To be fair, really haven't been leaving the house all that infrequently, as have been attending many many internationals events. Including hilarious pool party, and various sporting competitions which would have been more hilarious should I have attempted to take part.
And...today Mim and I had the pleasure of one of Frannies open days which was a lot of fun! It's always good to have a little look inside the place where a friend spends a lot of their time. Was cool.
Vix
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Actually have job!
Crazy, crazyness. Since dispatching dentistry and no longer spending my days in the hospital of doom, have taken to leaving the house infrequently.
However, I now have a job! Albeit part time, and in telesales...Beware the general public!!!
Vix
However, I now have a job! Albeit part time, and in telesales...Beware the general public!!!
Vix
The Longest Day
Yesterday was a long hard day in Romania-land.
We completed FIVE activities yesterday (its a new record)!!!!
Generally we don't like to set ourselves too many tasks in a day - lest we fail and then we feel sad. But as yesterday was the longest day of the year we thought we'd go for it!!
1. Hospital placment
Yes this counts as an activity...and in fact yesterday we were in for over 3hrs!! And did lots so thats a definite big activity point for us!!
2. Lunch in the park
This too counts - especially the getting to the park bit - which involved one very very squished bus journey. Everything here seems to take three times as long as it does in the UK!
3. Swimming with two girls from the christian union. That was a definite add to the list of Romania experiences activity! The grubby yellow slime round the water line and all over the bottom of the pool and the hilarity of trying to get a swimming cap on my head (and then having to be seen in public) all brought joy to the day!
4. Dinner at susan's house (though getting to her house could be counted as an activity in itself - it was quite and adventure!). Proper meal with meat in (my Iron levels are being filled up well out here - enough to survive another year in our house i reckon!!) and lots of fun company. Much hilarity playing PIT which involves lots of shouting and mean tactics!! Heeeheee I love it!!
5. Phone conversation with the non-stupid, very beautiful vix! With the added joy of further serenading from the fobbit! Yet again i endured the stares of Romania's watching a crazy english Hannah lady getting very excited during the conversation.
As a result the Hannah Lady is incredible tired today and will hopefully sleep well in her bed on the train tonight as she travels to the beautiful place of Timisoara with her companions zoezoe and whitters.
love you
xxx
We completed FIVE activities yesterday (its a new record)!!!!
Generally we don't like to set ourselves too many tasks in a day - lest we fail and then we feel sad. But as yesterday was the longest day of the year we thought we'd go for it!!
1. Hospital placment
Yes this counts as an activity...and in fact yesterday we were in for over 3hrs!! And did lots so thats a definite big activity point for us!!
2. Lunch in the park
This too counts - especially the getting to the park bit - which involved one very very squished bus journey. Everything here seems to take three times as long as it does in the UK!
3. Swimming with two girls from the christian union. That was a definite add to the list of Romania experiences activity! The grubby yellow slime round the water line and all over the bottom of the pool and the hilarity of trying to get a swimming cap on my head (and then having to be seen in public) all brought joy to the day!
4. Dinner at susan's house (though getting to her house could be counted as an activity in itself - it was quite and adventure!). Proper meal with meat in (my Iron levels are being filled up well out here - enough to survive another year in our house i reckon!!) and lots of fun company. Much hilarity playing PIT which involves lots of shouting and mean tactics!! Heeeheee I love it!!
5. Phone conversation with the non-stupid, very beautiful vix! With the added joy of further serenading from the fobbit! Yet again i endured the stares of Romania's watching a crazy english Hannah lady getting very excited during the conversation.
As a result the Hannah Lady is incredible tired today and will hopefully sleep well in her bed on the train tonight as she travels to the beautiful place of Timisoara with her companions zoezoe and whitters.
love you
xxx
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Fatty Europian girls!
The girls of this house took one for the fatty white girls of the west this evening. Had many varieties of Chinese food with many tiny tiny asian Chinese/Taiwanese girls.
Must say Fran, Lou and Mim sitting opposite me took up about the same space as the eight chinese girls sitting next to me. Funny thing is Lou and Mim are particularly tiny varieties of Western girls. Work that one out.
Vix
Must say Fran, Lou and Mim sitting opposite me took up about the same space as the eight chinese girls sitting next to me. Funny thing is Lou and Mim are particularly tiny varieties of Western girls. Work that one out.
Vix
Counting Sheep
How do you count sheep?
Random question I know but zoezoe and I made this bizarre discovery:
I count sheep by imagining them jumping over a gate one by one.
