La di Dar
Liz if my diary were ever published I think I'd have to go into hiding. It's not writtren in the sme tone as this atall. Well bits of it are. To get the whole picture of my trip they'd have to publish the diary (which deals mainly with the more pessimistic stuff) and this blog (which deals with all the stuff it's safe to tell my parents about).
I'm in Dar now which theoretically is the biggest city in the country but it took me over two hours to find an internet cafe so I'm not sure it deserves the title. Got here and it was raining and there was a power cut so I had a shower and did some washing by candle light which was a very strange experience-candle kept going out so I'd have to wrap up in a towel and run down to reception to relight it. Got up early this morning but my good intentions of leaving the guesthouse before 9am were ruined when I realised I'd made a rather foolish mistakel.
Last night I washed all of my underwear so had to wait until some was dry. Luckily it didn't take too long so I think I was out before 10. Found a supermarket, bought Big Sis a little pressie which I hope will survive the next 50 days (not that I'm counting)
Not really that much to tell since my last update. I did get your text mum, I just had no credit. Then I had credit but no signal. Now I've got both which is rather a luxury so I don't know what to do with myself, I my just go text crazy.
Anyways, things to do etc etc. Love you all, Miss you all. Especially you.
Terrible craving for Harry Potter but found a copy in a bookshop this morning so have now read a few sentences and am satisfied at least for the short term. Feel like a traitor though as it was the adult edition. Pah
posted by Wendy @ 4:06 AM
27 Comments:
A shower by candlelight sounds nice but I am very confused as to how the shower worked without power unless the guest house provides giant watering cans which work on a string!
Off to eat my lunch now.
lots of love
I think sacrament means a different circuit.
It would be possible to edit your journal and blog such that it made sense, wasnt too personal and came out really positive. Trust me, I'm a writer. I am in fact a real one, on Rupert Murdoch's freelance payroll, under a pseudonym.
I so identify with washing all your underwear at once. Such is student life. Everyone does it once. I have also dried jeans with a very hot iron so I could wear them to go out in, takes about 30 minutes and alot of angry people wanting to use the communal iron. However, I have never used an iron to dry my hair, but I know people who have. Also, my mum had an automatic washer, had had since I was quite little, so I had no clue how to use a twintub. So worked on the same principle, filled it with water, washed some clothes which would have made an automatic load, emptied the tub, added cold water and rinsed for a bit and then repeated twice, as my mothers did, then spun them. Then someone explained that isnt what you do with a twin tub and I felt an idiot.
I have never had a craving for Harry Potter, neither in adult, children or even Latin form. BUT I do have a lovely book called Winnie Ille Pu, which I can nearly read now, because I can do deponent verbs and passive verbs. I realise wanting to read Winnie the Pooh in Latin is kind of geeky, but I thought being a childrens book the grammar would be easy. but I was VERY VERY wrong on the one.
I am waffling. Tired, our new neighbour is noisy.
Incidentally, apart from some McDonalds have them now, it would take me about 2 hours to find an internet cafe in Stockport or Manchester!
Where are you off to after Dar?
Love and hugs and prayers
Liz P
wendy-you sound like a big kid with the whole harry potter thing.
Hehe, the shower sounds like a new experience.
speak soon
sarah x x x
Christmas is just plain weird. What other time of year do you sit in front of a dead tree and eat chocolate out of your socks!
Discuss
who is maxine. Discuss
Maxine is a character is a popular cartoon series over in US.
She is very very funny and comes out with some very clever observations on life - like the one above
Glad to find I am not the only Maxine fan who reads this blog. I have lots of her cartoons on my hard drive, because she is so funny.
For example:
The proper response to "Good morning" is "Prove it"
If you want my opinion, people should keep their opinions to themselves
Everything slows down with age except the time it takes for cake and ice cream to reach your hips
I'd like to help you out, which way did you come in?
Your not yourself today, I noticed the improvement immediately.
there are loads of them - many to do with aging and Maxine is an old lady in the pictures.
Liz
am I the only person to whom it makes sense that it would be harder to find a small cafe in a really big city?
no it makes sense to me too - unless there are dozens of them BECAUSE it is a large city
Liz
it makes sense to me too but liz does have a point. However just because us english are addicted to coffee and so have millions of coffee shops doesn't mean that everyone else will.
oooooh maxineness sounds very amusing and i am sure it is helping you in your training liz!
hiya
hope everythings good
will fly over on my broomstick to meet you soon
am sending you a letter with hedwig
ron says hey
love you
this is becoming a little surreal. Harry Potter is PRETEND. A lady called JK Rowling made him up. HEDWIG is pretend too, and probably Ron, but having not read the book not sure if he is a character or someone reading the blog.
