Wednesday, January 14, 2004

" Naked Mining Guy begins to wonder if this was such a good idea "
Haha, this truly depicts how I've not decided in what pace to take this little story ~_^

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Pants – in all their beautiful shapes and fabrics
It appears that I got ahead of myself when I put down Solo's name on the list of "achievements" ^_^;
I had been planning the heist for a couple of days and then I go and blow my own cover *lol*
Ah well, we rectified that little error last night *wink*

And I'm confident Shin's pants are in good company, with the goodness that is Arcadia ^_^
I've not decided for definite what I will do with my collection – I've been thinking about displaying them somehow, for they are quite stunning to behold.
But I also feel that they should be put to some use – so I would not want to isolate them in a sterile environment, priceless jewels as they be.

In the end I shall probably snuggle into a pair (alternating each time, of course) and pose/prance around with them – hopefully this will delight their previous owner[s] ^_^

There are a few more pants I'd like to get my hands on, after that I might go "exclusive" and be more choosy when I go in for the grab and run >_>

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School Anecdote
( The Iceland Chronicles ^_^ )
Ok, this story didn't take place in school – however it did involve my class, so I'm letting it pass ^_^;

April 1997, I went with my class to Iceland – class trip O.o
It was our (homeroom) teachers' idea and it sort of ended up being our "final destination" ~_^
We did a lot of crazy things to raise money for that trip – putting up an "Environmental Musical" was one of those cringe worthy moments of fund raising stunts we pulled >_<

Seeing as our teacher had chemistry/biology classes, the trip was supposed to be more tutorial then recreational – which it to an extent was, but it didn't stop us from having fun in between ^_^

Before we went up there, we got in contact with an Icelandic school and pen-palled with students of our age. I think that we were supposed to start some exchange with that school, somehow, or something *can’t remember*


My pen-pal was Jóhan (he's the one on the far right)
This picture was taken at the hostel my class stayed at.
I sat in the bunk bed above ^_^


Ah, the hostel… we had been told that the rooms had so-and-so many beds and divided into groups accordingly – but as we arrived it turns out that the information was completely wrong and we now had to "re-group".

My class was divided into 3 "girl groups", you could say, so it meant that one of the groups had to split up – causing much disturbance.
Having spent almost an entire day (24 hours) on busses and planes, dragging heavy luggage around and then being on the receiving end of the complete lack of understanding from the people in charge of us, did not make things easier -_-

Eventually we settled in and went to meet our Icelandic counterparts :p
The teacher had printed t-shirts that were supposed to "commemorate" the occasion – and we had to give our t-shirt to whomever it was we pen-palled with.
Never in my life have things been as awkward as that moment was *lol*

We also watched a play (that was supposed to be in Swedish, we were told) in Icelandic – no one got a word of what was said, but the actors were really into what they were doing, so we applauded their efforts anyway ^_^;

It turns out that we had arrived in the middle of their term-month, so we couldn't hang out with them as much as we had hoped – but that first day was pretty fun, taking pictures of each other, exchanging addresses with people we realized we had something in common with and so forth ^_^

Jóhan, my pen-pal, had to take the way past our hostel – so the poor guy was greeted every morning with us girls knocking the windows down and waving frantically at him -^_^-
Every guy has their day, huh ? *wink*

I'll not delve too deeply into the excursions we did – I could save that for tomorrow – but on the very last day, a couple of girlfriends from my class and myself, sat up with my pen-pal and two other Icelanders - generally hanging out until we had to leave for the plane (around 3 o'clock in the morning >_< ).

There were plenty of hugging and a few last pictures taken – making for a nice ending to our classtrip…

Unless you count the scolding our teacher gave us on the bus, for not cleaning up our rooms – You see, our rooms were in quite the messy state when we arrived (something we complained loudly about) and we wanted to make sure it was clean when we left.

But when we asked for tools to tidy up, they (the hostel staff) wouldn't let us ~_^
We explained this to our teacher, who was far too upset to take anything in… which might have had something to do with the notes we had written, about how we were displeased about certain aspects of this trip (the planning was off and things were constantly changed/pulled back).

That had probably ticked him off >__>

End of Part I – The Icelandic Journey

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Well, I've got 2 Marx Brothers movies to watch, the Swedish translation of "Tale of Time City" to read and a nice walk to take.
I also want to check up on that recommendation I got from Azure "Kiln Peopl" by David Brin ^_^

Take Care Everyone !

Remember that Objects and People are only as much fun as you make of them ^_^

- Mimmi

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