Kimmie's visit to NYC!!!

here are some pictures from her visit....more to come once I have a few minutes to write more.

NC for the weekend

I went to North Carolina this weekend and had a wonderful time. I got out of NY just as the snow storm hit, I was the last AA flight out of NY. I finally got to meet Hannah, and spend time with the girls and my brother and sister in law. I had a great weekend full of playing with the girls, and going out to dinner w/ Brian and Mere. I also had a chance to go experience Monkey Joes, and it's seriously the best idea someone has come up with! They now need to invent one for adults too!! :) I wish I lived closer to all of them, I've been back only a day and I already miss them so much. The next few weeks may be a bit stressful for me, I have midterms to write and a exam to study for, and I have to make up a day at my internship for leaving early to beat the snowstorm. Here are a few pics from this weekend, the rest are on http://picasaweb.google.com/cmwright121

Bye for now <3

Baltimore and DC

Here are a few pictures from my trip this weekend to Maryland and Washington DC. Washington Monument, White House, Charm City Cakes in Baltimore, and a pretty church next to the Basilica in Baltimore.
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Happy New Year

I had a great trip home to see my family and visit with most of my friends. It was great to be in warmer weather (a little too warm for December) but it's SoCal. I was home for a week and a half and it was not enough to visit with everyone enough. Christmas was great and I got very needed warm clothes! The day I came back to NY my friends from Canada, that I met this summer in Europe, came down to visit for a week. We were busy the whole time they were here, showing them all the tourist and must see site seeing place. We also did ALOT of shopping. Well I did looking, but they were able to have a larger selection to choose from here than they do back at home, and our clothes and shoes are cheaper than in Canada. We went to a club for NYE and had a good time. Their whole visit was jam packed but it was great to hang out with them again. I already started to plan my trip this summer to go up to Canada for a long weekend to visit them! The past 4-6 weeks have been packed with finals, Christmas back in Cali, and out of town visitors. It was a great time, but I am looking forward to slowing down the next few weeks. I start back to my internship tomorrow (same school I was at this past fall) and have that 3 times a week until May, classes do not start until the 20th, so I have a few weeks to relax until I'm back into the swing of school. I am so exhausted from being on the go for so long, I'm going to go eat some dinner and go to bed early. I will update soon about what classes I will be taking and how I did on my first semester of grad school.

<3 Bye for now.

words

Stole this from one of the girls on our tour who kept a more detailed list of words...

English to English Dictionary!!
(Australian/British to American)
Because just because we speak the same language, doesn’t mean we know what the other one is saying! (It’s not wrong, it’s just different! ;) )
**My apologies if any of the information is incorrect…**

Antsy – Horny (I will never be able to use this word the same way again, lol) **I used this on the bus one day and was informed at the alternative meaning...lol
Bathers/Swimmers – Bathing Suit
Bogan – Unkept (apparently with a mullet and flannel shirt)
Bloke – Guy
Budgie Smugglers – Swim Trunks
Cadbury – Lightweight
Capsicum – Peppers
Chav – Ganster Wannabe
Cheeky – Smartass/Sarcastic
Chips – Fries
Confuzzed – Confused and Puzzled
Crisps – Potato Chips
Crook – Unwell/Sick
Dinger – Condom
Deero - Bum (similar to bogan)
DTs – Swim Trunks (male)
Feral – Disgusting
Fit – Hot/Attractive
Hole in the Wall – ATM
Holiday – Vacation
Jocks – Boxers
Jumper – Sweatshirt Jacket (probably most overused word by Lauren and myself….errr sorry guys!!!)**I used this word all the time and would do it with a funny English accent :)
Lollies – Candy (like gummybears)
Loo/Dunny/Toilets/Bog – Bathroom (wow we certainly have enough words for bathroom!!)
Maccas – McDonalds
Magoted – Drunk
Mate – Friend
Minger – Unattractive
Pavement – Sidewalk (A sidewalk makes perfect sense ‘cause it is on the side…and you walk on it! duh..its just made out of pavement! haha)
Pay Out – Insult
Pissing – Raining
Plaits – Braids
Pluggers/Thongs – Flip Flops
Pop off – Fart
Pulling/Snogging – Kissing
Rooting – Screwing (Its going to be weird now when we talk about rooting for a team, haha)
Rubber – Eraser (if someone asked me to borrow a rubber i would definitely think they were strange! lol)
Rubbish – Trash/Garbage
Rucksack – backpack
Runners/Sandshoes – Sneakers
Seedy – Looks bad, Hungover
Servo – Gas Station (short for service station)
Shag – Close Friend (or to bang)
Sheila – Woman
Skoff – Scarf (as in food)
Scull!!!! – Chug! (I’m so bringing it to the states....probably the most used word by everyone on coniki hahaha!)
Snapped – Got Hurt
Sunnies – Sunglasses (Their words are so much more fun than ours!!! Sunnies…how cute?!)
Surname – Lastname
T – Dinner
Take the Mickey Out of You – To Insult
Take the Piss Out – To Insult
Taxi – Falls When Drunk
Texta – Marker
Togs – Bathing Suits
Tucker – Food
Tuckshop – Cafeteria
Undies – Panties
Uni – University, College
Zeabra – Zebra (It sounds really different…I find it hilarious that we had no idea what Kelly was talking about for like 5 minutes when she first said zebra hahaha!)
Zed – Z (as in the letter)

