Bethany's Fairbanks Adventure

Archive for November, 2010

So the snow is falling HARD, and we are just getting ready to go skiing. We’re going on an army bass and apparently they only like americans, so we are going to try our sweet talking and eye fluttering.

I’m so so excited but SUPER excited, if you don’t hear from me, I’m probably injured.

Wish me luck!!

A quick Fairbanks update:
Temperature is currently -9C/15F
Snow falling ALL DAY. nice and thick.
Definitely need coat, tested through laziness of not going upstairs to get coat before going to library = very very cold hands infect body.

Still having a fantastic tine. Tuesday it’s going to be up to 29 below. I’m excited, make sure I’ve washed my thermals by then and found my misplaced clovers.

Four exams next week, one involving an 8 page essay. Hoping I will be able to bash it out the night before. Not going to lie I regret not doing any work on Saturday. Ahhhhhhhhhhh I just want to have fun. We reckon exchange kids should get a week of fun time off.

Right well Bethany bedtime now. Promise to write again soon.

Lots of love.

Bullying was never an issue at school, but HERE I am an easy target. John face planted me into the snow, Tamara punched me in the nose with a block of “snow” i.e. ICE and David threw a bloody massive block of ice into my face so it was bright red, stingy AND cold. Somehow my rucksack got open and snow went all into my computer it was a bit slow starting this morning but is doing ok, my iPhone also got snowy and keeps telling me that “this accessory doesn’t work with this system” but still seems to work just about…well just not the typing pad. I’m sure it’ll be alright once its dried off a bit. It was a lot of fun but it was chilly on the willy.

Polar bear paper back today and I did a hell of alot better than I had thought whoop whoop! AND it’s snowing I can tell today is going to be a good good day.

I’m listening to Radio1 you notice the accents so much more now! In lecture the other day we watched a YouTube video and the narrator was british, it was the strangest thing, and we sounded like toffs.

People say we sound more intelligent with our accents, if only they knew!

I’ve refound stumble.com and sit on it all day. If I did as much work as I stumbled I’d have solved all worlds problems.  Where else could you find “Quantum physics made relatively easy“?

Alaska is looking paticularily beautiful today, I woke up to find it snowing and it’s still going now. This is what I imagined Alaska to be like and I am feeling continually happy when I go outside. The trees are frosted white and everything looks like it’s been sprayed with a mahusive can of glitter spray. I really wish you could all see it! Brent and I went for breakfast at a nice little log house type thing called The Cookie Jar and it was there looking out the window when I really felt like I was in Alaska lands.

On my way to a 9:45 class on tuesday I saw the best sunrise also, it was turquoise, orange, pink and red and so so pretty. Sadly I didn’t have my camera on me, but i am definitely carrying it around with me at all times now. It really was the best sunrise I have ever seen. Again it makes me so very happy.

This week has been more chilled and yet I still feel tired, I am struggling with the dark mornings. I woke up yesterday and it was pitch pitch black I told myself it was 5am. I looked at my phone and it was half 9. I was so confused!! It’s not even that I mind the dark, just complete confusion! I also forgot about the hour change so that was a nice wake up this morning!!

We went sledding last night and it was FANTASTIC. I have been sledding back home on a hill, and to be honest this is pretty much all I had invisaged in my head. Then we arrived at a bloody steep and icy road. Jordan assured us that it was so icy hardly anyone would be driving up there. We got on our sleds and boy did we go fast. I did not want to go alone so I paired with Kay first and then T. Kay and I managed a full on 360 turn. With T I managed to get flung off and head first into a rock. MY POOR HEAD. However, T managed to trap her leg on the side and now has a fankle and nice bruise to accompany it. Erica removed her thermals to find she’d ripped off half her leg skin, Kay whacked her knee and couldn’t move for a good 10 minutes, Vicky has no severe injuries but now walks like an old woman. We met 2 or 3 cars, so if we didn’t die flying into trees we would die being run over. Even so I had so so so much fun.