Father Christmas, the Easter Bunny and The Tooth Fairy are also PRETEND.
But JESUS is real.
Sad, really, when some people stop believing in Father Christmas, they stop believing in Jesus too.
Cynical - or should that be Sinical
i did think everything was a little bizarre around here at the moment. So who get extraordinarily bored then?? Own up!!!!
"it's all about you, wendy"
It's
ALL
About
You
W E N D Y ! !! !
im goin to cast a spell on you "cynical"
your probably not real, at least i hope not
why dont you get over yourself and stop spoiling my fun
i'll get hagrid on you, meanie
wow wenders, how'd you get mcfly to comment!
are they your mates?
all my love
harry
I am not bored, I am furiously ANGRY. Not with any of you lot of course. Not with my hubbie or daughters either. But I have a lot of anger to hand over to God. Is it just me, is giving your anger over to God when you are really really cross with someone a really really hard thing to do, when you want to pick up the phone and SCREAM at someone instead.
Liz
WENDY !!!
Ignore that McFly lot, that are rubbish and just stole our music. We are Busted, and WE LOVE YOU WENDY !!!!!
1,2,3, BUSTED LOVE WENDY, 6,5,4 AND WILL FOR EVER MORE !!
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WENDY (yes we are also cheerleaders) !!!!!!!!!!!!
Liz, I know a good number to call.
123
They don't say much, other than the time, but they are great listeners!
what on earth?! ALthough this is getting quite annoying, it is also quite amusing as well.
Liz. actually screaming at god tends to work some of the time. Scribbling on paper can help although may not be the best of ideas for you witht he wrists. Yeah screaming at god tends to work. Been there, done that. WHat do you think i use some of the time in the house alone for????!!!!
Love you wendy!!! I hope you are ahving a good time still. DOn't be lonely, remember all the imaginary friends people have. Well, i suggest you steal one of those but please not russels! Leave that with him!!! hehehe
What on earth?!?!
I go away for a few days and return to find Maxine, wizards and second-rate boy bands have invaded Wendy's blog...
What fun!
I go out for a couple of hours to the Trafford centre and come back with neck really bad, due to a stupid woman cutting across us on a roundabout - to go along a road that was no entry in fact - and by the grace of God we managed not to hit her (I wasnt driving) but I got thrown about and it has irritated my already dodgy neck. So those of you who pray, please pray for it. I know I should pray for the woman whose driving was so bad, but find it hard!
So daft conversations will cheer me up
Liz
Wow you lot just get crazier and crazier, but I know Wendy will be smiling when she reads it all so keep it up.
Love you Benders
See ya soon chick.
Russell has an imaginary friend? Discuss...
Ellie
The purpose of this essay is to explore Russell's imaginary friend, and whether or not it is something we should be concerned about.
Does Russell imagine he a has a friend who is a human but Russell only imagines the person is a friend. OR does Russell have imagine there is a person who isnt a real person who who Russell thinks is real and is a friend. If it is the case that Russell thinks people are his friends when they arent he suffers from reverse paranoia, in which instead of thinking everyone hates him and is out to get him, he thinks everyone loves and admires him and wants to be his friend. I am sure there is therapy available for this, at a price of course. Or else he is poor at reading peoples' body language, and Ellie needs to give him lessons, because women are more astute about these things. If on the other hand Russell is imagining there is a real person who isnt actually real person, he is hallucinating. If this is the case, Ellie needs to be very very careful indeed where she buys her mushrooms from. Odd looking shops in Oldham St are not a very good place to buy mushrooms. However, some of them are very good places to buy dress fabrics. If Russell is wanting to buy himself dress fabrics tho we have greater problems than imaginary friends of either sort. Unless he is making frocks for Ellie.
In conclusion, Russell may or may not be weird. But we are a loving and accepting community and accept Russell just the way God made him, and we know that Jesus loves Russell.
Russel is a nutter, but he gave me lots of mistrels (well i nicked em) at band practise. hope you're good mate, and you smelly ellie! :-)
SMELLY Ellie????!! Charming ;-) Yes my husband is very 'special'
Ellie
xxx
Hi I'm russell!
My imaginary friend is call "twitchy" and he is a tramp. He lives in rhyl(where the hell is Rhyl!) near the big pipe the puts poo in the sea. He loves to sand outside the sun centre and imagin himself playing in the wave machine. H te live pie and chips and Gallons of Gravy (just like me), and like to drink cheap wiskey in a brown bag - but he doesn't like being labled a "sterotype tramp" or Hobo.
He just as normal as you and I but a tramp!
Thank you for letting me clear that up - mike more mistrals are avalible.
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