Ok…I once again failed to keep this site updated

I`m leaving for England the 7th of September so I`m using all the time I have to arrange some last minute things and to spend some last time with my boyfriend, family and friends.

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Back from Rome!

I returned from a trip to Rome with my boyfriend two days ago, and it was amazing!

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Rome, here I come!

Tomorrow is my last day of work, and I`m pretty much looking forward to it. It`s about time I get my butt out of the boring supermarket jobs and find a job which actually has something to do with the stuff I do in college.

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02
Sep

E-reader!

Posted by Bernadet | Posted in Wolverhampton | Posted on 02-09-2010

bookeen-cybook-opus-ebook-reader-1Remember how I was planning to get an e-reader for my birthday money so I wouldn`t have to drag 10kg of books with me to England? Well, I just received it and it`s gorgeous! I ordered the Bookeen Cybook Opus in white (I wanted pink but it wasn`t in stock) and it came with a leather case and 75 books (not even sucky books but classes like Alice in Wonderland and Lord of the Rings!). I was afraid the screen would be too much like a computer screen and that you`d get a headache if you read on it for too long (like people are complaining about for the Ipad), but that`s not the case at all…it`s just like reading a regular book. I love it!

Today is my father`s birthday, which means that I`ll once again have to break my diet and eat pie. Okay, maybe I don`t have to, but I know that I will *grins* I still have to wrap his presents though…that`s always something I procrastinate until the very last minute.

Only 5 more days until I leave for Wolverhampton! I`m going there the 7th of September, leaving from schiphol at 9:30am (which means I`ll have to leave my house at 5am or so *sulks*)

I`ll go wrap those presents now, ttyl!

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30
Aug

Partytime over *sulks*

Posted by Bernadet | Posted in Random | Posted on 30-08-2010

I had my birthday/goodbye party this weekend and it was funfunfun! Saturday I had Patrick come over to help me bake pies (which were delicious! We made two apple pies, an orange cheesecake and a banana/white chocolate cheesecake), my sister came over later and GJ joined me for dinner in the afternoon (we made nachooos). A few hours later Stefanie joined us too and we watched some shitty tv shows and played on the wii. We sucked miserably at Dance Dance Revolution so we quickly switched to Wii sports. Once we started canoeing we looked like a Wii commercial, that`s how much fun we were having. Luckily, my sister recorded it:

Playing Wii

I also got loads of fun gifts that day, a Hello Kitty watch from GJ, a Disney Couture medallion from my sister (she has a matching one so we can wear each others faces Emoticon die tong uitsteekt), a photocamera from my parents and a package with all kinds of stuff I love and dutch stuff from my sister and parents. Of course, I also got lots of moneeehhhh *insert foamy the squirrel greedy voice here*.

The day after most of my family stopped by (granny decided to stop by at 10:30, waking me, GJ and my sister who were all staying over…ugh). It was a very fun day, which consisted mainly of eating pie *wooo* and chatting. I got more moneehhhss and fun gifts! Love love love, now I can buy my e-reader!

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27
Aug

Ok…I once again failed to keep this site updated

Posted by Bernadet | Posted in Family and Friends, Featured, Life, School | Posted on 27-08-2010

…But I have a good reason! I`m leaving for England the 7th of September so I`m using all the time I have to arrange some last minute things and to spend some last time with my boyfriend, family and friends. After all, I won`t be able to see them for 4 to 5 months.

I`m still excited and terrified at the same time, but I`m sure the terrified part will disappear once I`m there and have met some people.*squeals* I`M GOING TO ENGLAND!!!11!!

Tomorrow I`ll be having a goodbye party with my friends and sunday with my family. I`ll be celebrating my birthday at the same time, since I`ll be in England on my actual birthday –September 25- and I wouldn`t want to miss you on cake and pressies!

I`ll be making a separate wolverhampton photoalbum and will be keeping pictures I make there, while keeping this blog to update ya`ll on what I`m doing there.

Love ya!

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10
Aug

Back from Rome!

Posted by Bernadet | Posted in Featured, Life | Posted on 10-08-2010

IMG 1929 thumb Back from Rome!I returned from a trip to Rome with my boyfriend two days ago, and it was amazing!

Day one: It was the first time I went on a trip with my boyfriend, so that made it even more special. We went there by plane, from Amsterdam. It started out a bit troublesome since it turned out our suitcases hadn`t been paid for yet, and that the flight had been delayed for an hour or so.

For GJ it was his first time flying and he was afraid the airplane would come falling out the sky and kill us all, but luckily that didn`t happen. I never cease to be amazed by the view from a plane…Too bad you spend more time checking in and waiting for your luggage then you do flying. Once we did get properly arrive we still had to find our way into Rome itself, since the airport is a good 30 km away. We managed to catch a bus and (after facing some rude bus drivers and using our GPS) we found the hotel.

IMG 1979 thumb Back from Rome!Day two: This day we decided to go visit two of the most important cultural sites of Rome, the Colosseum of and the Forum Romanum. We were pretty lucky since we were just about to stand in line for the Colosseum (which was 1,5 hours long!!) when someone approached us and asked if we were EU citizens and below 25 years of age. Since we were, we could join their English tour of both the Colosseum and the Forum Romanum for which we had to pay about half of the usual price and we could walk right past the long long line.

