Dear Ladies and Gentlemen… and children *looks at Clare*
The time has finally come where I have the internet and I have got the chance to actually start writing this blog that will hopefully fill you all in on aaalllll the weird stuff that’s been going on. I must warn you I am not an amazing writer, but I will do my best to make it sound interesting. Also when I run out of words I can just do a Paris Hilton and put loads of pictures in instead. A picture says a thousand words, as they say, and you don’t even have to write them yourself!!!
<Enough Paris Hilton hating, enough rambling> although see below for weird article I found on Paris Hilton in a magazine I bought!*

I think seeing as I lost the internet a few days before I left I might as well talk about The Holiday Inn – Woking, in all it’s glory. Being only 3mins walk from the station it was relatively easy to travel to Guildford and back without a car, and even to Clare’s house for a fab swimming party! However along the way, as it may surprise you to know, I had to walk through WOKING, and along the way I saw many beautiful Chavs sitting in in the bushes, gazing warily at the passing humans…perhaps even looking shifty…while trading what could possibly have been foodstuffs, but I did not want to approach and inspect more closely in fear of startling the poor creatures.
Now the hotel… hmm… I won’t bother complaining about it, it would be very dull, but I will say this ‘Way overpriced’ that is all. I’d say the most interesting thing was getting the luggage there, we had 11 suitcases, which were kind of packed in a rush, that needed to be repacked a couple of hours before we left: a. because half the suitcases were over the 23kilo weight limit and b. because we were still living out of them and I’m so lazy I couldn’t be bothered putting everything back into my suitcase properly…
Blah blah blah, went to see Harry Potter 5 again, blah blah blah, pub. Then going away party! And I have to say, thank you so much for all of you that organised that, and I’m really sorry that some of you couldn’t come, I will miss you all, but hopefully this blog, Facebook and other amazing internetty things will help us keep in touch, and it looks highly likely that I might be able to come back to the UK for the Summer Holidays. So yay!
And the Photo Album was beautiful and hilarious, you guys went to so much effort for me, thank you so much. Oh and I still have a scar on my foot from where I got a blister from my shoes, but it was TOTALLY WORTH IT! :P
So the next day Anna drove me back to the hotel, we named her new plant Gerard…for no particular reason at all, because we don’t know of any famous singers named Gerard…
I then had to help repack my suitcase at the same time as being driven insane by my parents, whom I love very much, but honestly their pettiness at times knows no bounds.<Enough Emo ‘rent ranting> Ooo, talking about emos, see below for more news!*

Right! The airport, I spent the last of my money on a new CD Fall Out Boy’s Infinity on High’ although of course I couldn’t listen to it until I got my computer up and running (without the internet still), but was totally worth every penny! Even if it was still £11 after being duty free… HMV is sickeningly over priced some times *sigh*.
Because my Dad’s work paid for us to be in Business Class we got to wait for our plane in the Club Lounge, where they had free food, and access to the internet. Unfortunately couldn’t chat by GoogleTalk but thankfully did have access to Facebook where a couple of people were online and free to chat to me.
Then we took the first plane to Singapore, I did manage to sleep for about 2 hours because I just couldn’t stay awake any longer, but then someone bumped me and I couldn’t go back to sleep because it was too noisy. I watched: ‘Next’ (starring Nicholas Cage and Jessica Biel) and ‘In the Land of Women’ (starring Adam Brody and Meg Ryan)
When we arrived in Singapore I had a coke, but it tasted really weird, then I spent 45 minutes on Facebook sending Clare fish for her birthday as long as many other exciting things that I thought she might like. She was turning 18 after all. Oh no! If only I’d known about the Drinks Application! I could have sent her something!!!...I’m over it.
And then we took the plane to Australia. Again I couldn’t really sleep, so I watched Blades of Glory (Will Farrell and John Heder), and then the rest of the selection of movies was so crap I just watched ‘The Last Mimzy’ (starring no one I knew) For my reviews of the movies see below.*

