if you read on you learn that the ones that don't ahve sounds effect the sounds of the ones around them.
ok after these three songs then its time for bed. honestly, just enough time to go through this and find the many various spelling mistakes because i'm typing to fast.











onward commrades to vitory

One Year

Today it is the year anniversary of this blogg, WOOT. in that time 200 000 people have died, 72 800 000 people have been born, i have graduated from school with my friends, some of us have gone to university or college while others have travelled abroad and others worked. some have done all of the above or two of three. Friends have come and gone in either a great loss, or at a great relief.
In a year from now i will most likely be going to school and planning a trip home for Steve's birthday (which is in 4 days YAY!)
At this point in time i have about 3 months left of my placement in Wales. Nana will be home in about a month. First semester of Uni/college is almost over and christmas day is one month and two days away, or is it one day?
i hope to have this blog for a very long time, it is entertainment for myself when im bored and i hope it does the same for you.










If you ever change your mind about leavin', leavin' me behind, Oh, bring it to me bring your sweet lovin' bring it on home to me, oh yeah.

Snorting (among other things)

i bet half of you thought this would be about snorting when laughing, well guess what your wrong, hahahahahaha!!! WAIT don't go, please read my blog, i'm ever so lonely

do you have much experiance with snorting stuff? I was just wondering, in the wonderful Laura way, if when you snort something (ie drugs) can you smell them as you snort them. or do you sniff/snort it to fast to actually smell anything, or does it hurt to much to actaully notice the smell through the pain? one sure fire way to find out is to actaully snort something but then you'd be to high to actaully ask questions and conduct exparaments, so you'd need a guinea pig, not a real one of corse a human test subject. But that brings up another good point, are the snorting/smelling effects the same on a ginny pig as on a person and would their tiny little system be able to handle it? i wonder what a guinea pig is like high, or any rodant for that matter. and do the same things make them high? are our narcotics able to effect them? do they have other narcotics, for example origano?

which brings up another point, well it doesn't but in my mind they are some how linked i can't rightly remember how, but they are.

hamsters and ginny pigs and all those other small furry rodents already have a fairly high pitched squeak i wounder what they would sound like on helium, and i wounder how much it would take for them to actaully have a voice change or maybe their vocal cords aren't the same so they wouldn't be effected the same and if you filled one up with helium would it fly away?











i've got to get away, i gotta fllllllllllly away, yeah yeah yeah

Much better day

Today was a good day, yesturday was ok.
Yesturday i slept in untill 2pm and was only woken when Pam came and knocked on my door. (Jon brought up a good point. When people are sarrounded by other people all the time they tend to sleep longer becuase it is their only down time away from people. Which makes sence. I slept in late at home but i'm sleeping in later here. i work and live in the same place, people are around me ALL the time.)
anyway Pam had the idea to go sleep in a cave on saturday night but we hadn't got our acts together to actaully organize it, instead we decided to veg infront of the TV all day. Problem, Ed wanted to watch the Football match at 4:30 and its a 2hour thing, BOREING! soccer is sooooo slow! omg. yes hockey is a 2hour thing (and my dad informs me they've changed the rules) but its a faster game. so that was fun *thumbs down* then we watched a really bad jet li film, 'once apon a time in china', um..........snore. so after that we watched Fight Club, that is a good, but fucked up movie. While watching it everyone started to go to bed, with 10min left Ed went to bed and there i was in their house watching thier movie by my self, akward.
anyway that was a boring day, today i hiked up the tiny mountain/big hill just out side of betws i was up there walking around all day, it was awsome! i bought cheese, crakers grapes and apples for dinner, finished my x-mas shopping and went home
i planned on haveing a bath but someones laundry *cough* diego *cough* was in the tub, WTF?! get your fucking crap out of the tub, so i had a shower instead. then i planned on going to the loft to watch a movie, go on msn and eat my dinner, but guess who was in there? you guessed it Diego. and he's still in there! its ok, i'm on the library computer, no movie, but i have msn and dinner, two out of three aint bad. i just hope the sutdents don't need this computer








