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Answers – Part 2

Starting this round is Karina, and she had quite a few questions;

What kind of kid and teenager were you? As a kid I had a lot of temper. Really stubborn and wanted things my way or no way at all. Got angry over things real quickly, but the anger never lasted very long, and a few minutes later I could be the happiest little girl again. Yet I was very kind and not much of a rebel really, came home in time for dinner, went to bed when my parents asked me to etc. As a teenager the temper cooled down a bit, still had it stored inside me, but I needed more to trigger it now. Still a good girl, never really up to much rebellious stuff, always respecting my parents. I think I wasn’t half bad actually!

What kind of posters was hanging on your wall when you were about 16? This was early period of loving McFly, so my room was covered in all the posters of McFly I could find.

From what side do you think you look best? My right side, ’cause that’s just right.

Do you sometimes try to teach Steven Norwegian? Oh yes, and I must say he’s picking up on it rather quickly. He knows the names of my parents and my siblings, and he also knows how to say I like you and thanks in Norwegian.

What do you really want to get for Christmas? A wide-angle lens for my Camera, just because it is pretty darn awesome pretty much.

3 items that would really please you to have in your hands right now? Steven, tho he might not be an item, my beloved teddy that I forgot at home after summer and the new style black collection from MAC.

What’s your favorite color? Right now it’s yellow. I change it from time to time, but always seems to come back to yellow.

What’s your favorite way of getting from A to B? I love to fly, the feeling you get in your stomach just as the plane take off or is about to land is soooo awesome, tho the time in between is pretty boring..

For how long have you been blogging? Oh my, I seriously have no idea! My first entry on this blog was on the 12th of October 2008, which means it is just over a year old, but I had another blog before that on blogspot, so I dunno really.

The next 5 questions comes from the beautiful Merethe;

What kind of camera have you got? I have a Canon Eos 400D that my mummy and daddy gave me a few summers ago.

What’s it like studying in England? I swear moving here is the best thing I have ever done, have not regretted it once. At first it was a bit weird how everything was in English, was kinda worried I wouldn’t be able to understand everything, but getting used to it it really isn’t a problem at all.

What is your favorite thing about your blog? I like having a place where I can write pretty much whatever is on my mind, also the notion of keeping people I care about updated on what is going on in my life when living so far away most of them.

When’s your birthday? January 27th, so it’s not that far away now until I turn 21, which is a major thing here in England. Gonna be epic!

What is your natural hair color?

There's a reason I color my hair

Helene asked me these two;

What are you most pleased with with yourself?

My teeth

If you had to choose the picture you are most pleased with, which one would that be? I choose to believe you mean in the sense of photographs and not where I look the best, difficult to choose, but I really like this one;

Sandra came back with a great question;

What sort of latesomdyr would you want to have? It would have to be a latesomflodhest (pretendtobehippo), ever since I was a tiny little girl, hippos have been my favorite animal, the pretend/latesom kinds or hippos that is, not the real deal, they are dangerous!

Even tho she knows most things about me, Ida also had some questions;

What could you not survive a day without? (You can not answer lip balm or Steven); Before I had read the whole thing I was like “that’s easy, lip balm! but no… then I thought Steven, but once again.. nope.. I’m therefor gonna be that geeky and say food.

Who inspires you the most in your every day life? A concrete answer to this question would be impossible, because there is so many people out there who inspires me, in different ways.

If you didn’t live in England and were studying foto, what do you think you would be doing now? I would most likely study something else not too far away from home, possibly Trondheim. I am so glad I’m here tho, and really wouldn’t change it for the world. If I didn’t know you (Ida) I wouldn’t have been brave enough to actually fulfill my dream and go abroad to study, which means I would’ve missed out some amazing times, never met all the amazing people I now call my friends and my boyfriend. I guess this kinda answers the question above as well.

Top 3 memories shortly described?

