What I Do

so everyone asks me what it is i do here at the centre. and i thought i wrote a blog about it before but apprently not, maybe it was an e-mail i sent out.
so here it is, my job(s)
Academic:
getting out equipment for tutors (aka teachers)
fixing broken equipment
recording the weather (aka met)
helping tutors in and out of the calss rooms, ie in the feild
morning shop
Kitchen:
washing dishes
drying dishes
cleaning the dining room
cleaning the kitchen
putting out food
basic prep work
House:
cleaning house
Duty:
evening shop
lock up
make sure everyon goes to bed/stays quiet
basic babysitter and takeing care of centre

and then random jobs that people need done, or helping out Eve in the garden
so there it is, my job(s)

Mold (or something like it)

And bugs, did I mentions bugs? No!?
UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN!!!!!
*Laura scratches at skin on arms and legs but feeling wont go away*
so yeah, ew ew ew ew! I was cleaning my room, an the mold is back, with a vengeance!!!!! Well ok, not so much, before the ceiling by the door was almost black, this time it wasn't soooo bad, and when I finished cleaning my room I pulled my dresser out from the wall to get a battery that had fallen behind and I pull it out I notice the wall behind my dresser is black, and the back of the dresser is green and there are little black dots on the green that I mistakenly as mold, guess what?! THEY WERE BUGS!!!!!! BUGS!!!!!!!!! I tried to clean off that mold but my cloth is black and it was just spreading it around.
I have move the essencials (ie blanket pillows clothes etc.) to room 35, mould free and away for Diego, just one of the perks.
I feel so unclean!!! I need a shower, but all my shower stuff is in my room which should be condemned or quarantined or something!!!

fear of pop....i mean mold

Poisonous Frog

Are Poisonous frogs immune to other poisonous frogs? Obviouslt they would be immune to their own species of poisonous frog, how else would they mate? But what if a black and yellow frog thought 'Hey! that red and blue frog is foxy!!' and tried to get it on? Would they do it and then sadly the black and yellow one would die and then would the mother frog not be able to touch her tadpoles because they had the fathers poison? and if the tad poles had the fathers poison when the mother was developing them or 'giving birth' to the tad poles would she die from being in contact with them? Or would they make a whole new poison combining both mother and father? And would those poor frog grow up to be starile like mules, doomed to a life with out sex. Wall, actaully its doomed to a life with no kids, which come to think of it wouldn't be so bad. They could shag every tom dick and hairy and not have to worry about getting pregnant. but if they all shaged tom dick and harry half of them would be gay frogs, and tom dick adn hairy have just got a lot of action, good on ya boys! Well coe to think of it, do frogs take care of their young or do they just poop them out and then swim away?
Are frogs only poisonous on thier backs? if so that would account for only the male dieing and not the female. I wonder what colours teh offspring would be. The poor frogs, only one romp in the perverbial hay and then death. Much like salmon or praying mants's and black widows where the male is quickle killed and devored after teh dirty deed no matter how good he was in the sack.
i wonder how that experssion got started?
Romp or roll int eh hay is very easy to understand but 'in the sack'? are we suppose to believe that men and women once had sex in sacks? or that they still do? Maybe, because, for some odd reason, back in teh day there was always someone with a sack of cats (apprently) and then mistook the cats mateing with them trying to escape which would account for all teh wild cats in the world and that expersion.
that would be weird though












when are you going to understand that "normal" is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage

Animal Crackers

I bought animal crackers today. Why you ask? I have no idea. They are the non festive version of the festive animal crackers that Andy and T and everyone else bought, and I know they are relatively tasteless and mostly bad but I bought them anyway. Andy, I think, eats the monkeys last. Sort of like 'when you eat your smarties do you eat the red ones last'. Well because of being in the knowledge of that, I now have this tiny pile of monkeys on the desk in front of me and these monkeys are a dirty bunch of bugars! I guess they are meant to look like they are climbing a tree, or holding a log, but it looks like they have one leg straight in the air and one hand is.....well....I wont go into that. But it’s dirty!! Well I might have a dirty mind, I’m not sure that’s entirely my fault *looks in Misha's direction* yeah, now i can't look at them, i wont be able to eat them either. I could think of so many wrong things to say right now,
anyway, Andy hope you're happy, you got me eating them last like teh crazy person you are.










