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I used to have a little FOREST of cacti but soon enough they all dried out… They don’t even do that in the DESERT! :P

{ January 6, 2009 @ 2:10 PM } · { Deja Moi Comme Ca }
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Hey guys =]!

So on Saturday, when we were driving home after ice-skating, we took the usual, fastest route… To be stopped abruptly by a grotest amount of ambulances and police cars on one of the corners. We didn’t get to see anything exciting… but it was quite a spectacle with the brightly coloured flashing lights and booming sirens… Apparently it was an accident between two cars… As one of our friends said. But I haven’t been able to find any information about it on the internet despite my attempts at constructing a search engine friendly string of french words :P . Aww well.

The only road accident that I’ve really seen that was bad was when a guy had been hit by a car whilst crossing a small village road in France.  It was terrible /: |… Oh and at the ice-rink on Sunday there was a girl who had done… something to her hand and blood was everywhere! That was just plain gross :P … She wasn’t even crying or squealing or anything but had to be taken away in an ambulance none the less.

I have to draw more art-sy stuff sometime soon… Since my room now has drawings up since 2007! So need to update a bit :P … 2009 sounds funny ^_^.

One of my new favouite flowers are carnations, they’re just so perfectly delicate and soft… Aww! ^_^ I found out about my new love for them because my dad bought me a bouquet =]. The first bouquet I’ve ever been bought actually :P . My favourite flower had been an orchid because of it’s unique look and the fact that it’s silently dangerous :P … But when I had them as a plant I failed to keep them alive… Pot plants really aren’t my thing… I used to have a little FOREST of cacti but soon enough they all dried out… They don’t even do that in the DESERT! :P

I’ve been able to keep two bamboo things going though! You don’t need to put them in earth… or even reguarily water them… As far as I’m concerned anyway :P … I’ve just left them in two long black and red vases filled with water /: |. And they still look healthy… So I’m happy ^_^.

I’m different with my animals though, of course! :P

Oh yes, so on Saturday because we were forced to take a detour, we decided to stop in at the video store since it was on the way to our house anyway. We got out an extremely sad movie, well the filming was absolutely incredible and during the first 20 to 30 minutes the whole time all I could do was coo :P . It was just so cute!! Then the rest of the film forced you into tears (And I NEVER cry whilst watching a movie!)… Until the end! I recommend it… even if I did want to stop watching half way through… But glad that I didn’t =]. The movie’s called “Two Brothers” about two little tigers…

It may have affected me more because my favourite animal is the tiger since I was three years old when I chose “Tiger Too” (The name originating for “Tigger Too” but just that one letter more original :P ) out of the two teddies my mom and dad had bought Venetia and I on the plane flying over from Zimbabwe to Ireland. Oh and yes… He is quite worn /: |… His eyes are bashed up a little bit because when I was little I would play a game where I’d throw him up into the air and he’d usually whack himself on the ceiling -_-… I’m not sure why his face is so squonky though /: |.

Tiger Too

Tiger Too

Anyway! I’m going to leave it at that, remember to check out my vlogs at http://www.youtube.com/user/Dejamoicc … Oh what blatent publicising :P !

Catch you all soon! Hoping to hear from you.

- Bianca =]

Merry Christmas!!

{ December 25, 2008 @ 4:24 PM } · { Deja Moi Comme Ca }
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Hey everyone!

Wishing you all a very merry Chrsitmas and hope all of your dreams come true ^_^.

Even if I had said that I was determined to get to sleep before 11PM, no hope, last night I finally got around to going to bed at about midnight-ish.

I thought it would have been a much longer night but being sleep-deprived me (Haha!… Me… Sleep deprived… Pfffft!! : P) I slept straight on through and only had the urge to once look at my mobile clock at 6:14AM. This being the time that I simply could not get back to sleep again and turned on the Nintendo DS : P.

I WAS going to wait until 8AM to be a good child for my parents but at half past six when my mom had awoken to turn the oven on to let the turkey cook slowly, she noticed that my light was on and decided that I didn’t have to wait any longer… Yay!

Once everyone was awake, we were off into trhe lounge, with it’s shimmering awesome-ness. It was so funny because before Christmas Venetia had said that she wanted socks (random O.o… well, not really. We love our socks because we go ice-skating and rocking socks are necessary ^_^) and I had written down a mobile on my Santa list. The very first present that each of us opened was my mobile and Venetia with her socks… Hilarious!

Everything was glittery and had RIBBONS!!

