Sunday, 26 February 2012

Week 6/7 - Mooooovin' on up!

Yo! Once again all chu can see is me, because HL is being a bit of a slacker with this thang! But anywhooo, the last fortnight has been super packed like the rest of the year!! I'm afraid that after next week they will all be very much the same.....


Moving on; the first few days were pretty chill, a lot of relaxing as usual and a bit more packing. To be honest I can't really remember much of what I did in the first week, which is probably bad because it likely included lots of catching up with my beaut friends :) But I do remember from Thursday which was mine, Terri's and Steph's farewell. We had a lovely dinner with the girls followed up by a nice catch up with a few other friends. Was good to say goodbye even though there will hopefully be a lot of catching up anyway throughout the year!


The weekend was very uneventful, apart from finalising packing and loading the contents of my room into the back of the car. I did say goodbye to HannyLicul on the Friday which was quite sad :( and went out for a final family dinner on the Saturday, which was alright, nice, but I hate when things are about me (believe it or not).


Then came Sunday, the day where I awoke nice and early in order to say goodbye to my lovely dogs, sister and father, and then travel the 6 hour journey (with mumma) to my new home... We arrived in Adelaide early enough to quickly unload all of my gear, with the help of the family I now live with, and then dash of to Flinders Uni for my first of many O Week activities. It was only a seminar for rural students, but it was still exciting to be on campus for the first time. There I met up with Chloe and Alyse (and Sophie) and then went to Hogs Breath for a welcome dinner. Was very pleasant and we even got asked if we were at a dirty bar by a homeless man, and picked up by some other drunk dudes - day 1 successful.


Monday and Tuesday were pretty chill. Went to uni for the first time, my gosh the campus is AMAZING!! It's insanely big with hills everywhere and a lake in the middle, I already recommend Flinders based on appearance alone! So it was O Week, and basically what went down was a lot of running around stalls, shit loads of free stuff, attending some good seminars, and finding out where all my classes were. Doesn't sound that interesting but I had a good time.

On Tuesday night mum and I flew out to Sydney and stayed with my Aunt and Uncle in preparation for tomorrow... THE OPENING OF THE ARTEXPRESS EXHIBITION, in which I had been selected for and was clearly excited!! We got up early in the morning and caught the train to St James and walked the rest of the way to The Art Gallery of New South Wales!!!!!! The 9:30 opening session was very formal, with cute little fruit salads in pots and other fancy finger foods. I was really happy that Mr Barrett had made the effort to come and support me too :) We then got to see the exhibition, and it was absolutely incredible!! I felt very priviledge to share wall space with 44 extremely talented artists. All of their work was amazing!!
We caught up with Rob for coffee and then my Aunt and Cousin Ellie for lunch, which was nice. Then went and saw the Picasso exhibition, which was in the same gallery as yours truly - AWESOMEEEE! Then the later session we had to stand by our works and answer any questions the public had about our work. This one lady got really excited and got loads of randoms to ask me about its meaning, so that was really cool :D afterwards we had a delicious dinner on the harbour with Satya and Rob, before heading back to my Aunt and Uncles place and going straight to sleep.



Thursday morning we awoke bright and early aka 4:30am Adelaide time, in order to catch a morning flight back to the city of churches. We arrived around half 8 and were in the car and straight off to Uni.... Thursday and Friday were actually really good. The Law orientation sessions were really thought out and organised. We were placed with a mentor and a small mentor group. I met a bunch of new people too so that made it much more enjoyable. The Thurs night tez, ralphy, ali g, and I hit up the bar for a bit of live music and free tap water :O! Fri arvo met another rad bunch of people and on the Saturday did a bit of shopping and went and saw the fringe parade. And it was pretty great apart from the massive wait for it to start :|


Today was a tiny bit more shopping and then Tezzy came over, checked out my place, and we browsed through Marion. Which just resulted in us getting depressed over our Uni budgets and resorting to KFC to cheer us up.....


But yeahhh, pretty crazy week and now I'm pretty much all settled into my new house. My only complaint is that it's ridiculously hot...


And that's about it! Actual class starts tomorrow, so I'm majorly keen for that and will definitely keep you updated!!!


