New Zealand, eh? Lovely country, full of lunatics...
I arrived on Tuesday, checked into my hotel and met up with a friend who's living over here. By nine that night, every time my eyes closed I was in serious danger of falling asleep right there and then. Only the fact that my luggage had been misplaced somewhere between Dublin and Auckland kept me from turning in early. It's not exactly a nice feeling, wondering if you're ever going to see your luggage again. You start thinking about all the clothes you packed, about the toothbrush, about the phone charger you might never see again...
I went to bed, then was woken at 2 AM by reception- my luggage had arrived. They delivered it to my room and I wept manly tears of joy. Or, y'know, I shrugged and mumbled a thank you and went back to bed. Whichever.
It's now Friday night, and tomorrow is my last day in New Zealand. It's been astonishingly good so far. Every school I've been to has been great- really enthusiastic people, ready to have a laugh. Two schools even did a welcoming Haka-type thing, which was awesomely cool.
The public signings have been great too. This afternoon I did one in the Children's Bookshop in Christchurch, where I met a load of readers, including Jordan, a girl who had kept me updated about her status after the recent earthquakes. It's always nice to meet people I only know online, and she had many, MANY questions to ask.
Tomorrow is my last day in NZ, and so the first chunk of my tour will be over. I've really enjoyed my few days here- this was a great way to kick off the tour.
EDIT:
I've just read over what I've just written, and it's all so sickeningly POSITIVE and nice. Bah humbug! There needs to be some grouchy stuff in here in order to be genuine- so I'll just say that I STILL haven't been able to see Katie Taylor winning the gold in boxing, and I am NOT happy about that. I can't even find it on YouTube.
Bah YouTube! Bah!
Every single Irish Minion knows who Katie Taylor is, and they're as proud of her as I am. What a girl.
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Your stuck in prison :P
*presses button on a remote and portals to Ireland open up in front of everyone* Stole the remote from the superllamas. It's cool.
Boooooooooored of being a bonebreaker
I'm alredy in Ireland fool
And I'm boooooooooooooored of being a bonbreaker
nixion, just be something different then.
Ok, so plan...plan...
We need to get in and get Zafira out, um...
I never caught which Sanctuary this was in...Ireland, right? Then...erm...
We should probably run. Running is good, right?
Hmm, blogger doesn't seem to work too well on the ipod
hey, does blogland have admins that moderate posts? For like, language and stuff.
And the person who gets the first comment on a new page gets to dedicate (ded) the page to something.
The deds can be long and meaningful or short and . . . not meaningful.
No, it's Derek's blog
I dont like running....
Oh, and I can't change for complicated reasons that no one cares about
Oh, a portal...well that was helpful.
*runs into the portal*
I don't run
*sits and looks up at sky*
Tell me when you've got her out
yeah, but i mean google i think.
So if we go off tap then apart from everyone disaproving of it, nothing would happen?
. . . No. Derek could make some admins if he wanted to and knew how to, I guess.
Its blogland, your right when you say no one cares haha, you just make up a new reason!
Whar's wrong with being a bonebreaker Nixion?
Damn it, about to be caught awake... shhhh
Yeah, I don't really run either.
So, um, no running then...
*thinks* Well, probably not.
*runs into Irish Sanctuary* I SHOUT!
Im an elemental so i'll fly?
Wait Rhyanna, what are you?
I've been a bonebreaker for about a year now, and there's nothing to do with it. I'd rather be an elemental, or a dozen other adept disiplines
Ah, screw it
For now I'm both a bonebreaker and an elemental
*uses hair to hover*
Then you are now an elemental, Nixion.
*air
Not hair
*stops running*
*starts crawling*
*gets a lot of odd looks* What????
I can't change compleltly, and I'm not sticking with one desipline. Just for my story I'm a bonebreaker
*crawls to Zaf's cell*
Hi.
Oh well wbout necromancy? You could borrow some powers just for this rescue mission :D
I dedicate this page to pluto
I'm doing elemental magic for now
Ohh okk fine then
But I'm still a bonbreaker
Oh, and changing my personality. No longer a killer
Yay for all of you
WIN
Elemental all the way.
BTW, if I stop replying my stupid phone won't load the comments, go on without me.
