From the monthly archives:

December 2006

Merry Christmas!

by admin on December 27, 2006

Well, that was fun.

Christmas Eve we all did the present thing, just the one’s from each other. All that’s springing to mind at the moment is a wooden model house my grandpa made, a Diva gift voucher from my auntie and uncle and a pair of really pretty green earrings. Also I got a Cars activity pack from Jack cause I’d been wanting the DVD. Now I can do dot-to-dot’s and colour in all day long. Yay.

Christmas morning we got our Santa presents. I got a really good scrapbooking album for all of my photos from Japan. I’ve already sorted them all out into like which ones I want to print and stuff. I’m actually really looking forward to sticking them all together and stuff. Which is actually quite pathetic, I know. But whatever.

Jack and Harry got a PS2 for Christmas, so they’ve been on that pretty much continuously. I’ve proved that I can’t drive on the stupid thing (memories of zigzaging down the street bouncing off cop cars come to mind), although there was that one where I lost to Jack only by half a second. The fact that he’d spent a good two minutes doing donuts is completely irrelevant.

A joint present for the three of us was the board game Cranium, which is so funny. Just finished a game now that involved Gran thrashing around on the floor trying to mime out wrestling in a Charades part. Very amusing. Another funny part involved Dad trying to hum Who Let the Dogs Out? and Gran choking on her tea and spending about five minutes up in the bathroom spluttering. That sounds mean, but it was funny. Even she was laughing. Which I guess was kind of the problem in the first place, but whatever.

Other than that we haven’t done very much… ate too much (bet you didn’t see THAT coming) and had our neighbours up. Like practically every other household in Australia, we are currently wondering whether or not we will ever get through the enormous chunk of pig that has taken up residence in our fridge. Also why on earth we bought so much when we hardly made a dent in the stupid thing on Christmas Day.

But I guess that’s Christmas for you.
Also, what’s up with the weather? It’s like mid-winter, only it’s Christmas. Ew. I should not be wearing jeans. AND I AM!!! Something is seriously wrong. Maybe we’re heading for a second Ice Age, like in The Day After Tomorrow.

Or maybe not.

Okay, bye.
Happy New Year.

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Almost Christmas…

by admin on December 20, 2006

Hello

5 days ‘til Christmas!! Yayness. We walked down to Boab Street last night to look at the Christmas lights which were great as always. I think we’re driving around to all the other ones tonight. I love looking at all the lights, it makes me feel Chistmassy.

Um, what else?

It’s been exactly 2 weeks and one hour since I got home from Japan. I started going through all of my photos, but only got through to about 280 or so out of 1100, so there’s still quite a ways to go. I might attempt to publish a couple on here later on. It’s funny going through though, cause I started going hypo looking at the photo I took when we first arrived at the school because I was just so excited I had to do SOMETHING. Yes, very exciting.

On the subject of Japan, I’m listening to SMAP at the moment. God, they’re hilarious. Simple is playing at the moment and it’s so random, all of a sudden it’ll just be all “Simple!” for no apparent reason. Except they pronounce it “shinpuru”. It’s kind of cute. In a really weird sort of way.

Good times, good times.

So, what else to say??? I’ve been reading Crime and Punishment, which is now officially disgusting. Some nutjob murdered an old lady and her little sister. And yes, plenty of graphic descriptions about exactly how he used the ax to murder them. Ew. Ew, ew, ew, ew, ew.

Gross. Okay, now I’m going to go and finish watching Titanic.

Bye.

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Back home

by admin on December 16, 2006

Howdily Doodily

So, I’m back in the country, depressing as that is. What news have I got…?

I watched the season finale of House yesturday. SOOO good. Although the part where he tore that bloke’s stomach out was the most disgusting thing I’ve ever seen. Closely followed by when the same guys eyeball popped out. Ew. Who comes up with all this stuff?? Seriously.

My cousins are coming to stay tonight. I hope we don’t have a repeat of last time, when my room was overrun by enormous mutant spiders the size of dinner plates. And yeah, that may have been exaggerated just a teeny weeny little bit.

I have absolutely nothing to say, so I’m going to go now.

Bye.

