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I'm alive and will be back shortly........ Hope you're all missing me!

Last post

This might be the last post that I write before I go to universtiy (aaarrrggghhh!). As I've said before I don't know how often I will be able to post when I am there, but I will try my hardest to keep up to date with my fellow bloggers. Of course if I get really bored with packing today and can think of nothing else to do, I might come online and write something, but my Internet has been misbehaving so I might not be able to. So, if I don't write to you again for quite a while, ciao! Oh yes, and Happy Blogging! I'm sure you'll all miss me terribly. xxx

Tom

My friend Tom has been in Thailand for the last three months and he just showed me some pictures that he's taken. I thought they were nice so I copied them to show you. (The last one is just so you can see who he is - he's the one on the right)

Thing you didn't know about me #15

I have this thing with bugs. Well, to be more precise, I mean things that fly and make buzzing noises at the same time. And the thing is, they only bother me when I'm trying to, or am, sleeping. I have this really silly fear that they'll go in my ears or something when I'm asleep and I always cover my ears with my hair when I go to bed, without even realising most of the time. You must all know how high pitched and quiet a mosquito is, well I've been woken up by one on many occasions (last night being a perfect example). Something about the buzzing makes me cringe, it's the most horrible noise ever. I've lost so many hours of sleep due to being determined to kill the thing before I can rest again. But when I finally squash it, it's so satisfying, that I smile, and I must admit, I sometimes tell it off, even though it's already dead, which I guess is pretty stupid really. 'So there you stupid idiot! That'll teach you for buzzing round MY head! HA, you loser!'

Google Maps is the coolest thing EVER

I can see New Orleans flooded, I've found my aunt and uncles house in Holland, the eiffel tower, buckingham palace and I can even see my own house (ok so that one isn't very clear) all in satalite pictures. I was quite annoyed to find that they had pictures of Manchester, but not some of the more *ahem* important parts of the country.....

Seriously though, it's cool. Look here.

Argh again!

......there was some pain................... there was some blood...........


........ BUT YAY FOR PRETTY EARRINGS!


I don't think (even though they've been in for 6 weeks) that they were ready to come out yet. Oops.

Now my poor widdle left earlobe (and when I say widdle, I mean teeny weeny) is swollen. Ouchy.

Argh!

I never thought that getting earrings out could be so difficult!

This made me laugh

I was watching the lord of the rings yesterday and was talking to my wonderful friend Michael at the same time on msn. He told me that the other day a kid went up to him and said 'You were really good in lord of the rings!!'. Ok, he has really similar eyes to Elijah Wood and we make fun of him saying that he actually is Elijah, but the fact that someone actually thought it was him made me laugh. A lot. It made my day in fact!

So by the time our conversation had finished we were referring to the lord of the rings as our film, and he was the neighbourhood friendly hobbit and I was the neighbourhood friendly elf, which, of course, everyone would want to have living near them. I have the pointy ears and everything!! Woo! (I wish). Actually I have been told more than once that I remind people of Cate Blanchett when she's playing Galadriel. Yay.

Only a week to go!!

Well, I have one more week of holiday left (i.e. one more week of sitting around doing nothing) and then I'll be back in England (YEEEESSSSSS!!!!!). Obviously I'll be having a lot of fun and will probably be quite busy so it might be a while before I can blog properly, so I'm afraid you'll have to put up with my absence in the best way that you can. I can tell that when I get to Sheffield I'm going to have that really weird feeling of being excited but completely terrified all at the same time. At least I can look forward to going to see the new Pride and Prejudice film with Jess. I've decided that I should go to it expecting it to be no way near as good as the BBC version, then hopefully I'll be pleasantly surprised by it. That's my theory anyway. Even though it's 10 years old, the BBC will take some beating! I wont like Keira Knightly ever again if she ruins Lizzie Bennet though. hmmmm

Yay look what I made!

Thanks to VJ, I've been able to waste away my day making these! I couldn't leave until I'd made myself into a fairy and then I decided that I had to make another fairy. Unfortunately my computer decided to be a nuisance so I lost the second fairy picture. Oh well I guess it's a good job I stopped or I would have ended up with hundreds of pictures of silly fairies!! You can make houses too. Click here.

I'd never normally be like this, but....