i don't wanna run away, but i can't take it, i don't understand

My Shit Day

yesturday i was suppose to be in house but i was with Ed and his kids all week and wanted to end the week with them because they are awesome and i haven't laughed that much since i came here; i also wanted to see them off becasue they were leaving that day. so Eirlys said it was ok, and i said when i was done with Ed that i'd go and help out in house
so, long day. in the rain all week except one day where we didn't actaully go anywhere (go figure), I helped out with Academic stuff while waiting to go back into 'the field' for the second time that day, came back finished helping with academic stuff. On fridays we have a meeting and an academic meeting to sort out who'll do duties for the upcoming week. For the past two weeks i've REALLY wanted to get away from the center and go to the pub and Melissa and i planned to have dinner in the pub rather than eat pasta bake, again. At tea break i find out i'm doing duty on monday, YAY i can go to the pub and not eat center food YAY i got really really excited! after tea break i'm in the common room doing house stuff and Ed comes in really sheepishly 'Laura, i have a really big favor to ask'
*oh god*, 'what is it?'
'can you do duty for me this evening?'
i wanted to cry
standing there thinking about it Diego said something and Ed told him 'no she's upset' damn fuckig right i'm upset. He's had a long week and deserves teh Pub more than me, but fuck i want to go to teh pub!
so Ed and i decided to ask Dan to do it, and if he couldn't i'd do it, i would.
so i finished doing house stuff and find dan and ask if he can do duty. nope, he has to pick up Jo, fantastic. So i went to go find Ed to tell him he's now doing duty on monday, and i'm doing duty that night. I find Eve cleaning Siabord by her self (thats the class Ed was teaching in) so i help her out, Ed comes back from having a cig and says he feels really bad, i tell him not to worrie about it its fine (its not btw) so we finish cleaning the class and putting everything away when Andy comes up to me 'Laura can you do me a huge favor?'
*groan* 'yeah sure, what is it?'
'the kitchen is short this evening can you help them out'
O.owhat?! you're jokeing right is what i think
'yeah sure, no problem', is what i say
in the kitchen asking Pam when she wants me in to help out, Eirlys comes up to me 'Laura? can you do me a foavor?'
'uh huh' *sniffle*
'can you take the finished laundry to the dry room at about 6 there should be another load done if you could take the to the drying room too?'
'sure'
its now 5:30pm, i'm not need untill 6in teh kitchen, so i go back to my room and cry.
Kitchen was easy, there was only a small group in so everythign was done by 7:00 but theres a slight problem. there was group that was suppose to be arriving at 6 but now they wont be showing up untill 8 and still want dinner *duble fuck*
like i said, at 7 we finished doing the first set of dinner dishes melissa showed up and said she was going into Betws to get food, i asked her to pick me up something but Pam and Mik told me to go and because i was 'shooed' out of the kitchen i went with her.
the whole night i was venting to people like Eve, and Pam about all that stuff, not complaining to get something in return but just to get it off my chest and be fine with it later.
walking down to Betws Melissa basically made me admit that it wasn't fine and i minded a whole hell of a lot when i kept saying it was fine ane that i didn't mind and both Melisas and Pam offered to take the duty, but then i wouldn't feel any better, i would feel guilty, and not have a good time at the pub if they were stuck doing duty and Melissa wasn't going to go to the pub anymore, i told her if she didn't go i'd be upset
Jokeing with Ed i told him he owed me a big favor and askedif he could bring me back a cheese burger from the fish and chips take out place and jokeingly i said 'and chocolate and....i'll just make you a list', and he told me to actaully make him one, really nice offer, but i wasn't about to take him up on it. so when melissa and i got down to Betws i got a cheese burger and chips for dinner went to the Spar and picked up lots of junk food to make me feel better and then arrived a the center half hour late for duty
no one seemed to mind
after that my duty shift went really well, the kids were really well behaved and started to go to bed before i even told them it was time. watched a cuple movies and started to go to bed around 1:30ish and i find lights that i had previously turnned off, on. Melissa is in the library fairly tipsy and talking to people on the net. she said they ALL got tipsy/drunk and had a really fun time. thats awesome that they all had a really fun time, but the problem is hwo soon will any of them want to go down to the pub again? how much longer do i have to wait before i can get out of the center for an evening?