Help me I'm poor!!!
- Brim

Saturday, 11 February 2012

Week 4/5 - BALIIIIIII and home :D

Prettttty massive fornight if I do say so myself! Spent an incredible 10 days in BALI!! Hence why I haven't got around to posting for a while. That and I have been busybusy packing :0


But first things first - international adventures :) 


Bali was amazing! We drove to Radelaide on the 24th, to stay overnight at my Aunt's house, before rising early and catching our flight. Surprisingly departing from Adelaide was more convenient than expected as we were able to suss out potential places for me to live whilst at uni, because I still hadn't organised accommodation for the year... haa. But we didn't decide anything straight away and before we knew it Mum and I were strapped into our seats and flying over land and water to Denpasar, Indonesia. We arrived a bit before lunch and caught a 'TAKSI' to Sanur, where we would be staying with Ginny, a couch surfer originally from England. We had a huge lunch, a tasting plate with loads on it, then ditched our one backpack of luggage we brought at the surfers place, and did a small explore of Sanur. Later we went to the markets for tea. Gawdayum is it cheap! Like 50 cents for a full meal, crazy crazy.


The next day, AUSTRALIA DAY, we decided to hit up Kuta where all the Aussies spend their holidays. But before we journeyed over we went to a Cafe on Sanur beach and I had an American breakfast - utterly and completely for the lols. We went to Legian/Kuta beach pretty early, so there were only a couple of orange bogans in their Aus Flags and matching bucket hats. The beach itself was closed cause of intense swell, we were told specifically by the lifeguard to pretty much leave so we found this bloke who was handing out gamecards. We decided to play and it turns out we both could match three little pictures on our cards and had won prizes. In order to collect them we had to get in a Taxi and go to a diff town, sit through a presentation and whatnot. Suss sounding yeah? We decided to do it anyway, so were voluntarily kidnapped to Nusa Dua. We arrived at a five star resort and basically what happened was they were trying to sell us a timeshare. We listened to the bloke talk a bit about them, but it was good cause he mostly just talked about his life in Bali, over lunch. In the end we walked away with lunch, two tshirts and a book of discount vouchers (mum and my prizes from the gamecards) and two taxi rides to the resort and to our place back in Sanur, ALL FOR FREE! Not your typical aus day, but was interesting.


The next morning we had bfast then got onto a public boat to Nusa Lombongan - my favourite place of the trip. The boat was hilarious even before we took off because in order to get on you had to walk into the beach water and climb over the motors and into the seating bit. I drew a picture to hopefully make it easier to understand:
So climbing onto it was quite a challenge, but even more so for mum as when it was her turn an unforeseen patch of waves rolled in, which rocked the boat and left her drenched to the armpits - good times! But even the  annoyance of being damp was forgotten as we rolled up to the Lembongan beach. I don't know how to put enough emphasis into this statement so that you'll understand but the water was stuffin incredulous!! Clear blue, a few metres deep but you could see right to the bottom, and the temp was like stepping into a solar heated pool - SO GOOD ZOMG! We strolled up the street and booked into the coolest hut thing! We were chillin' out the front by the pool when I looked over to the shop next door and a man was up in the palm tree cutting out the coconuts and having people collect them. I went over to take photos and he climbed down and cut one open for me to drink. Tasted very average, but then they cut it right open so I could eat it - very cooool. For the rest of the arvo we just chilled in the pool, met a hungarian dude, and watched the sun set over the beach. Spillion dollar view for $15 a night >:]

The next day we went snorkelling, and it was probably one of the most amazing experiences of my life. You see underwater images on tv or wherever but nothing compares to seeing it yourself. Putting your head underwater is, well, just overwhelming, I highly recommend it. I cut myself on coral getting onto the boat, but other than that was good. After that we hired a motorbike and drove around the island. The day after we went diving. A similar experience, but it feels good to be able to swim along the floor :) It took a while to get used to breathing, but I saw little Nemo's going in and around their anemone, coolest. Then after the dive we got dropped off at Nusa Penida, another island where not many tourists go. I had a nap, then we each got on the back of an Indonesian mans bike and rode around the island. I felt like a celebrity with all the muscley dudes that waved at me as I drove past hehehe. We rode to this place known as the waterfall, but in order to get to the actual waterfall we had to do a 600m climb pretty much straight down. So we did, took forever, and when we arrived the 'waterfall' was like a trickle of fresh water into a cement structure. The view was fantastic, but I wanted to cry at how many steps we had to walk back up :| That night we had street food for dinner, and the best juices from this lady next to our hotelly place and watched Indonesian Spongebob.