Prepares for fire making, shuffles in behind everyone in a wrestling stance.
oh. brilliant.
*gets on knees and examines lock*
*knowing expression* Ahhhh . . .
*knowing expression slips* Okay, I know nothing about locks.
And my knees are hurting. *stands up*
Then we should all fly!
Cat, what is it?
Yo Rhyannna, when we're doing things, we use these
*
Like
*punches Star*
Star isn't an elemental
Yay, Nixion, you're not a killer!! If we weren't going on a rescue mission I would dance.
And she is already in the prision so we dont have to worry about getting her in haha
HEY! *squirts ink in Nix's eyes*
Oh... nothing, Matex...
my ankle is swelling again, is all
*pushes air and sends Star flying*
HA. Couldn't do that yesterday
*goes back to examining lock*
I KNOW!
*inkerifies it*
*gives it another examination* Ah. I think I broke it. Oh well.
Naw :(
If only you could visit Kenspecle...
Yeah...I kind of forgot them.
Picture me like Scapegrace. Without the 'murder is art' bit.
*creeps up beside Star*
Wait am i free?
I dunno Zaf, I'm just-
*sees cleavers*
YES! FIGHTIN' TIME!
*gets slammed into wall* Well I couldn't do THIS yesterday! *throws bookmark at Nix*
Because I only bought the bookmark today. :)
*throws fireball of cleaver and sees it dodger. Pushes the air and it doesn't do anything*
Damn magical clothes
*watches*
owww
Exactly, no magic!
*pushes air, table flies into cleaver*
No. I gunged up the lock.
OOH! I have an idea! *crawls back to lock, gets out bottle, and pours contents on lock* *grins a lick disolves and cell door opens* Voila! You are now free.
*as lock
*uses air to send my flying at clever*
*tackles it*
*looks at Cleavers* ARGH! *turns into puddle of ink*
Hey, stop standing on me!
Um...maybe we should hurry...
Do any of us...wait...
*examines lock*
I hope it's not broken...
*tries to harden air in lock as a key*
Watch out for their scythes!
*Condenses water on scythe so cleaver drops it before it can cut nixion*
*runs out and joins in the fight*
*takes scythe of unconcious cleaver I just knocked out*
*grins*
YEA, THIS IS HOW WE ROLL
good to have you back Zaf!
*dodges another cleaver*
*swings it and cuts of cleavers arm*
*drops scythe*
Keep them off me for a second*
*focuses, air shimmering around me*
Try not to kill too many cleavers!
Um...right, fighting now...
*clicks fingers*
*holds fireball, looking for cleavers*
*realizes that her glasses fell*
>She wears glasses?
oh, please.
*grabs a cleaver and pockets it*
*tosses bomb exploding the gaol*
Oh... darn.
Did i just kill the subject of our rescue mission?
*turns back into human* *gets out sword* *slices off Cleaver's head*
how do you just pocket a cleaver?
o.o
*hears cleavers in front of me*
Please keep them off me for a few seconds?
Magick peoples will be spared... elementals anyway. i didnt exactly convince it not to kill necromancets
Aand my phone has made the blog not work...
Good luck guys. Heh...
Cat, it's no fun if you just do everything easily.
Urgh bye Rhyanna :c
Bye Rhyanna!
*stands in front of Nix and fires ink at the Cleavers*
*stabs them while they're blinded*
Nixion, thats how Blogland works haha
i folded it. duh.
*air is fully compressed*
Okay, now I think everyone should maybe duck.
it would appear that we were all just blown up
Not really Matex
Its a boring little gaol. they should install some secrutiy measures.
Gtg help brother bbl
Bye Zaf!
*one of the Cleavers flicks my ink back at me* *blinks* Hey. No fair. *blink blink blink*
*gasp* Owwwww! My leg! *tumbles to ground as stabbed leg gives way*
-We all fighting in jail
-Cat blows up whole building
-Erm...
not my fault! i expected some security measures.
