Stephaniej

@valtmy

Cool 😀 I’ll finish reading it when I have some time.

Unfortunately, I’ll be off the internet for a bit, but I’ll be on in a few hours.

@rochellaine

Just reading your unedited message and laughing. We have our on words for “scanty underwear”, but for whatever reasons thongs is the name for shoes of various descriptions.

@rochellaine

Oh, I didn’t see your message till just then! Well, I meant those rubber shoes people wear even though they hurt and are annoying…so, yeah, I guess flip flops (such an inventive name 😛 )

*glances around nervously* Good or bad meaning???

That’s the problem with international chatting. Things can have very different meanings in…[Read more]

@rochellaine

True. 😀 We went to tropical Australia in winter and we were all wearing shorts and thongs, but the locals were putting on cardigans 😛

Bye!

@rochellaine

However, if anyone tries to tell you that Australia is always hot, point to me shivering under my blankets with cold hands at 7:45 in the morning 😛

That’s fine 😀

@rochellaine

Um…when its summer here it can get up to 45 degrees. Which is…113 Fahrenheit it seems. But usually its around the high 30s. Currently its 4 degrees and it gets much colder than that here. I live in a part of the world that revels in extremes.

I’m hoping to be done with this part tomorrow, but I can’t make any promises 😀

@rochellaine

Hello 😀 *puts sword behind back* 😛

Fair enough! I keep forgetting that it’s summer for you over there! At least, I’m assuming that this is a summer soccer sort of thing.

Yep, both Jonas and Justice know 😀 Its not going to go down well. 🙂

@rochellaine @jenwriter17 @sarah-anson

Anyone around? *flourishes sword* I’m editing!

@jenwriter17

I just gave you access 😀

@rochellaine

Awesome! I’ll get around to replying to those soon 😀

Um…a NZ accent??? They tend to swap around their vowels 🙂

I read a book once about a Polish boy who learns English and then comes across an Aussie guy and says “English is very different to Australian”

@rochellaine

Ah 😀 I’ve never been like that, though I do have a healthy fear of the more dangerous spiders 🙂 Some of them are quite nasty, but as long as you leave them alone you’ll be right.

Well, NZ has no snakes. So that’s a bonus. NZ and Aus have the typical “Sibling rivalry”. We squabble and pretend to hate each other, but we’re really…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Nothing like a convict’s descendant to make the ultimate bad boy 😛

@rochellaine

Well its a trope that’s quite rife on the internet. A lot of Hollywood actors are also Australian so I think it might come from that. Have you heard of the Hemsworth brothers for example?

But yeah, you’re probably right. American girls like the British men for their cultured and sophisticatedness and Australian for their rugged…[Read more]

@Rochellaine

The most Australian Christmas I ever experience was when we came home at New Years Eve and found a tiger snake curled up under the Christmas Tree…

I guess the only difference between our snakes is that ours are definitely much more poisonous.

It doesn’t surprise me that Australians don’t know the difference between horseshoe…[Read more]

@rochellaine

*pulls beanie down over frostbitten ears*

Well, it shouldn’t be! There’s so much to love about Australia. Such as the weather. Which is always warm and sunny. And the wildlife which is always friendly and the boys which are apparently always goodlooking?? (I honestly have no idea where that stereotype came from. Its the weirdest…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Enjoy the story. I’ll be disappearing and I’m not sure if I’ll be back today or not

@rochellaine

Yeesss. Do it! Start reading it 😛

Of course I do 😛 I had a lot of fun reading it yesterday and I would love if you would do more (I mean, I’d also love for Uncle Bill to get out of hospital, so if its distracting you from your actual WIP…)

You did get sliiightly carried away.

🙂 😉 😀 😛 ;P

@rochellaine

He’s in Bible college 😀

Okay 😛

By the way, you said you might do some more scenes to go with the one you’ve already written…

@rochellaine

My dad just finished his exams this week, so there’s some of the stress off us (thank goodness 😛 )

Well, I’m happy to put up the first edited part for you guys to read and leave some comments on if you’d like to. I’m not officially getting beta readers yet though. I won’t do that until I’ve finished the whole thing. If you or @sleep…[Read more]

@rochellaine

I’ll be on and off for a bit. How’s things?