The next day we caught another public boat, this time to Padangbai. We ditched our stuff at a place then got 'foot reflexology' from this old guy who told us not to buy anything from anyone cause they were dodgy. We explored a little bit and ended up meeting up with some ex-pats. It was good to get a bit exposed to the culture from at least one side. It was funny when one of them was explaining how he had rented a motorbike and somehow ended up with a bright pink one, which he is hesitant in driving home as the truckies make suggestive movements as he goes past ;) 

Then we went to Amlapura on a Bemo - a mini mini-van with its doors left open and then to Tirta Ganga and ran up 300m worth of stairs in the pouring rain to a home stay. Most incredible view; patti feilds and volcanoes! In the morning we went to the water palace which was loverlyyyy. It was also the big Balinese holiday Gulingan, so getting transport was difficult. But eventually we got a bemo to Singaraja. It was still rainy so we wandered around but then caught another bemo to Lovina and found a place for the next two nights. We had a little explore, saw some people gambling on a black sand beach, swam a bit, did a cooking class, and rode around again on bikes with some randoms. 

Then we legged it to Ubud, AND SAW THE MONKEYSSSSS!!! The Mnkey Forest in the main bit of town is home to over 600 monkeys, they were so cute I couldn't handle it. And so people accustomed so they were just everywhere - footpaths and all. They were so people friendly that two jumped on me. One going for my water bottle and the other when I was sitting down just crawled across my lap. I was okay with the furry little thing just chillin' on me, until it moved on to my arm and started to bite me.... So I stood up and shook the cheeky thing off before it gave me rabies :|
The day after we had a five hour spa visit, with everything from massages, to hot baths, to mani/pedi's. It was a bit awkward at first when they handed me a black cloth and said 'here are your underwear' which is when I realised that a full body massage really meant a full body massage :/

After the Ubud adventure it was travelling back to Sanur in hectic floods, to see Ginny again before we got off the plane and legged it back to rads. So that ends our intense 10 days in Bali; 6 locations and so many activities!! Not bad not bad.

Domestic events.
Got back to Adelaide and sussed out a few more potential places to live, but we were pretty much decided and the day we travelled back to BH we confirmed accommodation for the year. So finally I have somewhere to stay :D And it's with a lovely family so the transition will be much easier! Then we drove back home and it was so gooood to see the dogs! Oh and meg/dad too ;P

Pretty much since then it's been loads of packing up my room, ready for uni. There are suitcases and crap everywhere, saying it's a war zone is a polite description.
I have caught up with a few friends but only very briefly, keen to see more of them before I move - IN ONE WEEKS TIME :O 

But yes, that's about it. There's plenty more I could say but then this post would be huuuuuge! The next one will quite possibly be from my new rezzy in Adelaide, scary stuff!

Until then,
- Brim

Monday, 23 January 2012

Week 3 - Relaxin' and Lovin'

HanzFanzLicul has had some problems getting onto the blog as she's in AsiaLand, so that's why all you see is me, hehe. But for a week that started quite averagely, it turned out to be quite a good one!

The first couple of days were spent just chin chillin at the home ranch. Feels so good just doing nothing 'cause I know I'll have a busy few years ahead of me :| 
That being said... HBRIM IS GOING TO UNI! It was always the plan (hence the name of this blog) but offers came out on the 18th and it's confirmed!!

My offer is a place in the Bachelor of Laws and Legal Practice and Behavioural Science combined degrees. A whole five and a half years of funfunfun! But I'll pop out with two degrees - YEH WOO!
Unless I get offered a place in Psychology in second round offers, which will be out in the next couple weeks!