Okay, Cat, seriously, have you no idea how to do this? You don't just beat them all in one go
Fours Zaf . . . *looks up and sees Cleavers advancing on me* Hell. *turns back into puddls if ink*
and you certainly dont kill your team along with everyone else >.<
*puddle of
Okay! no, i have no idea
how to do this.
never had a team before...
so at this point
im just guessing how to deal with a team
i usually just start taking them ouot...
i dont DO rescue missions
I didn't die. :/ *is now a dusty, shrapnel-filled puddle of ink*
Any Potterheads here? :)
Well I'm starting to think no one actually knows what they are doing haha, we aren't suppose to kill the cleavers!
But in anycase im off, I should be asleep for once -_-
Yeah, potterhead
*relises no longer has compressed air with me*
Damn it
Are there any nerdfighters among you?
Not a total potterhead but definetly a fan haha
We are if we're at war Matex, which we are
Bye Matex!
What's a nerdfighter?
The cleavers are on our side and we aren't at war, its a rescue mission -_-
People like you guys are the reason we keep running out of cleavers :P
Bye all :)
Hi Ivy!
Well...
the simplest definition
is someone who is not
made of muscle and bone
and sinew
but is made of pure awesome,
but there is a lot more than that to it...
Fours Matex!
No, we've been at War before you got here Matex. Way before this. You're a late settler here
Cat, one why are you talking about that?
Two that sentence made no sense to me
I was asking if any of you were nerdfighters for reasons
What's a nerfighter?!
look it up... its kind of hard to explain
Okay, I have no idea if I'm a nerdfighter
Bored
*sees vampires, lots of them*
Not so bored
Cat, have I asked you what suits me better, Eve Marone or Eve L'Keet? If I haven't asked you before, answer please :)
OMGG is that the time???
Where does it all go???
(pronounced Luh-keet)
You did, Eve...
I said that I didnt really know you...
Id have to get more information, and people
are usually too smart to
put too much stuff
on the internet
Seriously Cat, why are you talking like that?
In the colums sort of thing
*frowns* You didn't say that. I remember asking someone who had no picture, and if if was anyone, it was you. I'm pretty sure you answered.
ANYWAY :)
...*sighs* The year is just flying away, slipping through my fingers like the soft golden sand on the beaches. Soon it will be time to say goodbye to my friends. I'm going to miss primary school. :(
And I'm definitely going to cry at our year 7 party :(
Does it bother you?
Because
i like the way it looks like this... when its really long it gives me jitters.
Gives me the jitters like that. At least only do it every sentence? It gets really confusing halfway through a sentence
Our school year begins in September and ends in July.
Sure, NIxion.
hellow?
Hellow, Cat.
OIT! I'm Half New Zealandish, even if I do live in Engall-land.
Hi Luna!
I'm glad you were reunited with your luggage, Derek : )
hello Nix Ink Cat and other people who are online that I haven't noticed!
*inserts missed commas*
Hello Luna Brisghtside
hello! *violently waves*
CUPCAKES! WITH PINK ICING!Makes Luna a very hyper girl indeed. A hyper girl who talks in third person because....she can.
Hi hyper girl who talks in third person because she can!
got to go now people! *jumps onto Thrasher's back*. "Run horsey, ruuuun!"
Bye Luna!
Hi guys :)
"I've been kicked right down
I've been spat in the face
I've been pulled, way down
To the lowest place
I've been lied to, shamed
I have been disgraced
Been ex-communicated from every holy place
I've been beat up and robbed
I've been left for dead
For the way I look
For the things I said..."
Sorry. I can't stop listening to this song!! Why are The Script so freaking brilliant?! :'D
Fours Luna!
Going
Bye!
Bye everyone who elft
How is everyone who is still here...?
HEY EVERYONE!!! *hands out Skulcakes*
Hi the Empress
Fours Nix! Hi Adra!
STAR!!! *tackle hugs* HI!!!
CAT!!! HELLO!!!! *hands both skul cakes*
HOW ART THEE TODAE?
Not so great, but thanks for asking.
You?
Gtg bbl. :(
Aww, sorry to hear that. :/ I'm bored as CRAP.
I'm on two chatrooms, this, and skype. And out of those four, three are completely silent. -_-
BORED, so... :D
BYE STARRR!!!! *hugs*
Cya Star
So, The Empress
Sorry you
are bored...
hope you're better than
i am, though
I spent all of yesterday
hurting myself, so...
Hi....sry
Hi Zafira!
