Bakjes

Ik heb echt te veel bakjes op mijn kamer. Allemaal bedoeld om mijn kamer netjes te houden. Ze zijn erg leuk en handig allemaal, alleen jammer dat mijn kamer er bijna nooit netjes uitziet. Maar dit bakje werkt super! Mijn make-up bakje is het. En dat houdt in dat in ieder geval, over het algemeen, meestal, als het goed is mijn make-up netjes is opgeborgen en toch snel te vinden is.
Deze foto vond ik mijn mappen toen ik alles op cd aan het zetten was.

Ideetje

Een Ideetje had ik, na het zien van een leuk fotolijstje.
Ik zag een leuk fotolijstje staan in eent tijdschrift, omringt met allemaal verchillende knoopjes.
En ineens: pats boem, daar had ik mij eigen idee.
Knoopjes op een shirtje. In de vorm van een hartje.
Toen ik mijn ideetje meedeelde aan mijn medemens, kreeg ik een:
"oh ja, leuk". Zo van, het-zal-wel. Ik denk dan maar dat ze het niet voor zich zagen. (wel positief blijven denken natuurlijk).
Maar toen ik het werkelijke idee aan mijn moeder liet zien, werd ze helemaal enthousiast en heeft ze mij meteen geholpen met het uitzoeken van knoopjes. Zodra ik de knoopjes had uitgekozen, in de vorm van een hart had gelegd en aan mijn zus liet zien, kreeg ik een: "ohhhh saartje..wil je asssjjuuubliefft ook zo eentje voor mij maken."
Kijk dat zijn de reacties die ik wil... Dus je bent gewaarschuwd! :P
Nee hoor, je mag het zelfs stom vinden. Of beter, zeggen hoe het wel leuk wordt. Alle ideeen zijn welkom.


ps.
Ja achteraf gezien had ik het shirtje best even kunnen strijken voordat hij op de foto ging. Je moet het maar net zo zien als even snel je haar goed doen voordat je op de foto gaat.



Zo moet het er dus uitgaan zien, alleen dan zonder kreukels

maaar.....


Voor de fotos zijn de kreukels dan wel weer leuk.

Lief he

Deze foto vond ik bij de collectie van mijn tante. Fotos van toen ik terug kwam uit Aussie. En Déze wou ik met jullie delen.

lief he!

nieuwe schoenen

Gekregen van mijn zus. Uit Parijs. Zomaar. Omdat ze wist dat ik hier ik hier ZO gelukkig van zou worden. Daarom.
En ik ben ECHTTT gelukkig.

Quorn – Williams Creek 10 february 2007

In het Engels, zo stond het in mijn schrift!

Quorn till William Creek, the purple line.

morning view from the bus

6am
Damn! Again early again 6am.

Later in the bus I have to go the bathroom, like the rest. I thought I found the right tree, but I didn’t. Apparently everybody can see my bump, because I can hear some people say: “I can see her bump.” I can see the bus and they can see me. Ooh well, probably they will see it again in the next few days, so I just wave and smile.

We are driving through Flinders Range. From there you can call it the outback! The one and only. But the strange thing is. It’s still green, very green. Apparently there was a lot of rain one or two weeks ago. Jp says it’s really rare that you can so much green; normally it’s a lot more barren. Ny nose is stacked to the window. This is really wonderful. There are still a kind of hills around this area, so it’s not boring at all.There’s a lot of wild life as well. There are emus walking around and we saw a (tiger) snake on the road, very exciting! Guess this is it, the outback. I can say that this is very fulfilling.


Flinder Range


EMU!


Me and JP

Stopping for a (tiger)snake


Still a real road, but not for long


1pm
Lunch is in a pub in the outback village Marree. There are a lot of cowboys hanging on the wall (okay, photos of cowboys of course. Not real ones).
After lunch we visit a guy from Holland (hup Holland hup!) who lives here in the outback and makes really strange things. You have to imagine that at this moment there’s nothing more to see except for a road and dirt. Sometimes you cross a village with a few old looking houses.The last town we saw was a town with houses that looked like it was falling apart. Aboriginal people walking around with not much clothes and a corner of old cars packed together. What else then walking around in the heat or drinking a cold beer could you do? So if you’re living here by choice I think you need to have a good reason. I cant imagine living here makes you happy though, but guess this man does.

Important warnings for a outback tour like never leave your vehicle.


An outback toilet (read: flys => not very nice)



The Dutch man looks like a real outback guy. Long hair, a beard, old fashioned glasses and old and dirty clothes.
Living here gives you a lot of extra time to think about things that normal people don’t. Like the alphabet. That’s exactly what this man did, besides making art of speck stones. He showed us the meaning of the letters, according to him. I have to say it was really interesting and I was really surprised that nobody ever found this out. For exampleThe P stand for people.