Thursday was I think the first day I had left the house in a while.... It's probably a good thing I'm not taking a gap year otherwise come time to go to uni I would not know how to act like a normal person. My friend Mel and I went to an interview at the local paper for our acceptance into Uni! I'm pretty excited that heaps of the girls are going to Adelaide this/next year - sooooo keen! Will make leaving this place that much easier!

Had lunchy and catch up with Lozzy J on the Friday which was goooood! So many people already having their separate lives with so many stories to tell, crazy stuff!
Then the weekend was so goooood. Went to Goody's 21st and had an amazing night dancedancedancing to some sick tunes and running a muck in the rain! One to remember for sure!

Then the 22nd was my sissa's 14th birthday. She had a bunch of friends over so I got a sleep in before the birthday rituals!! Hehe
But todayyyy I finished enrolling into Uni, I have to wait until a bit later until I can register in classes, but I've got everything all worked out, so I'm keen as beans!!

Buttttt even more exciting things are happening. Travelling to Adelaide tomorrow AND THEN TO BALI YEH WOOOOOOOOOO!!

So I probs won't post til I get back, but I will have loads of stories!!!! I guess I should pack... oops!

Stay great!
- Brim

Sunday, 15 January 2012

Week 2 - Departures, reunions and more departures..

Already half way into Jan, and 2012 still hasn't disappointed!!


I returned home last night, but not before another beautiful week in Sydney! More catch ups with the family were had, and they were lovely. First afternoon tea at the Lindt Chocolat Cafe followed by dinner at the Malaysian restaurant Mamak, with my cousin Ellie Montyface. Then lunch at the Glenmore hotel in The Rocks with Fergus. It's so weird to see them so grown up, with jobs and houses, truly adultlike - makes me kind of nervous as I'll be really self dependent like them in approx. one month..... 


During the week we did some more walking and exploring. We walked across the harbour bridge, not over the top, but I can now fully appreciate the length of it as it took for ever and I got burnt ;(
We also went to Luna Park!! It was pretty fun, but my sister is a sook and wouldn't go on anything, and I was feeling a bit sunstroke-ish, so could have been better, but I still enjoyed.
The night before we departed we had a lovely dinner at my aunts/uncles, then went home for our last sleep in our wikid-siq house!


After a longggg 13 hour drive we got home around 9 last night. I was reunited with Hanz and then we went to a movie night with the girls. Just seeing them, loving life, makes me realise how much I'm going to miss them when I leave :'( but coming back/them visit will be funfunfun!!!


Today I went for a yummy lunch with Hannah, before saying goodbye again as she leaves town tomorrow ;( So we got to see each other for a little while, and we will be reunited again in Feb before I leave... Again hahahaha.








Apart from that, not a lot has happened, except for my new addiction that is Temple Run. I downloaded it today because I haven't had access to good internet til now, but I'm already hooked! 


Hehehehehehe....






Well that's about it!


Stay great,
- Brim

Monday, 9 January 2012

Time you enjoy wasting isn't wasted time

Heeey, 

Well the first week of 2012 is gone and I can't say the rest of this post is going to be an amazing read haha. That's not to say I didn't enjoy it though. I'm very glad that Hannah and I decided to do this thing so we have something to help us remember the finer details of 2012... cause honestly I'm having trouble remembering what I did last Monday... oops. 

What I do know is the start of the week was filled with goodbyes- first Brim with her adventure to Syds and then Tez- it is going to be so WEIRD not seeing them at least 5 days a week. 

I've spent a lot of my time at the pool this week. Its pretty amazing there these days, definitely come a long way. Kinda like it doesn't seem to belong in BH... but I'm definitely not complaining! 

I even spent some of my time with watercolours making pretty pictures- that was fun haha. I've also got together a resume to find myself a nice job to get me places in my gap year :) 

On Friday I attended a meeting for Active Broken Hill. I'm pretty interested in joining their committee. I was surprised at all the stuff they do for the people and organisations in Broken Hill- there are so many different things they've done to encourage healthy living, its not all sport and diets... that's probably why I'm so keen to join hahaha. (Would you hear that... starting to sound like one of them! :P) Even went down to the BDT today to have a bit of a photo shoot with the whole three members of Active Broken Hill for a story. 