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Laura (Sarah and Kara)’s How To of Flying From a Foreign Country – Without Getting Arrested and/or Deported

by admin on December 10, 2006

Due to my complete lack of creativity (I’m still blaming jet lag) I have decided to make a list of… lists.

See? Told you I was creative.

How to check in successfully

1. Have someone in your group (Hi Sarah!!) wear completely adorable clothing. We found that three pairs of pants, a huge Hello Kitty purse around your neck, a 40cm Piccachu under one arm and a fluro pink pillow under the other work well for getting you past stingy weight limits when your group of three is over by 18kg, especially when accompanied with an adorable fringe and pig tails.
2. Just smile sweetly when the airport ladies start going “Kawaii, kawaii” (“Cute, cute”) and you’ll get out of the extra weight fees.
3. When they ask you if you need any help getting to the gate, wave them off with a breezy “Oh, we’ll get there eventually”. This will secure you a map. (And we suspect this may have also helped us with the baggage limit, because they felt so sorry for us in all our patheticness.)
How to entertain yourself in an airport
1. Eat Macca’s (my last meal in Japan – sad huh?).
2. Go shopping.
3. Cartwheel and skip through the departure lounge. (Best attempted only when the entire place is deserted.)
How to navigate the maze that is Narita Airport
1. See earlier comment about smiling at the check in ladies to get a map.
2. Follow said map.
3. I think I should mention that we managed to get through the entire place INCLUDING in-airport train without getting lost. Sort of. But we didn’t miss the plane, so I guess we did okay. (Just a little bit of blantant self-congratulations there. But whatever, we so totally deserve it.)
How to entertain yourself on long flights (or at the very least stop yourself from going completely insane)

1. Sleep. (You’d think I’d follow my own stinking advice, but NOOOOO. Laura had to stay awake. All freaking night.)
2. a) Watch the movie, even if it’s crappy.
b) Laugh hysterically at all jokes, even if you don’t find them funny.
c) Insult the movie when that is just not possible. Analyse the movie. (Case in point: You, Me and Dupree, when Kate Hudon’s husband – in the movie, not real life, who actually looks a lot like Shrek in Shrek 2 when he took the Happily Ever After potion and became a human – launched himself across the dining room table in an attempt to kill his best friend. That was just disturbing. But analysing it took up quite a bit of time.)
3. Obsess about how much the guy in the seat behind you is typing, supposedly into his laptop ALL NIGHT. Realise at about 4am that it’s actually the window rattling and the guy in question is potentially in a coma.
Wow, that was pointless.
But whatever. I’m on holidays.
2 months?? Hello! They’re supposed to be pointless!!

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Rora yori.

by admin on December 1, 2006

Hi.

Okay. I:m going to attempt to explain the unexplainable. Sarah, Kara and I have been trying all week, but with zilch to show for it. So I figured I may as well try again. Here goes:

I want to go home, but I don:t.

I:ve been here for almost three months now, so even though I:ve had an absolutely fantabulous time here, I:m sort of ready to go home. I miss everyone and just Australia-land generally. Especially the food. I could so go for some of Mum:s chicken pasta bake right about now. Actually I could pretty much go anything that doesn:t involve chopsticks or rice.

But on the other hand, the past three months have been the most AMAZING, INCREDIBLE and just generally FAN-DIDDILY-TASTIC (Be warned, this is what too much of ‘The Simpsons’ does to you) three months of my life. I:ll really be sad to go, knowing that chances are I:ll never see these incredible people or places ever again. Which is a real bummer. I love everyone here so much, they:ve all been so nice to me (despite the whole ‘kawaii’ / ‘herro’ thing) and I:m really going to miss them. Alot.

It:s also going to be really depressing going back to good ol’ Elanora High after this. Pretty much all we:ve been able to say about it recently is ‘Elanora’s a hole’. And yeah, I know, it:s not THAT bad. But Yokosuka Sogo High School is THAT GOOD.

Eargh. This is frustrating me.

Although I guess what I:m trying to say is this:-

I:m looking forward to going home, but I:m going to miss this place A LOT.

I:m going to cry when we leave, I can feel it.

Aw, geez.

P.S. Kara has taken to calling me ro-ra lately, which is the Japanese-ised version of my name. I have to say I find this somewhat disturbing.

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