lifes a bitch and then you die

Unicycle

so before i get to teh unicycle i have to update what has been happing to me, if i don't do it here i'll have to write in my journal and i rarely do that anymore, which is not good, i should try to write in it every day.
Anyway, last weekish there was a group in of 18 year olds, really nice kids. my first day on duty last week they were trying to watch a movie through the projector onto the screen. every 5min they called me back to help them. it wasn't working but it was ok. they are all really cool and learned my name pretty fast, but its not hard fro 30 ppl to learn one persons name.
One of the girls was from Equador so she and Diego talked a lot, and i don't blame them. I'd be talking to anyone who spoke my language if i came from a non english speaking country to here. they let and one of the girls gave me her e-mail, she was really nice.
their last night here one of teh moms phoned and wanted to talk to her son. I was in the loft so i ran to the library the people tell me that the kid in question was alseep with a headache so i run back adn tell the mom this, she asks if he's getting meds, or is being looked after and what not.....how the fuck would i know?!?!?!?! so i run back to the library adn grab one of the kids firends and everything is fine. but in my opinion the mom has the kid on a short leesh. he's coming home tomorrow, he's fine adn sleeping now, just say ok, thank you and hang up.
This week i'm/was helping Ed out with his students. They're from Bagor which is only about a 40min. drive away. They are an awsome bunch of kids, a cuple of them are really annoying. not going to say who because it doesn't matter that much. I haven't laughed that much since i got here, i'm going to miss them when they go.
last night their headmaster was called in because their teacher some how found out that three of them were doing sexual activities.....WTF?!?!?! how did he find out, what actually happened? and why did you tell Ed and me two different stories. He said that three of the stdents would prolly get expelled, pffffft what ever!! anyway they all got intereviewd so i'm told adn no one is getting expelled, some of them are being put on propation or something like that. but the whole thing was a rumor that got blown WAY out of proportion. Pete informed us last night at Tracy's b-day thing that the teacher is a big nob and yeah......i have to agree. He tends to stare at teh female students adn ysturday he took a really long time to red my life is good shirt, if you know what i mean
i'm going ot miss those kids.
Melissa bought a unicycle and it came int eh mail yesturday. its so much fun, Melissa is so good at it, slightly insane, i almost let go of the railing i was practicing on yesturday. well i did let go, but only for a short distance. i want to keep trying!!! so there, that was the unicycle bit, all of the stuff before just for that little bit.
Pam, Melissa and i have said that we want to knit and yesturday Pam bought three sets of needles, and three things of yarn and we semi learnt to knit. 'tis awsome
so many skills i'm going to be going home with
and thats my updated life

Hitch hikeing

yesturday was my day off. Pam Melissa and i decieded to go climb a mountain, Y Garn to be exact. well as we left to walk into Betws-y-Coed to catch the bus is started to rain, oh well no biggy. by the end of out 15min walk into Betws my jeans were drenched. so we finally get to Y Garn, a 20 to 30 min ride and its pissing down rain and the wind is so strong the rain is moving vertically and we can almost lean into the wind. instead of climbing Y Garn we decided to walk around the lake, LLynidwal, but as we approach devil's kitchen the granny stoppe (thats a stream) was so over flown and rushing so fast it was far to unsafe to go across it so we went back. didn't take us that long but it was still a good, although wet walk. little did we know that it wasn't over yet. as we get back to the car park (thats a parking lot, duh) and after we eat a little we ask for a bus schedual and just as the lady behind the counter gets it out the bus drives by and we miss it. well fuck. so we sit there and think we could phone the center but everyone is in the field today and everyone else would be working, so scratch that idea, try to hitch a ride that also didn't work, only thing left to do would be to start walking into Caple Cerig. well you would actually think the only thing to do would be to wait for the next bus, problem, next bus is at 1/4 to 5 and at that point in time it was only 2 and still pissing down rain. while we wakl we still try to hitch a ride and most the people are giving us really mean and dirty looks. you'd think some guys would want to pick up three chicks desprate for a ride and soaking wet. that wasn't ment to sound that wrong. finally after we've been walking for 45min and Pam and Melissa had given up stickin gout there thumbs, but as i was despearte for a ride and didn't want to walk anymore stuck my thumb out as often as possible and it paid off. tis really nice cuple came and picked us up. they were really nice and we got there car really soggy becasue of our drenching water proofs. he dropped us a the train station which leaves us with a short 15min walk back to the cener. and i finaly got my denim jacket in teh mail today, so all in all it was a really good day off