Beer pong was played for the first time in a while, Brent and I sucked BIG time, Vicky and Kay though have become a POWER team and went unbeaten!!! I’m going to start my own secret beer pong club to practice.

I’m unsure of what this week brings but I’m pretty sure it will be yet more work, BUT I don’t care as it’s likely to be coupled with lots of snow!

I know I talk about the british alot, realising that you guys probably don’t know who they are. Well there are five of us here, but one is mature and we don’t see her. So meet the fandabbytastic crew of Tamara Dale, Victoria Rowlands and Kayleigh Mullen.

Lets start with Tamara, the 3rd year human geographer. I have never met anyone so perfect in my life. She always has her work done, yet always has time to play. Never a thing out of place, far too nice, always knows the right thing to say, creasingly funny without meaning to be and a fantastic listener and life sorter for the Bethany King. She is becoming a party animal. What can I say, I  bloody love you and our underage nights of fun.

I don’t even know where to start with Victoria, fucking love her. The best quotes of Alaska come from her mouth. We walked passed a car with the number plate simply “god” vicky goes, “with a number plate like that he’s never going to get laid”. Me and Vicky have certainly bonded these past fews days, all I can say is that I am so damned pleased that her visa got sorted, I could not imagine Alaska without my wannabe mexican, tash bearing friend, who runs down hills when no one is looking. Who else would I have to pee in a road in the outhouses with? My tummy needs its sleep to recover from the pain she causes me from laughing too much. Oh and I’ll just show you!

Kayleigh is probably the most british, missing britain and its people the most. We share some super special classes together, a genetics class with a teacher who had bum length hair,who comes in the next day with a shaved head. And an Animal science class where we learn about how to give our cows the best milk yield we can. She loves her tea and marmite and we are on the search for some funky monkey jumpers.

Considering we knew of none of us. I’m pretty sure we will be friends for a LONG time.

I am getting so at breaking my promises to blog everyday. I jsut don’t know where the time goes. Last week was STRESSFULL. I had so much work to do I can’t believe I got it done.  I mentioned the Polar Bears in the last blog, and well not going to lie it didn’t really get started until the sunday. I worked on it everyday inbetween lectures and at 1am the wednesday night before it was due at 9:45am my computer decided to have a little tantrum and have a “computer programme error” crash. Basically telling me I needed to vcontact technical support. I could not remember the last time I had saved it or if I even had at all. I was 8 pages in with only the ocnclusion to go. I tried not to panic and just pressed the on/off button. The screen went blank, Itried to tur n it back on, nope. Again? Nope. AGAIN? NO. So I went for a walk in the snow, planning my begging tears for the next day to my professor. I went back and finally it turned on, took 15 minutes to reboot, thank every bloody god for autosave, it had saved my work just 10 minutes before it crashed leaving me only one paragraph to re-write. I was up until half 5 sorting out the paper before finally giving in to my bed.

Saturday was obviously Halloween so us english girls decided to go as the one and only Beatles. Off we trotted to our favourite of places, Value Village to find sexy white turtle nexts and black blazers. Next stop party palaces for our tashes. Then onto recreating guitars, drums and microphones out of cardboard. We looked AMAZING. Sadly though through lack of iPod connecting cable we didn’t actually get to perform the selection of songs we had practiced, including some of my personal favourites I want to hold your hand, Help! and All you need is love. Next time for sure. It was a good night, but once again I need to watch those shots.  I woke up sunday morning once again with no life possesion. I’d left my bag at the cabin and my phone had gone missing. Went back to cabin. No bag. Oh shit. Nearly crying. Get into car and find it in the boot, it had been there ALLL day. So I hadn’t forgotten it! Just misplaced, ha ha. Found phone in closet, cold and nearly frozen, it’s thawed out a bit and working just dandy now!

Can you tell the difference? Because I definitely can not.

I have also been made to watch two Star Wars now, that’s right TWO. I’ve gone from a complete not star watching to watching tw. They aren’t actually as bad as I expected and actually pretty funny. I’m glad we cleared up that the furry guy wasn’t from star trek.