So, I am now in Australia, I shall now be boring and proceed to talk about the weather. This winter has been the worst Australia’s ever seen, it was meant to rain, but didn’t, leaving such a severe drought that the country has had stage 3, and in some cases, stage 4 water bans; therefore, naturally, since the day we’ve arrived it has been freezing cold and hasn’t stopped raining. Thankfully I did bring two Umbrella-ella-ella-eh-eh-eh-s with me.
When we arrived we had to quickly unpack because our stuff was coming out of storage, while I was unpacking I looked out the window and saw some ducks swimming in the pool… I’m really annoyed I didn’t have a camera on me because I could have taken a picture… it was so weird. Next time I see them I promise…many pics.
On the first day we also needed to pick up our new car (family car/mum’s car) a Toyota Corolla (actually called an Auris in the UK), to do this we needed to get a bank cheque, and when we got got to the bank the woman behind the counter recognised my mum! It was uber creepy, especially as we’d gone to a different branch because our usual one closed down.
The old bank was actually replaced by a Chiropractors, for some strange reason there’s a chiropractor practically on every corner, they must be popular there. On the road that runs parallel to our street there’s a small series of shops, just the basics, baker, butcher, grocer, 2 pharmacists, video library, florist, Chinese Restaurant (v.v. important), 2 café’s and a pie shop, a small supermarket, a bank, a dry cleaners, as well as 5 or 6 hairdressers!!! For some reason it’s very important to have perfect hair around here…
The rest of the week was pretty blah, I spent ages in the dining room unwrapping about 8 boxes of hideous old china that it turns out my mum didn’t really want any more. I made her sort through it and then I wrapped it up again to put in a box to take to the op shop (charity shop). Same with old books, I am now taking the time to read some of the ones we found before throwing them out. For example ‘Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus’ *I’ll give it a small review when I’m finished, see below or in later blog.
On Friday we went to a little country town called Thornton, my parents are renting a small ex-church-turned-holiday-house. It’s really cute so we’ll be staying there on weekends. On our way back we also went to visit my Auntie Janet, who is my Dad’s half sister. My brother and I were allowed to go into another room and watch a movie instead of hanging out with boring grown ups, so we watched the second half of Coach Carter*. My Auntie Janet also helped me make some phone jewellery, but I put it on my iPod instead, Zach looks very pretty now. They also leant us a TV, YAY! So that evening we watched Australian Idol*.
I am also now enrolled to vote in Australia, voting is compulsory, so if I forget I have to pay a fine :S, better not forget! The government is very…what’s the word I’m looking for?... ‘present’, every second ad on the TV talks about new laws, reminds us of old ones, and recently in the post everyone got a booklet entitled ‘Talking with your kids about drugs’ it was hilarious.
On Sunday there was a show on TV that interviewed Daniel Radcliffe, because of the movie ‘December Boys’ which I’m quite excited about. They also interviewed Zac Efron and Nikki Blonsky about Hairspray, it was very exciting :D :D :D. I can’t wait for High School Musical 2, although it looks like I’m going to have to get it on DVD because we don’t have the Disney channel :(, or music channels!!! :( :(!!!
On Tuesday (Sept 11) I went to see Tori Amos again :D she was awesome! But I was still a teensy bit jetlagged and started falling asleep at the end… :S, oh well! She was still cool! When I got back I finally managed to get my laptop and some time with the internet! YAY! So I stopped being lazy and started work on this blog (it is currently Saturday as I write this… I’m sorry I’m so lazy).
On Wednesday I had my first tech job…ish. I managed to phone the Heidelberg Theatre Company, which is just down the road, and got the chance to sit in the tech box during the play, I also had to pay for a ticket however…hmmm. I’d have to say the play was quite boring, it was ‘The Memory of Water’ but it was quite funny at times, and I have to say their fake British accents weren’t too bad.
I also bought my new phone :D! It’s a ‘Life’s Good’ clam phone, which is a pearly white colour with a camera! And it makes silly noises when you open and close it :D! I named it Lily, after Lily Potter – Harry Potter’s mum, because I was still in the process of reading it for the 2nd time (btw, Harry Potter and DH is AWESOME, and Neville is a BAMF :D).
On Thursday I picked up my new car!!!! WOOOOWWWW! It’s a little white Hyundai Excel with 2 doors. The number plate is NZU – 924 (not too sure about the number) so my car’s name is Nizu!!! Yaaay! I got to drive Nizu home from the car shop and park him on the road outside. <PS. If you don’t know my Mobile Number, Home Number and Address yet, please email me and I’ll give it to you>
We also went to ‘Savers’ which is a giant op-shop, a bit like TKMaxx, and I bought some Jeans for $10 :O, which is…£4.15 CHEAPNESS.
Friday (yesterday), we went to get our health insurance, in the office there’s a toy bird tied to the ‘Please Wait Here’ sign, it looks like it’s being strangled. Unfortunately I couldn’t get a pic of it, which is heart breaking because it’s just awesome.
Also more importantly we drove down to where I am now, my Aunty Glenda’s house (who I will from now on be calling Auntie, because that is her name). She lives just off the Great Ocean Road, and there was finally some good weather so it was really lovely. Along the way I finished Harry Potter, and so started reading ‘Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus’.
We met Aunty in the book shop that she works in, I helped her unpack a box of books, and bought a copy of ‘The December Boys’ (the book that the movie is based on) it’s the movie cover edition, so it has a pic of Daniel Radcliffe on it, he he he.
It rained a bit, which ruined the ‘sunny beach’ effect a little, still mostly it was very nice.
Today is Saturday and this morning we went for a walk with the Australian National Orchid Society (ANOS *snicker*). I’d have to say… it was quite dull, and those orchid people are crazy! One of them really didn’t like me, in fact most of them didn’t, perhaps looking like a surly teenager in my ‘Dead!’ hoody didn’t help. But apparently they were really aggressive as well. They found some really rare orchid so you had to queue to go look at it in packs of 4, I couldn’t have cared less so I didn’t bother going to look, I let my mum have an extra go. But the more obsessive Orchid-nuts were pushing in and skipping the queue, and when my mum went to look they got angry at her and said ‘Keep Out of this Area, Please!!!’ *crazy orchid eyes, crazy orchid eyes*. I went home early after a wonderful lunch prepared by my Grandma. (It was pretty awesome actually, my Grandma made a production line of Tiger Bread rolls with fillings and everything.) While my Mum and Aunty and Grandparents went to the rest of the orchid sites. Apparently the Orchid people got a bit less up tight after I left… I’m feeling a teensy bit paranoid about that.
Anyway, now this blog is caught up to the present time so… I better sign off.
I think I’ll start on Blog 2 tomorrow. See you then! Love Ems.
PS: I’m really sorry if this was boring, it turned into more of a stream of consciousness after paragraph 2.