Anyway… Best Christmas EVER! I am the newly named proud owner of this little turtle soft-toy dude… He’s just too “flip-per-ing” awesome! The name choises are between “Peanut Head” and “Franklin” OR “Turtle Dude”… Franklin seems like the best one, since it was the first thing that I squealed when I unwrapped the glorious green shiney wrapping paper to reveal him. See, like I’ve said in my post “Fudge, Licorice, Coconut… And Others Who Go By The Names Of Non-Food Products ^_^!”, I used to have a turtle, tortoise or… terrapin who I named “Franklin” after the turtle, tortoise or terrapin who’s show I used to watch…

I don’t know what the difference between a turtle, tortoise or terrapin is… Therefore I don’t know what he was… Sorry! -_-

Venetia’s taken all of the bows from the wrapping paper and has stuck them to her door O.0… It looks so cool ^_^!

I recieved the most gorgeous, cutest camcorder ever!… And so proceded to film absolutely everything… Even my plate whilst I ate Christmas lunch… It looks AWESOME… Once sped up : P… It’s just like… Woah, where’d it all go /: |.

Heehee!

I’m going to have to leave it at that, my Christmas was AWESOME! And now awaiting Saturday to go clothes shopping, hee hee!!

Hoping to hear from you soon! 364 Sleeps Until Christmas!! : P Ha.. ha… Not so much fun coutning down anymore O.o.

- Bianca

My pajamas rock ^_^.

Ice-skating!

{ December 18, 2008 @ 1:58 PM } · { Kiss My Fishy }
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Thursday, November 15, 2007

Hey everyone!

I know I haven’t written anything lately, but it’s because I’ve been busy learning French and …. ICE-SKATING! I absolutely love it! On Saturday we went to the one in my little town for the first time mainly because we couldn’t find it and it had been closed the for summer months.

The first time we got there we were a bit too early so went driving for half and hour and then came back. At 13:30 it was time to go. We didn’t really know what to do, since the only time any of us had been ice-skating in France was in Disney Land’s outside ice-rink.

So anyway I went up to the woman behind the counter said “Patinoire?”. She replied “Oui, oui pour deux?”. Once we got our tickets we walked around to the doors, there was one of those twirling barriers that you walk though and it clicks, so like you would Venetia just walked into it… yeah, you actually had to click this button before so it would unlock. Venetia quickly clicked it and off she went. Once we were in we asked the two girls in there what to do, they pointed and we sort of got the jest.

After a while of unstable-ised walking we finally got used to them opened the swinging door and were met by the freezing temperature inside and the empty atmosphere. There was absolutely no-one there yet. This wasn’t a bad thing, it meant that we could skate and get our bearings before anyone else came out. I was actually extremely surprised! The last time I’d been on ice was nine months ago in Ireland, saying good bye to my friends. But I just got on the ice and went.

More people came and by the end of the day there were at least 40 :P . Big difference to the amount of people there would have been in Dun Donald Ice-Bowl. It was the ice-rink in Belfast. Like you’d get there and there’d be literally hundreds of people crowded the rink!

The best part was that at 15:40 there was a LOUD siren and the shutters began to come down over the large windows, then loud “electro” (rave) music began to play and the disco lights came on. Lots of fun! About 20-30 minutes later though, the shutters came up again and the lights switched back to normal. I was like Aww!

It’s okay half an hour or so later it happened again :-D . In Dun Donald it stayed with the lights and the rave music the whole time. We skated for four hours straight, I only fell once :-) ! It wasn’t really like falling, Venetia was pushing me from behind then I skidded but quickly lifted myself up again :-P .

Once the session was over, we got off the ice, wobbling because of the numbness and because of how painful our muscles were! We changed back into our shoes, had some difficulty walking, and then went home. It was so nice to sit down! For three whole days I was in severe pain with my legs and arms. Guess I’m not used to doing so much exercise :-P . On the third day I thought it would be so much better but it was worse! I literally just flopped out of bed.

On Tuesday, I was much better and so my mom and I decided to go ice-skating! Wooo! We went to the place, but we were an hour early, so we went shopping, came back and then it was still closed! I looked at the large time-table again and realised I had been looking at the wrong day! The patinoire (ice-rink) was only open three days a week, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday. Wednesday does seem like a pretty random day but in France, schools finish early and primary schools don’t even go on a Wednesday. So we reluctantly went home but decided that we’d come back the next day.

