Oh paintball, how painful you are!

Yesterday, I attempted paintball.

Yep. My ridiculously unsporty self actually went and played a game where you dress up in overalls and a mask and carry a gun to shoot paintballs (as in, actual physical projectiles!) at people!

This was SO not my first choice of Saturday afternoon activity, and especially not while I’m on placement, but a friend of a friend organised it so I figured I might as well go!

I don’t know if I actually managed to hit anyone during any of the six games we played, but someone managed to hit ME, and as a result I now have a HUGE bruise on my left thigh. Paintball HURTS – although really I’m surprised I don’t have more bruises, since I get them pretty easily.

Yeah. Not exactly my new hobby, I guess I can see why people enjoy it, but I don’t think I’d want to play it again!

Has anyone else ever played this, or am I alone in my dislike of sports that inflict pain?!

Zoologically improbable and/or terrifying to small children

Earlier today I saw this…

This object has been temporarily removed as we revise its facial expression, which was deemed zoo-logically improbable and/or terrifying to small children.

Needless to say, my next thought was "What the heck is this object!?"

After I bit of Googling, I concluded it was probably this…

DERP.

Yep. This is exactly what it looks like. A very poorly taxidermied lion. Zoologically improbable indeed!

This is how the handy dandy internets inform me this unfortunate and terrifying incident occurred…

In 1731, King Fredrick I of Sweden was given a lion as a gift. Eventually, the lion died. The king decided that since he liked his lion so much, he wanted to have it stuffed. By the time they located a taxidermist to do this, all that was left of the lion of was a pile of skin and bones.

Here is where it all goes pear-shaped.

Unfortunately, this particular taxidermist had never actually seen a lion in real life, so presumably took a bit of artistic license. Therefore, the terrifying creation above resulted.

Happy nightmares Friday everybody!

Snow, snow GO AWAY!

Today is Wednesday. I have not been at school at all this week.

This is why.

This might not look like a large amount of snow to some of you who live in cold parts of the world and who deal with this (and more) on a fairly regular basis each winter, but here in NZ, and particularly in Christchurch, this is the most snow we’ve had in A LONG time, and it’s more than enough to shut down virtually our whole city.

It started snowing (AGAIN! The second time this winter!) on Sunday evening, and actually stopped yesterday morning, but because the temperature has still been so cold, and it’s been raining, the snow has stuck around and turned into ice. Awesome.

According to my supervising teacher, my school should hopefully be reopening tomorrow morning, but until then I have been working on my mountain of paperwork, which is now only slightly smaller than the mountain of snow outside of my door!

Oh, and I also went outside yesterday and recorded a vlog…but that’s still uploading to Youtube so I’ll post it later!

Still here...and wanting advice from stylish bloggers

Am still here. Have survived two weeks of student teaching. Nearly halfway! Am busy, but really enjoying it.

I think Year 5 is my favourite age group so far – I didn’t think I’d like them (loved teaching Year 3 in March/April), but I do!

Slightly nervous though, since snow is forecast for Christchurch this weekend, and I really don’t want school to be cancelled next week, since I have to teach so many full days in order to pass the course, and if we miss too much time due to snow days I won’t be able to get them all in before my placement finishes. Ack. :/ Soooo. hoping for fine days for the next three weeks!

In other news, I ordered this skirt today. It’s funny, ‘cos it’s SO not something I would usually even look twice at in a shop, but I fell in love with the colour (which is brighter in real life than in this photo) and am now excitedly waiting for it to arrive at the shop, since the right size for me had to be ordered.

Speaking of this lovely green skirt – a question for all you stylish bloggers reading this. If you had it…what would you wear it with…?

Bearing in mind, if you haven’t seen me, I am very light skinned, and not as thin as this model.

I'm still alive!

Super brief post just so you all know I *am* still alive, and haven’t frozen to death in the snow (which has now all melted) or been swallowed by the ground in an aftershock (which have mostly stopped, aside from one which woke me up at 3:16am this morning!)

Today was the first day of my last student teaching placement, in a Year 5 (4th grade) class. As usually tends to happen when I’m on placement, blogging takes a backseat (both due to lack of things to post about, and also because for privacy reasons I’m not going to talk much about student teaching anyway!)

But. I am still here, at least READING blogs if not finding the time to comment, and all is good in the World of Holly! :)