Back in the states

I am so exhausted. We got back last night around 10pm, which to us would be 6 or 7 in the morning. I went to bed around 10-10:30 and at 3:30am my body was like ok it's mid afternoon in Europe. So....I slept on and off until 6ish when I gave up and just got up. I am trying to unpack and do all my laundry now and get back into the swing of things. I'm so sad that the vacation is over already :( I am not ready to go back to reality. Oh well, I looked over my blog and can't think of anything that I really forgot, except the little boring details that don't really matter. The last couple days in London, we saw the changing of the gaurd, I took pics of the guys in the red outfits w/ the tall bear hats. We then jumped on the double decker, on/off bus and went all over London. I got really sunburnt. We went to a pub for dinner, and then we were off to the theatre; except dinner took longer than expected and we missed the show. We wandered around London a bit and went to bed early. We left the next day to come home, it was a long plane ride. The 11hrs hoem seemed more like 20, I couldn't sleep and none of the movies were keeping me entertained. I am uploading photos to Picasa right now, so you can go to:
http://picasaweb.google.com/cmwright121
to see pics from my trip. Thses are only the pics I had on my camera, Steph, Tris, Max, Mel, and Jason have tons more that I will be getting from them hopefully soon. Will update when I get more!

Day 9-12?

Well I think the last time I wrote was when I was in Rome? The internet was too much in Florence. We made our way to Florence and had a walking tour of the city, where it started to rain on us. We went to see the statue of David and then it was time to leave. We went to a Florence dinner where monks fed us our dinner. It was a 4 course meal and just like in Venice they brought me a diffrent kind of plain pasta wfor each round. Kelly was freakin amazing at making sure that they would feed me food that I would eat. This dinner had an opera singer and music and dancing. At the end of the meal they gave us a few drops of some alcohol the monks make themselves. It was 90 proof and disgusting, tasted like licorice. ewww. After the dinner we went to the Space Disco Electronica and danced the night away. It was so much fun and we were all out dancing together early into the morning (even Kelly was there). We then went to Switzerland the next day, where we stayed in a jail that had been converted into a hotel. You felt like you were being locked up when you closed your door to your room....creepy. The dinner that night was gross, so we heading into the city to eat some Burger King. It tasted AMAZING. Before the hotel and dinner we went to the top of a mountain to see the view of the city below, with my fear of heights I actually cried at the top. lol. We then went to PARIS!!!!! OMG! I def want to go back there. We went to the Louve on the first day when we got there. Saw the Mona Lisa, Eqyptian statues, and many other famous things that I have no idea what they are just that I have seen them in books before. (haha.....as you can tell, not much of an art person) That night we had a free night and went into the town and went up the Eiffel Tower. Luckly for me the top level was closed, so we went to the second one. It was still high enough for me. We saw the light show that happens on the hour and it was beautiful. The next day we went shopping on Champs de Elysse (spellcheck?) famous street with all the name brands, then saw the Arc de Trom ? We then went to the Catacomes that are underground, and saw all the bones from the Black Plague. Then Notre Dame, and back to the hotel to get ready for the Cabaret show and off we went. I was able to eat freakin steak for dinner, and saw the show. Then we went out one last time as a group to say goodbye. Now I'm back in London and I have 2 days here now. I need to sign off now, so I will updated it more later.
bye for now
<3 Chrissi