1. Being on stage with McFly, eating pizza while watching them perform.
2. First trip to England, everything so new and fascinating, making me certain I wanted to move there (here) someday. Front on the B-stage at Wembley, seeing all the London attractions etc.
3. Partying with rockstars, epic times

Only 3? Darn I just took 3 of the top of my head now, I got so many amazing memories, that choosing the top ones are simply impossible, I have a life where complaining should not be allowed atm. Top 3 memories could easily be replaced with 3 other memories just as good. Halloween last year was good, Halloween this year will be better Oh my, I’m sooooo looking forwards to that now! I’m rambling, what was the question? Oh right. Well, I’ll keep those for now.

Are you wearing socks? If so, what kind of socks? No, in fact I am not wearing socks at the moment!

The last ones comes from the pretty Kayso, she’s got one of the best blogs I know, check her out.

When did you begin with photography, and why did you decide on studying abroad? I haven’t been doing photography that long, just about 2 – 3 years really, and it was all on a hobby basis until I moved here and started my course. So it was a lot to learn, I didn’t know half of what they were on about. I have always wanted to study and/or live abroad, especially in England. So when Ida moved here, the thought of moving that far away wasn’t that scary anymore and therefor I applied, got accepted and moved. Never regretted it since.

What kind of SLR would you recommend (me) people to buy? This depends on what you want with the camera. If you are just a hobby photographer, with no further meanings with your photography than on a personal level, a cheaper SLR is more than enough. A Canon Eos 1000D for example doesn’t cost heaven and hell, and is more than good enough. If you plan on selling your photography and make your way as a photographer, you would most likely pay a bit more to get those extra megapixels, tho you don’t really need the newest, most flashing camera out there, there are professional photographers who actually use Eos 400D and even the 1000D, you get along way knowing how to photograph what, and with the amount of lenses out there as well, you can take some brilliant photos. As you can tell, I’m a Canon girl, never tried Nikon, so not gonna tell you Canon is better or what not.

What’s the dearest thing you owe? I would be lost without my Macbook.

Sunday.

I am sat at the library on a bloody Sunday, trying to be a good student. The fact that I am writing a blog entry, should show you just how good I am. Ops! But it is hard to get going, especially when you don’t really know what you are suppose to do. I’ve got a few magazines resting ever so nicely beside me, even a book has made it to the pile. Research might just be the most boring thing in the universe. It does have some hard competition, with stuff like cleaning, tidying, queueing and waiting for food, still it manages to get right at the top, and therefor officially (on my blog at least) be crowned as the most boring thing. In the universe. Ever.

As you might see I have changed my banner again, got sick of the old one, like I tend to become. Also I figured I needed something to suit the season more, as summer sure is over for now. The banner kinda reflects upon how my life is nowadays, I’m sure living life as a student. Ever since me and Ida got back to Wolverhampton, we have been out drinking every weekend, most of them being both Friday and Saturday. We weren’t half bad this weekend tho, we stayed home last night watching a film and just being lazy. Friday I was drunk. Like really good drunk, the best since we got back really. Not the drunkest, but the best.

We went by ASDA on our way home from town, drunk and happy, me running over to this Halloween decoration butler dolly, that’s like life size, and I started talking to it. What I hadn’t expected was for it to actually answer me, so when it did I screamed, and almost fell to the floor. Proper scared me it did, but hell it was funny. I then had a longer conversation with one of the guys working in ASDA, about cheese. Fun times.

Anyway, I should get back to some uni work, or should I rather say start some uni work.

Btw; It proper annoys me that Wolverhampton gets a red, dotted line underneath the word, it is a town after all! And a football team! Just like Manchester, Liverpool and Wigan. Ooh just realized Wigan also gets a red, dotted line, so it’s not all that bad.

My ass has become a part of the bed I swear!

I am utterly bored of being sick, I hate bad nights sleep because of coughing, I hate the elephant that has crawled up my nose and I hate feeling super lazy for staying in bed all day.

Besides that, yesterday was really good. I had such a great time at uni, except from the boooooring lecture we had. The fun part was hanging out with other people from my class, planning a project we’re gonna do. Getting to know each other better, hanging out over some lunch, chatting to some I hardly talked to last year. I really enjoy being in this class, we are a very great bunch of individuals.