Zoezoe counts sheep by imagining a field of them and counting all the sheep in the field.
Weird...i just assumed that everyone counted sheep like me, but zoezoe's way makes more sense than my way.
Hmm....How do you people count sheep?
Other than the sheep discovery...we have been sweltering away here the last few day, but its the kind of heat thats too hot to sit out in...tricky!
We are thinking of going to an outdoor swimming pool sometime this week...but we need to do research and find out which one has the least number of naked people at it! Also tricky!
Love you
Hxxx
Random question I know but zoezoe and I made this bizarre discovery:
I count sheep by imagining them jumping over a gate one by one.
Zoezoe counts sheep by imagining a field of them and counting all the sheep in the field.
Weird...i just assumed that everyone counted sheep like me, but zoezoe's way makes more sense than my way.
Hmm....How do you people count sheep?
Other than the sheep discovery...we have been sweltering away here the last few day, but its the kind of heat thats too hot to sit out in...tricky!
We are thinking of going to an outdoor swimming pool sometime this week...but we need to do research and find out which one has the least number of naked people at it! Also tricky!
Love you
Hxxx
Sunday, June 18, 2006
Apology for failure
A house apology goes out to the Fathers of the girls of this house for our general lack of appreciatiation. Apart from Mim who was inspired to run out and get a card for her Dad, to celebrate Fathers day, when he announced that he was to visit yesterday, no other Fathers of this house have yet recieved a card.
We do all love our Fathers very muchly, we know we're rubbish.
No more to be said!
Vix
We do all love our Fathers very muchly, we know we're rubbish.
No more to be said!
Vix
Saturday, June 17, 2006
Project Work
Well no one seems to have written in the blog for a whole day!!
What's going on? I fear that all my beloved housemates may have been abducted by aliens or burnt the house down!!
What to say...
Have done approx half of my project now (how i love waffle!!) actually looks quite good...lots of little pictures and tables! Still haven't found a computer in this land with power point on it though..slightly problematic as project is meant to be submitted as power point (think we need to tell Alcolado that we're going to submit it as a word document!)
Obviously its all the horrible research parts that are left to do!
We have taken hostage of Aidan's and Whitney's laptops for the purpose of project work and have invaded Whitney's house for the day to use her internet...so at last we have been somewhat productive! Though I am getting incredibly BOOOORRRREEEEDDDDD now - only so many hours a Hannah Lady can work for!
Though the tennis is providing welcome distraction (though Tim Henman has just lost - bad line call meant he lost his serve and then he kind of collapsed! Nightmare!...bring on Wimbledon!)
Just realised its Fathers day tomorrow...slightly tricky due to several reasons
i) no way can a card get from here to home in less than 12hrs
ii) my parents are on holiday in France so i can't even do the phone home thing
Ah well yet another father's day will slip by unrecognised by me...my poor dad.
Am getting ever closer to working out how to put pictures on this thing....give me a few more weeks!!!
Love you xxxx
What's going on? I fear that all my beloved housemates may have been abducted by aliens or burnt the house down!!
What to say...
Have done approx half of my project now (how i love waffle!!) actually looks quite good...lots of little pictures and tables! Still haven't found a computer in this land with power point on it though..slightly problematic as project is meant to be submitted as power point (think we need to tell Alcolado that we're going to submit it as a word document!)
Obviously its all the horrible research parts that are left to do!
We have taken hostage of Aidan's and Whitney's laptops for the purpose of project work and have invaded Whitney's house for the day to use her internet...so at last we have been somewhat productive! Though I am getting incredibly BOOOORRRREEEEDDDDD now - only so many hours a Hannah Lady can work for!
Though the tennis is providing welcome distraction (though Tim Henman has just lost - bad line call meant he lost his serve and then he kind of collapsed! Nightmare!...bring on Wimbledon!)
Just realised its Fathers day tomorrow...slightly tricky due to several reasons
i) no way can a card get from here to home in less than 12hrs
ii) my parents are on holiday in France so i can't even do the phone home thing
Ah well yet another father's day will slip by unrecognised by me...my poor dad.
Am getting ever closer to working out how to put pictures on this thing....give me a few more weeks!!!
Love you xxxx
Thursday, June 15, 2006
Beautiful day!
Today has truely been a beautiful day!
Spend most afternoon in boat on Roath lake with Busted Joe and Ioney, ah.
Only forgot camera, nightmare.
