What's going on in my life?

Not a whole lot...

This week weather wise has been up and down. It was coldish in the beginning of the week, getting increasingly nicer as the week went on. On Thursday the rain finally let up (after 3 straight weeks of it) and Friday was beautiful! I didn't even need a jumper! I had the last of my work due on Thursday, it was an oral presentation in my Social Marketing class. It went pretty well, the class only had about 70 kids in it, I thought there were more! It's actually really hard to know how many kids are in lectures since no one really ever goes to class here. Both of my marketing lecturers came up to me within the last two weeks and thanked me for showing up!! They both said that they noticed that I had come to every lecture and thanked me for it...if only that is how it was in the states! Lecturers "understand" that college kids have lives and can't always come to class (really can some of my professors at UVM have that kind of attitude? lol). Most kids don't come because the whole lecture is posted online and, since anyone today can become a teacher by inappropriately using powerpoint, it is very easy to publish your lecture to the internet. I still feel that coming to class gives you a leg up in the class, though many of my kiwi classmates would tend to disagree with me. They too think its strange that I show up to class and FEEL BAD about skipping. The kiwi way of life. 

I have realised I haven't said much about my classes either. Well for the most part they have screwed up my spelling even more! I am a HORRIBLE speller, that is a fact...but for some reason I have picked up the English spelling rules VERY quickly and find myself having to remember what the American spelling is!! I am going to be totally confused when I have to write a paper back in the states....can someone just remind me to switch word's language from New Zealand english back to American english?? or my business professors will hate me lol. I have learned that I do not like the New Zealand education system. I am a liberal arts girl all the way!! No one over here has any diversity, they all take the classes they need to graduate (which is almost entirely classes within their major) and don't really explore any other options. I was talking to one of my group members in my social marketing class about her major. She is a double journalism/ marketing major. I said that was an interesting mix and asked what she was thinking to do with it (since she will be "graduating" in November). She said that she hates marketing, and was just taking it as something to fall back on since journalism is a very hard job market to break into. That just totally surprised me. I mean if you have come this far in your schooling, you should at least find something you like! I mean I know there are heaps of kids back home in majors that they also don't like and are just doing it for the money they can make after school...but they confuse me too! I could never even think of doing something in school that you didn't like! why do it? you're paying enough money to go, well not as much here, but still, you're paying, why not actually enjoy it? I have a hard enough time going to my math classes (it's not maths...no matter how much my flatmates try to convince me otherwise!) So yeah, kiwis are too focused! The system needs to put some fun back into education, let kids take the stupid classes and find something they enjoy, especially if its not their major!

 I also HATE how english is taught here and I feel horrible; this is the first ever english class that I hate despised. I have enjoyed most of the books we have read, I have even enjoyed some of the lecturers...but I cannot stand the tutorials and the majority of the lectures. They assume everyone is a mind reader and that you should pick up on certain aspects of the book to analysis, even if they have never mentioned it before! Also, for tutorials, class participation means NOTHING...all they count is attendance...so OF COURSE no one talks, or even prepares. It's painful sitting in on EVERY one of my tutorials becuase it's like pulling teeth, I fee bad for the tutors, well really only my comms mark. tutor, he was the only competent one. The other two either didn't care at all about the tutorial and just allowed us to work on our projects (social mark) or wasn't ever prepared himself and never had any topics ready to discuss and just hoped we would come up with something on our own (English) its painful. 

So when I do come back it will not be to study...maybe as a Butler employee...but that is another story . . . 

Cheers!

~Marjorie

Three Things I Miss Most about Winter at Home

1. Double Paned Windows
   
2. Central Heating
   
3. INSULATION!!! 
   

It is amazing to me that a country, which still gets fairly cold (and WINDY) in the winter, has sufficed without these three things that most of the world takes for granite...

I came here thinking that winter wouldn't be too bad...that I would be totally able to survive if the average winter temperatures were only in the low to mid 40's. Yes, wind would be a factor...but I still didn't expect gale force winds on a daily basis (there have been warning the past 2 weeks of wind gusts of up over 100 kmh!!). But none the less, I am used to a VT winter and NZ winter could come no where close to what we deal with in Feb and March in VT!! 

This is still mostly true.....