monkey see monkey doo

Can't Make Me

You can't make me paint, not to day! No way no how!!So I’m not painting today, yippee! I literally can't do it anymore, and I seriously can't do it when ties flipping white on white, half the time we're asking each other, 'did you do this wall?' and half the time we are answering, 'I don't remember' today I was hoping to be sewing pillow cases but poor Eirlys is under the weather, or so I hear, and can't come in today, which means I can't get the pillow cases I need to sew. Oh well, got a nice little job from Lorna, which is actually taking me a while to do I was hoping to have finished by now, I think it'll take me another 30min or maybe an hour and then I can do the inventory for the shop. If I can't do that I’ll go out and weave the willow class room.
I was so hungry this morning, now its lunch and I don't feel like eating. Pam made this really good soup, might ask if she can save some for me to have for supper. So yeah, nice soup but I just don't feel like eating. There’s also berry crumble, looks so good, but don't feel like eating. Maybe it’s the pancake deficiency. I had a piece of cheese, that should hold me over untill........oh about 5 min from now when i'll be hungry. I’ve had a head ache for the past three days. Maybe it’s from the mold that’s growing in my room again. Which means it never really was gone. Oh joy, I’m going to be going back to Canada with asthma or some lung infection, can't wait.Maybe that’s what I’ll do when I’m done this job for Lorna, try and kill the mold in my room again.I’m so tired. I really wish I had some random thoughts to make you people laugh, but at the moment, being tired and having a head ache interfere.

Oh well back at it I guess











afternoons will be measured out, measured with, coffee spoons

Pankcakes!!!

I want pancakes, oh god i want pancakes!!!! Not Crepes, not waffles, well actaully waffles would be heaven, but theres no waffle iron here so i have to settle for, pancakes. I could make them easy, two problems, the only recipe i know of makes A LOT, and as anynoe will tell you i don't eat A LOT, and the second, no aunt jimima syrup, can't eat pancakes with out aunt jimima, and certainly can't eat them with out syrup in general. At frist i thought, i could just eat them with chocolate spread, but i don't want to eat them with chocolate spread, now i'm thinking, maybe i could eat them with honey. but honey is so sweet. I'll have to go on a hunt for syrup next time im at a big supermarket, why didn't i look when we were in Conwy, stupid stupid girl. Friends from home if you are reading this and you want to make me super happy, send me some syrup, asap!!! i don't know what i'll do with out my delicious pancakes!!!!!
thats a really big picture for a very small post, oh well. shows how much i want 'em. waffles are far superior, but like i said, no iron.









oh my pancakes i love them so! they'll never know, when i hold them in my arms, the world is bright, alllllright!!!!!!!!!

Uh.........

