Holiday time...

Holidays have been great!
Had such a good time these past few weeks with Theresa being here. Went to all the places around Wellington, such as the Botanical garden, Te papa, Lampton Quay, Cuba St, and around Lower Hutt like the library and Queensgate too, and I also showed her Sacred Heart College.
Did lots of painting also! My inspiration is back, and me and Theresa spent several days painting!(see photos that will follow) Such a nice feeling painting! One day me, Linda, Theresa and Christina spent the whole day in Wellington (approx 8 hours!) and were exhausted afterwards, so spent the next few days sitting at home and painting!

It was sad to see Theresa leave on Friday night, the house felt a bit empty afterwards. We had a great time overall!!!

Mum's friend Livia came to visit from Australia and my family went with Livia to see Shreck III at the new Sky City Cinemas in Queensgate. Personally, I don't really notice it being much different to Hoyts cinemas, except that the chairs are soft, like mini couches! As for the Shreck III movie, I concluded that Shreck II is definitely the best! Can't wait to see the Harry Potter movie next week!! :) So exciting!!

I can't believe uni starts tomorrow! Luckily my days turned out to be quite short according to my timetable, with the exception of Wednesday when I finish at 5pm (bio lab, 4 hours!!). And I have Tuesday and Friday off!! I'm so excited about my english paper for this term, I'm already half way through the first novel that we will study which is 'Nothaway Abbey' by Jane Austen!
A nice novel written in old English style, so a bit hard to get into at first but once past the first few chapters, all is well!!!

Today I finally had the courage to look at my exam results (they have been out for the past 2 weeks but I was too scared to look) and found that I passed all my subjects!!! Yeeehhaaaa!!!!!!! I was soooooo scared I wouldn't pass something!! (like chemistry for example, but I actually got a B for it!!!! It took me a few hours to get over that surprise!) What a relief!

Have also been doing a lot of reading throughout the holidays, and and hope to continue it being that way throughout the term. Like, at the moment I am reading 4 books relatively at the same time!!

Me and Theresa at the cable car museum (located in Botanical Gardens)

An acrylic painting on a wooden sheet by me and Theresa for the living room, titled 'Music for the Soul'.

My latest acrylic on canvas painting, based on Hermione from the latest Harry Potter movie that's coming out next week!

Linda, what a gigantic $5 bill you have there!

The banana in the parliament grounds...or is it a fallen crescent moon?? Whatever it is, take your pick! Christina, me and Linda are here too!

Wellington Parliament...have live in the Wellington region for 13 years but this is the first ever photo taken by me of the parliament.... somewhere in the picture there is Linda, Theresa and Christina...

Theresa, Linda and me mucking around at the photo computer at Te Papa. So... like our now look?

Me and Theresa at Te Papa

Linda at Te Papa. Linda's opinion of fish is.... take a wild guess!

Linda and Theresa created their own Frankenstein!

Me and Theresa at Te Papa in the nature area. Those fish are so cute!!