So instead am attaching a beautiful picture of one of the many beautiful flowers in our garden, as a symbolic picture of my day!
Vix
P.s If anyone can tell me the name of this flower, would be appreciated muchly.
Spend most afternoon in boat on Roath lake with Busted Joe and Ioney, ah.
Only forgot camera, nightmare.
So instead am attaching a beautiful picture of one of the many beautiful flowers in our garden, as a symbolic picture of my day!
Vix
P.s If anyone can tell me the name of this flower, would be appreciated muchly.
Our First Visitor!
Today was a very special and beautiful day. We entertained our first guest in our humble place of residence. The visitor's identity shall be kept secret for speculation's sake.
I spent an hour with said guest helping put up posters advertising OSCEB's (the Romanian CU) english camp this summer, we went wandering around all the other student halls near where zoezoe and i live, it was quite exciting and we found lots of bars and restaurants that i'd not discovered before!!
I was zoezoe's kitchen slave for the afternoon and chopped up lots of onions that made me cry and helped her(well kind of hovered around her really) prepare the delicious two course meal! We put our visitor to work (in traditional heathfield style) giving them the manly task of opening the cans with zoezoe's ever trusty penknife!
We had huge amounts of yummy nachos and wraps with re-fried beans and salsa, delicious and nutricious. I feel a proper fatty tonight!!
Then we came with our guest to cafe-nescu, we have sat them with some other friends infront of the stupid football (there's some football thing going on at the moment apparently!) and we are now doing "research" for our projects! (its going really well hence the blogging!- its called procrastination i believe!)
Love you Girlies
Mwa
xxxxxxxxxxx
I spent an hour with said guest helping put up posters advertising OSCEB's (the Romanian CU) english camp this summer, we went wandering around all the other student halls near where zoezoe and i live, it was quite exciting and we found lots of bars and restaurants that i'd not discovered before!!
I was zoezoe's kitchen slave for the afternoon and chopped up lots of onions that made me cry and helped her(well kind of hovered around her really) prepare the delicious two course meal! We put our visitor to work (in traditional heathfield style) giving them the manly task of opening the cans with zoezoe's ever trusty penknife!
We had huge amounts of yummy nachos and wraps with re-fried beans and salsa, delicious and nutricious. I feel a proper fatty tonight!!
Then we came with our guest to cafe-nescu, we have sat them with some other friends infront of the stupid football (there's some football thing going on at the moment apparently!) and we are now doing "research" for our projects! (its going really well hence the blogging!- its called procrastination i believe!)
Love you Girlies
Mwa
xxxxxxxxxxx
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Deserted, again
It is a Wednesday evening in the house. I have just returned from Rainbows to find that all my housemates have found something exciting to do with their evening.
Iona, Mim and I have just spent a lovely few days on the Gower peninsula. As it is not the weekend the place was nearly deserted and the beaches very quiet.
Monday evening:
We arrived at the campsite and pitched our tent before walking down the road to Rhossili village to the pub. Upon arrival at the campsite we discovered that a group of college students from the noisier end of the neighbour spectrum were also camping there.
Tuesday:
Having awoken early due to heat, lack of space and noise we started our breakfast only to discover that the gas stove bit and the gas cannister were not compatible and sat down for our breakfast of marmite and cheese on bread. A very lovely gentleman in a nearby caravan kindly made us some coffee. We set out for the beach for a morning swim armed only with a towel and bathing stuff. After a nice walk along the cliffs we found a lush little bay (can't tell you the name in case it gets too well known.)
We quickly clambered down the rocks and changed into our swimming stuff. In the bay with us were a school group (we think) and some instructors- they were all wearing wetsuits, buoyancy aids and helmets. Running past them into the water in our bikinis drew lots of applause and encouragement! We spent lots of time jumping through the waves and got very cold, but stayed in to prove a point to the other group who were doing exactly the same thing as us only in slightly shallower water.
After lunch and coffee (we bought a different cannister) we went to Rhossili bay and sat on the beach with books and ate ice cream.
I've run out of inspiration I'm afraid and so will continue the story of our holiday when I can think of something to say.
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
URRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
urrrggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh! This word simply does not begin to describe the overall mingingness of my house work today...