Then last night me and Ida went in to Birmingham for a concert, The Used. I’m very pleased with the set as they played my two favorites, got me singing too much, me with a sore throat and husky voice. Didn’t do me much good, but hey, I had to enjoy it the best I could!

Atm I’m home alone, Ida is off being all effective, having had a work out and then going to the library to do some kick-ass uniwork. I have had a shower then been to ASDA to take out money. Ate some food and is now sitting in my bed listening to Cheryl Cole’s new single and is actually loving it.

What do you think?

Renate

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i win

Renate

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i didnt see that

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So not ready for this!

It is now 2 hours till I got to be at Uni for our welcome back meeting blahblah, which means that today the summer is officially over for me. Even tho it feels like I’ve had time off for ages, which I have, it also kinda feels like we just split up for the summer. Very strange and mixed feeling. I am not ready to say goodbye to summer just yet, but there is no way around it really, so I just have to suck it up and deal with it. I guess it will be good getting back into some sort of routine, and actually have stuff to do. I just need to be better this year, especially when it comes to the research part. I hate doing research, scanning the odd-smelling library for books to use when I don’t even really know how to use them. I can complain as much as I like, but it is got to be done unfortunately. Back to Uni would mean less;

Drinking...

..clubbing..

..shopping sprees...

..and spontaneous trips

While it would however mean more;

Photography!

Also, I joined a gym yesterday! Waaay go me!

Today and then tomorrow..

It has been amazing weather in the West Midlands today, sunny and warm. This fact surprising both me and Ida, where we were walking around town, sorting out stuff. First we went by the finance building at the University of Wolverhampton, paying some tuition fees, something that really hurt my bank account, it is now in fact crying. Then we went by the international office and sorted out some other stuff, before heading to the library where we booked the hostel for tomorrow. You see, we’re heading down south, to the wonderful city of London. A few days getaway, gonna be ‘aze no doubt. So if I’m not around online much these next few days, you know why. Will be back sometime on Thursday, expect a wicked update about our trip.

Enjoying awesome summerlike weather...

...doing weird stuff with a pole, while some dude tells me I look like Paris Hilton..

...before enjoying the weather even more outside our favorite place on earth, ASDA.

Btw, I have added a few photos to my photography blog, photos I took today around in my gorgeous second hometown that is Wolverhampton.

And with that, there’s only one thing to say;

London baby!

Oh and yeah, I was gonna go to bed way earlier, but because of our rather sucky internet, writing this blog entry took me like 7 years or so to finish…

So my gorgeous readers

How about doing me a itsy bitsy favor?
I’m one of the finalists in a photo contest on Marit’s blog, and I would be awfully happy if you were to check it out and vote for my picture, which is picture number 4. Obviously, this only if you think my picture deserves to win. I want to play it fair.

Thanks!

Just a tiny little note

From now on I will be posting all my entries in photography contests on my photography blog, and also my own photo contests will be hosted on that one, so make sure you check it out, or else you might miss out on epicness. You wouldn’t want that! Also, if you care to follow this blog, you might want to follow that one as well? I know I wouldn’t mind if you do!

Holiday Away ‘09

So I came across this blog with a nice little photo challenge about highlights of your holiday away this summer. You post pictures of yourself from your holiday, with a nice little headline showing people some highlights. Tho atm I can’t seem to find the link to the blog where I found it, if I do, I’ll edit it in later on. My holiday away was in good ol’ Egypt if you remember, so here’s some highlights from that.

Success I’d say!

Ida’s got a contest!

The gorgeous IdaPida is hosting a little blog contest on her lovely blog and just like I have done, I think you should totally check it out. All you have to do is to show her what love is for you by posting it on your own blog, portraying it just the way you want to. Go to her blog for full on details, you won’t regret it.

LOVE IS….

The bond between mother and child

Yes, this is me and my mummy. Obviously I did not take the picture (du’uh!), all creds to whoever did. I do stand for the editing tho. Oh heck – I did in fact take the picture I just remembered! As this is a picture, which I took of the original picture, so there! Tada!

Now you go join, or else….!

Another blog worth checking is obviously Helene’s blog