I feel very tired. It could be to do with the fact that it’s 11:30pm in London right now, and I might still be stuck on GMT, or the fact that I didn’t get to sleep until 1am this morning and was woken again at 6am by mum yelling at Rosie, and again at 7am by Lauren searching my room for something that she’s hoping I didn’t throw out when I cleaned up all the stuff from the dining room last night… not sure. So nice to be home.

I miss the cold :( It’s so hot here. I just went into the kitchen to get a drink, and thought “It’s nice and cool inside the house”. And thinking that, in 29 degree heat (hey, it could be worse…) makes me realise that after only a day I am again used to Aus. That seems slightly sad, because aren’t you supposed to appreciate home after being away for so long and missing out on the things that you took for granted? I thought for sure that as soon as I got the chance I’d be outside in the sunshine soaking it up. But now, it just looks too hot. And is too hot. And I’d probably get a melanoma or something.

I don’t want to forget what snow is like!

 

So we leave for Berlin tomorrow morning. It will be interesting being back in a country that doesn’t speak English. Also, it’s going to be far more cold than any place we’ve been so far – including Munich and Venice (Munich should have been the coldest, but Venice nearly killed me), because Berlin is further north. First port of call when we reach Berlin should be a bank, so that i can use my dumb card to get some dumb money. Because the dumb gypo stole my dumb wallet in dumb rome. Plus I want to buy many things, many many things my pretties.

I am sad, sad, sad, sad. In the emotional sense and also in the… moral sense? Is that what people mean when they say “you’re sad” as an insult? I guess it never really made much of an impact when it was ever said to me, since I obviously don’t understand to what it refers. Sad.

That might be the first emoticon i’ve used in my blog, and it might not. I can’t stand reading those blogs that are written in running-writing (read: cursive) font and have emoticons in the place of words.

But do not judge lest ye be judged so each to their own i suppose. Sorry dumb running-writing picture blog people, I didn’t mean to offend you. And I can’t really talk because I haven’t written in my blog for quite some time, and am unable to update my picture gallery because the dumb gypo stole my dumb camera in dumb rome.

Where are all the things that I never took for granted because they weren’t really there? I want them NOW. Aggggh! Can’t we just play “you guess what I’m thinking, then I don’t tell you whether you’re right or you’re wrong and you’re just left to wonder because that’s life”? I say such dumb things. Dumb and sad. I am dumb and sad. I would like to state the obvious but I think that’s just too much.

So I said before but I’m going to reiterate – it’s going to be freeeeezing in Berlin. I hope i’m going to be warm enough. We’re not taking our suitcases – just our backpacks, and God knows we can’t fit many warm clothes in there. So we’ll be re-wearing our re-worn clothes again. I have stockings galore and also jackets and a beanie, and they told us that we would need earmuffs, of all things! I have never been told to wear earmuffs in my entire life! I don’t have earmuffs, I would not even know where to start looking for earmuffs. At least I have my warm warm gloves, as if that’s going to make any difference. My beanie has bits that go over your ears, because it ties up under my chin so I think that should be fine. Maybe they want us to cover our ears so that we don’t have to listen to people crap on all the time.

Well then we should just get earplugs, and they shouldn’t go overboard and tell us to get earmuffs! really!

We’re going to see a castle when we get back, a real, live castle! I mean, not live (the hills are alive… no they’re not, they’re just dirt and grass you stupid woman) but real in any case. We’re also going to see Stonehenge, and Bath. We were going to see Wind in the Willows, but now I think not because of time constraints etc. I think we’re going to see a show in London with Ruth, and Dave & Simone. We’ll get cheap tickets to something or other, doesn’t really matter since there’s nothing I’m that desperate to see.

Time for me to go to bed I think. Lauren just tried to steal my diary. The nerve!

Sad, sad, sad.

 

This is going to be a stupid, stupid, boring and idiocy-filled. Just as a warning. Also, I can’t say much of any substance because Lauren is sitting beside me reading my screen every now and then. Your mom goes to college, GOSH!

Anyway. There are some things that I never thought about and had no idea would happen until now, when it’s actually in the moment and happening. Not real things, mind you, but thoughts running through my mind. Is this vague enough for you? Good. So, since there isn’t anything i can do about it I guess I just have to live through it. Then you can all wonder what I’m going on about and guess what? you’ll NEVER KNOW!!!! haha.

I am in Ireland, in a net cafe in Dublin (£1 an hour! WOOT!!!) and it’s freeezing outside but I’m refusing to wear my coat because I’m like extreem tuff like you can’t even imagine (in my own head, but my body doesn’t agree). Plus it takes to long to put on and take off again with all the bags I’m carrying and every single time we go into a place indoors it’s warm. Yaaaay. I think I have spent more money here than in any other country I have been to so far (perhaps not England, I think they might be on par at the moment becasue of the accumulative costs of being in England for so long). Dublin really is an expensive city. You’ll hear all about our cheap night on the town if you are in my list of favourite people (you know who you are. And also those people who my favourite people will forward my emails onto – you know who you are too. And I’m sorry I can’t email you directly but for reasons I’m not listing here I didn’t put everyone into the “To” field immediately when I sent my first group email and because that is the precedent, I’m being lazy and relying on whatever has been happening since that first one.) We really are being very enterprising tonight. And plus, Dubliner’s are extreeeeemely helpful and accommodating. and friendly. and funny.

Rosie, bub, I am totally about to send you an email. You know it. Here it goes….!

 

Things I didn’t know about the UK:

1. Light switches here are REALLY BIG. They’re like giant-land in Super Mario Bros.

2. It really is very cold here, but jeans ARE warm enough on their own – you don’t need to wear thermals under them :) . I might have to rethink this once we get to Europe though.

3. There are NO EMOS in London. I mean, it’s like the hugest city (please don’t correct me on this) and there are no emos! How can this be? Everyone just looks completely themselves, everyone’s wearing whatever. It’s awesome. Apart from the chavs. Girl chavs wear skin-tight ripped to shreds jeans, stiletto riding boots over the top, little boob-tubes or singlet tops with push-up bras, and tacky little boleros. I don’t know how they don’t freeze to death.

4. Everything is really old here. The houses, the office buildings, the pavers…

5. You never feel thirsty, or if you do you just feel like drinking tea, so it’s really easy to get dehydrated. And you don’t realise until you’ve got a mean headache.

6. Drinks come in pints, which are REALLY BIG.

7. They don’t have lemon lime bitters here. You have to ask for a lemonade with bitters and a slice of lime.

There are a few more but I have to go. No photos as yet because I haven’t had the chance to upload them. More later (maybe!!!!)

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