Americanny things

Friends! Romans! Countrymen! Lend me your ears! Well, eyes...

Behold! My first and last AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL PHOTO! Gonna be in the year book and everything. Americanny, right? I know. 

Moving on....I think I officially failed Thanks-giving. The idea of this holiday is to stuff yourself silly with potatoes and turkey until you pass out and die. I did not do this. I had a speck of turkey and some tato but thats it. I didn’t completely fail however, as I DID stay up long enough to go BLACK FRIDAY SHOPPING. Black friday is the day after thanks giving where from 12am to 12pm EVERYTHING is on a super sale. People everywhere pull all-nighters and hit the mall to get some amazing bargains. I learned that the last place I ever want to be ever is at Walmart at 12am on black friday. Horrible. Lines just to check out were curving round the block so you can’t even imagine what it’s like inside! In the end we decided we were NOT going to wait 4 hours in checkout so we just hid all our little bits and bobs around the store and agreed we’d come back at 5am when the crowds had died down to collect them. IT WORKED. Emily stashed her big George Forman grill in one of the compost bins (not a used one, one for sale) and we were stashing DVD’S behind paint cans, it was great! It was pretty calm by 5 so our plan was a total success. The only thing I bought from Walmart was about 11 kilos worth of M&M’s and a bag of Jolly Ranchers for Rachel. Fun times.

I still don’t really know EXACTLY what thanks-giving is about. I think pilgrims sat down with indians and ate turkey and they made a holiday from it. Something like that! Oooh the Macey’s thanks-giving parade in New York is also fantastic! I only saw it on telly but it was still good. So thats thanks giving.

Today is the last day of thanks-giving break then it’s back to a whole lotta school, basketball, dance, piano and one act. Speaking of one act, for those of you that care for some reason, last week we performed at Conference which is kinda like a little judged practice round so we know what we need to work on. It didn’t go so hot in my opinion. We had some technical difficulties working in the new space (Conference was in Gothenburg) and my acting was a bit crap. It’s all good though because I still won an outstanding actor award. It’s the accent that does it. I could probably say anything and it’d be an inspiring piece of art (just trickin). We have districts this week on Friday and if we place in first there we go to state. We’ll see how that goes!!!

Good-bye.

P.S having your “ass in the air” does not mean literally having your ass up in the air. An embarrassing mistake to make.

Jacqueer and Lester Cornflake

This blog update is simply to tell you all about my wonderful host sister LEXIE! Otherwise known as Lester, Lekerson, Lester Cornflake, Sisser, Lettuce, or just Lekker. Last week we went up to lincoln and had a jolly old time at the Settle Inn. After shopping we spent most of our time in the Hotel pool doing all the usual things; hanstand competitions, synchronised swimming, and doing bombs of the edge of the pool. Funnest of times. The best bit was when she was doing the butterfly stroke and she cracked me in the jaw has her powerful fists came down to once again propel her that little bit further. My fault really. I was in the way. 

Lexie is a nutter really. Tonight she tried to get me to eat a combination of white rice, cool whip, sugar, and cinnamon. She’s always eating strange new concoctions that even people around here haven’t heard of. And she’ll try ANYTHING...except Vegemite...she smelled it and ran for the hills. She says, and I quote “That shit smells like a cats ass!”. When we were having supper in Lincoln she decided that she was going to order the fried pickle. Sounds revolting right? Well it pains me to say that they were rather delicious. I felt so gross after eating them though. She really is a powerhouse when it comes to food. The girl can eat more in one sitting than my burley father can all day. It’s pretty amazing to witness. And she still has a gorgeous bod! Legs that go on forever, seriously. HOW DOES SHE DO IT? I don’t know but I hate her a little bit for it.

Nutritious AND delicious

Now the her volleyball season is over we’re both kickin arse in basketball! And when I say we’re both kickin arse, I mean just her...I suck. Royally. OH WELL. At least I’m having fun, right? I’ve been to 2 practices. First practice I ran myself ragged and I suddenly became very aware of my appalling fitness level. Lex killed it like it was nothing though. Blasted Americans, can eat and eat and still run a marathon like it’s nobody’s business. Hardly fair. 

Lester really is a sweety poo. In fact the other day I was out somewhere I can’t recall but I knew Adam was coming over and my room was a disgrace. I messaged Lexie and asked her if she would mind throwing whatever was on the floor in my washing basket. I came home and was FREAKING OUT about the state of my room, because there was a lot more wrong with it than just the amount of clothes on the floor. I anxiously open my door and there it is...a perfectly clean room. Clothes put away, bed made, EVERYTHING. “Lisa did you clean my room?” “No...” “LEXIE YOU DID THIS!?!??!”  I flipped out. She is #1. I owe her big now. 

Anyhoodle, thats pretty much it for now. I didn’t really have much to say so I just thought a little insight into a piece of my family might fill you guys up. So that’ll be all. 

Love and miss you all terribly, well the people I know that is. Not you strangers. I’m sure you’re all nice people though. 

BYE.

Technical difficulties and HALLOWEEN!

Good day to you all! I’m so so sorry to hear my videos wont work. If you have any idea of how I can fix it let me know, it’s really giving me the sh*ts. Hopefully by the end of this blogging adventure, we’ll all be good enough friends that you’ll be able to come on over to my house and we’ll watch them on my laptop. This offer will not be available to any creepers.

ANYWAY, today is November first which means last night (on a monday...bleh) was HALLOWEEN!!! Oooh!!! Now I was a slacker and did not really put together the extravagant costume I should have. Oh well. I still got loads of candy. My lovely friends Emmalea and Ashley took me on a trick or treating extravaganza! We only got around to one house but that house just happened to belong to Christine. Christine is my glamorous, fun, bubbly, and enthusiastic piano teacher. She gave my friends and I about 10 houses worth of goodies. She forced us to take a plate of food to go too. She’s fantastic. Her husband also used to be a pro soccer player so after all my piano lessons I’ll go have a kick with him and their kids Daisy and Miko. It’s a fun time. She even gave me a pumpkin AND carving kit. What a woman.

After my trick or treating adventures were over I headed over to the wonderful Adam’s house to carve my first pumpkin. It’s a lot messier than I thought. First you have to cut the top of so it has a lid, then you have a scoop out all the innards. It was slimy and yucky, aka, bundles of fun. We went with the classic look, you know, triangle eyes, crooked teeth etc. But it needed at least one distinguishing FREAKTURE bahaha get it? Like FEATURE but FREAKTURE because it’s Halloween!! Am I right fellas?!! Nope...right. Well anyway, we gave it a Harry Potter scar for poops and giggles as Adam would say. Then the final touch was to put the candle inside and watch it glow. It was the most bootiful pumpkin the country had ever seen. I was very proud.

All in all Halloween was a great success. Thats pretty much all I have for this update. One Act has it’s first performance next friday so next week will probably be the next time I update. Catchall then I spose.

Shalom!