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My grandmother decided to come and visit me and she will be here in 3 weeks. That is the first time I see anyone from my family in over 1 and a half year. I am sooooooooo HAPPY :D:D

And another thing. I got a mail from Toby today, who is in India doing everything I was supposed to do. I am jellous, but happy for him. He got all his sick problems sorted out and he is now taking a massage course and sdoing so much cool things. Toby if you read this I MISS YOU ! COME HERE NOOOOOOOOOW!!!!!!! Andrew miss you too :)

Yesterday we had a big group with open bar again. I had to leave 12.45am cuz I was so tired and I knew I had to get up for work this morning, but the group was still drinking and partying at the restaurant when I left. So... I did another 12hours shift yesterday. I am going loco.

 

Hehe, I havent been very active with the camera lately so I put in an older pic from Thailand. I think I look so beautiful with my leech socks and green trousers.. :) "Miss motivator 2010"

Yesterday at the restaurant was a dissaster. I was so tired and I did so many misstakes that I dont know why my manager didnt send me home :P Anyway, I thought today off some funny things that happened on the restaurant since I started so I will share that with you

1. There was a leak in the tea pot and when I was pooring tea to a costumer, it dripped some on his back. There was a big group and they were all just laughing about it. Every time I passed the table they made a comment about it. One woman said "you have to wash his shirt" . I looked at the man and said "do you wanna give it to me". I meant the shirt off course, but the table was full off drunk old ladies with dirty minds and they all burst out laughing. I had to go out from the restaurant because I was crying from laughing myself and I was red like a tomato.
2. I accidently dropped a fork in a costumers knee. He did a funny gesture and I said quickly "oh sorry did I kill you". Again, it was a big group and the whole table laughed so loud that all eyes from curious people, and off course my manager, was turned on me wondering what was going on.
3. A couple came in to the restaurant and their last name was Helmo. Someone had wrote it short and in the booking book it said "Hel." I told my work mate that "Hell" has arrived and they want a table. The people was actually not very impressed that I called them Hell and I didnt go back to their table that night.

The stuff that happened yesterday was nothing funny. I gave out the wrong food, forgot everything, spilled wine and I was just a total mess. Thats what happens when you dont sleep. I feel better today and I am ready for a misstake free night at the restaurant. :)

Yesterday was my grandmothers birthday.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU BEST GRANDMOTHER EVER :)

I MISS YOU AND HOPE I WILL SEE YOU SOON

And it was also my friends babies 1 year old, happy birthday to you too :)


The reason why I didnt write yesterday was because of some server trouble on blogg.se as usual. And I was a bit in a hurry as well so didnt have time to wait it out. Yesterday I had to be in at my other work 1 hour earlier than usual. We had a big group coming and my manager wanted me to work on that.

It started off as a fun night. They had a party with the theme disco and it was glitter and funny costumes everywhere. The music was good as well. But after they had used all they 4000 dollar bar tab, they decided that they wanted to drink more so they got an open bar tab. They drank a bit too much and we had to stop serving them at 11.30 cuz they were to drunk.

They did not like that and they were soooooo rude. Terrible costumers. Swearing, screaming trying to convince us that they were not drunk at all. Yesterday was the first time ever I was so irritated that I told two costumers that I was sick of them and walked away. I have never been rude to costumers before but they were terrible. It was 40 adults working on an insurance company and they behaved like drunk teenagers. And now, they dont want to pay for their drinks because they think it was so bad of us to not serve them anymore. Gaaaaah Grow UP!!

I worked all together 12.5 hours and I was so tired today. And now I will go to the restaurant again. Happy days.

putting the squares together


cutting

My day off today. I decided to make a pair of trousers. I am actually in the middle of making it now but took a short brake to write in the blog :) Its supposed to be a pair of trousers made like a lap quilt. I have collected free clothes that people have forgotten in the camp or motels for a couple of weeks and I think I have enough now to make the trousers. I will show you a picture on them when, and if, they are ready. I have already lost my patience with the cutting a couple off times, but Im getting there...slowly....

I also got some books from my mother today. Two books for Andrews Swedish learning, and three books for my own Swedish learning Apparantly according to my mother my Swedish is not very good anymore..hehe... THANK YOU

Yesterday Andrew surpriced me with a picnic. We had good food, dessert, hot chocolate, candles and a view over the lake, which was too dark to see but I knew it was out there :)

This is a day to think extra on the people you love. :)
I think off all you people back home and I miss you.

I hope you are all good

enjoy this day, enjoy every day

remember to keep smiling :)

For me, I have a date with my boyfriend tonight. He has arranged a surprise for me and I cant wait until I finish restaurant work and get back home. We exchanged card and I got a flower this morning. Andrew is very romantic and Im very lucky to have him as my boyfriend <3
HAPPY VALENTINE

This is a day to think extra on the people you love. :)
I think off all you people back home and I miss you.

I hope you are all good

enjoy this day, enjoy every day

remember to keep smiling :)

For me, I have a date with my boyfriend tonight. He has arranged a surprise for me and I cant wait until I finish restaurant work and get back home. We exchanged card and I got a flower this morning. Andrew is very romantic and Im very lucky to have him as my boyfriend <3
HAPPY VALENTINE

Its funny that when people learn a language they usually learn the bad or rude word first. Yesterday a man came into the restaurant with his wife. When I told him I was Swedish he sang me a rude swedish song and then he asked if I want to make love with him.

When I was working in Sydney, two guys, on two different days, came up to me and said in Swedish "show me your p*s*y and I give you popcorn". Its the same for me. I allmost never swear, except when Andrew trains me cuz he usually drives me crazy then (its true, I hate swearing), but I do know some swear words in other languages anyway.
 