Now I have not been so cold I am shivering always...most of the school building ACTUALLY have central heating, but since no one knows how to use this modern wonder, it is always too hot and I end up ALMOST falling asleep in most of my classes...I don't know how the lecturers deal with it! But anyways, NOT ONE flat in Everton Hall (the uni houseing I live in) has a.) INSULATION!! b.) central heating or c.) double paned windows!! 

So when living in a drafty old house with mice, 40 degrees is mighty cold...especially when it is colder inside the house than it is outside, which can happen most days it get sunny out, but that hasn't happened in a week or so now. I mean at least it keeps the rain and wind (kinda) out. I have taken to sleeping with my sleeping bag unzipped as my third blanket, which has been working out quite well. It also works wonderful as a nice blanket to snuggle under while watching tv. 

Now you are probably wondering HOW we heat our houses if these things are not present in our houses...right? Well, we use wonderful and efficient (not at all) modern wonders of electric heaters! BUT only when we absolutely MUST because our electricity bill skyrocketed (word of my flatmates, not mine) this month to NZ$150 higher than the month previous. (DUH!!) So I have taken to wearing at least three layers of clothing around my house ALWAYS, which I still feel should not be necessary INSIDE your house. 

To prove my point even more, I offer an example of a commercial trying to convince New Zealand residence about the necessity of insulation (why do they need to be convinced in the first place?!!?!?!?) 

So while all of you reading this blog are in the comforts of your own home, probably with the A/C or even Central air going, think of me FREEZING MY BUTT OFF on the other side of the world! :-)

Cheers,

~Marjorie

Time to Destress...

Well at least for a little while....

Every one of my papers had an essay due last week, either Thursday or Friday  so obviously I was SWAMPED with work....because do I plan ahead and get the easy paper out of the way first so that I can spend my time working on the other two bigger and huger paper?!?!? Nope, I decide that since it's an easy paper then it can be written the night before it's due!! I'm blaming it on the New Zealand attitude...I normally am not this bad with procrastinating my work in vermont, normally I am FREEKEN out because I am such a perfectionist.....but here I find myself saying "no worries it will get done" and it did, so i guess there were no worries everything was in on time...AND i still got to yoga on Friday :-) lol 

There isn't really a lot to talk about....I only have two more weeks of classes though....when did that happen?!?!? I feel like I am finally just starting to settle in lol. The last two weeks have been pretty low key, but next Friday is Butler's fairwell dinner :-( I can't believe I have been here four months!!! Where did all the time go??? there is still so much I haven't seen!! 

But I find myself very torn, I want to stay and experience more of this wonderful country....but I am also still in classes and in the gross winter weather of welly, while all of my friends back home are done with classes for the year and are enjoying summer and it would be nice to be back home getting ready for tabor with some time to kill....not planning on how to get over jet lag in a day so that I can get to camp only a few days late.....ugg

but I have my plane ticket and am starting to figure out what I can send home early so that I don't have to worry about trying to fit all this new stuff in my suitcase lol I've decided its not that I am excited to leave NZ, but that I am excited for the next thing to happen, and that just happens to be back home.

So now i have a few weeks down time to relax a little, do some early studying, and get ready for finals which are all less than a month away!! (AAAHHHH) 

Hobbits, Rain, and being totally let down

SO, since it is now Tuesday night for me and I feel bad about not keeping my word, (but still Monday for you all so I guess I am) I thought I would keep my word and tell all about my trip to Wellywood. We caught the movie tours bus at 10am and were off to an area about 45 minutes outside of Wellington. On the ride there we were briefed with all the movies that Weta productions has helped out with, and surprisingly Contact was one of them in the early days. I guess some of the film was shot in location in NZ so Weta helped out, they didn't say how, probably something to do with props. We went around to a bunch of sites where the Lord of the Rings was shot. Now this tour might have been more fun if I was a fan of the movies (or if I had even seen the movies before). But I'm not and I haven't so the tour was kind of a let down. That, and since it was POURING in upper and lower Hutt valley (where we were north of the city), so standing in location in the rain (which for many of the scenes was the conditions they were shot in) was not as much fun as it could have been. Also, when shooting on location in NZ its the law that you must return the location to EXACTLY how it was before shooting the scene. So not only were we standing in the rain in the location the scene was shot, at the location there was NO evidence that there was ever a movie shot there. To the tour's credit, the guide did bring his lap top around with him, so that when we were standing in the location we watched the scene that was shot there, and the guide pointed out the trees and bushes that had cameos in the movie. But we all made the most of it and were all happy to actually be doing something on our Sunday instead of sitting at home doing our work and whatnot. And when we got into Wellington to see the parts on Mt. Victoria where they shot, it wasn't raining (the city didn't get ANY rain the entire day), so that made the last leg of the tour more enjoyable. 

