these boots are made for walking...

bordering on country, but not quite. and will double fantastically for a superman outfit at halloween. yay!

shouldn't have used the flash on the camera though - at least i hope my legs aren't really that pale. shouldn't be considering the good hours i spent with them out the window of the van in africa, hoping that the zambezi sun plus the anti-malerials which make you super-susceptible to the sun, would do their magic and make me semi-polynesian princess-like.

so, in general a great week. succeeded in finishing 2 and 1/2 of the 3 books i had to read. cold returned with general stubbourness so gym got replaced by reading and it may have been a good thing.


navs on wednesday night was cool. david and nathan story - with a nice veggie tales clip! fun fun.

and then new tshirts, as previously featured. but there you go. and the backs say something about UW ladies weekend and then list out names. ta da! pretty cool i thought. although everyone thinks they say "i love navy boys" and while i have no particular distaste toward navy boys, that's not what they say.

Then thursday night, after my final class for the week, was girls bible study and then movies! went to see 'just like heaven' which was lovely and cute. total chick flick. but just what the doctor ordered.

Friday... spent most of day doing very little, marvelling at surviving the week and started new book for next week as have decided to stay ahead rather than relax when the work load does a dip. Friday night went to Brittany's concert...

act 1: orchestra
act 2: fantastic jazz singing group - guy in the middle was brilliant! love jazz... mmm...

act 3: Brittany's choir - she's 4th from the right on the back row. They were singing "i will follow him" from sister act! yay for whoopi.

Act 4: Boys choir. too many cowboys songs. enough said.

Act 5: Fabulousness personified in a jazz band with a touch of salsa and plenty of sax solos, not to mention the rather lovely trombone. mmm, love jazz.

Sam, Lena and Brittany after the concert, waiting to go for dinner...

Then out to dinner at Altitude- where the band showed up to play cowboy supporting tunes in preparation for football game following day...

Brittany and Lena and I had a nice expensive dinner (thanks to Brittany's B'day voucher) and then back to the dorms for bailiey's and hot chocolate, everybody loves raymond, my wife and kids, then i popped over to Amanda's room and watched the end of The Interpretter with her and a bunch of others. Brilliant film. I saw it months ago. So it sort of made sense. Worth seeing again though. I can be dense. Plus, i was tired. Anyway, then chatted with Amanda for half an hour and probably didn't get to sleep till 3.

But i was up at 8 thismorning for... Mardel's Birthday Breakfast.

So fun. Picture warning, we all look half awake and un-make-uped... and some of them were wearing pjs still.

After breakfast, put washing on, bought UW cap and tshirt and pompom for football, put washing in dryer and didn't turn it on. Went to football - 3 hours and lots of energy spent for nothing - but i feel sorry for that quarter back. He's gonna get some wicked hassles.

just a bit of healthy violence...

and some cheer leaders. and noise. and the guys who lift the cheerleaders up and throw them around a bit.

ready, steady... kill eachother!

Me and Lena, looking cool and smiley, despite the sad state of affairs. Like my new hat?

Came back, sort of napped as totally exhausted. Went to dinner with Lena and Noelle. Went to get washing from dryer... and decided i should turn it on first. Gr...

Then came to computer lab but honestly, don't know how much longer i can stay awake. so pathetic. It's 7:52pm. Noelle won't go to bet till midnightish though... and still have to do bible study for Insiders group tomorrow. and might do some more sketching. Copying cool picture of an arcade in paris from my text book - it's really similar to this unfinished painting i have at home but i don't want to buy paints here as i have so much to do and won't be able to fit everything to take home as it is. So sketchinng it is.

Ooh, and exciting other thing - just talked to Jess Eitmiller who i havn't seen in 8 years! yay! American girl, about a year younger than me. Her family lived in Auckland and went to church with us untill 1997 when they moved to Hong Kong. Then we did, completely seperately. But so cool to have friends there from home. They stayed in HK after we left, then moved to Taipei, Taiwan. Have recently moved again, to Shanghai, but Jess is in Sophomore year of college about 3 hours away in Boulder, Colorado. So, I might be spending christmas with their family as they might be coming to see her and that'd be just plain incredible. Oooh. yay.

Expressions of excitement are lame on here. So I'll torture no longer.