my hair and my visa are both AWESOME.
...and boy does my room need to be sorted out.
ok, so things are finally getting sorted out after months of vague and very depressing limbo. After months of hassle and pain, my visa finally came last week, and spectacularly visa-like it looks as well. It now resides in my top drawer of the spastic plastic thing i call a bedside table. I'm looking forward to throwing that piece of crap away, let me tell you. To its credit, however, it has been very useful these past few months.
i don't know if my hair had changed when i did my last entry, but it's changed now. It's now mainly a medium to light brown, with blonde highlights on the top. When i was at the hairdressers i also got a straightener, which is fantastic. I'm still working out how to co-ordinate all the products and everything so my hair can look relatively un-broken and i won't have to wash it every day. At the moment it looks quite nice but it feels really greasy at the roots and dry at the tips. hmm...
to satisfy the curiosity of a lot of people, i think now would be a good time to present my living arrangements to everyone. Basically I live in a house with three other people; my mother, my maternal grandmother and my maternal grandfather. The house we live in is my grandparents', and it has been since before my mother was born, so it doesn't feel so much like my house as it does theirs. I have a room in this house, but it's not my room as such because i know it more as one of the guest rooms/the computer room in the house rather than my room. It's a very very small room and half of it doesn't belong to me because grandma's computer station is in one part of it and her filing cabinet in another. What I use frequently is the bottom bunk of the bunk beds in here, the top bunk hosts my father's suitcase (the one I'll be using in a month), my video camera, which i will one of these years have to replace, and a laundry basket that holds the clothes i wear most of the time. I also have the crappy plastic bedside table which holds random things like my jewellery, camera equipment, medication, books and dvds and stationery, and i have a few wire cage-like things that serve as drawers that have the rest of the clothing i use here, and most of it's crap so i won't be taking it with me or mourning its departure from my life. I also occasionally use the computer table to study something that's interesting me. there are currently french books lying on there, which i really really have to look at again. i've gotten very lazy these past months.
i can talk as much as i want, but nothing will give you more of an idea than pictures.
To take this, I had to back out of the room and take it from the hallway. That is honestly the size of the room; I'm not blocking half of it or anything.
OK, most of the time when I'm talking to you on MSN, I'm doing it sitting cross-legged on my floor, laptop pretty much right there on that very spot on my bed. note the sheer elegance of the bedspread :S. my shitty bedside table is the red thing beside it. I'm being very unfair in calling it shitty though; it's probably the most handy thing I currently possess.
that's the workstation. whenever my poor grandmother wants to pay a bill on the net she has to climb over, normally, several plastic bags, a book, a pair of mismatched shoes and, more often than not, me, to get to that chair.
that's what holds my clothes. It's pretty pathetic, I know. My various rooms in England will be magnificent. Never fear.
so there you go. hope you enjoyed that insight into my life as it was from february. obviously i use the rest of the house as well, which is a bit less sorrowful. When I'm in England I'll post photos of the new and awesome living arrangements, as they shall be.
huzzah!
ok, so things are finally getting sorted out after months of vague and very depressing limbo. After months of hassle and pain, my visa finally came last week, and spectacularly visa-like it looks as well. It now resides in my top drawer of the spastic plastic thing i call a bedside table. I'm looking forward to throwing that piece of crap away, let me tell you. To its credit, however, it has been very useful these past few months.
i don't know if my hair had changed when i did my last entry, but it's changed now. It's now mainly a medium to light brown, with blonde highlights on the top. When i was at the hairdressers i also got a straightener, which is fantastic. I'm still working out how to co-ordinate all the products and everything so my hair can look relatively un-broken and i won't have to wash it every day. At the moment it looks quite nice but it feels really greasy at the roots and dry at the tips. hmm...
to satisfy the curiosity of a lot of people, i think now would be a good time to present my living arrangements to everyone. Basically I live in a house with three other people; my mother, my maternal grandmother and my maternal grandfather. The house we live in is my grandparents', and it has been since before my mother was born, so it doesn't feel so much like my house as it does theirs. I have a room in this house, but it's not my room as such because i know it more as one of the guest rooms/the computer room in the house rather than my room. It's a very very small room and half of it doesn't belong to me because grandma's computer station is in one part of it and her filing cabinet in another. What I use frequently is the bottom bunk of the bunk beds in here, the top bunk hosts my father's suitcase (the one I'll be using in a month), my video camera, which i will one of these years have to replace, and a laundry basket that holds the clothes i wear most of the time. I also have the crappy plastic bedside table which holds random things like my jewellery, camera equipment, medication, books and dvds and stationery, and i have a few wire cage-like things that serve as drawers that have the rest of the clothing i use here, and most of it's crap so i won't be taking it with me or mourning its departure from my life. I also occasionally use the computer table to study something that's interesting me. there are currently french books lying on there, which i really really have to look at again. i've gotten very lazy these past months.
i can talk as much as i want, but nothing will give you more of an idea than pictures.
To take this, I had to back out of the room and take it from the hallway. That is honestly the size of the room; I'm not blocking half of it or anything.
OK, most of the time when I'm talking to you on MSN, I'm doing it sitting cross-legged on my floor, laptop pretty much right there on that very spot on my bed. note the sheer elegance of the bedspread :S. my shitty bedside table is the red thing beside it. I'm being very unfair in calling it shitty though; it's probably the most handy thing I currently possess.
that's the workstation. whenever my poor grandmother wants to pay a bill on the net she has to climb over, normally, several plastic bags, a book, a pair of mismatched shoes and, more often than not, me, to get to that chair.
that's what holds my clothes. It's pretty pathetic, I know. My various rooms in England will be magnificent. Never fear.
so there you go. hope you enjoyed that insight into my life as it was from february. obviously i use the rest of the house as well, which is a bit less sorrowful. When I'm in England I'll post photos of the new and awesome living arrangements, as they shall be.
huzzah!