*Emo Watch
In the beginning I was only able to see emos on the street, I’d have to say, none of them was properly emo fashion-wise… then I discovered the problem, all Australians are happy! The only emos that exist are hemos!
My fears were confirmed when I met an emo up close, he was one of the people dropping off our crap from storage, I swear he was skipping…when he wasn’t carrying heavy boxes of course… so all in all not much on the emos. But I have to remind myself, this is only the beginning…

Paris Hilton Article – “The heir-head buys bottled water for her dog, drives a petrol guzzling four-whell drive and environmental bans lifted in Austria so she could be flown in by helicopter” TV Hits Magazine Sept/Oct 2007

Reviews
‘Emo Boy’-
‘Next’- This were awesome! Although I didn’t really get the ending, I may need to watch it again. I think Nicholas Cage was very awesome. :D
‘In the Land of Women’ – Adam Brody was very cool in this, I must say. I think it was quite sweet, but I didn’t really get it…
‘Blades of Glory’ – I watched this thinking it was going to be a bit stupid, but it turned out to be very sweet and quite funny.
‘The Last Mimzy’ – Supposedly ‘The New E.T.’, I’d say it was only half as good as E.T. and most of you already know what my opinion on E.T. is. I generally just didn’t understand what was going on and the ending was very confusing. Hmmm, maybe the reason I didn’t get any of these movies was that I was half asleep, I would recommend this movie for when you are awake and able to pay attention…
‘Coach Carter’ – It may have been the fact that I hadn’t seen the first half, or the fact that it was so predictable (to the point that I didn’t need to see the first half) but I couldn’t take Coach Carter very seriously, and instead my brother and I ended up laughing at all the emotional scenes. However, Sammy L. is a bit of a dude, so it’s wasn’t a complete disaster.
‘Australian Idol’ – I’d have to say, over all I was underwhelmed. Half of them couldn’t sing, or were very average, while the other half were only good. However 1 of them did sing ‘When You Were Young’ by the Killers, and it wasn’t too bad, although he over did it by actually dressing as Brandon Flowers.