Yes, so yesterday we got there at 13:30, skated for three hours, went shopping and then picked my sister up from work. It was loads of fun, despite the fact that I fell three times. The first time I fell it was because I was trying to show my mom something :-P .

The other two times were near the end and were very painful! I hurt my knee, elbow and my side. I actually grazed my elbow and just sat where I fell and said “… Ow”. Really funny after the pain had gone away….

Last night I couldn’t even sleep on my side! I also fell on my hands, so that was very sore with them being numb from the cold already! Other than that I had an awesome day! My mom’s figure skates were sticking into her toe so we asked if we could change them and the guy said we could use the hockey skates if we wanted. We did! It was so much easier, for the first 10 minutes or so it felt very slippery but I got the hang of them.

I can even do the leg movements like a continuous figure eight, the snake, turn and skate on one foot and do a stop on my right heel whilst gliding on my left foot. So I’ve made up my mind about which ice-skates I want to get, just for recreational “go-around-the-rink” ice-skating. Hockey skates! :-P

Pity Venetia didn’t get to try them out but I’ll just ask if we can use them this Saturday again. Oh! We also found out how to use the lockers! It’s all electronical and the instructions were easy enough to follow except for one that I couldn’t understand. We just got the guy to come and show us :-) . So now I know :-P .

Really looking forward to Saturday, Venetia’s going to teach me how to skate backwards and do a T stop :-) . So I’ll tell you how that goes and I’ll also try and get some pictures or even recordings for you.

I think that I’ll leave it at that and I’m still waiting on those photos :-P .

Hope to hear from you all soon!

- Bianca

Snakes On A Path… Get it?… Like the movie! Never mind :-P

{ December 18, 2008 @ 1:37 PM } · { Kiss My Fishy }
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Friday, November 9, 2007

Hey everyone!

It’s starting to feel lonely again with no pictures… on this page anyway. It also feels like I’m talking to myself… but it’s okay I have a tendency to do that quite often :-P .

Back on track though! Yes so going around England was loads of fun, and the Saturday before we were leaving my aunt (Natalie) was in a cycling contest for a charity more to the north of England. It was a 100 mile cycle and she did it :-) ! Woo! So we got her a miniature cake saying Natalie, Worlds Best Cyclist. I’ll put a picture up of it :-P .

Someone found us a house and it looked okay in the pictures… So we packed everything up after being in England for a month, said our goodbyes, with a lot of tears, even from Jett. And off we went on a 17 hour drive! Well actually it was about two or three hours and then we arrived at the underground train. You park your car on it, stay in your car and half an hour later you’re in France.

I thought the underground train would be a lot more exciting… but it was just like sitting in your car that you’ve parked in a long, white room, with little windows on the sides that you couldn’t really see out of, but it got the job done anyway, it’s not as if they could have put a theme park or anything in there :-P .

Now it was the long 15 hour haul… for my mom anyway since she drove the whole the way, with a break only now and then for coffee. The first stop we made in France was at a little side-store that had a coffee bar inside and was still open. So we went inside and you’d never believe the odds! There were two guys there that were driving to Belgium… but they spoke English :-) ! We chatted for a while, they said you might see us at our next stop (we didn’t :-P ). And then off we went again. I couldn’t really sleep the whole time; a few times I dozed off but was interrupted by an elbow in my side or a leg in MY foot space!

It was slightly… okay very cramped in the back of the car… first there was Venetia, then Karen and then Gizmo taking up when my feet were supposed to go… and of course me. I always get the middle seat >:-. So I was extremely squashed :-P and it was very difficult to get to sleep because I didn’t have a door or anything to put my head against, so I got very grumpy when I was woken up after saying that I was going to sleep and not to bother me… Grrr!

It was alright though, when we finally arrived and met up with the owner of the house, my dad filled in the papers, she showed us around and then left. It was okay… at least this house’s kitchen was tiled, it had more than five rooms, a sofa and even a T.V. It also came with the stove, fridge and washing-machine. Big upgrade from our Sicilian house… or so I thought until there were more aliens, too many flies and dare I say it… MICE!

There were upsides to the house too though. A five minute walk from the house was the gorgeous lake that all of my fishing photos were taken at, an absolutely gianormous garden and even two pear trees… but they were very tall pear trees so I only ever managed to whack one off and after all of my effort when it finally tumbled down… I could hardly bite into it because it wasn’t ripe yet! So I let Gizmo have a go at tackling it then threw it away after the pear having several miniature puncture wounds from Gizmo’s vampire teeth :-P .

