start of my journey!

okay heres my first pic of my job.

heres the the outside:

and me behind the bar:

This week I have also been working in the cafe and behind the bar in the restaurant up stairs.
So I have more pics coming.

Anyway what else.

OMG ENGLAND IS SUCH A SCAM!!!!! everywhere you look.
don’t get me wrong I am loving it here and enjoying it
but as most of you I was barley here 2 weeks before I was credit card scammed!

yeah it doesn’t stop. the amount of phone calls you get at home, offering better deals or saying you won something.

Scam emails come through by the bucket full!

People come knocking on the door almost daily, godly ppl, ppl trying to sell you something.

the t.v OMG!!! every second advert is either online bingo, or some kind of gambling or dating website.

NO wonder this country is going into recession!

and last week I had some foregein guys ring me up to 2o times a day, didnt want nothing, wasnt nasty just ringing talking in his own langauge. at first I just kept hanging up. then I started swearing at him, then angela rang him on the land line and told him to fuck off.
I had enough when he rang me at 2am.
then when mark walked outside, and he rang my cell 3 times and landline twice!
so I rang the police, almost a day later, and yes !!! PH stalker gone bubbye!!!
wahoo!

okay well i was in bed sick for 2 days, from a measly cold arragh.... anyway.
turns out one of the rugby wives work at a temping angency and so i went her on fri saying i really want work an fri arvo i got raung up asking if i could work behind a bar for a week.

so last night (mon) was my first night waorking at HALL FOR CORNWALL, which is a big theatre in cornwalll....i think the only one.

and i work behind the bar!

people i worked with nice, and cruisy and the manager said i need to talk to her about a more permanant placing there.

urm it was a lil confusing cos of ppl accents and ppl order werid drink or call some name i have never herd of , and some bottles like brandy is in a bottle i have never herd of,

but i am really good at pouring beer and, by the end of it i think i was quite good - no disaters, thank god.... and also i think its really handy by from nz, i get away HEAPS lol.

dont have a pic at the mo... coz i am trying not to look to sad and dorky! (but i really want one, coz deep down i am just that dorky lol but shhhh!)

anyway i have another interveiw with a another temping place today. ( which i dont want to go coz i didnt like the lady very much coz i dont think she liked me HA)

and at WINNERS - PERSONNEL ( the temping im with at the mo) does bar work and receptiona admin stuff, which sounds really cool for me coz its a novlety, and if i can get enough hours i think i will love temping coz it will fit nicley around me travlling.

i just hope i get the hours!

anyway another thing....
i some some old friends from nz and aorund the place who are trying to come together for a a bit of a reunion so thats sounds like fun, come some of the ppl i havnt seen for over 5+ years....

anyway today, i got up at 8pm and did some kick boxing, so no i am waiting to pick bailey up so we can for a walk....
damn choc over here, i have sliped off the wagon a bit, but not toooo bad, i guess

but yesterday, i went shopping for a white shirt (i needed one for the bar) and wasnt haapy trying on the clothes so hopefully i cant stay motivated!

dont think there is anything else to report

i am missing nz, esp lots of ppls bdays -made me a lil awwww wish i was there, and group pics, i am such abig kid.... i hate being left out of things.... so remeber, txt, write, let me know if ya wanna chat!!!!

love to hear from ya all...

other than that i am having fun enjoying new things
ciao!
oxoxox
p.s
OMG yesterday we had hail!!!!! maybe i will get my white xmas!!!! :P

Well, the cars have funny bums! It like the front is the same is ours, but they have funny shaped bum, I am not sure how to explain it but it just funny.

Everything is way more compact. The street has barley 2 lanes, so if someone parks on the road, quite you will have to pull over to the cars the other come thru.

Lots of houses are right on the footpath honestly you walk out you front door and there you are on the footpath, we have a tiny front bit only because we a higher than the footpath.

Sunday 12th
Took the boys to dairy land, which is really for kids, like has all the farm animals and park and stuff. Its quite kwel going out with the boys, I am able to do all the kids I really want to do, but would look stupid if I just went by myself. lol. Anyway there was pat- a-pet.
Then there was this big giant cow where you actually go down and milk a cow. Bailey and Campbell thought it was a hoot. There was a big walk thru where you could watch the cows being milked, alot different from I lived on a farm, its all very technical now and its on a circle like a rotary system, so you just stand still, cows walk in, and they go on this rotating platform. All you have to do is, put the teats on take them off and push a button when the container id full of milk... easy peasy!
Bailey also went on a pony ride, we jumped on a big tramp, played with diggers, very good 'PG' rated fun! On the way home we stopped for burger king and Angela couldn’t eat the burger because it’s was an Angus burger, and she spent the day befriending an Angus mommy cow. Hahahaha funny

Also.... burger king... it sux, it doesn’t have Hawaiian bk chicken burger, how rude.... Actually I think the variety sux compared to nz.... might have to do something about that!