The "p" for people



Or why is Australia called Australia?
Well, “AU” is the sign for gold and there is a lot of gold in Australia. “ST” means the sunshine and there is a lot of sun too. So it makes really sense!I get a paper with al the letters and some words written down, but it’s a big chaos! I cant understand a thing! But I will always keep the paper, because he told me only he has it (I’m not sure if that’s true, but that’s what he said).
I ask what my name is. He is writing it down on the blackboard.
“Sa” means sunrise. (don’t remember exactly why, but he did had good explanation)
”Ra” or “ar” always means sun. It comes from the faro of sun named Ra.


A typical outback man (a bit strange)



Not only strange men


His art work out of speckstones

Later in the afternoon.
After this it only to gets crazier and crazier. After again a long ride we arrive at a place with all these crazy arts things. Apparently this comes from a demonstration years ago. The government had a plan to build a nuclear center in the outback, right here. So they made strange things out of metal. Very logical right? Well yes, JP did tell me more about it but I kind of forgot it. But that doesn’t make it not interesting. It is still very funny, I mean a whole arts show in the middle of Australia, where almost nobody lives or comes. Thinking how many people come here and how many people there are in the world makes it very, uh… special? No, rare (and special too). There is one thing I really like. I think it is mend to be a music instrument. I will explain how I looks; Metal pipes hanging in the air, with all difference sizes and length (they are hollow too). When the winds comes you can hear all difference sounds coming from the metal pieces. A music instrument, don’t you thin?. We are not staying long thinking that its f*ing hot and dry. After 1 minute your throat is totally dry.


Crazy airplane things or is it a entering gate?



Muhaah! or new budy


Around 5pm
I’m wondering when we are going to see lake Eyre, because I’m really looking forward seeing that. Lake Eyre is a salt lake. It’s the biggest lake of Aussie. So there is a salt lake in the middle of Australia more then 1,000 k’s away from any sea? Apparently a long, long (believe me very long) time ago there was an inland sea. Too bad we only have a short time to look around. Run fast so you have more time is our motto. Not for long though, because our throat is starting to dry out again. I’m asking if we can walk on the lake, but no. There was a rain a few weeks ago (yes the same rain as before) and now it is to muddy. I’m trying to go as far as possible, but at a certain moment my feet are getting stuck in the mud! We are looking quite funny; around ten very, very muddy foots jumping around on a lake. I have this crazy idea: make a jump photo. Result: splashed mud on our legs. Yes, right. Very good idea.

Very, uh... lakey!! No not really :)


Mud splashing around


Not more then half an hour later we are at our last spotting place for the day. A Spa!!!! The girls are getting crazy. Will this be good for our skin? Will all our pimples disappear like the sun?Before going to the “spa” we have to change into our bikini. The changing room is a very, very nasty toilet! FAST, FAST. But that’s okay. Everything will be very peaceful in the “spa” and we all forget this nasty toilet. Because of the heat we would like to be in it as fast as possible. Run for your life!…
A spa?
…..
Where is it?
…..
Around the corner?
…
Oh look there is a cute, funny kind-of-bath-thing. This is the spa, what you do say? Haha! Funny joke, very funny.
…
…No, its not a joke. It’s is a spa. I’m wondering how we’re ever going to get in this “spa” together. You can say whatever you want, but at least it will be cozy. To be honest, I like cozy!As I jump in I noticed it is very weird. Our feet are getting lost into the mud and I’m not sure if this is animal proof and it doesn’t feel that nice either. But I can laugh about it, a lot. Just like we did yesterday and today, laughing a lot. You probably think we’re drunk, but we are not. We are just enjoying this funny, crazy little spa! When we come back we are striked again by bad luck. A flat tire! I’m really hoping we will make Alice Springs!


This is the "spa"


The only thing that rest us is to make it to William Creek. After some intensive group work we fixed the tire. I have to be honest, I was not included to that team, I'm always willing to help with thing, but fixing a flat tire? Never done that! Around 7 pm we arrive in Williams creek, the smallest town of Aussie. One house and of course one pub. Beside this and a lot of flies there’s nothing and I really mean nothing. After a walk around “town” I still didn’t find any thing special. It feels like you’re in the middle of the desert. Because its getting late and the sun is low the shad and the red dirt is gorgeous!
JP told us because its weekend maybe there will be some cowboys from the cattle stations in “town”. You cant miss the cattle station. That doesn’t mean that I can see the station, but there are so and I mean so many flies, that can only be a cattle station!

Nothing but this and...

This! (+ flies that you're not seeing at the photo)

The pub, that’s a whole new story. If you donate 5 dollar you can hang something on the wall. If you can find an empty spot! You can find anything here from a bra with cup size F till Dutch public transport cards.
The jukebox. The jukebox is really strange. There is nothing really wrong with the jukebox. But you know, you are in William Creek; The smallest town of Australia and there it is a jukebox with the whole album of the Black Eyed Peas, so that feels kind of weird

This is the pub, believe me its not a museum, its a real-real pub, with real-real beer!