Soooo, I'm getting pretty keen for China... NEXT MONDAY!! So sooon! Everythings pretty much organised. Still a bit weary of how cold its going to be though... so close to North Korea and Russia, probably around -30 C... wooo!

I've spent a lot of time on "icanread" (Tumblr- even though I don't have one) and I found a perfect picture/summary of what I need to focus on in my gap year (or what I'd like to)... But I think its also important to remember that time spent being happy isn't wasted... or is it time you enjoy wasting isn't wasted time- I'm cool with both!

I think I'll leave you with that, and I guess I'll be back next week! 

Have fun wasting time :D
-Hannah

Saturday, 7 January 2012

Week 1 - Sydney Babyyyy!

Yo!

It's hard to believe that twenty twelve already has a full week under its belt, and a pretty hectic one at that. In under 36 hours of the New Year the fam and I were all packed up and headed for Sydney. We arrived late into the night on the 2nd at our amazing two/three story house an easy walk from Manly Beach. Since then we've had days jam packed full of walking, family reunions and possibly the best experience of my life!

A couple days of this week were spent exploring Manly Beach and The Spit areas, sussing out possible activities as well as getting our bearings. We've eaten at a few different places, with big meals and new things to try, which I'm finally appreciating as I will be living off plain rice as soon as I head off to Uni.

The day before yesterday we met up with my lovely Grandma on the wharf to catch up with her for a few hours and have lunch - fish and chips and greek salad, yum! Then all of us headed to my Aunt and Uncle's new house to see them and our cousins, who I haven't seen in years, for a lovely family dinner.

Moving on to yesterday, which was possibly the greatest day of my life! After a confusing drive into Darling Harbour we arrived at the PowerHouse museum, we the proceeded to make the best purchase of the trip - tickets to the Harry Potter exhibit!!!!!!!1! We had to wait until 6:30 to go through as all of the previous sessions had been sold out. In the hours leading up to it we walked around the harbour and looked through the rest of the ph museum. However my attention was def elsewhere!
Finally we got to go into the exhibit, and it did not disappoint! Just seeing original artefacts from all of the movies, ahhhh - I don't really know how to explain it - it was absolutely incredible and gave me the most amazed/impressed/satisfied feeling! Also pulling a mandrake, sitting in Hagrid's chair and tossing a quaffle were good experiences! Definitely something I will remember forever!


Today was also great! We held a lunch for my Grandma, Aunt, Uncle, one of my other cousins (who I also haven't seen in so long) and her boyf, which was a really nice gathering. We spent a good amount of time swimming, and I'm sunburnt as I have been for most of this trip, but hey - bring on the tanning ;P

But that's about it for this week, one of the more interesting ones for the year that's for sure!
- Brim

Sunday, 1 January 2012

New Years

Oh hey hey, Hannah and Hannah here! Happy New Years!


Quick introductions;


Hannah Licul
General plans for the year - Staying in our hometown - gap year-ing it before entering the Air Force. Chillin' and going places ;D


Hannah Brimstone
General plans for the year - Heading a 6 hour drive away, off to Uni to do something Psychology related.. Being poor and learnin' shtuff..


Well we don't really know how this blog thing works but we decided that seeing we will be separated this will act as a little momento, for ourselves, of our journeys into adultness D: ...oh and for anyone else that's interested in what we are up to!


We'll hopefully update this page every week, but we have some upcoming overseas trips and it might not always be possible. But we'll make it up by doing extra posts or if we're completely bored with life expect everyday updates... about nothing, hehe.




So it's finally 2012 and we both started off the year together with a few house parties with close friends. Adventure walks, sparklers, amazing dance moves and jelly shots made it one to remember... or not :P 
Going to sleep late, waking up later; sure signs of what's to come further on in the year!

It's going to be a challenge. Getting used to not only having no school, but not having each other right there to help us through this new chapter of our lives. Thank you technology!


Well I guess that's it for now.. Brim's off to Sydney tomorrow for two weeks, and Licul's sorting out her Visa and stuff for her trip to China, so hopefully that will provide something interesting for our next posts!


Hopefully you'll follow us on our journey.. but if not we don't care cause this is really for us ;)
Until next week,
Hannah and Hannah