we shoot, we score!

A few weeks ago my house, Morgannwg, won sports week!
The last few years there has been a prize for the winning house (ex. a house breakfast).
But this year there was nothing (go figure).
However, I am blessed with wonderful houseparents. And so on Sunday everyone in my house was called into the day room where we were surprised with cake and fruit! It was awesome!
Please note that the green cake in this photo is a football game!! (which we are winning of course) Complete with norweign candy men!

Here are some of the people in my house (apologies for the blurry photos but my camera is horrible in dim light)

clearly we are all normal

Here are my House Parents (from Norway): John Morten and Sonova

We have a fridge in our house, but is was really full and dirty and gross. So on sunday we took everything out, threw out the moldy stuff (it was surprising how much was in there), cleaned the fridge and then put the food back in an orderly fashion (each dorm now has a spot on a shelf)

Random braiding broke out (this is not a normal occurance, I promise)

and the testosterone was ragging as the boys started playing bloody knuckles and this game with a coin:

Basically one person starts by flicking the coin to get it spinning and then the two people playing take turns flicking it to keep it spinning:

And if someone flicks it wrong and it stops spinning, they place their hand on the table and the other person flicks the coin at their knuckles as hard as possible (this often results in blood).

I shall never understand boys.

And this weekend I am off to see oxford and cambridge with my daddy!

I can't wait!

How many UWC students does it take to change a light bulb?

Answers:

* At Red Cross it takes five. Four to strap on snowshoes and hike 10 miles
to the nearest store to get the new bulb and one to screw it in.

* At Li Po Chun it takes twenty. One to change the bulb and the other
nineteen IB Physics HL students to find a new way to engineer it so it
never has to be changed again.

**At Atlantic College it takes slightly more than three-hundred. One to
complain that the bulb died and to call a campus meeting about "Dead
Bulbs." The rest to sit around for several hours complaining that the bulb
died and that dead bulbs are a major problem at the College.

* At Pearson College it takes four. One to negotiate between the Quebecois
and Anglophiles over which language to use in obtaining the bulb. One to
call a press conference discussing with which third world country that they
were negotiating for the release of the hostage bulb. Another to declare it
a political refugee and secure safe passage into Canada. And, finally, one
to make the foreign bulb fit properly into a Canadian socket.

* At Southeast Asia it takes only one. In an orderly society, one
individual always will take the responsibility for replacing the
dysfunctional bulb such that all others may equally enjoy the light.

* At Waterford it takes three. One to go buy the bulb. Another to explain
that the bulb was NOT a South African bulb, but a bulb in Southern Africa.
And one to screw in the bulb, counter-clockwise... just like the water down
the drains.

* At Adriatic it takes eight. One to screw it in and seven to throw a party
over it.

* At American West it takes none. They have enough funding to pay someone
to change their light bulbs for them.

* At Simon Bolivar it also takes zero. There is no electricity at Simon
Bolivar, only pigs, cows and corn.

* At Mahindra it takes three...... 1 to go buy the lightbulb and 2 to remove the snake in the room before putting in the lightbulb.

* At Mostar it takes 4, one to go get the lightbuld, one to sweep for mines on the way, one to back up the preliminary minesweeper and pickup eventual limbs and another to screw the light bulb in.


* At Costa Rica it takes the whole campus, someone sends an email exposing everyone who has a broken bulb and runs rumors about one's who don't even have a bulb, then another one would send another email threatening to kill the one who sent the first email...then everyone send emails to everyone else disclaiming the first emails and protesting against them...then ... we have a community meeting for people to swear at and threat the senders of those emails... then we decide to go for a candle march in the middle of the night and realize that we don´t even need the bulbs... they´re too environmentally unfriendly.

when the sun shines we'll shine together

Hello everyone!
I have a nice long post today with tons of photos. Yesterday we had some really nice weather so I took advantage of it with some other girls from my house and we went down to the seafront to relax and absorb some vitamin D.
Unfortuantely the editing on the computers here is really finicky and so my photos are sort of in a strange order (they are backwards to what I intended) but regardless here we go!
First I have a sand message for you all:

Here are some of the Vans that have been parked outside of our castle all week for the filming (and Lynn [Denmark]). It is pretty cool because whenever I walk past I look inside and there are people making fake spears and swords and stuff! And the other day a group of men dressed up as viking/warrior people walked past my math room!

Here are some of the props for the movie that I walked past on my way to do laundry.

This is one of the beast statues in the beast garden. I think they are all supposed to be different animals but it is difficult to tell what some of them are meant to be

Here is the beast garden. All of the beasts are looking in a different direction and there is a legend that if you stand in the spot where none of them are looking at you at midnight, you will disappear!

This is a really random bench I saw that I thought was really cute!

These guys are behind the above bench and I had to take a picture because they reminded me of the rabbits in Rachael's garden

Here is the entrance to the beast garden (and Tilda [scotland]) and beyond it you can see a bit of the tennis courts where my field hockey practices are currently held.

We went romping in the leaves:

All was well until I got a leaf in my hair:

We found these marks on the beach and you can't really tell from the photo but they are huge! almost as big as a hand print. They look like a bird...but I can't imagine that there is a bird that big....

Me lying on the ground soaking up the sun

Tilda thought it woudl be a good idea to step on me!

We tried to get a photo of me clicking my heels but it was never timed quite right so instead i just a bunch of photos of me looking silly:

Dancing the day away

Morgannwg girls' love

Summer [Jamaica], Maria [Spain] and I:

We climbed up the rock cliffs but it was sort of gross and slimy..

Lynn, Maria, Summer and me in front of the cliffs

Walking along the beach

The beautiful Maria

Lynn and I chilling on the rocks

The mighty Tilda

Me!..again

This is the outdoor pool. The indoor pool in in the building on the right

Summer and Maria

The view of the castle from the beach front. The building along the bottom of the photo is called the 'EMC barracks'. Kids who come for the EMC program (my service) can stay in the rooms in the building

Lynn sticking her head out the wall at the sea front

A view of the coastline. So beautiful!

The kayaks and canoes and sailboats that EMC uses (which means I get to use them :) )

The wall at the seafront (to protect us from vikings!)

On friday night a bunch of the first year girls went to the globe lounge and sat around on the pillows and ate cookies and ice cream and drank tea. It was really nice. We had some nice girl talk and played 'I have never' and laughed. Because we had such a good time we agreed that if someone had minimal homework or just need some girl time they would send an e-mail to the school with a code and whoever was able, would go to the globe lounge that night. I can't wait for our next get together!

And here is the Laundry room!

Here is Lynn infront of the wonderful (well... not really wonderful) washing machines

And these are the dryers. And on the side of the photo are the racks where you put laundry that is in either a washing machine or dryer that is finished. This way if you want to use a machine and it is done but there is still stuff in it, you can move the laundry to the racks and when the owner comes they just have to look for where you put their stuff

And that is the end.

I haven't really done anything else exciting this past week. Except on Saturday morning I went with about 40 other people to an elementary school in Llantwit and painted a big fence. It was pretty fun except I got blue paint all over my hands and it took forever to get it off (actually I still have blue on my arms).

Happy thanksgiving!