I'm not sure why i made two posts of new years, they are pretty much the same, kind of boreing to have two of the same posts. i guess i thought the first was general and short. In fact i stated that in the post. Like always i don't have much to say, i just feel like typeing and no one is online so here i am playing Mah-Jong Solitair, singing along badly to various stuff and trying to come up with something amusing to say........we could be here all night. I haven't read my book yet, don't feel like it. and i had left over pizza for dinner, didn't feel like cooking. So tomorrow painting, again. great. So flipping tired of painting. I've been painting since mid November and it just wont end!!!!!! tomorrow will be fun *sarcasime* we get to paint white labs, white. um.....whats the point? i was taking stuff down in there today, what they need is stucko and then you can't really tell if they've been painted or not, hey what a great idea.
So lately i've been utterly and completley skint (for you none english speaking peoples that would be broke) 5 euros to my name and various amonts of various change. I've been useing the credit card and Pam and a bunch of others have been kind enough to lend me money. I'll pay them back, just as soon as i get money, re-pay Eirlys and then get money again. oh man. i'm going to owe my parents so much cash when i get home, 'tis sad. I'll have to go back to McDicks *sob* i don't want to go back to that greasy hell hole!!!!!
have you ever wondered where the word utterly came from? or is it udderly? no those are on cows. maybe thats where the word came from, but that doesn't make much sence. wouldn't you expect an Elephant to have udders? well they don't, they have brests, i find that weird. almost every other 4 legged animal has udder type things.....or do they? i haven't looked, why would i? that would be weird to say the least, like this topic of........conversation. well no its not a conversation is it, its me typeing and you, presumably, hopefully, reading.
Why in almost all religious paintings and work of art are people naked? And why ar they always so small? i mean both men down there and women up there. If thats what was desired back then things have REALLY changed.
must change subject
actually that is an interesting topic. Back in the day, slightly large pale women were desirable, now its really thin and tanned people. have you ever thought why that was? I think it's becuase back then if you were large that ment you had the money for the food, and if you were pale you didn't do manula labour out side. Now, if you are pale it means you work, and if you are tanned you have time for vacations. not sure about the thin thing though. I'm not huge, but i'm not all that thin either, well, i am thin, i guess, but i still think that desireing really thin women is not healthy towards those women. how do you think anorexia and belima came about?
ok, the well has run dry for now
NO! it hasn't!!! i was watching this programe on BBC2, called three men in a boat. they are going around the thames in a skiff, and where they are is so beautiful. When the parentals come out in april we're going to rent a boat and veg and hang out for a week i think, so far they don't know where to go, maybe Llangollen (no its not pronounced lan-go-len) but i think this trip looks neat, only problem, i can't find a bloddy map of where they are going on the thames to show my parentals, oh well ces la vie
ok NOW the well has run dry and i should probably make my way down to my room seeing as its 11:00 and i have to get up early, but like you care.










It might be a quarter life crisis, justa a stirrin in my soul

Andy or T (and various stuff)

Hey guys, why would you make a comment but not leave an e-mail address, or who it was. i know it was either Andy or T becuase of the Tulula comment in the comment. This place will seem so dull with out you guys.
Back to work today, joy *thumbs down* i got to prep the class rooms/labs for painting which means i got to take down all the posters and various maps in 4 classes and anyone who works here will tell you that its no small task. my fingures are raw (well soar [or is it sore?]) from the thumb tacks, and theres cob webs in my hair on and my jeans. Remember in the mummy returns when Brenden Fraser pulls down that wall of cob webs, yeah, well some bits are like that, only not as solid, problem is i can't reach it, being short. Stupidly i didn't look for a latter, but that will be tomorrows job. for now its time to cook dinner (hm....eat two apples or cook some potatos???) and then finish reading the book i started yesturday.
i'm reading books fast these days, last book i read took about 5 days, the book i'm reading now will take maybe another hour or three and then what do i do? i need a book to read to remain sane. well sane-ish
anyway, tummy's grumbling and books a callin'









how did you get my blog address in the first place??? curious

More indepther New Years starting from 3days ago

the night ed came home was the day after/day of staying up all night to get my clock back to normal so around 11 i was pretty nakered, and was going to go to bed, then Sally and Paul (Ed's buds) invite me to hang out with them in the games room, sur why not, i ahven't seen people for 4 days so i hang out with them untill abuot 1am and can't sleep untill 3am, because its so cold. Ed's friends figured out the whole heating system buisness so now everything included my room is warm again, YAY HEAT!
the next day i hang out with them again, they all went to bed at 11 except Me, Andy and T (more of Ed's friends) and they stay up drinking untill about 2 or 3 and i stay up listening to there funny stories, they weren't drunk, just getting there. They remind me of At and Rog, and this guy named Rob reminds me of Al
all these people are 21 or old, Andy is 21, T is 23 and everyone else is about 24-25. they all knew i was 18 because Ed told them, and told them to be nice adn to watch out for me
they are so nice i'm going to be so sad when they leave
Pam and Jon come home a day ofter Ed, i was sooooooooooo happy to see pam, and she me (i think, lol
so yesturday Pam, Jon, Rob, Andy and I go to the Beacon to go rock climbing, well Andy watched. 'twas good, my arms were nackered right away (help i'm being assimilated into the british slang!!!!) then we come home and everyone else is at teh pub, so Jon adn Pam go home and Rob, Andy and i go down to the pub, everyone has tea, except me, we had lunch around 3, i'm eating so much fish and chips its amazing. pre cemebration drinks are bought. I'm skint so everyone offeres to get me tea and drinks (tea = dinner, skint = broke) sooo nice!!!!!!!!!!!anyway, everyone else went to go climb snowdon but there was like a snow storm thing going on up there so they bailed, we all got be to the center around 6 or 7 everyone has naps.
Pete, who also lives across the road, is having a party for new years, and we were told to go down at 9, around 8:30 i manage to fianlly get out of my room all ready to go, go down stairs to tehgames room theres Sally, T, Andy, Paul and um...i forget his name just ahning out, and so we're down there untill about 1/4 to 10 when Ed coems over to get us and the booze the guys bought earlier that day, 3 cases of 20 of logger, and a case of 12 of smirnof. apparently i was suppose to drink all teh smirnoff, yeah right. so we all show up at Petes, hang out there, they keep handing me smirnoff and saying 'you don't have to do anything you don't want but you have to drink this' aw thanks guys
right
fireworks at midnight, almost everyone sufficiantly smashed, fire works going off everywhere, a small piece of a red one comes streaking towards me and pam, we scream it hits me sholders (i think) and then disappears, i'm fine, scared me though, but other than that, i'm fine my clothes are fine too.
after, the party starts to die down a bit and Andy, this huge slim version of nick, but looks like a biker likes to dance, so we go back to the center he clears everything for a dance floor and everyone, well 4 to 6 of us, continues to dance, Paul taught me drinking games, ie 'fuzzy duck, and around 6 we end up going to bed, i got up at 4pm.

