Im in Nice!

Im now in Nice, arrived here yesterday from Lucerne which was beautiful but very cold. We went up Mt Pilatus in the worlds steepest cog train and did some yodeling at the stunning view of the swiss alps. Now in Nice it is boiling and I just had a day sunbathing and swimming at the beach! Such a change from good old St Clair, the water was warm! Just 4 days here then onto Italy, Florence I think. Please leave a comment and let me know how you are! Lots of Love, Emily xxx

Vancouver/Darwen/Hunstanton/London

Ok so I'm a bit behind on my posts.... Hmmm yeah so the last month has been fun.. can't rememebr all of it, and I only have 4 minutes to write this post!!Make that 3. Vancouver highlight: roller skating around stanley park. Darwen highlight: hanging out with fam, Hunny highlight: Tea with the family at Abbey and Dereks +visiting/emmbarresing Abigail at the coffee pot. London Highlight: the crown jewels, oh how I want to steal them. Tommorrow onto Paris!!! P.S Yes I am aware that there are probably spelling mistakes. Love you all! Byyye

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Did i ever live in N.Z??

Sorry for the lack of posts. Just been too busy cleaning all the 600 dishes to do much else except sleep. I've now been here for a month and a bit, and i feel like I've lived here forever. I've been on dish pit for a solid two weeks which has not been very fun. Especially last week for family camp when we worked for about ten hours 6 days of the week! The last week has been very hard, I've definitely had a bit of homesickness/felt like running away because of the horrible dish pit. But things are looking up for this week, I'm on maintenance which is apparently a breeze so hopefully I will be free to hang out and meet some more staff! Last night we had a staff party and went into Nanaimo where we ate lots of pizza, went swimming in the wave pool, then went to a beach and had all you can eat ice-cream. It was really fun and slightly sickly... Oh and since I last wrote a post I've been in a cabin for a week counseling ten sweet 12 year old girls. It was a challenging but awesome experience, and I'm hoping to get to counsel again. Anyway i think thats all for now! Love Emily. xx

Camp is sweeeet.

Tomorrow night we are going to Victoria!! I'm so excited about this as i don't feel like I've seen the 'real' Canada yet. The scenery at camp is very similar to N.Z, in fact, if it wasn't for the different accents and the fact that it took 34 hours to get here I would still think I'm in N.Z! Camp is really cool. Been getting to know a lot of the other staff, and I feel like I've been here for months already. The days are action packed, which makes then feel like about three days long instead of one! Yesterday I was down at the water front, being dragged on giant inflatables by a speed boat. And today got trained on archery/general sports around camp. I'm really looking forward to working on the activities, and having many more fun days in the sun to go.. Today for lunch there was..... TATOR TOTS and CASIDILLAS! Amazing... although after week 10 of them maybe i won't think so? Still can't get photos on here! need o find the techno guy and find out how. Anyway I had better go to the next session for today.. but first here is a list of all the cool stuff about camp/Canada so far... Yellow school buses, sun, Q-rock (the camp radio station,) deers, giant yum ice creams, tuck, 'Popsicles', maple leaves, flag poles, driving on the WRONG side, the sparkley water at night (although i haven't seen it at its best yet..its supposed to go white and glittery when you throw something in it,) getting a tan, the trucks, everything being in french as well as english.... and now i really have to go!! Bye bye xx

I'M HERE!!!!!

So I"M HERE! I'm sat at the computer wearing a Canadian flag and all red, because today is Canada day! The kiwis are more dressed up than the Canadians! The last couple of days have been hectic. The CIT program is really great, but quite full on, theres a lot of reading and we get an exam at the end of it! We've also been doing general training, like the water search (you have to dive along the bottom of the water front to hunt for bodies in an emergency.fun.)and also the challenge course. We got the try of the 'sky scraper' which is a 50ft (I think) swing. Next week we are going to be working in the challenge course so that will be fun. I keep getting mistaken for a camper (we have junior highs at the moment, 12-14) because they all look so old. Or maybe i still look 14, who knows but its pretty frustrating! Brian and Helen (and of course baby Maya) leave tomorrow. (Its been so great having them here. They've introduced us to lots of the main leadership so that we will be looked after, (and hopefully not end up in the dish pit the whole time!) It was quite a hot day today, so being in the water was fun -minus the crabs and jelly fish, and I wore shorts and t-shirt for the first time in.... years most likely. I have the accent down to a tee already, but nobody can yet pull off mine! Anyway I'd better get to the Canada day celebrations! Ciao xxx

2 Days to goooo

I had a Goodbye dinner last night with school friends, and tonight I have a goodbye family dinner, so I am going to be feeling very full, and sad, and excited. I will try and put up some photos of them. So my suitcase is almost packed, and is getting quite hard to move... and I am so excited that i will soon be out of Dunedin. I think its been a year now that I haven't left this town, except to go to Balclutha, YET I still cannot find my way around. I will definately need to buy some maps for the places I'm going..I'll put that on the very long list of stuff that I should think about doing in the near future. So I should probably stop talking about nothing and start doing.. STUFF. Next post... I will be SOMEWHERE ELSE. Stoked. xx

Post number ONE.

I am snowed in. Which is FINE because I have nowhere to be right now. But I'm hoping it will not be snowing on Thursday, as I am supposed to be flying out to Vancouver! Where I will be working at a Christian Summer camp for 3 months. Then heading off to the places above for some sun, sights and fun. I've spent the last 6 months working at a jewellery shop, (diva) earning money, and in my spare time planning this trip! And in a mere 5 days I will be gone..Its been a long time coming!