Christmas 29.12.2009
Posted by TabitaW in people.Tags: christmas, denmark, family, friends, Martin, see me, sherlock holmes, snow, theatre
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Since the last post, we’ve been busy with all kinds of things. We visited friends on the 20th, made biscuits the 21st, went to the theatre with my parents to see Les Misrables on the 22nd and visited Louise and Mikael on the 23rd. Actually we were baking for days as we made about six different kinds of biscuits plus a lot of other Christmas sweets. The kitchen is still full of biscuit tins.
Christmas Eve we were just me, Martin and my family. Oh, and the guinea pig of course. Went to church, put the presents under the tree while watching the usual Christmas Disney Show on tv, had roast pork for dinner and walked round the Christmas tree singing before opening the presents. Plenty of biscuits on the table, of course. Lovely Danish Christmas.
On Christmas Day Martin and I went to the Anglican church in town so he could have at least something that was a bit more like home (actually we had Christmas crackers at dinner, with hats and jokes and everything). After that we decided to go see Sherlock Holmes at the cinema. Not very traditional for Christmas, but a great film.
We went to Jutland on Boxing Day to see my mum’s side of the family. Big dinner at my gran’s house, then lots of games, sweets and playing in the snow. At night my parents drove Martin and I to the train so we could sleep over at my aunt and uncle’s place. The rest of my family stayed at my gran’s house.
The next day we spent playing Bob and eating biscuits indoors even though we’d actually planned to go for a walk down to the frozen fjord. It was raining too much though, so we didn’t go outside till we had to catch our train back to Copenhagen.
Martin had to go home on Monday so we got his stuff packed and him driven to the airport. Still not a huge fan of airport goodbyes but it’s getting better.
Oh, by the way, I didn’t win the See Me photography competition. Not that I’d expected to but it would have been cool. Thanks to those of you who voted for me anyway.
Also, I don’t usually encourage reading my Danish blog on Google Translate as it makes much more sense translated by me but seriously, this one has some hilarious nonsense in it.
It’s quite windy outside 26.11.2009
Posted by TabitaW in in general, people, uni.Tags: ayr, competition, ice cream van, Martin, photos, see me, strictly
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The See Me national finale is up and running and you can vote for my picture here. It’ll link you to a random photo when you click on it, but mine is the one named “Daniel” and since they’re in alphabetical order, it shouldn’t be that hard to find. Thanks so much to everyone who votes for me!
Yesterday I went into town to get some Christmas shopping and it was insanely windy. I had to tie a knot in the top of my carrier bag so the stuff didn’t fly out of it. On the way home I saw this ice cream van and nearly ran away screaming. I was completely freaked out as it was getting dark, but it was all quiet, so we’ll never know if it was actually the ghost ice cream van that still haunts the area.
Martin’s dad told me that the BBC uploaded some photos from the Blackpool dance experience to their website, so I went on to check if there was any of Martin and I, and yes, so there is. Here’s the one where you can actually sort of spot us because we’re not all the way back in the picture.
Yeah yeah, I know it’s not the coolest photo on earth, but I figured it needed to be on the blog anyway.
Uni is going alright, we’re about to start our final projects for this semester (argh, only three weeks to go!) and I’m covered in paint and ink splatters from my latest Visual Creativity work which is now all about colour. Other than that and some rather complicated briefs in Digital Media we have a couple of essays to do. However, they’re only 1000 words each and one of them is really more of a report than an essay, so if I can find an artist to write about, I should be okay. The Film & TV stuff isn’t so stressful at the moment as we have until 15 January and we’ve actually started doing some stuff for it.
This weekend Martin has some theatre thing so I’m totally going to see that. In about two weeks we’re off on our weekend break to Cardiff (ooh!) and the day before flying to Denmark, we’re going to see Beauty and the Beast in Glasgow. Centrestage are doing it in March so they’re all going to see the professional version of it and they’re allowed to bring friends and such so I’m going as well. Will be nice.
By the way 14.11.2009
Posted by TabitaW in in general.Tags: competition, see me
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Apparently I forgot to write an update on the whole photography contempetition thing, which Mattias so kindly made me aware of the phone. It seems that “everyone” has asked about it, so I’ll just say that I won £50 vouchers for John Lewis. Martin’s aunt offered to buy them off me so I could spend them whereever. I accepted the offer. Apart from that, I’m in the big national final, which should start sometime soon, in the middle of November. When the voting opens I’ll pass a link around just to get a little help :P
See Me 20.10.2009
Posted by TabitaW in yay.Tags: ayr, competition, daniel, photos, see me
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About a month ago I entered this picture into a photography competition. The theme was “Be There, Be Yourself!”. All the submitted photos from my region were exhibited, first in Kilmarnock and later Ayr. Anyway, people could vote for the photos they liked the most, while a group of judges picked their favourite. There was about 170 photos in my part of Ayrshire. Today I got a phone call from one of the organizers – I won! How cool is that! I’m going to the prize thingie on Thursday (I still don’t know what I’ve won and whether it is good, but that’s not the point anyway) and then my photo gets to be in the national final with all the other regional winners. Will be exciting!