Tuesday 14th
MY 1st interview.
omg! talk about nervous! 8 of us had been short-listed, and we all had to come in at 8.30am, for an introduction and a tour of the school. and we had to sit in the conference room with all the other candidates. 1 person didnt show up which made it 7 and there 1 really horrible lady who was a snob and didnt say a word to anyone and just sat there and read her book. but the other 6 of us got on really well and chatted away about what we do and stuff. I was 7th person to be interviewed yah me. and I walked all the way down the hall into the room with 4 different sitting there, scary! and they were all asking me questions and I couldn’t really think properly and was getting tongue-tied and saying the same over and over again. anyway I left feeling there were 2 very good applicant that could get it over me. and I keep thinking of things I could of said and things I could of done better! arragh
ohwell 1st interview down only a billion more to go!

Tuesday 21st
Okay update
Today, im in bed at 10am, don’t worry I have been up. But I have a runny nose, sore throat and a wee bit of head ache, so with Campbell in bed, daddy looking after Bailey, and me still in my pjs. I decided to head back up to my room, (which by the way is clean!) I stuck some pics I brought with me. ( if ya wanna be on my wall send me a pic! , go on I would love some more mail!) jumped into bed to write my blog, some more postcards and just do stuff in bed.

I didn’t get the job from last week, so yesterday in the rain I went out and applied for 3 jobs. Came home wet up to my knees. But hopefully successful.

Urm anyway was going to wait till the end of month to post but sense im here ill post it now

so my friend sarahs bday in St Austell.
i have seen all her themed partys and decided i wanted to be apart of the madness, so after a lil bit of bribery.
and me and her friends decided to an 'S' themed party.
and we manged to keep it from sez too.
sez picked me up from the station with ollie and went back to the house to find andy and four of sez's mates dressed with a big sliver ''s" balloon and then gave sarah a sumo outfit to wear for the night.
anywa had a pub crawl down in fowey.
there was something called snuff (which is ground up tabacco and redbull that you snort) and red Sambucca. good night messy night. and messy next morning, from i do remeber at one i was in the pub toilet , then i was back out drinking. got during night a couple of time to talk to ralph on the big white phone.
the next we took to a big huge stall thingy where there was burgers and fries and stuff... everyone dug in... everyone except for thats, yes thats right ladies and gentleman i emma schwass was put off my food and yes i do have witnessness, i drink some fizz and managed a couple of chips, but thats it not even icecream could snap me outta it, went back to sez, chucked a couple of times slept, chucked again. hello chips! went to train home chucked at the station, got on the train chucked! ( lucky they have toilets aye) the train stopped and i needed to chucked pushed everyone out of the way, couldnt hold it in, chucked all over the pavement. took me forever tp get home, beano laughed at me, chucked all thru the night, i tired eating i think i managed half a piece of dry toast, but it didnt last long, monday morn i had on last chuck, but it wasnt untill later that arvo i could stomach actual food.
well i learnt my lesson didnt I?
bad bad bad... but the night was good lol

bailey had a good run around, and campbell was getting lots of hugs and kisses from everyone. after the macth casey took C home whle i stayed down there with B. all the boys and everyone knew lil Bailey Bright, but i felt bit of a dork for while not knowing anyone, oh well.

i was keen to go later with nat, but once i got hom into pjs put boys to bed and had tea, i was comfy lol, when is it you get so nannyfied? but not having been out yet , i decided to suck it up and go out to meet ppl. i meet Becky... she got a cute wee dog, whos not so keen on me. she also got a lovley house too. had a few wines, went to the pub that was next to the club had a botlle of wine between us ( see i am growing up i drink wine now1 lol)

we went to the redruth night club.
some call it 'zone'and some 'twilight' i think its the twilight zone, depend on what generation u are to what you call it... im not sure which is which yet.

apparently its not a great club, and its usaully full of youngings (since when i stopped being a younging ill never know) or the elders (dont think i am quite there yet tho) but being the only club in redruth, it was something i had to try. getting over the fact it cost 5GBP just to get in the door, it was quite big inside.

