Playing Cards

I have more excuses for this post being so late but the basic idea is that it is Ashley’s fault.  This week a couple of exciting things happened.  I continued to go to lecture but it was the last week so I will no longer be writing about lecture.  The first exciting thing that happened was on Wednesday I broke out in a rash that I did not know what from.  I took a visit to the health center here, something I was hoping not to do, and after going back Thursday morning it was decided that the rash was an allergic reaction to something.  After some anti histamine and sleep I was a lot less itchy.  To try and figure out what cause the reaction I took everything out of my diet and slowly started adding things back in.  After going to my last lectures of the semester and turning in my exam I was able to relax.  On Friday evening I went to another operation friendship dinner.  I had made some cookies earlier in the week and brought them because I could not eat them.  I also could not eat many of the wonderful looking foods that were at the dinner which was sad but I did eat some very good sticky rice.  We played a big game of spoons and I ended up getting second.  I think the more impressive part happened before the final round. I was helping shuffling cards to instead of handing me a deck of cards I was thrown some cards to shuffle and I caught them and then they threw another deck and I caught that one also, I ended up catching four decks of cards.  After playing spoons some of us played BS but instead of having to go from ace though king you could chose to play the same card, the one above or below.  I did not do as well in this game but it was very fun.  Even though I could not eat the dinner it was a great way to end the semester.  On Saturday I was waiting for Ashley to come.  We decided to make some fried rice for dinner that night and we watched France vs. Wales in the semifinals of the world cup.  Sunday morning we got up and went grocery shopping and then started making cookies (we made only 70).  Sunday evening was the second semifinal with the All Blacks vs the Wallabies.  Ashley, one of my old flat mates, one of her friends and I all went down to the fan zone to watch the game.  On the way we stopped by a pizza place and got pizza to take with us.  Once we made it to the fan zone we sat around and ate our pizza and got ready to watch the game. 

It was a great atmosphere to be watching the game, the All Blacks were in the semi finals and they were playing Australia which is a big rivalry.  The Wallabies did not play very well compared to the All Blacks and they ended up winning 20-6.  It was so much fun being there with kiwis watching them play and a way to end the week.  This next week will be full of exciting adventure to tell you about.  If you want a sneak peek here is a photo of one of the things I will be blogging about next week.  

I am not sure when I will be posting next, hopefully by Wednesday.  Until next time have fun and smile :)

The Moody Earth

Not much has happened this week.   This is what is has been like the last couple of weeks.  This is not a bad thing, during the week I go to lecture and do some work for my papers and then on the weekends I do more work and then relax so there is not much to talk about.  Since there is not much to tell you about I will first tell you about the weather and my cooking skills and then a short story about Sunday night.  Last week the weather was great, nice and sunny, spring was finally coming but then winter decided to come back and it has been raining most of the week.  I have been a little more adventures since break when it has come to my cooking.  I have been making a lot of cookies to share.  I have also made  fried rice and chicken parm a couple of times and they have not burned.  I think I got all my burning of food over that one time.  Now it is time for my story:

Once upon a time New Zealand was planning on where the rugby world cup games were going to be played.  The planed that on the 9^th of October the fourth quarter final would be played in CHCH.  The Earth was not in a very good mood in CHCH and it decided it would let the people know by shaking.  The Earth shook a number of time causing very large earthquakes.  These earthquakes cause enough problems in the city making the stadium* unsafe.  This meant that the quarter final that was going to be played in CHCH was not going to be able to.  Today the All Blacks played Argentina in the quarter final.  All of NZ was paying attention to the game being played in Auckland all excited about the game.  The Earth wanted to join in the excitement so like it does best it decided to shake in CHCH again during the match.  I guess this means that it was a good thing that the game was not being played in CHCH. 

The point of this story it to tell you that as I was watching the game there was a 5.5 earthquake.  Also the All Blacks won so next Sunday they play Australia and I will hopefully be going to the fan zone to watch the game and hopefully there will be no earthquakes during it. 

I did not take any photos this week so here is a picture of me in the rain from a while ago. 

Next week will not be very exciting until Ashley shows up on Saturday evening.  Until next time have fun and smile :)

*the only type of stadium that is important in NZ is a rugby one

Remember to Smile

I am sorry that it is now Tuesday evening and I am just posting from last week.  I don’t have any good excuse for why I did not post already but I am going to give you a couple.  Last week was not very exciting so I did not have very much to write about.  When Sunday night came around when I normally write I did not have any good ideas for what to write about and then I forgot to write.  Monday morning when I write when I have forgotten to write on Sunday night my computer was being funky and freezing.  When I was waiting for it to fix itself I started doing some maths and got distracted by it and did not want to stop.  That afternoon when my computer was working again I need to work on my psyc report so still no blog writing yet.  Today I was busy working on my psyc report and enjoying working on my maths.  Today I went to my psyc lecture and then lab and turned in my report and now I am back at my flat working on this blog post finally.  I still do not have much to write about but I will tell you about two different things that happened last week.

Story 1

 On Monday I made many cookies (about 4.5 dozen) and I could not eat them all so I decided I would bring them to share at soccer.  I brought 16 of them and there are 5 people on each team so about 10 people and I thought it would be easy to get rid of the 16, at least 8 of the people would need to eat 2, once chocolate chip one peanut butter.  This ended up being much harder than I thought it would be.  I was asking everyone if they wanted a cookie.  There were building a barbecue (in side and I am not sure why) who took some and then the people in the office took some also.  When I was leaving the office one of the guys said “Thanks for the biscuit.” Then it dawned on me that that might have been my reason I could not get rid of cookies I should have been getting rid of biscuit.  I finally convinced one of my team mates to bring home the left over cookies to his family. 

Story 2

This story is not very exciting as the last one. For my CHCH final part 1 the assignment was “What is the best way for you to express how you will change our world?” on an A4 piece of paper.  For me it took a while to figure out what I wanted to make to expresses this.  I decided that how I have been trying to change the world and want to do more is to make and remind people to smile.  As you can see at the end of every post I remind people to smile.  The way I decided to express this idea of making people smile I decided to make a jar over flowing of jokes.  I spent a while working on this project.  First I was looking up many good jokes.  I found many of them and I would like to share some of them with you

Q: What did one wall say to the other wall?

A: Lets meet up in the corner.

Q: Why did the algae and the fungus get married?

A: They took a liken to each other.

Q: What is the difference between a writer and a park bench?

A: A park bench can support a family.

Q: Why do you divide Sin over Tan?

A: Just cos!

Q: What did the dentist say to his computer?

A: You have a severe Megabyte!

And here are my two favorite jokes

Q: What does the force and duct tape have in common?

A: They both have a light and a dark side and they both hold the universe together.

Q: What did the buffalo say to his son when he went off to college?

A: BISON

So after finding a bunch of jokes I used powerpoint and created a jar full of jokes.  I then printed and cut out the jar.  I then used some clear plastic bags and wrapped the jar in to make it look like a glass jar. I was not sure how that was going to work out but it ended up working out well. I then taped on cut out letters that said, “Grab a Joke End Up With a Smile”.  I was really proud of the result and sad I had to turn it in and was not able to keep it.  Here is a picture of the result

I hope this blog worked by making you smile today.  Hopefully I will have another post up next Sunday if I don’t come up with any more lame excuses.  Until next time have fun and smile :)