... Cardiff has, once again, been blessed with rain:) The plants and vegetables were all pleased and lapped it up. However, the beasts (aka snails and slugs) also appreciated the rain. These beasts are not any old beasts they are HUGE and ugly and slimey and where there are as many as there were today the Fobbit just can't cope. My job was to Kill the beasts! (A slow, painful, organic death in salt water for those interested)
Urrrggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh! Involves Fobbit like activity including: 1) a loud noise 2) vibration through the whole body 3) tensing of the whole body 4) hyperventilation.
Such is the power of the word that it is still having an effect thinking about it hours later... TRICKY!
Lou xx
... Cardiff has, once again, been blessed with rain:) The plants and vegetables were all pleased and lapped it up. However, the beasts (aka snails and slugs) also appreciated the rain. These beasts are not any old beasts they are HUGE and ugly and slimey and where there are as many as there were today the Fobbit just can't cope. My job was to Kill the beasts! (A slow, painful, organic death in salt water for those interested)
Urrrggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh! Involves Fobbit like activity including: 1) a loud noise 2) vibration through the whole body 3) tensing of the whole body 4) hyperventilation.
Such is the power of the word that it is still having an effect thinking about it hours later... TRICKY!
Lou xx
Wedding Day!! Romanian style!
Hello,
I'm not feeling particularly inspired today, but i feel that someone else ought to be adding posts other than poor old abandonned vix!
So Zoezoe and I went up to Brasov this weekend for the wedding of two of my friends from my time here before! It was a beautiful rainy day! The bride was only 15minutes late! The flower girl was grumpy and the ring bearer (aged 4yrs) fell asleep!! I also am lammenting the loss of the beautiful body of the best man...who has gained 20kg in weight over the past 10months!(its so sad!!)
Anyway...It was actually a really lovely service, Dan (the groom who is British) said his vows in Romanian and Simona (the bride, who is Romanian) said her vows in English....it was beautiful...i cried!!
The reception afterwards was true Romanian style...six course meal served over 11hours with lots and lots of dancing in between each course (yes i did have to dance with the sweaty, minging, drunk, middle-aged, next-door neighbour too many times! Ugh!!) We also had dancing waiters, lots and lots of lush traditional Romanian food...stuffed cabbage, meat, mamiliga (maize stuff) and deep fat fried vegetables! (its good - we should try it!!) Then the men plotted and stole the bride and the groom had to go and chase them and bring them all beer in exchange for his bride! (Dan looked really upset when Simona was taken away!- Bless!)
It was great though, Dan and Simona both worked at the house in Brasov where i was a volunteer in my gap year working with special needs kids and young adults, and a lot of the kids and their parents came to the wedding and reception, so i got to see them all too, and it was a lovely atmosphere, all the kids from the house were dancing (we even got the people in wheelchairs on the dance floor and spun them around) and all the people from church (who agree with dancing) were dancing and then lots of us volunteers from the house were there especially for the wedding, and then all of Simona and Dan's families were there...it was lovely lovely day...if a little long....zoezoe and i were very very tired by the end of the evening.
Right thats about all for now...i'm going home for a nap! ( we might have been talking till very late last night!...oops)
The Hannah Lady
I'm not feeling particularly inspired today, but i feel that someone else ought to be adding posts other than poor old abandonned vix!
So Zoezoe and I went up to Brasov this weekend for the wedding of two of my friends from my time here before! It was a beautiful rainy day! The bride was only 15minutes late! The flower girl was grumpy and the ring bearer (aged 4yrs) fell asleep!! I also am lammenting the loss of the beautiful body of the best man...who has gained 20kg in weight over the past 10months!(its so sad!!)
Anyway...It was actually a really lovely service, Dan (the groom who is British) said his vows in Romanian and Simona (the bride, who is Romanian) said her vows in English....it was beautiful...i cried!!
The reception afterwards was true Romanian style...six course meal served over 11hours with lots and lots of dancing in between each course (yes i did have to dance with the sweaty, minging, drunk, middle-aged, next-door neighbour too many times! Ugh!!) We also had dancing waiters, lots and lots of lush traditional Romanian food...stuffed cabbage, meat, mamiliga (maize stuff) and deep fat fried vegetables! (its good - we should try it!!) Then the men plotted and stole the bride and the groom had to go and chase them and bring them all beer in exchange for his bride! (Dan looked really upset when Simona was taken away!- Bless!)