and that was bascially my new years

Happy New Years

Happy New Years!!!I hope you'rs was as fantastic as mine. About three days ago, ED showed up with a bunch of his friends, yippee people! anyway, got along with them right away. the first night i was going to go to bed around 11 but then a few of them invited me to hang out with them so i did and was up untill 3, that was the day i decided to stay up all night and go to bed early to get my clock back on track. Anyway have hung out with them since, and they are all soooo funny. Two of them remind me of Athur and Roger, one of them is a bit like Alistair so it kind of feels like hanging out with my buddies from home. Anyway, we were shopping and Andy (he's a huge guy, looks like a biker, really nice [they all are so nice]) they picked up about 3 cases of 20 of beer, well of logger, pronounced, laaaaaaggu. lol.
For the whole time they've been here they've been trying to get me to drink with them but i don't like beer, so Andy said to get a case of what ever i want...........uh...............juice? so i picked up a case of Smirnoff, hopeing that other people with drink it too.
So we go to petes, theres about 12 of use comeing over from the center and we show up and theres like no one there, and then we all show up and there ends up being barely anyroom to move in Pete's house. Ass soon as we got there Jo L, came 'running' over and we had a good talk for a little while. It was good, last time she was up i didn't really see her. she also did her famous laugh, which sends me into histarics adn the rest of Ed's friends as well.
Pete lives across the road in the hosue next door to Mel, only its smaller.
Haveing an awesome time, then we go out side for fireworks and one comes and hits me in the sholder. don't worry, it was a small piece, and it went out right away and i'm fine.
so yeah. go back inside they keep handing me 'my' smirinoff telling me that i don't have to do anything i don't want but i have to drink, lol. and then pam told me to never trust a guy whos trying to get me drunk.
so the party starts to die so we go back to the center and Andy likes to dance so we clear a dance floor down in the cellar. i think the 12 of them decimated the enitre three boxs they bought. i had help with my box, i only have 2 left, and i gave away 2, no 3. we all went to bed around 6am, and i only got out of bed at 4. Might take a pic of them before they leave tomorrow. They all asked what i did for chirstmas and what i had for chirstmas dinner, i told them i was here by myself, and ate chocolate spread on bread, and one of them i think T, said if he had known me then he would hav brought my dinner, and then Andy said if he had known me he would have brought me along to his house for christmas. lol. Andy, the scarey biker looking guy is an english teacher. i wonder if his students are afriand of him.
Yesturday, Pam Jon, Rob (the guy who reminds me of Al) and andy went rock climbing at the Beacon, well, andy watched. twas good, my arms were dead almost right away. still awesome
Me new years was awesome!! amazing!!!
uh yeah, that seems like a really short blog entry for how good a time i had, oh well










Happy New Year to all and to all a good morning