what to do

with the blog???

i want to suggest that me and ann still use it, ann will update about her adventures downunder, and i will post about what happens to me in the uk??

(that is if ann can remember to actually update hehe..:P

Night Canyoning!

Well i was working on my essay yd, really hard, haha.. and when i had 200 words, it was time to go.. me,david and ingo were gonna go night canyoning in piha! So i decided to worry about the essay later.. (still worrying but now i only need about 400 more words, and not 1200:P)
anyway, we went out there, took us about an hour, and we got wetsuits and stuff that we put on and headed up through the forrest and stuff, we had a short safety briefing, practised how to absail, with stopping and moving and all that. I've never Absailed before so that was an experience, down through the waterfall, at one point it was almost impossible to breath because of all the water, but i loved it.

This is what we absailed down:D
And then we made our way further down the stream, meet an eel and saw glow worms, so we stopped at a bank there and had some juice and some chocolate, wow it was amazing. We kept moving down, and went through some narrow places, and we went into this cave part and saw Veta (?) up close, they were not as much like spiders as i thought they would, quite amusing really.. oh and we jumped, haha. it was dead scary but incredibly fun once u'd left the rock haha. i regret not doing the big jump the first time now (i went for the lower one)

I don't have any pictures of me jumping, but David and Ingo should have, so once they send me their pics i'll upload them to here..(meaning there will be a few more pictures eventually:D well i only need ingo's pictures.)

Anyway, suddenly we were down, and it was over, it felt like we'd only just started, our hands were numb and we were all still buzzing with excitement as we went back to the car, after changing into dry clothes we headed off for a quick stroll on piha beach, had a beer and celebrated an awesome evening.

It was awful coming home to the essay waiting for me. And well i know my essay wont be amazing, because i have no clue what i am writing about, but i think it'll give me a pass at least:D *fingers crossed* but i don't regret choosing the canyoning over the essay. NEVER!


i wanna go again:D


*Ida*

Amalie

My sis and her husband got a little baby girl!!!! yeeey :D she is absolutely adorable and her name is Amalie :) soooo looking forward to coming home and spoil her! :D

suuuuuun

(sorry to all non-norwegians, but the vid is in norwegian hehe.. we're just talking about the weather and ann's exam:D)

it was such nice weather, so me and ann went outside to study, i wouldn't say we actually did a lot of studying, but we did enjoy the sunshine:D

ooops

sorry we haven't updated in some time..
we do have a lot of nice pictures to post tho, it's just that Ann does not have much sparetime atm and i don't want to be the only one updating the blog all the time hehe:P
Anyway, i would guess there would be updates soonish;)

Kiwistyle

ok, so the fashion downunder is quite an interesting topic,
so me and figured we would check this rather horrifying trend out, and what better place to go than Supre.
Where the bright neoncolours are the new IT-Thing, and also these horrible colours skirts with patterns..
we probably didn't find the absolute worst outfit there was, but it was bad enough.
David swore he felt slightly nauseated by the pictures, so we figured we'd let you have a look and see what effect it has on you..
We think we look stunningly beautiful:D nah tbh, we didn't even dare to leave the fitting room.

Coast to Coast

It is about 16km from the east coast to the west coast of auckland, and they have this cool walkway that you can follow from the viaduct harbour all the way to onehunga. Today was such a nice and sunny day, we just couldn't let this oportunity pass us by so we packed down our water bottles, put on our sunnies and set out. First stop, the viaduct, where we picked up a map and then we were ready.
First big stop was The Domain, this huge park, which we would've been lost in if there had not been arrows to point where the walkway was.. (Well me and ann would, David had the map). Eventually we got to mt.Eden, we've been up there before, but we couldn't walk the coast to coast without getting to the top again, so up we went, now cows in the vulcano this time. We had a drinksbreak and some choccy before we set off towards One Three Hill, (where there's actually no three anymore), which was fun, hehe.. considering we have a few friends who watch the tv-series called one three hill (even tho they're not related to each other)
then the hard part was over. We walked for about 6 hours, it says it takes 4-6 hours depending on fitness and age, apparantly we're not very fit then haha. But we did have many breaks along the way, and a longer lunchbreak as well:D
All in all, we had such lovely weather, (if i don't get sunburnt, something's wrong), and the trip was even better than i expected it to bed, yet a lot longer hehe. But it doesn't really matter, because i enjoyed it. We were all completely knackered when we came back, we watched Charlie and the Chocolate factory, and now we've gone to bed, i just wanted to update before i went to sleep:D
Here's some pics from the trip, sadly we ran out of battery on one three hill, so there's no pics from the end of the walk.

Noho Marae 2

I promised ages ago that i would make another noho marae post. As you read in July, me and Ann attende a maori weekend for international students at AUT in march, and we decided we wanted to do it again, so we attended the 2nd semester one as well.
I'd just completely forgot that i promised to do another blog on it, so yeh here we are 2 months after.. (still an improvment from last time, hehe, then again we didn't start the blog till July)
Met loads of new interesting internationals, met a few old friends from the last marae, and we had an amazing time with the amazing maori staff of AUT. If we are allowed, we'll keep coming back for as long as we're here.
We were experts on the stick game, and nobody knew the waiata like we did. And certainly did we shake our booty on the dancefloor all night long haha.
It's an exhausting weekend, but i'll keep coming till they kick me out of the marae hehe.
i love the whole atmosphere of the noho. It's amazing, I miss it heaps now, i can't believe it's already been almost 2 months since it was. Sadly we didn't keep in touch with as many of the new ones this time around:( i guess it's because most of them live at the wellesley student apartments and we don't.
Anyway i'll post a few pics and stuff so you guys can see what we did etc. they are a bit similar to the last time tho, as we did pretty much the same things;)

Flax weaving, we are making a rose!

group 1 with our flowers

Oka, Ann and Me

Waiata

Stick game/E Aue

Waiata again

E rere taku poi! Poi Dancing

Our beautiful Maori Whanau

Shake your booty!

Boat race!

Something very amazing is up there, apparantly, Iku and me.

The Oldies, + newbie. Marcel and Torsten come back, we miss you

The kids get very attached to you over the weekend. They are wonderful

The entire Whanau

Dinner time

in september, me and ann was home alone for a couple of days in the beginning of this month, and we made awsome dinners.

Norwegian "grøt" and crackers,cheese and wine, and we took some nice pics that i wanted to share with you all.. we did a have great time on our, yet it was kinda boring, when u are used to a full house of 4 people, being only 2 is a bit weird.. but i moved down to ann's room for the occasion and we watched movies and ate desert.