It was great though, Dan and Simona both worked at the house in Brasov where i was a volunteer in my gap year working with special needs kids and young adults, and a lot of the kids and their parents came to the wedding and reception, so i got to see them all too, and it was a lovely atmosphere, all the kids from the house were dancing (we even got the people in wheelchairs on the dance floor and spun them around) and all the people from church (who agree with dancing) were dancing and then lots of us volunteers from the house were there especially for the wedding, and then all of Simona and Dan's families were there...it was lovely lovely day...if a little long....zoezoe and i were very very tired by the end of the evening.
Right thats about all for now...i'm going home for a nap! ( we might have been talking till very late last night!...oops)
The Hannah Lady
Monday, June 12, 2006
Medicine, the doss subject!
Whoever said medicine was hard, certainly not me.
The medics are currently on their 'SSE', otherwise known as their structured summer holiday, apparently their course doesn't break up for the summer untill the end of July. Untill then they have to spend their time reading books and visiting the museum, big pit and other local attractions.
They have just left us for a camping trip.
All these activities are an attempt to turn them into well rounded individuals, less likely to kill off all their patients. In my opinion it is an attempt to give them a stress free holiday, because they won't have time to get a job like normal students. Meanwile, Louise continues in the hospital of doom, with the challenges of daily life, to complex to be reduced to a citing on the blog.
And I, well I have my 'Case Reports' due in, what more can I say?
Do I sound bitter, do I, do I????
Vix
The medics are currently on their 'SSE', otherwise known as their structured summer holiday, apparently their course doesn't break up for the summer untill the end of July. Untill then they have to spend their time reading books and visiting the museum, big pit and other local attractions.
They have just left us for a camping trip.
All these activities are an attempt to turn them into well rounded individuals, less likely to kill off all their patients. In my opinion it is an attempt to give them a stress free holiday, because they won't have time to get a job like normal students. Meanwile, Louise continues in the hospital of doom, with the challenges of daily life, to complex to be reduced to a citing on the blog.
And I, well I have my 'Case Reports' due in, what more can I say?
Do I sound bitter, do I, do I????
Vix
Sunday, June 11, 2006
Baptisms
Was Georges baptisms today!
Before:
After:
Was awesome, love George to pieces! Super Godly girl!
Vix.
Before:
After:
Was awesome, love George to pieces! Super Godly girl!
Vix.
Saturday, June 10, 2006
Birthday Bash
Just returned from sis's B'day
Happy B'day Gem!
not the best picture, sure she'll kill me.
And got to hang out with my parents
Ah, what a lovely couple!
Well, better get on with the dredded coursework.
Vix
Happy B'day Gem!
not the best picture, sure she'll kill me.
And got to hang out with my parents
Ah, what a lovely couple!
Well, better get on with the dredded coursework.
Vix
Friday, June 09, 2006
Sunshine
The house has worryingly become a picture of quiet domesticity. The kitchen and lounge were cleaned thoroughly yesterday and Mim is baking bread. With two members of the house away it seems unusually quiet and empty. Vix is away this evening as well so Mim and I will be the rejects left behind.
Since our beach trip on Wednesday (which I'll leave Mim to write about as she knows how to put pictures on this thing) nothing much has happened. Vix has been doing lots of work, she's at the library at the moment supposedly studying. The plethora of emails from her tell a slightly different story.
xx
Thursday, June 08, 2006
Well its me again - i've been a bit obssessed with blogging this week!
I have returned again to the little Cafenescu which supplies lush coffees and friendly people (who don't laugh at me too much when i mistakedly asked for two journey's instead of two computers the other night - oops!) and internet!
It is early in the morning (well 11:30) Why am i not in the hospital with smelly Mr-Doctor man i hear you cry?? I've been banned for the rest of the week!!! Hehe!! Freedom!! I have a cold and temperature and sore throat and am coughing and spluttering and sniffiling and smelly doctor man has banished me. Unfortunately for zoezoe she doesn't have the described cold so has braved the world of the hospital on her lone-some!Meanwhile i am here, taking up residence in the internet cafe for the day!
Thankyou has to be said to the Fobbit who serenaded me beautifully the other night - was much appreciated. I was very sad when the phone cut me and vix off mid conversation..apparently when the phone card speaks to me and says i have 30 minutes credit left to use, this means you can only talk for 21.27mins and the first warning you get is when the phone goes dead - no warning beeps or anything. Nightmare!!
Last night zoezoe read to me from her story book in a north waleian (walian?Walesian?) accent! It was a beautiful moment! However her soothing story reading voice wasn't enough to get me to sleep...i heard her gentle sleep breathing sounds as i was tossing and turning....