The Colosseum was as impressive as I thought it would be, it`s even bigger than you imagine it to be when you see pictures or video footage. There wasn`t much left of the Forum Romanum (everything was stolen to build the Vatican) but we had an amazing tourguide who told us loads of amusing facts (did you know the average roman was only 130 cm?)

The Colosseum

IMG 1993 thumb Back from Rome!Day Three: This day we decided we wanted to go swimming, since it was terribly hot (and it would continue being terribly hot the entire week). This was easier thought then done, since GJ had read about a pool near the Colosseum but we couldn`t find anything about it when we were actually at the Colosseum. Not a single sign, not a single leaflet…it was like the pool wasn`t even there. Luckily, we had access to Wifi in the hotel so we googled it, and it turned out that it was on a 3 minute walk from the Colosseum but it was so well hidden by trees that you couldn`t see it from the street…we`d actually passed it the day before.

So, off to the swimming pool we went. It was expensive, 14,50 for a day, but there wasn`t a single tourist and the water was wonderful! We spend the entire day relaxing there.

IMG 2010 thumb Back from Rome!Day Four: This day we visited the Pantheon and the Trevi fountain. We were utterly incapable of finding the Trevi fountain at first and had given up, making our way to the Pantheon, when we stumbled right upon it. It sure was a gorgeous fountain. I felt a very strong desire to go swim in the fountain but unfortunately, it wasn`t allowed…you weren`t even allowed to stick your big toe in the water. (You were more than welcome to toss all your coins in though).

We spend quite some time at the Pantheon, just staring at the ceiling and looking around us (and GJ was playing games on his phone…he`s still a geeky boy! Emoticon met brede lach). Eventually we returned to eat some delicious food (the pizza and pasta really is as good as they say!)

Day Five: We went shopping this day! Being a big lover of shopping, I had a great time. At first I was a bit disappointed since all we saw was Gucci, Prada, YSL, Burberry and more IMG 20100806 175549 thumb Back from Rome!fancy brands which we couldn`t afford. Luckily, I`d read something about an affordable street -the Via dei Corso- and it turned out to be amazing! Best of all, THERE WAS A HELLO KITTY STORE. Yes, you`ve read that right. It was a store entirely dedicated to Hello Kitty, and it wasn`t even a small store…it was huge! I wanted to buy EVERYTHING, but unfortunately it was all very expensive so I only bought myself a fancy wallet. I needed a new wallet anyway since I managed to ruin my old one by putting diet coke in an aquarius bottle. It`s not a good idea..not a good idea at all. Turns out those bottle caps can`t handle the soda and explode, it was all over the walls and ceiling of the hotel room. So I was like
OMGPLEAZTELLMETHISDIDNTHAPPEN and started cleaning like mad, seriously finishing about five minutes before roomservice knocked on the door. I`d managed to save my butt there, but not the contents of my bone-church-4handbag… it was all soaked in diet coke, even my money *sobs* But hey…it gave me an excuse to buy the HK wallet!

We also visited an amazing church which was decorated with the bones of 4000 monks. It was fascinating in a really creepy way, seeing all those skulls all around you. What creeped me out most though were the mummified skeletons of some of the monks and the skeletons of small children. It`s definitely recommend you to pay a visit there though, it`s at the Via Vitt. Veneto. (You`re NOT NOT NOT allowed to make any pictures though, I picked this one from google, when a kid tried making a picture every single one in the church was kicked out until they`d found who`d made the picture…I wonder what happened to the kid who had made the picture).

Day six: This day turned out to be a whole lot more exciting than I`d expected it to be! We were planning to just make a stroll through a huge park when we ran into a pond which was filled with…well, we couldn`t see from a distance but it looked like some crazy fish! When we approached the pond we noticed that they were turtles, a LOT of turtles, at least 60 of them! They were very used to humans so you could feed them (they ate EVERYTHING, from cake to crisps) and pet them. So obviously, we spend the rest of the day feeding and petting turtles.

Feeding turtles!

Day seven: Back home again *sulks*

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01
Aug

I`m unemployed

Posted by Bernadet | Posted in Life | Posted on 01-08-2010

It`s now official…I`m unemployed, have been for the last 3 hours. I`ll never have to get my butt out of bed at eight on a sunday again! That is, unless I find myself another job where I have to work on sunday (it does pay awesomely on sunday). I`ll also be standing in Rome, Italy, within 24 hours…probably sweating my ass off since it won`t be colder than 32 degrees Celcius all week. jackson-rathbone-sokka-last-airbender

Well, you all know how much I love the animated series Avatar (there will be a new season! Wooooo!) and you all know how much Avatar the movie supposedly sucks. Unfortunately, I couldn`t resist downloading a crappy version so I can watch it on the plane tomorrow. I know I shouldn`t, about ten people have told me NOT TO DO IT…but my desire to see avatar stuff is too big. I do apologize. When I return from Rome I shall tell you if it just sucked or if it sucked ass.

I`m looking forward to seeing lots of Jackson Rathbone though, since I consider him to be quite a hottie. I do hope he`s learned some more expressions than his ‘Omg-I`m-in-pain-because-I-have-to-poo’ expression from Twilight. (and New moon… And Eclipse…).

Hmmm….I`ll go have some dinner now, take a shower and finish packing my bags. See you all in a week! <3

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