Friends.

So, I know I haven’t update this thing in forever. I promise I’ll get around to it soon. Things have been hectic since I got back from overseas. No excuse, I know.

I’m just taking the time to blog, because I’m so deeply touched right now. My friend, Shantel, wrote me a poem, and honestly, I’ve never had someone do something so sweet for me.

I wanted to post this for two reasons: To share Shantel’s awesomeness with you all, and so I’ll (hopefully) never lose this.

Our lives seem so identical,
In a world that lives in difference.
Some people are far too cynical,
Thinking friendship can’t exist.
Too many broken hearts,
Surround these empty streets.
Yet still I know…

So many days had passed me by,
It was getting harder for me to see.
What were truths and what were lies,
And what was important to me.
Too many sad expressions,
Crossed my lonely face.
Yet still I know…

There’s still a reason to believe.
There’s still a reason why-
You’re a part of me.
Baby all you need-
Is just to breathe.
Then you will see,
How much you mean to me-
And know (oh)…
I will never let you go.

Written by Shantel Greencorn.

I kill my wife and marry you!

Here I am, blogging from London! We’ve been away for two weeks now, and have visited Dubai, all over Egypt, and London. It’s been an experience so far! I’ll try and get as much as I can remember down, we’ve done so much that It’s quite tricky to recall it all.

Dubai
We arrived in Dubai at 5am in the morning, and the place was busy already. There were seemingly endless cars on the road, and driving safely seemed to be a feat in its own. The first thing I noticed is how clean Dubai is – the place is spotless. You very rarely see trash on the ground, which is surprising, because even Sydney wasn’t this clean.

The first day in Dubai, we visited the Mall of the Emirates, which is bloody huge. You could get lost so easily in there! The mall near where I live in Sydney is big… I swear that this mall is about 10 times bigger than the one back home. We also visited some souks (markets), where dad got a replacement wedding ring, because he snapped his the weekend before playing cricket. That night we did a river cruise dinner. It took us an hour and a half to drive 20 minutes down the road because of a major accident. It was absolutely ridiculous. The food wasn’t that flash either. Plus, they charged dad about $60AU for a shitty Australian wine you could get back home for about $10. haha.

The next day, we had breakfast at a ski lodge in Ski Dubai, a ski centre in the Mall of the Emirates. It was bizarre, sitting in a ski lodge, in Dubai, were the temperature was in its 30s each day. We visited some more markets and explored a bit. That evening we did a “Safari” where you go 4 wheel driving on the sand dunes, watch the sun set, and then have an Arabian-Style evening, where you sit on cushions to eat, watch a belly dance, smoke out of a massive bong with this flavoured stuff in it (it’s not addictive or a drug, I really don’t know what to call it) and get a Henna tattoo. I had my left hand tattooed – Unfortunately, I didn’t get a photo before it faded, simply because I didn’t have a lens capable of taking a photo from so close (Lames.) It was a really awesome experience though, driving through the sand dunes. Our driver was pretty erratic, and possibly mildly insane, but it was really fun. I also snowboarded down a sand dune – I’ve never skied or snowboarded, so I was amused that my first experience was on sand. On our way to the dinner, we got a flat tyre. It was pretty crazy to watch them change this tyre on the sand. In the dark. Haha. We kept joking that we were going to have to spend the night in the desert.

Egypt
We flew to Cairo, Egypt next. Lets just say that if you drive on the roads in Cairo, you have a death wish, and if you try and cross a road, you’re suicidal. The roads were absolutely insane! On our first day, we visited various monuments, including the huge statue of Ramses II, the step pyramid, and the Giza plateau. It was pretty incredible. The Pyramids were absolutely amazing, I was completely awestruck by them. The Sphinx was pretty cool too. We rode a camel around the Giza plateau. I literally screamed the entire way, because if the camel in front of us wasnt trying to poop on my feet, the camel that my brother and I were on was trying to overtake it, and kept crushing my bad foot between two fat camels. Eugh.

Our second day in Cairo involved visiting the Cairo museum, the markets, and the mosque. I got several marriage proposals in the markets, including a “Oh miss, you dropped something … My heart!” and “I will kill my wife and marry you.” Dad offered 3 camels to some guy for me. I didn’t realise I was worth so much ;)

We flew to Luxor the next day, and boarded a Nile cruise, which ended in Aswan. The cruise was pretty ordinary to be honest. The food was shocking, and there wasn’t much to do. We did stop pretty regularly. I swear i’ve seen a million ancient temples now. By the last day we were so sick of temples. Through the cruise we saw some places like the Valley of the Kings and Queens and Neferteri’s temple. After the cruise we flew to Abu Simbel to see Ramses II’s monuments there, they were pretty extraordinary. That said, I never want to see another temple again. Hahah

We spent another two nights in Cairo at the end of the trip. I managed to get a bad case of Gastro from our night in Aswan, which was pretty disgusting. I’m still getting over it really.

As mentioned, We’re in London now. We’ve been here two nights so far. I think I’ll have to blog about this some other day, because I’m being hassled to go get dressed. Haha.

I miss everyone a lot, especially James, Trish, Rosey and the bitches over at SexMB. I hope everyone is well! *hugs!*

Sydney says Hi!

Here I am, posting from Sydney, Australia. So far, the weather has been shit: All overcast and cold – well, cold for November, anyway. Normally by mid November, the temperature is in its mid to high 20s, not low or not-even-in 20s. It’s bizarre. I was hoping for some decent warmth before disappearing overseas, but, typically, the world works to royally fuck me over sometimes.