.... I'm jealous. Most of my friends are either already in England or are going back soon. And I'm going to be stuck here until the 24th. It might not seem like long to you, but it is a long time when you're alone and have nothing worthwhile to do. I was fine before, but now I've spoken to them and know they're having a great time I'm depressed. At least I know Jess is in the same boat as me I suppose. I can cheer myself up with the fact that even though it's well over a month since my birthday, I'm still looking forward to presents.

*sigh* Nope, it doesn't cheer me up enough, I'm still jealous and depressed. At least my friend Michael has promised that if I die (from boredom or anything else) he's willing to identify my body. How reassuring.

Oh yeah, Happy Birthday Prince Harry. Have fun crawling around in muddy ditches all day with your army buddies. Well, I guess he'll be having more fun than me....... *siiiiiiiiiigh*

Conversation I had in holland.....

Uncle John: So, Becky, what would you like for dessert? Some of that pineapple? Oh, or there's some of that really nice cherry thing with the pankcakes and cream. Or you could have ice cream with it! Mmmm

Me: Errr, no thankyou. I'll have some toast.

Uncle John: Toast?

Me: Yes, 2 pieces of toast would be very nice thankyou.

Uncle John: Riiiiight..... toast for dessert.... if you like. *wanders off into the kitchen*

My visit to the Van Gogh museum

When I was in Holland (for the second time) this summer, me and my mum went to Amsterdam to look at art. We went to the Rijksmuseum, but I didn't find it very interesting, but I actually liked the Van Gogh museum, which is strange because I seriously thought that I would never get myself into a gallery. I'm not the most arty person and don't have time for most of the modern rubbish which doesn't take any talent. Well, if it does, it's not very visible. I like pictures that look like they took time and required skill and a steady hand. Above all, it has to be something real. Either that, or extremely pretty.

There was only one painting that I actually had a problem with. And that was Sunflowers. Don't get me wrong, I think it's a nice painting, but seeing it for real, with my face only about 40cm away from it made me notice a mistake. I usually like the painting, but whenever or however I looked at it, all I could see was a blob. A blob of yellow paint from the background splattered on one of the flowers. I tried to ignore it but, for me it was ruined.

On the picture of it below the circle with a thin outline is a big thick patch of paint (it's not obvious on that, but in real life it's a big picture and it's obviously clearer and you can see the texture). This was the first bit that I noticed when I saw the painting, and then when I looked downwards, to my horror, there was 'the blob'. Again, as this is only a small picture you can't see it very well, but on the real one, it's much more, errr *thinks of a word to use instead of obvious for the third time* hmmm obvious. Even when I stepped back and looked again, all I could see was the little imperfection on an otherwise wonderful painting. Yeah, now I'm looking at that picture on here properly, the blob looks miniscule. Still, I can't help but take notice of it everytime.



I therefore name my favourite Van Gogh painting (out of the ones from this museum, I haven't seen any others!) is:

'Almond Blossom'

It's my favourite mainly because of the background colour, which doesn't come across on this one (click the link) unfortunately. It's so vibrant, I think it's great! I've even bought a small copy of it, which is going to be framed and will live on my bedroom wall.

If you get the opportunity to go, I would if I were you. But it's quite expensive compared to other places, so if you're like me and can get away with looking younger than 18, you can get in for 2.50 euros instead of 13.50 euros. *whistles and walks away pretending not to have told a lie to get in cheap* tee hee. Don't tell anyone though, mum said I had to keep it a secret. I don't lie usually, honest.

I'm in love.....

...... with.......










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.........WATER CRESS!!! It's beautiful, seriously (with my wonderful homemade salad dressing of course. If you want to know what it is, ask me. Yum yum.).

However, it seems that someone is trying to kill me with it. I just made myself some, but pulled out a piece of grass and some thistle leaves, or something to that effect, from the packet. I'm sure that if I had eaten that without realising that it had spikes all over it, I would currently be crying and/or throwing up somewhere. Phew, good job I noticed!!

I only just remembered how much I love this song.

And I've even out the lyrics on for you, in pink. How wonderful.

Love Theme (Kissing You)

Des'ree

Pride can stand a thousand trials,
the strong will never fall
But watching stars without you,
my soul cried.
Heaving heart is full of pain,
oh, oh, the aching.
'Cause I'm kissing you, oh.
I'm kissing you, oh.
Touch me deep, pure and true,
gift to me forever
'Cause I'm kissing you, oh.
I'm kissing you, oh.
Where are you now?
Where are you now?
'Cause I'm kissing you.
I'm kissing you, oh.

Whoop whoop!

