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

Trousers finished





This is probably one of my prouder moments. I was home sick today and I decided to finish the trousers. It took me 6hours... It drove me crazy, but its done :) Do you love them? I do.. and look, I even have my favorite teddy Elmo on them..

Time to rest... I have a day off tomorrow and I really dont want to be sick in bed then...


sicko

Hellllllloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo


Im lying in my bed sick. I havent moved from bed since I woke up,  except one toilet visit. :) My throat is sore. Its first time since I came here that I actually stayed home a whole day from work. So I am not feeling to bad about being home. I have been uploading pictures on facebook, looked for work for the ski season and slept. THANK you who ever invented internet. It makes sick days much funnier.
Ok... I have nothing more fun to say today... if you have facebook, check out my pictures. I am still uploading now its going really slow. If you dont have facebook, get it NOW and be my friend !!

Oh, yesterday a guy from my work told me that he doesnt like Sweden cuz they kill wales and dolphins for fun there. Even if we had wales ore dolphins that could never happen in a country like Sweden, right?. It makes me think how wrong it can be if you believe what people say before you check the fact yourself.

Another guy told me that him and his friends were guessing where I was from. He had guessed Scandinavia and  as you all know, he was right. He was really proud and told me how educated he was that he knew I was from SWITZERLAND in Scandinavia. Wooow good work.

Byeeeee 

Swing

san

This morning I had some fun with the swing before work. I did it first because of the picture, but I had so much fun on it :P I wish there was a roller coster outside my door that could take me to work every morning. That would surely wake me up :)

 


Swedish

Yesterday after work I went to the pub for a welcome back party for Evelina, and a goodbye party for Stacey and Patricio, who used to work on the restaurant with me. Its good that Evelina is back so I can speak some swedish, I think I sound terrible when I speak Swedish now days. You know in english you say "What are you doing". If you would say the same sentence in Swedish, and directly translate it to english, it would be "what doing you". Mixed up.

But off course I  still remember words and things but it just sounds like my voice goes wrong when I speak swedish. Its probably a sign that I have to call home more often, right?

I read my sisrers blogg today and she put pictures in from when we all were younger. I really look like a geek haha. Or it looks like Im trying to be something that Im not. I probably was. Anyway, have a look.. www.lindaoden.blogspot.com The small girl on the pic is my older sister, you can probably recognize me, the other blondy is my youngest sister, and the guy is my youngest brother.

Seeeeee yaaaaaaaa

Kvaack



Swedish and english animals doesnt speak the same language, I will tell you the differences

Swedish speaking animals

Dog - VovVov
Pig- NoffNoff
Horse-gnagg
frog- kvack

English speking animals

Dog - Voff
Pig - Oink
Horse - neigh
Frog - ribbit ribbit

I also wonder if Swedish ducks and swedish frogs can talk to eachother. Cuz they both say KVACK!

Today I cleaned my laptop. It was like holding a toaster upside down. I took all the buttons off the computer and under them was full off bread crums. Off course I broke something, I broke the shift button. Hopefully I wont need it :) Typical hey? DONT EAT AND USE COMPUTER AT THE SAME TIME...todays lesson by me...

The other day when I was in the kitchen baking scones again, two german guys was standing over the oven, shaving. Thats so disgusting. Why would you do that? Kitchen and face hair doesnt mix very good. Oh, and I havent told you all about the scones. I found a secret talent, I can actually bake scones. Andrew found out about it too and now he makes me do it all the time. Fare enough, he usually cooks so I shouldnt complain :) They are delicious!!

Another hard working day. Byyyyyyeeeeeeeeee

Dalai Lama



I am just reading another book with words from Dalai Lama. He is a genius. Everything he says is so real and true. And he says things that are so obvious, but you still dont think about it before you read it. And he also says things thats not obvious, but it makes you think more deeper about life and other people and so on. If everyone in the world listen to him, we would all have had a much better life, a better world. ALL YOU GUYS SHOULD READ HIS BOOKS !! Seriously, go karma go...

I got a free night at the hotpools yesterday cuz the pool didnt work last time. It was so nice. You sit in hot mineral water under an open sky with lake view. I loved it this time :)

Day off





DAAAAAAAAAAY OOOFFFFFFFFFFFFFF !! I love my days off,they are amazing :) I woke up at around eleven, Andrew made me a nice breakfast and then we went to town to do some shopping.

I told Andrew that I havent put any new pic in the blog for a while so we took some pics but we were to lazy to actually walk anywhere nice. Anyway,a pic on me having a woooooonderful ice coffee, and a pic walking back home from the shop is allways something right?. After that we went down to the lake and just sat there for a while, and now Andrew is making pancake lunch... wohoooooooo, days off ROCK :)

Im not doing anything else today. Oh yea, I will continue with my trousers, I broke the needle and I have thought about throwing the machine out the windows at least 10 times since I started. But I will keep going until they are finished:)

In a bit yaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!

Routin


Its like Im drowning in work............... hehe I didnt really put the pic in to write that, it just came up now. The camera is still resting. :P This pic is from Thailand...

We have really got a daily routin now, and I think its time for us to move on in the end of march. I get to bored when everything is the same all the time, and its no challenge, no adrenalin, no surprises, no differenses, nothing. This is how our week looks like

Monday - Day off, too tired to do anything, and we also dont have a car so we are kind off stuck here.

tuesday - sunday - woking at camp, training, eat, working at restaurant, sleep.

This is supposed to be working HOLIDAY right? :) Anyway, the great thing about life is that you dont have to do what you dont want to. We will still stay here for another month, just because we need time to look for work, plus my grandmother will be coming (I am still sooooooooooooooooooooooo excited), then I think we will leave this beautiful place, and find another even more beautiful place :)


Clothes line

A couple of time per week people hang their clothes up outside mine and Andrews cabin, but they dont put pegs on it. So their clothes blows away and gets spread out all over the place. Both me and Andrew finds that very funny and it gives us a laugh every time. The other day I put some underwears up and went to work. When I came home my pants were all over the grass. Andrew didnt recognized that it was mine and he found it hillarious that someones pants was all over the place. I didnt. That's how it goes when you are laughing at other peoples troubles. KARMA !!

I have the night off from the restaurant and I will spend it right here in my room, computer nerding, reading and continue to sew on my trousers. :)




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