....Why i couldn't sleep:
I have returned again to the little Cafenescu which supplies lush coffees and friendly people (who don't laugh at me too much when i mistakedly asked for two journey's instead of two computers the other night - oops!) and internet!
It is early in the morning (well 11:30) Why am i not in the hospital with smelly Mr-Doctor man i hear you cry?? I've been banned for the rest of the week!!! Hehe!! Freedom!! I have a cold and temperature and sore throat and am coughing and spluttering and sniffiling and smelly doctor man has banished me. Unfortunately for zoezoe she doesn't have the described cold so has braved the world of the hospital on her lone-some!Meanwhile i am here, taking up residence in the internet cafe for the day!
Thankyou has to be said to the Fobbit who serenaded me beautifully the other night - was much appreciated. I was very sad when the phone cut me and vix off mid conversation..apparently when the phone card speaks to me and says i have 30 minutes credit left to use, this means you can only talk for 21.27mins and the first warning you get is when the phone goes dead - no warning beeps or anything. Nightmare!!
Last night zoezoe read to me from her story book in a north waleian (walian?Walesian?) accent! It was a beautiful moment! However her soothing story reading voice wasn't enough to get me to sleep...i heard her gentle sleep breathing sounds as i was tossing and turning....
....Why i couldn't sleep:
Cold making me alternate between boiling hot and freezing cold every 30secs
Mosquitos dive bombing me (they may have had their fun last night - i've got 4 new bites this morning - but i killed 2 of them with my bare hands! HAha!)
Cars zooming down the street ALL night (they actually never stop)
Fridge (BANG....clatter clatter clatter HHHHHHHHHHUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMM....BANG...clatter clatter clatter...silence it goes ...then starts again....BANG)
Bladder did NOT appreciate the 2litres of water i drank (the cold made me do it!) just before bedtime! Nigntmare! (but i did encounter another cockroach and sprayed it to death HA!)
Anyway eventually sleep came and then so did morning...why is it on days when you can actually lie in you always wake up early?
Hannah
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Heathfield girls to the rescue!
This evening we had an adventure truely worthy of a Famous Five story, except that it was more fabulous four. The night unfolded thus:
After a lovely evening spent enjoying gentil conversation and delicious food (cooked by Beth) in the house of Jonesy, Beth and Katie with Marjorie and Mueni we were wandering homewards.
As it is a mild night we were meandering down Whitchurch Road and minding our own business. Suddenly out of nowhere just as we were crossing a road a group of boys (reckless hooligans) crossed our path. They continued along the street perpendicular to us when they happened upon a blue van. One of them put his fist through the window and a loud "crash" of smashing glass was heard. The four (the second lot of 4 things in this story) then wandered down the road before turning down one of the alleys which Cardiff is riddled with.
We all looked at each other groggily having been awoken from our reveries and finally decided that the police should be called. Vix phoned 999 and informed the operator that it was not an emergency. This was very unusual for us, we never phone the emergency services even when we have emergencies.
Wikipedia defines an emergency as: a situation that poses an immediate threat to human life or serious damage to property. A false report of an emergency is usually a crime.
Anyway, after stating the non-emergency reason for the call she discoved that the police considered it urgent/ an emergency and she gave him some details. We were asked to hang around the street corner for a bit for the police. TWO police cars sped to our location ( two people in each so another 4 group) and got a brief description before deciding to play at driving fast in all of the aforementioned alleys.
While they were gone the owner of the van turned up. His own van had been stolen a few weeks before and the now-smashed van was a hire van. He was not particularly impressed.
The police returned empty handed and one of the girls took some details. For some reason everyone else looked at me when she asked who talked the best so I had to try and describe in detail all the boys. It's been a long time since I looked with any great interest at young teenage boys so the desciptions went along the line of erm well... one was probably my height with a black jumper and a cap, the others were shorter and wore teenage boy clothes, would I recognise them again, haha, no!
After a little while the police let us go and we continued on our way home, knowing that we had done our bit this evening to make Cardiff a safer place and a happier community.
Fran
xx
Disaster and Joy
DISASTER:
Well as already explained in comments - i thought i had lost yesterdays blog to wherever all the work goes that computers loose!
Last night on way home from Whitters house, random guy number 5 (men 1-4 were encountered up the mountain but their stories will never reach this blogspot - though random man number 4 did nearly catch zoezoe and me weeing behind a bush at the top of the mountain which was quite funny - especially considering he was the only person we saw on top of the mountain that day!!)