Some more pictures of some of the most awesome cricketers in the world.... yay!

Oh dear

I think that the place I'm going to be living in for the next year is right next to a bail hostel. Uh oh, that can't be a good thing. I've not heard anyone say anything nice about the place yet... I dont want to go anymore! It's called Norfolk Park Student Village and is in Sheffield. I guess I could just quit and live in Leeds with Sarah........

I really like Australians....

BUT WE WON THE ASHES!! WOOOOOO HOOOOO!
Oh yeah, England does rock! So there Bob and Sheila!! BBQ that!

Last Night of the Proms

I don't know why it is, but Americans seem to be very patriotic all year round. However we British spend the whole year drinking tea, eating scones and just being 'British', saving up all the excitement for the Last Night of the Proms. * See bottom. For one evening we get out our flags and head off to the Royal Albert Hall in London in posh frocks and sing our hearts out to classics like Land of Hope and Glory, Rule Britannia and Jerusalem, whilst bobbing up and down to the music and generally being quite silly. It was on last night and was overall an enjoyable experience.




*For all you foreigners that don't know what the Proms are, they are lots of concerts that take place in London for 8 weeks of every year. The last night is the most exciting and the one that the bbc show on tv for everyone around the country to see.

I've decided...

... that blogging is ok, but I have banned myself from all games websites or any other pointless pages that will end up with me spending hours on the Internet. I'm completely alone at home now (not including parents, but they don't count) I'm going to have to find things for me to do with myself that are worthwhile. I decided that I could go for a bike ride, but, to my annoyance, autumn decided to come all of a sudden in the last 2 days (evil, evil, EVIL!!! How could the best and the worst months of the year be so close together?? I hate September!) , bringing rain and wind, which will, I assure you, make me depressed if the sun doesn't appear from behind the clouds sometime soon. Even if it's only for a little while. Note to sun: When you come, bring heat. Please!

Yes, yes yes, I know what I said....

I know I said that I wouldn't be online for a while, but this'll only take 5 minutes and it's important!


All I want to say is.......

Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday dear Svengord the Brave aka bestest brother in the wooorrrlllld,
Happy Birthday to you!

Fin.

Is it really possible that I'm bored of the Internet??

I was playing Sudoku on Addicting Games earlier. When I was college, we used to do it in the paper nearly everyday. We enjoyed it. So, I decided to play it on the Internet. Anyway, after finishing level 3 today, I looked at the time it took, and instead of thinking 'Yes! 15.49! That's a good time considering I was having a conversation at the same time! Woo!', all I could think was 'I've just wasted 15 minutes and 49 seconds of my life. Infact, I've wasted hours of my life on here. And I've still got another 3 weeks here where I can't do anything. I'm wasting my youth on this silly Internet. What am I doing? I'm getting of this computer. It's boring me. Yes, I, Rebecca 'bumungo.blogspot.com' Harris am bored of the Internet'.

Is this possible? Can I really be bored of the Internet? I have absolutely nothing to do other than sit and read or go on the Internet. But you know what? Right now, I'm not going to do either. I'm going to bed. And I don't know when I'll be back.



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And yet, I wouldn't be surprised if it was tomorrow. But I'm telling you now, the only good reason that I have for coming online is to chat with my friends, and seeing as most of them are either hundreds or even thousands of miles away and are in completely different time zones, they are usually on at silly o'clock every day so it's pointless.

Pointless. Pointless. Yes, that's what it is. The internet is pointless. For me it is anyway. Just a way of wasting my life. Think of all the useful, good things I could have done in the time that I've spent sat in front of a computer over the last few years. Think what you could have been doing instead of wasting hours on the Internet or playing stupid games. It's just silly really. I'm annoyed with myself now.

Camera fun!

Oh, me and Sarah had A LOT of fun with the camera today. The picture above is merely an example of what we took. We laughed. We cried. We hurt ourselves. But, oh yes, we had fun!

Look at the others here or just click on my flickr thing on my sidebar to see them all. Well, there are plenty more then there are on there actually, but they are far too embarrassing to be put on public display!

Surely I can't be only one that finds this odd....

.... and yet highly amusing at the same time.

Oh how depressing....

Want to know why I'm depressed? It's September, that's why. And you know what that means? No more August, that's what that means, the best month of the year and the summer (ok so it was absolutely boiling today, but summer is still officially over in my book). And in the words of Queen Victoria, I am not amused! Hmpffff, so there!