Away

Its been a bit bad with writing lately. I do have an excuse, also for not putting in pictures, but I will give you that when I come back writing again in 2 weeks.. So, 15 of April I will start writing again and I can then also tell you how the move went..

See yaaaaoooooooooo

try not to miss me too much...

Love You All (L)

Miiiixxxxxxiiiiiiiiit

For the moment I cant  be writing everyday cuz my computer problems... but I will try :) I need 4more votes on my chewing gum bag http://hundratusen.nu/#/mix/7cAj soo come on :)

We had two days of from motels this week. Yesterday and today. Today I have an appointment with a doctor cuz I have actually been very sick lately and I havent been able to work in the restaurant at all for a week. I didnt tell you cuz it looks like I allways get sick :P But this time it seems to be something weird. Anyyywhoooo ... I will tell you more about it later.

One week til we leave and we have collected so much stuff here since we arrived. So I have to sort some things out, deciding what to keep and what not... Have allready packed a whole box that I want to send back home to Sweden. :)


Resigned

I have now resigned from both my works and will be leaving the 7th of April. :) We are going up north. I have heard about a town called Nelson, which is supposed to be like a hippy town. It is a big town on the coast so it will be a nice change from a small town. At least we will have something to do when we are not working. Well we didnt find a work yet, but hopefully it wont take us a long time before we get one...:)

My new plan is to buy a sailing boat and sail around the world.. yes I know, its crazy but thats me. Anyway I need to win 100 000 krones to do that, so I entered a competition here on blogg.se and my mother was so nice and went to buy a chewing gum bag, which was required to enter the competition. So I need you all to vote on my bag mix please. Here is the link www.hundratusen.nu/mix/7cAj

Good luck to me:)


No brain

My brain is not working for the moment.. I have been thinking like crazy what to write today but nothing comes up... that havent happend before... wwelllll you cant allways be on top :P

My grandmother texted me today telling me she is back home safely :) Nice one

ABBA and Scrubs



People from all contries in the whole world love Abba. Ok, I cant say ALL, but the once I have been in anyway. And they still play it all the time all over. I am actually listening to them at the cafe I am in at the moment :P

It sucks that my computer is dead. Me and Andrew allways watch scrubs every night. We have seen them all and we know exactly what they are going to say, but we still laugh as much as the first times.. :) But no more... Andrew calls me JD cuz I deam alot.. I do actually.. I cant help it but my brain flighs away all the time... Thats probably why Im a terrible driver. One time I was driving a moped and I started dreaming away.. I was so close to a crash when I woke up from my other world... Scary..

hard work

I have only been working at the camp so far today but I am so tired I can barely keep my eyes open.. Its hard work coming back after vacation :P Even if it was a very short one...

By the way my lovely computer is dead so I have to use Global Gossip now.. :(

Goodbye Mormor

Last day with mormor. That was really sad. I am so happy that she came and visited me and I had a really good time.  After a four hours busride on a bus without aircondition so we were boiling, we said goodbye to her in Lake Tekapo and she continued on the bus all the way through to Christchurch!!

Back to reality...

Pictures Queenstown and Tekapo


This is from the stargazing night. :)



Me and Mormor walking in Tekapo




Me and Andrew took a cable ride up a mountain today. We walked a half an hour trekk around and this is one of the view points.


From up the mountain. Queenstown in background.. so beautiful




Mormor took a boat ride on the lake. She was out for 90 minutes. We took this picture on the beach after she came back


Another view from the mountain

Queenstown

Yesterdays stargazing was nice. I actually learned alot about the stars that I didnt know. And we got to see saturn and mars from a teleskope. Me and mormor had a very intelligent talk about how the sun goes the wrong way here. It was a bit confusing but we figured everything out.

We are in Queenstown now :) It was an amazing three hours bus ride through the mountains to get here. I was blown away. Queenstown is really beautiful. I wonder if people wake up here every morning and think about how lucky they are to live in a place like this!? If they dont, they should!!

We walked around in town for a bit and had a look around. Then we went to Starbucks so mormor got her first Starbucks coffee.  She was impressed I think :) Then I finally went to the hairdresser. It was really needed. Mormor asked me today if I ever brush my hair cuz it always looks like a birds nest. :( Anyway, it looks good now.