Another fun aspect of the tour wasn't the tour guides doing at all, it was one of our group members. One of the kids in the program has broken her leg, and so has been told to stay in a wheelchair until the cast is off. So throughout this whole tour (and on Mt. Vic) we were negotiating the paths with a wheel chair, there were some fun moments on Mt. Vic where we almost lost her due to a slippery hill, or root. Thank God we had some strong boys who could help her out and push her up the steep hills and carry the chair over roots and whatnot. 

Most of the group was let down though, because we were told that it was a tour of Weta productions and Wellywood. If it had been explained that it was a Rings tour, then I think we would have all had lower expectations. But the majority of the group believed that we would be getting a tour of the studios and places where actual work happened. A more behind the scenes tour. For obvious reasons this probably is not a tour that exists, especially since Peter Jackson doesn't want the locals to know where he is (security purposes), so all the studios and what not are located in unmarked warehouses. So Sunday was not as much fun as I had initially thought, oh well guess i will just have to look forward to another production studio tour (maybe?). The name of the tour was really misleading anyways. Ok well I should get back to my work! all three of my papers have essays due next week, so I am trying to get those all done. it will be nice to have a little break after may 22nd, but then it will be off to studying for finals. One last big push until classes are over I guess. Not too much more time to travel (sadly), but we will see what I can come up with. 

Cheers for now!

~Marjorie 

and the winner is....

Me! Remember a few posts back I put up a picture I submitted to the photo contest?? Well it won. I was actually surprised that that specific picture won, because I also submitted the picture that is my banner for this blog (the picture of the lake) and thought for sure that one was better and more of an "iconic kiwi image," but the judges decided on the pictures of the Remarkables. I also SHOULD have won in another category, which was just "iconic pictures," because my sail picture

received one more vote than the winner, but since I had already won one section, they "wanted to share the winnings around." Go here to see all the pictures submitted in the 3 categories.  

Other than that not a lot has been going on this week. Lots of work and rain. It has been absolutely POURING here all week. I have been very glad that I asked Mum to send my gum boots because they have been getting heaps of use this week. Totally have paid for their cost to ship them to me :-) lol Today in Yoga it was raining so hard the instructor had to yell over it so we could hear him!! However I did go out and brave the weather for a few hours with one of my flatmates. I have had my eye on a pair of shoes since March, and today Sophie totally peer preasured me into buying them. They were just put on sale so OF COURSE it was a good deal....and with the exchage rate it was even better! lol So I got them....they are amazing....I love them......and I don't know how I ever lived without them. Ok I'm done obsessing, even though I have been wearing them all over the flat since I got back to break them in...duh! My other flatmates (boys) think I'm nuts, but how can you NOT love these shoes?

Gorgeous right?????

Well, on Sunday, my program is taking me on a tour of Weta works, which is Peter Jackson's production company here in Wellington. It is affectionately known as Wellywood to the locals. I am super excited and can't wait to tell all yous guys (sorry is the Bostonian in me) about it!! I have decided that it's the next best thing to getting a private tour of Skywalker Ranch....but since THAT hasn't happened yet, I guess I can settle for this lol. And who knows, I might even get lost in the wardrobe.......

More to come on Sunday/Monday

~Marjorie

Pictures! and the swine flu

yay for procrastinating work and posting pictures instead!! 

Link to more Autumn break pictures from the South Island

Link to more pictures from around the house and the Wellington Area

Ok I thought I would leave you with one last take on the wonderful swine flu that has got this tiny little country in an uproar. But I mean when you have only half the population of New York City as your entire country, a few people getting sick and potentially dying from a flu gets you a little worried. Now I might have stole this from a well known blogger whom I love and read religously....however, I would like to point out that this was shown to me by another blogger friend BEFORE it appeared in said well known bloggers blog. Enjoy!!

Power struggles, where I live, and what you all have been asking for

So I realized that I have taken the pictures but never posted of where I live. How silly of me! Here are a few shots, more to come on Picasa.