Well sometimes they say funny things to me as well. One guy sang pippi longstocking song in Swedish and Andrews first sentence was "can I marry your daughter" No, we are not getting married, we were actually not even a couple when I tought him that, it was just for fun. And the first thing I thought my friend from India was to say "Really big sunchair"

Climbing a mountain :)


It is not much going on in this town. Yesterday we had some customers who asked me what there was to do at night time here, or if there is anything open at all. The only thing I could think about was star gazing, which was not really what the guys had in mind.

Its a big different in living in a small town like this, than to live in a big city like I do back in Sweden. Here, everyone knows everyone, or at least know who everyone is. I cant walk to town without stopping to talk with someone I know here. In Sweden I dont even know my neighbours. I can find heaps of quiet places here where I can relax outside without being disturbed, back home I better sit inside if I want to have quiet.

I do like it, I love that people are so friendly to eachother, but there is also a backside. If you do something here, or something happens, everyone knows about it the next day. And also false rumours spreads so fast. It hasnt happened anything with me, but people love to tell me about what happens to other people all the time. To be honest, I love to listen to it so I dont mind at all. But I would hate the thought of people talking about me like that I know, double moral, but I cant help it, its fun to hear about how crazy, weird, stupid or even nice, cool and good looking people are. The three later one I dont mind if people say about me :P

I think I prefer a bit smaller places anyway. Not like Lake Tekapo. This place is waaay to booring for me. But I think Gothenburg is probably to big for my liking. I think that I will live in something in between in the future. I dont know where, I dont know how, I dont know when. But I know I will find the perfect size town for me one day:)

Today New Zealand celebrate something called Waitangi day, or they also call it New Zealand day. I just heard about it this morning cuz its actually a public holiday, which means that we get payed 1 and a half salary per hour :) Luckily Im also working in the restaurant tonight so I will make many hours pay today.

But I googled on it to find out what it actually means. Today, 170 years ago, a contract called Treaty of Waitangi was signed. The contract made New Zealand a part of the brittish empire and gave the Maori right to their own land, and right of Brittish citizens. Its not much more to say about it. It is a day of celebrating happy memories in NZ. :) I dont think I will see any celebrations here, but I will see the money at the end of the week and even I will remember this day as a happy day.

Here is a recipe for healthy rask, my mother wants to have it, its really good so everyone should bake it :)


HEALTH RUSK

500g margarine
280g  soft brown sugar
2 eggs, beaten
500ml buttermilk
1kg self raising flour
15ml baking powder
5ml salt
200g All Bran Flakes
75g digestive bran
60g sunflower seeds
90g seedless raisins

Melt margarine and sugar together. Leave to cool


Add eggs and buttermilk


Sift flour, baking powder and salt together. Add All Bran Flakes, digestive bran, sunflower seeds and raisins. Add egg mixture.


Shape into balls and place in large, greased baking tin


Bake in preheated oven at 180C (350 F/Gas 4) for 45-50 minutes


Turn out to a wire rack to cool slightly, break open while still warm, and leave to cool further. Dry out overnight in the warming drawer, or in a very cool oven.

Place spoon in oven door while drying out to allow air circulate

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUM :)

I HAVE TO SAY A FEW WORDS TO MY MOTHER WHO IS CELEBRATING HER BIRTHDAY TODAY

THANK YOU FOR BEING THE BEST MOTHER EVER

I LOVE YOU

I MISS YOU

BE GOOD :) I CALL YOU LATER TODAY OR, IF I CANT REACH YOU BECAUSE ITS HARD WITH THE TIME DIFFERENTS, I WILL CALL YOU TOMORROW

AND I HAVE SENT A PRESENT, I HOPE IT ARRIVES IN TIME

Hery Jean I love talking to a swedish girl i met in austalia and who is living in new zealand with an english boy and who d love living in italy...she understood how to discover the world ;)


My friend Hery wrote that about me on his status yesterday :) He also has a blogg http://heryjean.kikooboo.com/ but it is in french so I cant read it

We have found so many copies of Stieg Larssons book "The girl with the dragon tattoo" in the backpackers. Mostly english copies but also one dutch and a Swedish one. Everyone is talking about the book, and if you ask someone here to recommend a book they will tell you to read that one for sure. Even the movie is really popular here in New Zealand, and when I tell people I am from Sweden they allways ask me if I seen that movie or read the book. The movie is actually not translated here in NZ, you will still see it in Swedish with english subtitle, which people here seem to love even more.

I read the book about a month ago, cuz Andrew bought it for me in X-mas gift. Unfortunately the copy I got missed the first 20 pages, but thats alright cuz I read those in the english copie I found. And it was funny, cuz the Swedish name of that book is if I translate it directly would be "Men who hates women". So when I found a copy of "The girl with the dragon tattoo" I thought I had found the second book. So I started reading, not realizing that I already read it, cuz I read the first pages that I missed. But I understood after a couple of pages that it was the same book :P

Anyway the book is so good. It was so exciting the whole way through, and it was in many ways chocking. I loved the character Lisbeth Salander. She was my favorite:)

 You should all read it....

PS> Hery (my french friend who follows my blog) you can allways read it in French :)

This is supposed to be scones. I dont know what happened, but that does not look like scones. My baking and cooking is going OK, but yea, I have some step backs now and again :) I think when I get back to Sweden I will give my grandfather in Dalarna a visit, he is a really good chef and he can probably teach me some, not that Andrew is a bad teacher.

Yesterday a girl from work fell in the restaurant and broke her vrist. That sucks !!! I havent heard anything more than that she is waiting surgery at the hospital for the moment.