We ended the day with some drinks at the pub. I needed one glass ofwine and I was already dizzy.I havent been drinking for 4 months or something but Mormor is a party animal so I didnt get out of it. We also went to see Green Zone at the cinema.. :)

 


Taxi Kayak



Wohoooooooooooo!! No more work for 3 whole days. It might not sound alot for you, but for me its something that doesnt happen alot for the moment. :)
After todays work we took the kayaks out on the lake for a bit. I had my own one and Andrew and Mormor had one together. Mormor tried to help rowing for a bit, but they kept on going around in circles so she decided to relax and let Andrew take her around. Yea well, she is on vacation I suppose...:) But she did promise us a free dinner in Queenstown as thank you for the guided taxi tour round the lake..

Tonight we are going stargazing. And tomorrow we are finally getting out of here..:) Yeeeeeeeeyyyyy!!!

Mormors Guestblog-The Glacier explorer

 Me on exxplorer boat and with the rest of the group


Hi,
I am now in Lake Tekapo with Cissi. It has been a long tireing journey, but fun and interesting. It started with a missed plane in Frankfurt so I had to reebook my ticket to Singapore and go to Bangkok instead. In Bangkok the plane was delayed by a couple of hours and finally I  arrived in  Christchurch 6 hours later than planned. I stayed in  CHch for three days before I took the bus to Lake Tekapo. Offcourse it was delayed (what else?) by more than an hour. I got here sunday afternoon.

 On monday I  went to the SPA for a back and neck massage and had also a dip in the hot water pool. Next day I  climbed the mountain Mount John. It wasnt hard at all with my young legs in good condition :)

Wednesday I was at Mount Cook, exploring the glacier (see pic). It was amazing!!!!


Writer

I told you all I wanna be a writer. And I started writing a childrens book about road pirates when I was in Australia.Its about our road trip through Australia eastcoast, which was absolutely one of my favorite travels. I dont really want to write childrens book, but I did start one anyway just because we wanted to give Andrews nieces something to read :) I thought I could put the first bit in today and you can just tell me what you think? :)

I will put some pieces of the story bit by bit until its all in. I can also tell you that nothing special is going on for the moment. I am working at restaurant tonight and mormor (that means grandmother if I forgot to explain that) is doing an explorer trip at Mount Cook. She probably has an amazing time now :)

Here we go: Im Captain Blueberry off course...

The Blueberry Pirates and the seven waterfalls

Once upon a time three pirates was sitting in a small town far far away planning their next adventures. They were not ordinary pirates who sailed on the seven seas, no you see they were road pirates determined to concur seven waterfalls on their way to their final destination. There was Captain Blueberry, who was the leader, always vice and knew the best for her and her crew. Then there was pirate Toberry, who was a very clumsy pirate but with a good heart. And last but not least there was Joberry, who was the most adventurous one, always ready to take on a challenge. Captain Blueberry pointed at the map and said "This is our first stop comrades, let us go now so we can reach it before the darkness blocks our vision". The pirates all rose and started walking to the blue car which they called "The Blue Pearl". As they walked to the car someone suddenly screamed out "ARGH pirates, may I ask you where you are going?" Captain Blueberry, Joberry and Toberry looked at the big man standing in front of them and then they looked at each other. "We are going to concur the seven waterfalls" said Toberry. "Yea and we are going to find seven treasures" said Joberry. "What is the reason for your curiosity?" asked Captain Blueberry. "I want to come with you" said the man. "My name is Silverberry, pirate Silverberry, and I want to follow you on your mission and I would be a great help to you all". "Why would we want you to come?" said Toberry. "Yea then we must share the treasure with you" said Joberry. "What great help could you give to us?" asked Captain Blueberry. "ARGH I am an excellent map reader, that would surely be a great help to you". Captain Blueberry looked at Toberry and then at Joberry. He knew that they were both very good pirates but none of them could read a map very good. They both had their specialty. Toberry was good to have when it came to solve problems. And Joberry was very strong and an excellent navigator. But a map reader was something they surely could use in their group. "So be it, welcome to my crew" said Captain Blueberry. And so they all four jumped in to The Blue Pearl and that was the beginning of a long and adventurous journey.