Its getting dark, so we’re starting to make dinner with music at the background. I’m cutting. The food of course and not me, duhh. While I’m cutting I’m in for some guitar. Not that I can play, I only know some little song. While I’m playing they hand me carrot. You see, playing guitar with carrot in your mouth kind of makes you look like an idiot. Ha! That’s exactly who I am, but a crazy one. And the carrot? It tastes very good!

a really good way of making dinner. With a glass of wine!

Later in the evening 2 guys from discovery channel are joining us. They are going to join us tomorrow as well, just for one day. Discovery channel? Yeah, discovery channel! Sounds cool huh! Maybe they will film me too and finally someone appreciate my beauty at it true level and will be a real model. SARAH! You are dreaming.
Huh? oh

The flies are gone so after a whole music session we can sleep for the first time under the stars. JP was making songs about us, didn’t remember mine, but I will tell ya; it was a funny one. The lyrics was better then his voice though, but it was still sweet.

I think I’m paranoid about the whole snaky think. I’m only wearing thongs, its very dark and we are in thé outback of Australia. What’s more scarier? Almost nothing.
But it also gives me a vibe. I can complain, but I don’t want to. It’s a nice kind of scariness. The Canadian, she is really-really scared. But she fixed it al up. She is lying in the middle and everyone is lying around her in a circle., so that means that I’m not. Guess I’m the though girl! That tough makes me proud! I will survive the outback.To make it a picture perfect there’s also a big camp fire. I craw into my swag (that is a sort of sleepingbag cover with a pillow and mattress in it. You only have to put your sleepingbag and yourself in it, zip it and done! While I’m enjoying the fire I look up to the stars and seeing something un-be-lie-vea-ble! A Milky way. Not a normal one like the ones we have at home, but a real Milky way. The stars are shooting around (well, almost) and, and…it is hard to put it in words. I reckon this is one of these things that you have to see and I will leave it by this. And see you in the morning.

A camp fire

Do u see me looking up? the one at the left with those brown arms ;)

belluh

Via jo heb ik een leuke site gevonden! (ik had al langer in mijn hoofd om zoiets zelf in elkaar te flatsen, maar dit maakt het toch wel een stuk makkelijker).
Deze fotos zijn alweer bijna een jaar geleden genomen toen truus aan het bellen was.
Wat voor een gesprek zou het zijn? Ik zie d'r afentoe wel even diep nadenken.

LIEFFF

kijk nou hoe LIEF!!!! midden in de stad. Mama-eend met kleintjes die gewoon even het verkeer stil leggen, rustig hun tijd nemen om over te steken en veilig aan de andere kant te komen!
Het ultieme lente gevoel toch?

,,Wat is ECHT?"

,,Wat is ECHT?”vroeg het Konijntje op een dag,
toen ze naast elkaar lagen, vlak bij de haard in de kinderkamer, voordat Nana op zou komen ruimen. ,,Betekent het dat je van binnen iets hebt dat zoemt en van buiten een palletje?”
,,Echt is niet hoe je gemaakt bent,”zei het Leren Paard. ,,Het is iets dat met je gebeurd.
Als een kind lang, heel lang van je houdt, niet alleen om met je te spelen, maar ECHT van je houdt, dan wordt je ECHT.”
,,Doet dat pijn?”vroeg het Konijntje.
,,Soms wel,” zei het Leren Paard, want hij sprak altijd de waardheid. ,,Als je Echt bent, dan geef je er niets om dat het pijn heeft gedaan.”
,,Gebeurt het allemaal ineens, net als opgewonden worden?” vroeg hij, ,,of stukje voor stukje?”,,Het gebeurt niet allemaal ineens,” zei het Leren Paard. ,,Je wordt het gewoon. Het duurt een hele tijd. Daarom gebeurt het niet vaak met dingen die gemakkelijk breken, of scherpe randen hebben, of heel voorzichtig behandeld moeten worden. In het algemeen ben je tegen de tijd dat je Echt wordt, meestal kaal geknuffeld, en je ogen zijn eruit gevallen en je poten bengelen erbij en je ziet er haveloos uit. Maar dat geeft allemaal niets, want als je eenmaal Echt bent, ben je niet lelijk meer, behalve voor mensen die dat niet begrijpen.”

ps. Helaas is er geen foto te zien van mijn knuffel, aangezien deze door mijn moeder ergens verstopt ligt in het huis. De reden hiervan is dat ik tot een te lange leeftijd (getallen doen er niet toe) er dagelijks mee in huis te zien was. Mijn knuffel was overigens een heel lief hondje, met nadruk op wás, tenminste zo is hoe andere hem zien; een stuk stof. Voor mij is het nog steeds een echt lief, klein hondje!