I went shopping with mum today: We both needed some necessities. It was good to see her willingly go out of the house – Prior to July, she’d be really reluctant to go out, even if it was for stuff that was of absolute necessity, other than the smokes and booze, of course. We spent three hours out and about, and she seemed quite happy to be dragged around the place. I was really quite impressed, to be honest. :) She’s doing a lot better, she’s a lot calmer and happier, and isn’t focussing on the little unimportant things.

It’s going to be a pretty busy week, to be honest. My cousin, Michala, is driving up for a visit tomorrow and is staying for a couple of days, and we’ve got lots of plans. We’ll be going out with a bunch of my friends from high school on Thursday evening. We’ve got some family friends coming over for a visit tomorrow evening, and some more on Saturday before we fly off, and then at 9pm on Saturday we leave for Dubai. So many things to do! Probably a good thing, time would just drag on otherwise.

I’ll leave you with some photos that I took around my garden yesterday.

You’re a part-time lover

and a full-time friend,
The monkey on your back is the latest trend,
I don’t see what anyone can see
In anyone else but you.

This is a little bit of a good-bye to the internet, and my wonderful friends online, I suppose. As mentioned way too many times, I’m going on a pretty big vacation. Around three months, to be exact. I’ll be away from Sydney for two months as of November 22nd, and can’t guarantee very much internet connection.

I just want to let everyone know how much I’ll miss them. Particularly Rosey, who I’ve become very, very close to over the past few weeks. I’m going to miss her terribly and I can only hope that we’re still as close as we are now when I get back to Sydney.

To my lulzy bitches, Chrissy (and Mike), Elyse and Chenoa, Hugs a million to you guys. I hope you can survive without my lulz for a few months, but you’re all awesome so I know you’ll figure it out.

To my girls (… And Mike) over at SexMB, stay safe, and keep posting! I’m sorry I’ve not been around to post much as of lately, Uni’s been terrible and i’ve been far too busy organising leaving NZ.

To them, and the rest of my readers, I hope you have an AMAZING Christmas and New Years. I’ll try and blog every time I have internet access, including posting some photos to my flickr. It’s not good bye just yet, but just is just in case I can’t blog between now and next Saturday, take off time.

Love you all!

PS: Drop me a line sometime: SewwyChristine AT Gmail.com

Edit: I CANT BELIEVE I FORGOT KATY Dude, I hardcore suck! I love Katy so much and am REALLY looking forward to meeting her in December. It’s going to be awesome!

In which Sewwy talks about friends and other things

I suck at making friends. There, I said it. all my life I’ve struggled to completely fit in somewhere. I’ve had difficulty making friends, and when I do finally make friends, it’s taken me years to do. In High School I jumped group to group simply because I felt like I didn’t belong in most of it. I didn’t really find my current circle of friends until midway through 10th grade, so it took me a good four years. I love them dearly, and I hope we’ll be friends for a long time to come. You see, when I make friends, I struggle a lot when those friendships fall apart, because I put so much time and effort into making friends to start with.

I’ve found that I manage to make friends a lot easier online than off. I guess I just get quite shy and self conscious when physically faced with people. Talking to people online allows me to be myself whilst avoiding the social situation that somewhat freaks me out. I’ve made some wonderful friends online, some of them I know better than people I know in real life. I love them dearly and they are kind of like family to me. Distance doesn’t matter, neither does the fact we’re all sitting behind keyboards. The emotions people feel are still real.

So, I guess I’d just like to say to all my friends out there, online and off, thanks. I’ve really needed you all this year, 2008 has been the most ridiculous year imaginable. Friends really do make things a lot easier, and always know how to make you smile when you need it. If you ever feel like i’m being too clingy, please let me know. I don’t mean it intentionally, I just want to keep the friends I do have … If that makes sense.

I’m rambling now, so I’ll move on…

In exactly a week, It will be my last evening in New Zealand until February next year. It’s really hitting me that yet again, it’s going to be three months, minimum, until I see James again. We haven’t spent this long apart since before I moved, so it’s really starting to get to me. I want to go on this trip so badly but the thought of leaving him for so long is killing me a little a lot. It’s weird, these conflicting feelings make things really confusing. I’m so excited for this holiday, but I feel bad for being so excited when I remember that I’ll be away from James for months on end.. So confusing.

Still, I am looking forward to it. It’s exactly a month until I meet Katy whilst in London! Although, the more she keeps telling me about the weather, the more I want to skip London all together. I’ve never been anywhere that cold before, so it’s certainly going to be quite a shock for me. Especially because we’ll be going from Cairo to London … hah!

I’m getting pretty stressed out. Between now and next Friday, I have so much stuff to do, including sit two exams. As well as the exams (and the study I need to do for it) I need to clean the apartment top to toe, clean out the fridge, do several loads of washing, start packing, organise autopayments of my Vodafone bill, temporarily cancel the internet… There’s more, but I totally can’t think of them right now. Holidays shouldn’t be this stressful! I’ll need a holiday from the holiday! I do have something super to look forward to next Saturday, though! Rosey has sent me a surprise package full of what she claims to be stuff from Target, and has sent it to my address in Sydney. I have suspicions that it’s a bomb. Or a sex toy of some kind. Here’s hoping my parents don’t open it.

Sorry for not blogging anything decent for a while, I’ve been so caught up with my exams. My first two exams went really well, especially because I wasn’t expecting to do very well in either of them. We’ll see how the next two go, I’ve got plenty of time to study for them, provided I don’t freak out too much about the amount of crap I have to do first.

Will blog soon, I promise!

PS: I edited my Sarah page!