Shadow



I forgot to turn the picture, it takes so long time to put a pic in so I will leave it like this :P

It looks a bit funny when people are traveling alone and take pictures of themselves. If you dont have a camera with timer, or are too shy to ask someone to take it for you, you usually end up with pictures off your face, which all look the same and you cant even see the background, which you actually wanted to have in the pic. And I hate to do it. It feels weird to take a pic of myself sitting there smiling alone. hehe.. maybe its just me.. 


Mormor told me she had taken two of those pics today when she was climbing up Mount John, but she didnt like them. But I thought it was a funny idea to at least get her shadow. But unfortunaley there is no background of how high she was on this pic either. Today she took the one hour walk up a big mountain.


 She thought it was easy. My goodness she is crazy. I hope I heritage her crazyness and fitness when Im in the same age as her...


Minigolf and cafes



The day started off with a wonderful pancake breakfast :) After that mormor went to the SPA and had a massage and sat in the hotpools while me and Andrew walked up to town (not everybody can afford to spoil themselves like that :P) We had an ice coffee first, then we went to the bakery and had a sandwish, but then we felt like having a coffee again so we went to another cafe to have a coffee. I think we visited half of the towns cafes today :P

When mormor was finished with her luxury treatments we all went to play minigolf. Mormor won, Andrew second and I lost biiiiiiiiiiiiiiig !!!! Anyway, its the fun that counts right? After that we had some fish and chips dinner by the lake. It was a beautiful and relaxing day :)


Mormooor

Mormoor is here. It was wonderful to see her. Her bus travel went good and she told me she talked to a Kiwi man on the bus who guided her through the journey.Perfect!! I am so proud over her to travel all the way here alone. She told me she had a complicated flight journey including missed flight and long waits.. Now days the flight secutiry is such a long and annoying process.

We have been talking alot and we tired Andrew out so he has already fallen a sleep. I will wake him up soon though because we are going to BBQ. Mormor is also resting a bit. She is still suffering from Jet Lag !! I am all excited and can barely be still... Haaappyyy days :D


Material things


Elmo took a walk outside to feed the ducks :)

I was so sad over my bracelet. Really. And I still am. But I was thinking about what a friend told me once. Dont get to attached to things, they will start to own you instead of you owning them. He told me how he had lost his favorit shirt once. He got upset over it in the beginning but then he started thinking, maybe thats a good thing. Its not good to own something that you get so upset to loose. You can get upset to loose your friends, family animals or loved once off course. But material things is not worth your tears.

I know its hard to think like that, that would mean that I should be happy that I lost my bracelet but Im not.But  It does make me think about it in a different way though. I dont have anything else that I would be so upset if it dissapeared. All my things are replaceable for me. It was another thing with the bracelet though, it was personal.

Anyway, thats life. Today is another day. Working as usual morning and night. Tomorrow I will be working in the morning and then its time to pick my grandmother up. I cant wait!!!

Blaaaaaaaaaaah


This is a picture from the food tasting. It was really good food and today will be the first day with the new menu.,On the pic you can see our two chefs, one from fiji and one australian. There is also all the india managers, eve from sweden and the two latvia maffiosos....

Sorry for not writing yesterday, something happened and I couldnt make it. But Im back. Its snowing in the mountain and its freezing. I wonder if my grandmother brought the bad weather with her from Sweden!? She is in NZ now by the way. She is shopping in Christchurch and hopefully having a good time.. :)
She will arrive here on Sunday.

Sorry for this english people. but I have a special swedish message to my mother..

