Friday, 10 May 2013
Disneyland Paris Tips and Tricks: Enjoying your visit
Dear readers,
Because life got the better of me, I never
quite got round to finishing my Disneyland tips and tricks series, so here is
the third and final part! This post will give you tips and tricks for when you
actually are in Disneyland itself, Walt Disney Studios or Disney Village.
In case you had completely forgotten that I
wrote two previous posts, where you can find these or if you are new to my
weblog, please see the following two links to my previous posts:
1. General
tips.
a.
Bring your own food and drinks.
Disney is really expensive when it comes to
food and drinks (think 4,- euro’s for 6 kip nuggets... o.o that’s 0.67 cents
per nugget!), so you might want to bring your own food and drinks for during
the day. There are a few gas stations near the park, so you should be able to
get something there if you want. Example: at a nearby gas station you pay 0,50
cents for a bottle of water, in Disney you will pay 2,20 or more.
b. Make
sure to bring along some wipes.
Sometimes you might want to get a snack,
which turns out to be a bit more sticky than you were expecting. If you are
cueing up for a ride, things might get complicated (and yucky). Especially if
you have little kids!
2. Disneyland
Sunday, 28 April 2013
Chipmunk cuteness and high tea pictures!
Well in my previous post I promised you some chipmunk cuteness, so here it is! Below you will first find a (very) short video in which you can see me (well you can see my hand and legs lol) feeding a squirell! :D I was so surprised that it dared to come so close!
Please note: the cookies were simple biscuits.
Some pictures of the squirells in Hyde Park!
Sunday, 21 April 2013
Update and a trip report of London! :D
Dear readers,
I solemnly
swear that I will NEVER EVER write that things are starting to calm down in my
life EVER again. My gosh, the past couple of months have just simply been insane
(hence the lack of updates). In February my aunt had a heart attack, causing us
to have to travel to the other side of the Netherlands to visit her. She had a
bypass operation and everything seemed to be going well, until two weeks after
the operation. She was hospitalized again and the doctors were not sure if she
would make it… So we ended up traveling back and forward a while as we were of
course very anxious about her health. Thankfully, though everything is going
really well with her. She is currently going through rehabilitation and is
doing just fine.
Well a lot
of other things have happened in the meantime, but for today I will be focusing
on my trip to London.
Sunday, 3 February 2013
Thank God january is over! :P
Dear
reader,
Gosh, am I
glad that January is over. I have told you I was busy before, but this month
really took the cake. However, before I will get into all that, I am first
going to write a bit about Christmas and New Years! :D
I had a
lovely Christmas. The first day I just spent with my parents, which was as nice
as always!... Except that an ant colony had made its home in our tree and
suddenly started to roaming about when we started to open the presents in the
morning. So whenever I went over to the tree to take up a present I wacked some
ants hahaha. I must say I didn’t feel like it was very much in the spirit of
Christmas (with peace on earth and all that), but what can you do?
I got some
really awesome presents, such as the DVD Arthur Christmas (which is one of the
most fun Christmas movies I have ever seen!), a paperblanks notebook (these are
rather expensive. I use those whenever I go to conferences, so I will always be
able to find the notes I took easily) and a book entitled Writing Death and Absence in the Victorian Novel by Jolene
Zagarovich (I really needed this book for my research). The best gift, however,
was my mom’s reaction to her present: I had gotten her tickets to a New Years
concert by Wibi Soerjadi (a famous Dutch pianist and composer).
Thursday, 20 December 2012
Finally another update
Well... what can I say? ^__^" It has been over 4 whole months since my last update... That's a record even for me. I have just been super, duper busy. To make it up to you I will post two posts today; one will be my very much overdue report of my trip to Sheffield and this post, which will contain an overview of the things that have been keeping me busy.
After Sheffield I have visited my aunts for a weekend (which was very, very fun), I have been on another trip to Disney (and got my free year pass... OH YEAH!)... I have done so many things I have forgotten half of them already! O.o
The reason why I could not get round to writing blogposts is that I have been either too busy or too tired to do so. During my trip to Sheffield I received an e-mail informing me that funding had become available at the English Faculty for two PhD students in the form of a research and teaching assistant possition. I, of course, immediately applied for the job. As a result, I have been a research and teaching assistant since October 1. I got hired for 16,7 hours a week. Of those hours I have to spend approximately 3,5 - 4 hours helping out teachers and staff members of the English department. The rest of the hours I can use for my own research. So far teachers have asked me to scan course materials, to order and archive certain documents and I have been asked to help out with a new project called the Writing Studio. The Writing Studio is aimed at first year students who find it difficult to write essays. By asking them to send in an essay beforehand we try to give them feedback during 30 min. appointments, which they can in turn use to improve their writing. Due to some administrative difficulties, however, I have been only able to help out one student so far.... I hope to be of more help soon though.
Basically, my research, the assistantship and my other 16 hour job have pretty much been swallowing up all my time. The only free time I really had was when I was with my fiancé (which is about one day a week).
Things seem to be settling down a bit now though, so I really hope that I will be able to put up blog posts more frequently again. I have really missed writing T_T.
Well that is all for today. I wish all my (extremely loyal) readers a merry Christmas and a happy New Year!
Love,
Blacky
Well overdue Sheffield trip report with pictures!
Dear
reader,
And now, for my very much overdue trip report of my visit to Sheffield! I have to say I really enjoyed my visit to Sheffield. We traveled from Schiphol to Manchester by
plane after which we took the train from the airport to Sheffield. There we
took the tram directly to the B&B. After walking around for a while and
cursing the google maps printout which I made (which is always super confusing,
since you never know which way is up or down… we almost went the wrong way
because of it) we were debating whether or not we were in the right street. It
did not last long before I spotted the B&B though…. at the top of a very,
veerrryyy steep hill. Imagine this: three people walking up a steep hill of
which two are dragging a really heavy suitcase behind them. I am sure that the neightbours
had a good laugh.
(It's the Victorian house on the left... Yep, steep hill is steep)
Tuesday, 4 September 2012
Highlights from the life of a busy bee
Dear
reader,
Again, it
has been a very long time since I updated the last time (I am actually considering renaming my blog to: busy bee is busy lol). As always I have been
insanely busy (o.o this has been the busiest holiday ever!!!!), so please bear
with me. This post will provide you with the highlights of the things that I
have been doing.
Efteling.
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