My Room:

In other news, I have yet to get a total grasp on NZ power. I still believe that when I plug something into the wall it should automatically turn on. And yet that is not always the case! Unlike the wonderful AC power in the states, NZ power is a little stronger and therefore need more safety precautions around it. Each outlet has a switch that turns the outlet on or off. This little fact confused the HELL out of me when I first moved in, becuase NOTHING would turn on. Well my roommates just laughed at me and mumbled stupid American, before explaining to me how to work the power. Well, you would think that I would understand this concept after four months of living with it. But NO I have not learned. Yesterday I was baffled for at least five minutes as to why my hairdryer wouldn't turn on. I was almost going to go out and buy a new one because it MUST HAVE died on me. Didn't I feel silly when I realized the outlet had just been accidentally switch off. Also, do you know how many times I have tried to boil water for 20 minutes, cursing the stove, only to realize that someone turned the outlet to the stove off. Same with the toaster. At least in the states we UNPLUG the toaster...nope here it's SOOOO much easier, just flip a switch! Well this weekend I cooked some coffee cake, and wondered for thrity minutes why the oven wasn't coming up to temperature. Then I realized it wasn't plugged in. Oh won't I be glad to come home where power is so much simpler. Just plug in and go!

But life upside down is going pretty well. I am learning that I should be very grateful I am doing the majority of my studies in the states. I don't think I could survive with this learning style much longer than a semester. It is all lecture no discussion. Which I assumed when I was coming here. HOWEVER they do TRY to have discussions in the tutorials that every paper I am taking scheduled. But no one here understands how to lead a discussion group, so really the tutorials are pretty useless. And for someone who is use to completely discussion based classes (thank you beaver) it is VERY painful to sit through. I will be looking forward to coming home for next semester...but not for leaving NZ. If I could stay here and just not go to school it would be AMAZING!!! Alas, I am too much of a perfectionist and therefore cannot just blow off all of my studies. Too bad! lol

And finally what you have been asking for: the link to my first installment of my pictures from break. These are the Australia pictures. South Island will hopefully be coming soon. But give me a break, uploading 100+ pictures takes a LONG time! lol

Autumn Break...week 2

So I have been a horrible blogger and have been avoiding my duties to update everyone on my second week of break, as well as putting up pictures. I apologies, hopefully it will never happen again. First I want to congratulate all my readers who deserve a congratulations (which is really all of you since you are awesome and have been reading my blog! lol). But I have been getting heaps of news from back home about people graduating and finally getting recognition for awesome work and so on.......so YAY to all of you!!!! I am soooooo happy for you! 

ok so anywho...back to my life upside-down. So I only had a one night lay over at my flat, and by 8am on Sunday I was already gone again. When I got to the ferry, the terminal was COMPLETELY empty and the workers behind the counter were all like, are you trying to make the 8:25 ferry? and almost in a panic. It was 8:15 and I said, yes I was. Well, they all were like FREEKEN out because the last moment to check you bags (for a ferry....I still don't understand that) was 8:15. But the group I was meeting was NO WHERE to be seen, so I had no idea about how I was going to find my boarding pass. Well, the man who was checking my luggage asked my name so he could look up my boarding pass and as I said my name another woman walked over and handed me a boarding pass. Thank God my friends knew enough to leave my boarding pass with someone behind the counter. Well, I wasn't too worried about making the ferry when I left the flat at 8, but when I got there I basically sprinted up the gang way, and at the top the man told me I was the last person to board the ferry. So I made it and found my friends so all was all right, but wow did the people at the ferry terminal freak me out. My friends asked why I didn't answer my cell phone, and I realized I had turned it off because I had left my charger somewhere in Australia and was trying to conserve the battery. It was funny when I turned it back on though, I have never heard a cell phone beep so much lol! 