Okej, det var en logn. Det ar inte till mamma, men min chef har bestamt sig att lasa min blogg varje dag och jag har inte bestamt mig for om jag ska beratta for honom verkliga anledningen varfor jag inte dok upp pa jobbet igar. Jag var saaaaa himla ledsen. Nagon stal mitt Pandora armband :( Det suger sa mycket. Jag kunde inte sluta grata. Andrew var saklart upprord, han har spenderat bade tid och pengar for att fa det perfekt. Det e skit att det tar nagon sa lang tid att spara ihop till nagot man verkligen vill ha, men det tar en annan 1 sekund att sjala det.
Det ar inte forsta gangen. I australien blev jag av med min vaska innehallande alla mina pengar, mitt smink, min kamera, ipod och alla bank kort saklart. Jag vet inte varfor manniskor tycker att de har ratt att ta nagot som de inte jobbat for, som inte tillhor dem? Usch!!




Ian Mutch-motorbike writer



Today when I was cleaning the lodge I met a man who is traveling the world on a motorbike, writing books about it. He is also writing every month in a motorbike magazine called "road". We shared some travel stories and he showed me the books he has written. I even got one of them called "Harley to Mali". I want to be a writer as well so I was so happy to meet him. He told me that he didnt study to become a journalist, he sort of slipped into it. And even if the writing doesnt make him rich, he seems to have a fantastic life. :)

I invited him to the restaurant tonight so I hope he shows up and tell me more about his writing and traveling.

Talking about the restaurant, they are changing the menu so today all the staff will be tasting the new food. So actually, im in a hurry.. got to go... by the way, my grandmother should be on the flight on her way to the other side of the world now.... yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyy

5 min of your time, saves hours of our :)

We have done some un pleasant findings in this work, and I have now decided to tell you all what to do, and what not to do, when you stay in a hotel.


Ok, these once are just common sence, I know it probably seems obvious for most of you, but trust me, all of this has happened here. So please;

If you are a girl, dont take your tampong out in the shower and leave it in the bath math, yuck!

If you are a guy, just because you dont have a girlfriend and dont get to have sex, you dont have to "do your business" and leave traces of it in the bathroom.

This is extreme, but it has happened here > DO NOT HAVE A POO IN THE SHOWER !! ((come on??))

Dont steal things from the room. (get your own stuff)

Dont leave nasty surprices in the toilet, or anywhere else for that matters.

Even if you have 6 beds in your hotel room, two people doesnt have to use them all!!

It would also be very nice if you could;

Clean your own dishes, it sucks when people have the "I am on vacation" thinking and just leaves everything


If you are an extra nice person, you can also;

Take the sheets of the beds.

Take the rubbish out

If the cleaner is really hot, and you want to impress him or her you can allways;

Pay for the room, get a tent, sleep outside the room, dont use anything at all, and also, buy some groceries put them in a basket in the room with some flowers and write a nice note.. :) (its not desperate at all, its cute..:P)


 


Shopping day



today me and Andrew finally got a lift to timaru. I have been waiting for weeks and the shopping list just got longer and more expensive. All money I have saved cuz there is no shops here, are now gone :( But to be fair, it was necessary things most of it. I bought contacts for 6 month, shoes for work (they are so ugly and I will never ever wear them outside work, but I had to buy something for work). I also bought underwears rechargeable batteries for Elmo, so now I can play with him how much I want to and yea, thats it. Everthing added up to 500dollar. I dont like spending that much on boring things, but you got to do it sometimes. Andrew didnt spend anything on himself, but he did spend money on me.

He bought me 4 new beads to my Pandora bracelet. It is so beautiful... isnt he the best boyfriend?

Elmo



Andrew knows how to make me smile :D He bought me a "tickle me Elmo". I love it so much and I have decided to bring him around the world, taking pictures on happy Elmo everywhere... :) Its amazing how someone can come up with a toy that makes the most unhappy person laugh. He is crazy. He starts laughing when you tickle him, then you do it one more time, and he starts laughing even more and he says something like "Not agaain". And then comes the funniest part. You tickle him the third  time and he goes all crazy. He lies on the floor, screaming of laughter, rolling around banging his hand in the floor.  It is sooo funny !! If laughing makes your life longer, Elmo will make me live for ever.

OMG YOU WRITE EVERYTHING



My manager in the back:D Im not allowed to write any names according to the restaurants police, my manager told me yesterday. Picture must be ok though, right? :)


My manager decided to spend 3 hours reading my blog, and he said "OMG YOU WRITE EVERYTHING", so I decided to write that so he can say it again :) hehe.. Anyway good for me I didnt write what I really think about him..................only joking.. he is cool :D

I dont have so much to say today, Im baking for the moment..scones off course, then its wooork time...