Even worse welsh down poor

well, if you got the e-mail then you know, i think i'll just copy and past it when i'm not on a fucking iMac. fucking piece of shit, even the fucking keybored is fucking stupid. i'm not in a bad mood i just like to say fuck a lot right now. fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck, ok, i think its out of my fucking system. i wish my system was fucking *wink wink nudge nudge* i was readingthe blogg entry of how melissa's duty nights are jinxed to melissa, holy fuck there are a lot of spelling misakes in that thing. i could barely read it, again when i'm not on a fucking mac i'll change it.
my denim jacket finally came YAY!!!!!!! in it was also socks YAY SOCKS!!!! and pics of family, the carins's and victoria along wiht a small calader of victoria.

anyway, its 11:30 and i'm uckin ghungry, i have to work in the fucking house tomorrow, fuckanyway
ttfn

laurA

why did i finish that like it was an e-mail? must be going crazy

Jinxed

so as i was saying earlier, Melissa's duty nights are jinxed. they keep steadily getting worse and worse. the first problem was that a teacher was complaining about the student that were in the room over his, they were apparently to noise, boo frickity whoo. cry my a river, build a bridge and get over it. (and a side note, the little fuckers who are in the common room beneath me are fucking loud, i can hear and sing along to the music. wow, am i a hipocrit or what?) the duty shift after that someone had an allergic reaction in there eye and a student went 'missing' he was in his girlfriends room for the night, but the girlfriend was in the dorm room with about 6 other girls. he got sent home and she got a talking to. and then another night the power went out, which i believe i've already talked about and then a cuple nights ago now the fire alarm went off. that was great. i was reading in bed and then the alarm goes off, everyone whos in the center are all confused and have no idea where to go, i called Melissa back over since she lives across the road and then we reset and turn off the alarm. we called the fire bregade to tell them not to come and we get an answering machine telling us that there is no one in the building and to leave our name and number. what if the the building was on fire and three students were trapped inside? what then? well then i guess we'd dial 999. yes 999 as apposed to 911.
and thats a very basic story of how Melissa's duty's are jinxed.

the end

Away

Why go on MSN if you're always going to be on 'away' or 'brb'? whats the point? people say they do that so that some people don't talk to them. if you have people that you don't like on your list just block them or delete them *laura finds the next day that she's only has 4 contacts remaining on her list after being deleted from all the rest*
i thought i would have more to rant about that but apparently i don't

so i may not be coming home untill May now. My parentals want to come out in April, and travel and that might be for a bout a month, and then i'll be home for May. Not really happy about gettnig home later and closer to my Birthday but i'd like to travel and Matt threat-ten-ed(fo-net-ic-call spelling) my life if i didn't go to Greece so it looks like i have to go now.

So Florence is pretty much organised for chrimpiss. Don't have a credit card so i the three of us, thats right three, Melissa's friend Robert is showing up for christmas uninvited, after being told not to come, nice guy huh? so the three of us will be paying my parentals back when we get home, but everything is super cheap. our plane ticket to Rome is 2.99 euro's as wells as the trip home, our hostel is only 15eruos a night, which as far as accomodations go is really really cheap, and if any one says any different i'll pop them one, i've been looking on the net for ever.

they have clear umbrellas here! well pretty much clear umbrellas, some have black bands onteh bottom of them and some have small stippy's on them, but still pretty much clear.

GOD THIS MOUSE SUCKS!!!!!!!! i can't stand it. the stupid rolly ball nees to be cleaned every 5 second to work properly, but then if i have to stop to to clean it to get it to work every 5 seconds thats not working properly is it?

talking to AT about being cool and i have worked it out that being cool is becoming far to cool, or popular so soon everyone will want to be not cool and those who are uncool (ie me and AT) will already be there so we will be the most uncool people inturn making us 'cool', but then the problem with that is being uncool will be cool, so then being cool is still the in thing, but it still works in our favor.






down by teh borken tree house, swing me