Man 5 was staring at us cos we were talking english i asked him (in Romanian) "what are you looking at?" He said "you are english girls?....(then after some thought, with a slightly distressing glint in his eye)...I like english girls" Zoezoe and i ran for the underground train(that was just approaching the station) fast so we got in a different carriage from him!!
I was happily reading my bible this morning, when suddenly there was a shout from zoezoe...half the crown of her front tooth had fallen out (the nice crusty bread was all too much for her poor little teeth this morning!) So we had slight panic this morning, checking to see whether dental treatment was covered by insurance (its not, unless you are in pain and the tooth is a "natural" tooth). Anyways we decided after much deliberation to go into the hospital and ask the smelly doctorman if he knew of any good dentists.
Doctor man was in a BAD mood this morning, quite stressy, but he phoned the dentist that works in the hospital for us (we were quite scared - dentist in local scabby Romanian hospital...hmm), she wasn't there but someone took a message and we were informed that she would "phone back" - possibility of another lengthy stay in the hospital brought fear to our hearts!
Refer to Joy section for the end of this story!
JOY (part 1)
On seeing yesterdays blog typing efforts there today disaster has be turned to joy !!
After we ran away from man5 on the metrou(i resisted temptation to wave at him through the window on our way past!), we arrived safely at our stop and got off the train, as we were ascending the escalator, man number 6 sat opposite the bottom of the escalator, he was a gypsy guy (probably a bit special) but he was eating a big hunk of bread and had what looked like several bags of food infront of him and he looked soooooo happy, he waved at zoezoe and i and we waved back and shouted "pofta buna!!" (equivelent of bon appetit) He smiled even more- it was soooo cool!)
Smelly doctor man does have three junior(ish) doctors who are lovely who look after us! They teach us relevant stuff that we can understand - and their english is not as good so it means i get to practice Romanian at last!! Hurrah!! (and beth's now no longer the only one chatting to fitties)
At 11am the dentist lady rung back and we got taken to see her. She was really really lovely and looked at zoezoe tooth and broken bit of crown and explained how she would fix it! (i'm sure vic and lou would have loved her little room, which looked more like a workshop than a dentist's room and it was covered from floor to ceiling in horrible tacky plastic toys! Comedy) Dentist lady kept saying things were sterile, and apologising for lack of equipment ( no little suction thing to suck saliva from poor zoezoe's throat, and no little assistent to make the cement-y paste thing to stick tooth back together again!) But despite this lack of certain items, zoezoe's tooth is now mended and looks good!! Yay!!
The even happier ending to this story is that we didn't have to pay her anything at all! We asked twice if she wanted anything and she was completly and sincerely like "no no, you are my collegues and i am doing you a favour" She is lovely lovely! God is good - He answered the prayers i was shooting up this morning!
And even better than not having to pay any money...it meant that we could run away from smelly doctor man for the rest of the day!! Hurrah!!
We have even managed to find the cases for our project this week!! WOW! Miracle!
Other News
i attacked our resident cockroach with the evil insect killer spray last night - i feel justified in this because it had left its agreed place of residence (under the washing machine - that sits taking up most of the floor space in the bathroom, which has absolutely no connection for water to get into the machine so is actually useless!!) and had entered the hallway...so i chased it spraying it quite abudantly until it disappeared into our shoe cupboard in the hall.
I found the cockroach this morning, lying flat on it back, legs twitching sporadically, under my sandal - i put it out of its misery and threw it in the plastic bag tied to the gas pipe that consitutes our bin in the kitchen.
JOY (part 2)
A wonderful man
There once was a wonderful man
Who knew how to cheer up Han,
He put in the post
the thing that pleased her most
A bar of chocolate made by the cadbury's man!!
To that man, who knows who he is...You are amazing! I love you! You brought me happiness and joy today! hehe!
A wonderful woman
there once was a wonderful woman
who decided to post a card to Han
upon the card was wrote
lots of splendiferous notes
from lots of people dear to Han!
To that woman, who knows who she is ( and the man who helped her in her task, who knows who he is, and to the people who wrote the little messages) Thankyou, you are amazing! I love you and miss you all! The card brought smiles to my little face today!!
Hope my "poetry" hasn't scared you all too much!
Here endeth the blog of today
xx
Well as already explained in comments - i thought i had lost yesterdays blog to wherever all the work goes that computers loose!