see this pic of PSD.... yes there were ppl actually like this and worse! and this is there normal sat night clubing outfit...
i was like mmm.... am i just naive, i seriously that stuff was just in music videos hahaha....apparently not

since then

tuesday... i went to the zoo in newquay

saw lots georous animals that i could only see on tv... wentinto this tropical part and there is this lil monkey thats smaller than my hand
.... awwwww... and it was all open and stuff so i could seriously just reach out and touch it... fast lil beggars tho...

anyway .... i think thats about it so far...

okay so i am a lil late writting this,
but can i say... prrrrrrrrrrffffffffttttttttt!
lol
anyway... on Sunday i got up bright eyed and busy tailed, and caught my train to st austell.

went to go to St ives the beach, but when we got there, there was too many tourists and no car parks, so we kept driving, i would say we got lost but we didnt know where we were....

i saw alot of country, and awesome land scape and veiws.

we stopped at st Just for cotted cream and tea.

then we hiked up Cape Cornwall.

then we went to Lands End, funny wee place.... no town, no houses, no communtiy.... just a greeat mally touristy thing right on the edge off the cliff... it was urmmm.. different lol.

well satdurday came
hmmm
i had to brave it, after a slow start, i had a shower got my things organised and i walked to the train station, and caught a train to Truro.

So i get to truro. the buildings are amazing and so many ppl everywhere.I am reading all the signs around things and brousing at all the lil stalls and such. there is a theatre there that i wouldnt mind going to see a show at. it kinda like hagley theatre co. where i went, but up scale it up buy 100%.
i am cursing myself for not bringing in my travel journal with me so i sit on a park bench and observe the on goings around me, getting a few looks of sympanthy from passers by.

i make it to the catherdral. after going thru a few streets and alley ways.
i am trying to take a photo front on of the church but i am faraway as possible - smack up against the wall oppisite the church and i still cant get the full building in, so now i am lying on ground with my head bent sideways trying to see the pic i am taking when someone walks past and says to her friend that it wasnt a very good place to sleep! - so funny.
in side the church... its kinds like nelson, but 200% bigger, more detailed, and creative! the details in the floor, chairs craving stone glass, i didnt actually find out how many men or how long it took to build, but i if you think it took 16000 hours to build a match stick repilca,

it must of taken a while!
so i sit, look around, quite, peacefull, breath.... i spose it is nice just be with ones self, but there is only so much you can take.
so i am off again wandering the streets. i have a blister from cool new shoes i brought in nz but didnt wear in first. and i find a nice lil chip shop and get some chippies i take away from the main st and the bussyness, and find my self a nice lil grassy patch to kick off my shoes, eat my lunch and rest a while.
with a few more laps around sightseeing i decide to end the day with a nice beer, finding a casual place, i look at all the forgein beers avail and decide to play it safe with a stella.
shoes off again, curled up on the couch with my beer and the local news paper i relax away.
it feels kinda odd in here by my self. but there was another guy same as me so i didnt feel so bad. there were 2 guys playing pool who 1 was with the bar maid. 3 older me 60-70's having a good old chuckle and some kind of birthday party out side. as the party started warming up i decided that was my time to leave. back up to the train, i am home in no time, sore feet, but relaxed and missing the boys.

just a quick note
We are all getting over jet lagg slowly but surely.
the boys are starting to sleep thru the night.
last night was my best sleep, sleeping 5.50am untill Campbell woke up
still hitting the wall by 8pm tho and having to go bed tho.
last night i fell alseep on couch... opps..
although going to bed early i susspose isnt to bed since i have to get up early with the boys.

we did have a bit of a bumpy start.
with both boys waking up 3-4 times during the night
Campbell, who turns 8months tomorrow has caught a chest infection,and almost ended up in hospital so now he is on 4 different types of medication... thats fun and games for aunty ems, trying to work which one to give and when.
we also have had a minor car accicdent... nothing major, some lady pulled out of a petrol station without looking.
very ditsy i tell... she blamed it on a head ache.

being a nanny is a bit of a learning curve.... i am not very organised hehehe.... one i wnet to the cafe and forgot his bottle, another time i could of done with a dummy and a bib. i could also do with pre ofganising clthes and food a bit better to help me during rush times.

time is still out of cliter with me. but its getting better.

my upper back is getting rather achy from carrying C in front pack alot but hopefully i am slowly building muscle as i need to be able to keep walking with him... other than walking i am not doing so great in the losing weight department. arrragh its shocking! to all those ppl who love me and spoilt me during my last days in nelson... shame on you lol i am soo hunrgy all the time at the mo. but i am trying hard, need to get out and go for a run or join the gym here!

i went to Camborne yesterday. interesting shops.
cant wait to get my money card lol
oh yes i also opened a bank account. yah me!