When we got to Picton, it was about 12pm. We picked up the car from the terminal, and were on our way by 1:30pm. I took the first shift (which turned out to be the only shift) since I was the only person who had driven on the other side of the road before. We drove down the west coast to Frans Joseph, which is the location for one of the three tropical glaciers in the world. It was a nine hour drive down the coast on very windy roads. We did stop at a few spots, but no one seemed anxious to take over the wheel, so I just kept on driving. It didn't matter much to me, my co-pilot was awesome and I got to choose the music, so I was set. We stopped at a very nice beach at sunset and also got over to the pancake rocks at Punakaiki by dusk, but it got dark fast, so we didn't get any good pictures of them. But they were still cool to see. After dark, I was very glad I was the one driving, becuase we hit a few places where there were heaps of traffic cones and reflectors and whatnot, we drove through them fine, but there was one section of the road where it was one lane around a few curves in the mountain. I beeped my horn a few times to let any cars that there might be on the other side that I was already driving through, because there was no way that I was going to start backing up the road if any cars started coming at me! At one point down this stretch of road I looked over to see why the other lane was not drivable and saw that there was no lane, only a few parts of the white line were visible. It looked like something out of Jurassic park or something, since the other side of the road was completely gone!!! I just kept on driving and was happy everyone in the back was asleep. The next day during our hike, our guide asked if anyone had driven down from the north and I said yes at night! The rest of the group was surprised to find out that the road had been washed out by a big storm they had had a few weeks ago. But we got into Frans Joseph safely at about 9:45pm, but realized when we got there no one had written down the name of the hotel!!!!!! So we pulled into a hotel that sounded like the right name and asked if they had our reservation. They didn't, but the man felt bad for us, so let us use their internet to find the name of the hotel we were really staying at. It wasn't too hard to find the confirmation e-mail, so by 10:30pm we had found the hotel and were settling into our new digs. 

The next day was the big day in Frans Joseph. We had signed up for an all day hike on the glacier, so we were up and ready by 8:15 and managed to be on the bus by 9 to the glacier. The hike was amazing. It took about an hour and a half to get to the ice face, but once we were there we had 6 hours of ice time! Our guide was really nice, but it was hard to take pictures since we were moving most of the time, and I only had my big camera. So I only took a few pictures. But it was an amazing experience. The glacier was sooooo cool, but not really temperature wise. As soon as you stopped moving you realized how cold it was, but as you were walking it wasn't cold at all. At lunch, I filled my water bottle up with some glacial water (which stayed cold for the rest of the day....by 10pm it was still refreshing!) and throughout the trip ate glacial ice....which it totally fine since the glacier is completely fresh water. But we saw HUGE cracks and crevasses. Initially, I had wished my parents had been there because it was just so amazing, but after a few views of some big cracks I was glad they weren't with me because I don't think mom would have been able to deal with the height lol. After lunch our guide got really excited because they had found a newly formed cave, so during lunch he was off putting in ice screws and ropes so that we could go down and see it. I thought I would be dying by the end of the hike, but living in Wellington had prepared me for the all day hike, and I ended up not even being sore! I was surprised. Totally worth it, and I would definitely recommend doing a glacial walk if anyone ever makes it to the West coast of the south island in NZ. Both Frans Joseph and Fox are two of the three tropical glaciers, which means that the ice is surrounded by a temperate rainforest. The only other place you can find this type of glacier is in Chile (I think). 

So that night, we took it easy and went into town for some dinner. After dark, we took a walk down to some forest trails to see glow worms. They were pretty cool, and all over the trees, when I first looked up I thought they were stars, but then I realized they were the glow worms lol. 

The next day was our last full day on the west coast so we drove to Fox glacier, where we met up with a few other friends from our program. We had breakfast with them, and then went off to do some of our own hiking. We walked around Fox glacier for a while but didn't go up on it. Most of those path ways had also been washed out by the storm, so we only hung around for an hour or so. Though we did find a cool suspension bridge, and took some pictures on it too! We also walked around Lake Mathasen, a short drive away, and I think I discovered where the creators of Myst got inspiration for the Channelwood age. (Ok I am showing my dorkyness now lol) Check out the pictures....I couldn't believe how similar they looked. There was one point, where we walked out to a small island in the lake and I thought I was actually in Channelwood (well not really....but it looked an awful lot like it!). Afterwards, we went back and grabbed some lunch and just relaxed for a few hours. At sunset, we took a walk up to a cave to see more glow worms, but didn't get very far in because the cave had a creek flowing through it and no one wanted to get their shoes wet. We had an early evening since we needed to get up early so that we could take the scenic route to Christchurch the next day. 