In that house we were also surrounded by fields, and just a few minutes walk was an animal sanctuary… which could explain the fly situation, seriously every day I was swatting at least 20 flies, but they just kept coming from nowhere! I had a pet spider there though, he sat in the lounge/dining room/kitchen in a little corner. Yes I know, huh :-S, it was a big room that housed all of the downstairs rooms in one :-P .

Anyway yes so the spider was so much fun to watch catching a fly and then quickly wrapping it up! I don’t know what happened but sadly one day (a few days before we were leaving for the new house), I came down stairs to find that my spider had shrunk! Instead of my big one it was this little tiny baby, he was pretty cute actually but meant that he couldn’t catch the flies any more!

Speaking of spiders! Woah! At that house there was an absolutely gianormous spider that lived above one of the bushes outside by the house. It was the identical colouring of the bumble bees that it ate! Venetia took a few pictures of him, so I’ll also put that picture up.
They were quite a few insects in that house actually… the most annoying… and scariest were the giant aliens that fell down by you when you went to close the window! I don’t know how many times I almost had a heart attack in that house! I did love the geckos and lizards that came into the house though, especially the baby ones!

Oh my word they were the cutest! About as big as my baby finger, in length! I saw one in the kitchen then decided to go out on a hunt for them outside… can you tell how bored I was :-P ? After just a few minutes I spotted one and tried to catch him, he wriggled away under the rocks though. The next week or so I actually caught one, kept him for an hour or so then let him go in the grass again. The one in the kitchen lived in a little hole in the wall and would come out onto the window sill every now and then to sun bathe. I tried to lure him out with bread… it didn’t work.

Even in the new house there used to be one baby lizard that would come out and sun bathe on the patio, since it’s gotten cold I haven’t seen him around lately…

There’s been loads of insects here, once there was even a preying-mantis! Now he was cool! We named him Barley because of the look of barley on his stomach. Woah, and there was also this giant caterpillar, he was huge and very pretty too :-P !

The things that weren’t so cool though were the amount of snakes… the first one was when my mom, Venetia and I were going walking, we were about 15 minutes into our usual routine when suddenly my mom started walking backwards and saying… a sentence over and over again… I don’t think I’ll type it out :-P . The snake was about as long as my leg but once we got closer, we noticed how flat it was… it had been run over or something so not much danger there. We carried on going.

A few days later my dad and I were sitting outside practising our French, I was looking at the book and my dad jumped up told me to go to the other side of the garden, so I stood up even though I didn’t know what was happening… then I saw that large, green snake making its way with a lifted head toward my dad. Gizmo also seemed to notice it at this stage… he just got up and began waddling over to it. My dad yelled at him and Gizmo came running to me. I ran to the house put Gizmo inside then went to find something heavy for my dad, since we still hadn’t had the internet in this house and also hadn’t been able to find out what snakes where poisonous. I found a large concrete type thing that was lying by the house, as I did this I heard a THWUMP and quickly grabbed it and carried it back to my dad. Saw the snake limp… not limp like walking weirdly… mainly because snakes slither. I mean that it was dead.

It was really sad, but my dad had to since it stood on its tail and was getting ready to strike. Later on we found out that green snakes aren’t poisonous here either, it’s just the small black ones that can kill. It’s also the big green ones that’ll act all dangerous but the little ones will run… well slither away.

One day I was brushing my hair, stood by the window and because it was hot I decided to have a good look around to see if I could spot a snake. What are the odds! This thing which I thought was a lizard’s head at first was coming over a rock and moving toward the house, I kept watching it for a second and then realised what it was once its whole body was visible and no legs were to be seen. It began slithering against the house, this is when I yelled for my mom and told her that there was a viper (the small, black, poisonous one) outside. My mom ran outside to see if she could kill it or catch it, but it was already making its way for the rocks and had gone. From then on I made sure that I watched Gizmo and didn’t let him go into the tall grass when he went outside… I also started to wear shoes when I went outside as well :-P .

Oh another snake incident was when we came to have a look at the new house. My mom and I walked by the house and you’d never guess what crossed the path right in front of us! Yes, that’s right another snake! It was only a green one though, but it was still big and began coming for us, we backed away quickly, so it kept slithering and lifted itself over the person’s fence next door… moving to this house I thought we were escaping the snakes!

No other snake stories though… also no fishing ones! It’s just become so cold! I’m hoping to hear from you all soon!
- Bianca