Last night on way home from Whitters house, random guy number 5 (men 1-4 were encountered up the mountain but their stories will never reach this blogspot - though random man number 4 did nearly catch zoezoe and me weeing behind a bush at the top of the mountain which was quite funny - especially considering he was the only person we saw on top of the mountain that day!!)
Man 5 was staring at us cos we were talking english i asked him (in Romanian) "what are you looking at?" He said "you are english girls?....(then after some thought, with a slightly distressing glint in his eye)...I like english girls" Zoezoe and i ran for the underground train(that was just approaching the station) fast so we got in a different carriage from him!!
I was happily reading my bible this morning, when suddenly there was a shout from zoezoe...half the crown of her front tooth had fallen out (the nice crusty bread was all too much for her poor little teeth this morning!) So we had slight panic this morning, checking to see whether dental treatment was covered by insurance (its not, unless you are in pain and the tooth is a "natural" tooth). Anyways we decided after much deliberation to go into the hospital and ask the smelly doctorman if he knew of any good dentists.
Doctor man was in a BAD mood this morning, quite stressy, but he phoned the dentist that works in the hospital for us (we were quite scared - dentist in local scabby Romanian hospital...hmm), she wasn't there but someone took a message and we were informed that she would "phone back" - possibility of another lengthy stay in the hospital brought fear to our hearts!
Refer to Joy section for the end of this story!
JOY (part 1)
On seeing yesterdays blog typing efforts there today disaster has be turned to joy !!
After we ran away from man5 on the metrou(i resisted temptation to wave at him through the window on our way past!), we arrived safely at our stop and got off the train, as we were ascending the escalator, man number 6 sat opposite the bottom of the escalator, he was a gypsy guy (probably a bit special) but he was eating a big hunk of bread and had what looked like several bags of food infront of him and he looked soooooo happy, he waved at zoezoe and i and we waved back and shouted "pofta buna!!" (equivelent of bon appetit) He smiled even more- it was soooo cool!)
Smelly doctor man does have three junior(ish) doctors who are lovely who look after us! They teach us relevant stuff that we can understand - and their english is not as good so it means i get to practice Romanian at last!! Hurrah!! (and beth's now no longer the only one chatting to fitties)
At 11am the dentist lady rung back and we got taken to see her. She was really really lovely and looked at zoezoe tooth and broken bit of crown and explained how she would fix it! (i'm sure vic and lou would have loved her little room, which looked more like a workshop than a dentist's room and it was covered from floor to ceiling in horrible tacky plastic toys! Comedy) Dentist lady kept saying things were sterile, and apologising for lack of equipment ( no little suction thing to suck saliva from poor zoezoe's throat, and no little assistent to make the cement-y paste thing to stick tooth back together again!) But despite this lack of certain items, zoezoe's tooth is now mended and looks good!! Yay!!
The even happier ending to this story is that we didn't have to pay her anything at all! We asked twice if she wanted anything and she was completly and sincerely like "no no, you are my collegues and i am doing you a favour" She is lovely lovely! God is good - He answered the prayers i was shooting up this morning!
And even better than not having to pay any money...it meant that we could run away from smelly doctor man for the rest of the day!! Hurrah!!
We have even managed to find the cases for our project this week!! WOW! Miracle!
Other News
i attacked our resident cockroach with the evil insect killer spray last night - i feel justified in this because it had left its agreed place of residence (under the washing machine - that sits taking up most of the floor space in the bathroom, which has absolutely no connection for water to get into the machine so is actually useless!!) and had entered the hallway...so i chased it spraying it quite abudantly until it disappeared into our shoe cupboard in the hall.
I found the cockroach this morning, lying flat on it back, legs twitching sporadically, under my sandal - i put it out of its misery and threw it in the plastic bag tied to the gas pipe that consitutes our bin in the kitchen.
JOY (part 2)
A wonderful man
There once was a wonderful man
Who knew how to cheer up Han,
He put in the post
the thing that pleased her most
A bar of chocolate made by the cadbury's man!!
To that man, who knows who he is...You are amazing! I love you! You brought me happiness and joy today! hehe!
A wonderful woman
there once was a wonderful woman
who decided to post a card to Han
upon the card was wrote
lots of splendiferous notes
from lots of people dear to Han!
To that woman, who knows who she is ( and the man who helped her in her task, who knows who he is, and to the people who wrote the little messages) Thankyou, you are amazing! I love you and miss you all! The card brought smiles to my little face today!!
Hope my "poetry" hasn't scared you all too much!
Here endeth the blog of today
xx
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