We had decided that we didn't just want to retrace our steps and drive north to get to Christchurch, so we left at 7:15am and drove south down to Wanka to see the lake, and then back up to see Lakes Pukaki and Tekapo before getting to Christchurch by 6pm. It was a really nice all day drive and even though I had already seen most of it from my last trip, it was really beautiful to see again. Especially since it was the area where most of the New Zealand wineries are and the vineyards were GORGEOUS and all the leaves were turning since it is autumn here. It was a really pretty drive. Thankfully, I did not drive the whole time, I just took the last leg, since I was the only one confident enough to drive in the "city." We checked in to our hostel, and then met up with one of our kiwi friends who lives in Christchurch. He took us all out to dinner (and felt really cool showing 5 girls around the city). The one guy in our group was also happy to finally have another guy around....I think he was getting a little tired of all of us. lol After dinner we were all pretty tired after a long day of driving and by 10:30pm we were all out!

It was awesome to have more time in Christchurch. The city is really cool. The next day we walked around the botanical gardens and the old college in the northern part of the city. I also got to go punting down the Avon...thankfully the water is VERY shallow, so the pole never got stuck lol. We even scraped bottom at one point. But it was a nice time around the city. That night three of us went up to Ko Tane, which is a touristy Maori marae in Christchurch. One of the girls that was with us wasn't part of our program, and so hadn't seen anything about traditional Maori powhiris and such. So a few of us went up there to see that. Ko Tane is also part of a wildlife sanctuary, so after the Powhiri we went over to the wildlife part of the area and saw kiwis up close and personal. Unlike the last time I saw kiwis in Christchurch, these were not behind glass. They were behind a fence, but the fence wasn't even as high as my knees. You don't have to worry about them getting out though, since they are a flightless bird lol.  At one point, one of the kiwis poked my foot through the chicken wire when it was looking for worms by the fence. It is illegal to touch a kiwi, but not if they touch you, so I felt very lucky. You can't take pictures of them though, because not only will the flash scare them, it is also bad for their eyes since they are nocturnal. In the sanctuary we also got to see other indigenous birds and animals to NZ. I was really happy I went. Afterwards, we met up with the rest of our friends and had an awesome time painting the town red. 

The next day, the group had found this ropes corse about a half hour out of the city, so we went and spent most of our day there. It was a lot of fun, but after the 4th course (they were rated 1-6 in difficulty and height) I was getting tired, and the ropes were getting just a little to high for me. A few members got finished with 5 but then decided that it was also getting to much for them, so we all decided to leave after that. Back in Christchurch, we went to the best Mexican restaurant I have found so far in NZ, however it wasn't as good as On the Border, so you can tell the calibre of mexican food I have found up until then! The chips weren't even bottomless.....I was still disappointed. But the food was actually good, so it wasn't all bad. I have just decided that NZ is too far away from Mexico to actually get good mexican food....so I will just have to wait to get back stateside for good mexican food. Oh how I miss Moes and/or New World!! (strange note...New World is the name for the super markets here, if only I could get a decent flat wrap there lol) I had a lazy evening, since after dinner the group went on a haunted house tour. Thankfully, another girl in the group doesn't like them either. So we hung out together around the room. 

Our last day on the South Island was mostly driving again. We were able to sleep in a little, and were on the road by 9am for our 5 hour drive to Picton again. I did the whole drive, which wasn't too bad. The only problem now is that since I did so much driving this week, I am now TOTALLY used to driving on the left side of the road. When I went to go see Wolverine this week (which parts were shot in NZ just FYI) and they drove on the right side, IT LOOKED WRONG TO ME!!!! OH NO so it will be interesting when I get home. Hopefully, its like riding a bike and I won't try and jump in the passenger's side when I want to drive the jeep lol. We stoped in Kikura for about an hour for lunch and such. It was a little cloudy though so after lunch we all got back in the car and got up to Picton around 4. Our ferry was at 6 and we didn't need to give the car in until 5, so we walked around Picton for a while, a few of us even got in a game of mini golf. By 5:30 we had given the car in and were on the ferry back home. We got in at about 9:30 and I was home by 10pm. And then at 3 or 4am I was woken up by the mouse eating my Tam tams that I had forgotten were in my room from when I got back from Australia. But that is another story. 

It was an awesome trip and I am glad I went, I am just sad that I won't be able to see ANY of the North Island. Oh well! I guess I will just have to come back at some point to see the rest of it! lol 

Cheers!

~Marjorie