Anyway turned out i had more to say than i thought... hehe typical
anyway missiny ya all.
dont forget i would love to get letters from ya all
or even emails to say what you have been up to.
you can even add a comment at the bottem of this
anywho its the boys first day of daycare today so i should go and organise there bags
emz

today wasnt as bad as i thought it would be.
i have only just gotten tired now, its hit me hard i have sore eyes and a thobbing head but i lasted till 8.30pmish so thats alot longer than i thought.

i put Campbell in the front pack and took him for an 1hr long walk 3 times today, and bailey came twice.

i have no concept of time yet, but i am sure i will get in time.
i am loving the awesome all the old stome bulidings around the place and the ppl seem friendly enough.

Emily( a 10 yr old girl beano knows) showed me and the boys a park on our last walk. its like inside a old broken building but an outside park, very lovley. but curiosty got the better of me and i had to climb the walls

im stil very swollen... and the weight gain doesnt help... but with all the walks with campbell in the front pack and walking up down the stairs all day i am sure it wont last long.

23 aug

well after nes glasses, and $1400 of dental work, my bag rearraged numerous times. today finally arrives...and suprisinly it reasonbly stressless. so, putting the boys down at 1pm me and beano decided to take a snooze before going to the airport.
2.45pm both me and beano seemed tro instanly wake up and jump out of bed and want to get an early start on getting tha bags down to the airport (whilst the kids are still asleep at home with gma) thats when things the trouble beagn
Our seats were spilt up, which ment i was sitting 10 rows behind the boys, and we had a bitch of a lady who wasnt much help.
50 MINS later...
we were finally checked in with our 7 pieces of luggage at 150kgs! but then we had to race home to collect the boys and our carryon bags .
zooming to the airport with everyone already there waiting.
Hugs and photos all around. then at no time at all we were baording. the strap to my laptop broke, my wallet had to be rescued from the van (thanks ma) and a dropped passprt and trickets (rescued by beano)
we had two very happy boys flying from nelson to auckland, however i got power chucked on several times ...mmm...gotta luv the baby puke.. my ears blocked up big time and i had server head pressure which felt alwful, also my teeth were mega sensitive... i thought i was in for a real treat if this keeps up!
we arrived into the auckland departure lounge to catch the makos games, and that guy from "target" was there sitting next to us and unfortuntley he was able to fill us in on the score... altho we still managed to see some good plays in from mark. Bailey started to get grumpy untill we found a $nz all blacks rugby ball then the poor airport fell victim to his awesome kicking skills, with a few bumps on the head, and grumbles... but on the whole i think people thought they were looking at the next all black.
on the plane again after a 40min delay, but that was better than the one going via to hong kong there was a tafoon in the area and flights were delayed to the next morning
i am having lamb for tea with a bourbon and coke than i will watch kung fu panda with bailey.

didnt managed to watch kung fu as bailey went to sleep but i watch what happens in vaga instead.

the next flights were good.
teeth were better...
baby puke about the same.

boys were fucking awesome. bailey got grizzly at LA but then slept on the polane for like 8 hours! did manged to watch some of kung fu panda. got in to lodon. i am very surprised how easy it was to get thru to customs! i had no probs, and we went straight thru because of the kids! it was great. after 3 attempts we manged to stuff all of the bags in the car with me squashed in the middle.

i felt like i had motion sickness and i was on a boat. once i got home. but i managed to unpack my suitcase and sort all of my stuff ( ma- u would be impressed) got the boys fed bath and into bed...

woke up to the boys many times last night. i am not sure how much sleep beano got last night.
this moring got the boys fed and dress and decided to go for a walk with campbell in front pack...
MAN its a different wee town here! very old but kind kwel will take pics next time i go out

well this time next week i will be boarding a plane.... scary exciting
it dosent feel llike its quite hi me yet
but a week away
i have finally sorted all my stuff that needs to be stored, packe my bags
i have been to some of my farewell but still go more of my goodbyes to go to.
i finished my work on friday.
very sad really i am going to miss them all...
got some beautiful gifts... which i will post on face book.
anyway... i think thats about it..
oh yes i have also cuaght a terrible flu on anitbotics ... fun fun.

well i thought i would start this on the road

i have been saving for nearly a year and a half.
and it finally happing.
i have got my working holiday visa for 2 years in the u.k
and i have booked my ticket to deoart nelson at 4.45pm on sat 23rd august
so look out u.k here i come !!!
got a few lil adventures i have added before i leave!
so enjoy!