Oh, Andrew decided to be really funny today and he hid in the freezer. When I came to clean it he jumped out with a big BOOO. I got a chock and got so scared that tears filled my eyes. Andrew laughed so much that tears filled his... I will get him back

PS: Mormor, Dont have bad concious, its not about the money, they just like to keep me busy here.. :)

work work work work work work work

Because I took some days off when my grandmother is coming, I have now been rosterd everyday until she arrives from both works...wohooooo... No rest for that long... faaaaaaar out.... I hope I will be ok and that I still can stand on my legs when she arrives..

My mother have been coomenting all my blogg messages so I will answer here the one I remember the most..

YES, we should buy a horse.. I miss it too :D



TIme to work... in a bit yaaaa

weekly pay

In Nz and Australia they pay out salary once a week. That is so much better than the monthly pay you get in Sweden. Even if you use all the money the first day, you still only have to live on bark and grass for 6 days. If you would spend your money even on the first week in Sweden, you have to wait for 3 WHOLE WEEKS until you can eat proper again. Not that I use all my money the first week, I have been saving heaps since I came to Lake Tekapo.

Today I start working at four in the restaurant. That means allmost no time between. I hope at least I get to finish earlier :) Poor Andrew has tooth ache and cant afford to get his tooth fixed. It is so expensive to go to the  dentist, its rediculous. But he called the doctor and got some pills to get his swollen cheeks down for now.


Horse riding in NZ



This is me and Zen. I am not actually closing my eyes, just looking at the horse. He is so cute. It was wonderful to ride today. New Zealand is so beautiful and to see it from a horse back is perfect. We took many canters along the beautiful road next to the mountains. :) I loooved it. We were out for about 3 hours and my ass hurts like ... I dont think I will be able to walk tomorrow. After riding,  some friends from work picked me up and took me home and Andrew was waiting back home with delicious bbq food for all of us. A perfect day off :)

Yeeees Man


Andrew wrote this to me in the rocks.. :D


Its hard work going back to work after 3 days in bed. Luckily it was an easy day at the camp today, lets hope the restaurant is easy as well.

I finished the Dalai Lama book about LOVE and I learned alot, as usual. I got to borrow the book "Yes Man" for a couple of weeks before the owner goes away traveling, so I decided to read that one before I continue my "swedish study reading for fun" books. Anyway. on page 9 in the book it said:

 "The people without passion are the ones who allways say no, but the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur if you allow it to"

That is so true. Its like the saying "I rather regret what I did,then regret what I didnt do". I have felt lately that I have become a no sayer. I wasnt before but now im allways "too tired". That will change :) I am going back to my normal "why not" answer (I know its not exactly YES, but it works for me). Tomorrow I will go riding after work with a work mate, and because she lives far away I will stay there over the night. My first spontanios thought when she asked me was "Im too tired for that, I finally have a day off and I have no energy  BLABLABLA". But then I thought about the book, and how I used to do everything, and how fun it would be to finally go riding,  and I said YES !! Im sure my all the sudden saying no is because I actally do work all the time and I am allways tired, but I dont like it...

Todays life lesson will off course be "SAY YES MORE" :)

PS, might not have time to write tomorrow as I will be going directly after work, otherwice I will be back on thursday....Toodelooo

Flying


It was very windy today so me and Andrew tried to fly.. I flaxed with my arms like crazy but I didnt get any where.. Andrew flew away...

Monday

day off again :) I got a lovely pancake breakfast from my lovely boyfriend... I am still feeling sick, but we walked to town to have an ice coffee and do some shopping and I felt better after that. I have been lying in this bed for more than 60 hours so I probably needed to move.. :) We also organized some hotels and bus tickets for when my grandmother arrives.. I cant wait... less than 2 weeks from now... :D

In town I got a compliment for my trousers. The girl didn t think I done them myself and she loved them.. :) good hey?

In a bit yaaa

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