How're you?
ZAF!!! *hugs*
have faith, Cat... You'll make it
Im sure i will,
I always seem to
but its unfortunate...
i could be helping with
a baby alpaca today, but
I got kicked in the shoulder
and twisted my ankle at my karate studio
AWW SCHIZ!!! Ouch. :/
His Name is
Captain Jack.
technically its jack...
but I cal him captain Jack.
He's premature, and
i love him...
i was the first one to get him to feed, so... i feel special:)
but i cant see him today,
and now im sulking
Awww... Here's a poem for you:
One, two, three, four, I declare a
TIME WAR
five six seven eight Daleks scream
EXTERMINATE
nine, ten, eleven, twelve, Doctor
DIED and SILENCE FELL.
twelve, eleven, ten, nine,
here he goes BACK IN TIME
eight, seven, six, five,
SAVING EVERYBODY'S LIVES.
four, three, two, one, grab her hand and whisper
RUN!
That's a beaytiful poem!
but its so sad in the middle...
I luv my doctor
And I love mine :D
I <3 <3 the doctor
Im okay!!! :D
*tackle hugs*
LALALA
Us three ameriminions...
none of you have seen the Derek, right?
No....
And you're an Ameriminion??? But... the other day, you said something when we were talking about the gay rights, and you said that is was unconstitutional, and it was no offense to us Ameriminions...
*is confused*
Oh, just to be clear, the Constitution says nothing about gay marriage. the bible does, however
It says that all men where created equal.
at the time, it meant all white, land-owning males, but americans pretend that it means something else now.
What does the bible say?
see??? you say you're american, but you talk about us like in third person, or something :D
And the bible said that it is a sin to love someone of the same gender
The bible also says that people have free will, and the bible says that marriage was always supposed to be between a man and as many wives as he could afford, so, essetially, the bible says you can buy and sell people.
although they may have been guided by the holy ghost, the bible was written by people. people screw up.
News to me, people screwing up.
but no, i swear somewhere it said that it was a sin.
NOT that thousands of people care about that...
that's like saying its a sin to like apple
or its a crime to have red hair
its not a choice
i meant i was sorry to ameriminions who thought different.
Exactly!!! Not that I would know, but I know people who are gay, and they say the same thing.
I might not be gay, but that doesnt make me any better than people who are.
Do you believe in Rock And Roll?
Can Music Save your mortal soul?
Sry if i poof rob putting up lights
think of it this way? did you choose to be straight? no? than how can you choose not to?
straight... i was on the bus, and there was a boy saying that if straight was 0 degrees, that gay was 180.
I laughed so hard, in my mind
I agree, cat!!!
And nice poem... thing.
And kk Zaf!
I LOVE ROCK!!! ESPECIALLY 80's.
he was saying that being gay was'so gross'
The Empress, that is from American pie, Don Mclean... i love that song and Vincent
I love old rock...
or as i call it, timeless rock
LOL I LOVE THAT SONG!!!
How come i missed that...
My, my, miss American Pie, drove my Chevy to the levy, but the levy was dry...
And technically, 180 degress IS a straight line :P
Fail on his part
That's why i was laughing so hard...
no one told him that... he was all confused about why we were all laughing at him.
LOL!!!
EPIC FAIL
*dies*
i have a gay friend, and we were making fun of people who ernt to centers to 'cure' themselves of being gay... i mean,, if its a disease, you should call in sick to work and stuff, take gaybiotics...
CATS
Hello Harry!
What about ccats?
Hi people again!
Adra, that poem was cool, but, in an English accent at least, 'one' and 'run' don't rhyme.
But other than that, it was awesome. :)
LOL okay, Star. *hugs* welcome back!!!
Like im Gone when they mention 'criss cross applesauce'. It doesn't rhyme to me, but if you change your accent, it does.
which word do you pronounce substantially differently?
LOL!!!! it rhymes in AMERICAN
figurred it
Dinner, bbs.
KK!!!
See you!
Hellow?
Can't think of a Ded, Star! you want to take this one?
Noooo! Make Adra!
Don't make Adra
DO MAKE ADRA! *creates an adra*
I'll dedicate to Duct tpe, Thumbs, and pets, as well as paper and pens.
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