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It was a pretty chur year for me. Made a heap of new friends, lost no old ones, managed to own 3 different cars, crash a few motorcycles, go to court and get let off, m50 my e30, got reasonably good results at uni, and also I got to go to the Ukraine. Pretty much perfect.

$150NZD from my parnets for xmas. But they have been good to me paying for my tickets from London to Ukraine and paying for my work visa. So pretty chur if you ask me. No sh*t for my car, it sits leaking oil in some garage in the middle of no where.

Do you remember what ECU I have Peter?

HDR'd to the days.... NICE.

In my opinion they are a bit tacky, but each to themselves of course.

Nice. Love the colour..

I guess you can say nothing has changed then

It's the best on the section until I turn up at beer-o-clock in mine

I wish my e30 had that stance.. Awesome touring.

Quality idea

I think you should stick with the m20 because by the looks of it in a few years a m20 e30 will be more unique than an e30 m50

Nice car. I'm sure it's been on trademe for a while now..

yep, it needs slammage. Awesome though. Absolutely ****.

Over heat badly?

I'm afraid the photos may of hit their peak of fasination at Pripyat.. I'm gonna have to keep working hard to keep them interesting... Here are a few more pics anyway. I couldn't be bothered resizing them before, but now that I'm mildly drunk and cant sleep... it's a bleeze. lol. Reactor 5 and 6 cooling tower Reactor 5 which was never finished after melt down in 86. Radioactive wild dog

lol It's a rather bias geography lession missing out the boring bits haha. Here are some photos of Kiev, for anyone remotely interested Centre of Kiev Centre of Kiev Memorial for all the people who died from starvation in the Ukraine in the early 30's when the Soviets decided to sell all their crops to others so they could buy other sh*t ( short history lession for Emily )

lol pretty much. You'd have to sit pretty close to the tele to reinact the radiation levels though! Here are some more pics A nice book about Lenin Some stuff on the ground Backstage in the main theatre in Pripyat Some apartments A sign a recognized from the internet so I took a photo of it One of the schools in Pripyat, which looks a lot like the school I am working at teaching English! (design I mean)

Ok so here are some photos of my trip to Chernobyl. I took a heap more photos, but I have only resized a few for now. This is one of the vehicles they used in the clean up. Around the vehicle it measued about .3 of the gieger counter.. which is safe. On the tracks it measured 8.0! Reactor 4, where it all went down in 1986. Measured about 1.8 on the gieger counter. Welcome to Pripyat One of the buildings in the centre of Pripyat Pripyat Near the amusement park in Pripyat Me at the ferris wheel Swimming pool. Inside buildings it measured very low radiation. The library in the school

Tell Alex to try not to crash this one into a bank this time k

You go into the town of Chernobyl ( where people still work 2weeks on/2weeks off ) and the tour guide from there takes you to show you around. You get maybe within about 100meters of Reactor 4. At that point my gieger counter ( i brought my own, only the guide and I had one ) was reading 1.8 to around 2.0 microsieverts per hour. Normal is between .1 and .3 microsieverts per hour. In Pripyat the guide showed us the usual places, the pool, town centre, etc and we could follow him but if we saw an interesting room or something there was nothing stopping us going in. Because of the snow in pripyat it was reading really low, about .3 but as soon as I put my gieger counter up to anything metal that was outside it was fly up. Obviously we wouldnt walk far from the guide, because there are hot spots. I would recommend going with a tour group, I'm not actually sure if you are allowed to go on your own anymore..

Alex finally got around to doing this aye.. about time.

If I had money and I wasn't a student I probably would of! Seriously, that orphanage was such a sad place. On another note, I went to Chernobyl yesterday. Took a gieger counter with me, was pretty crazy. Walking through Pripyat it was reading normal low levels of radiation because of the snow cover but as soon as you put the gieger counter up against something metal it would just fly off the scale. Very cool Also when you go close to reactor 4 it would show some pretty high figures... scary stuff.. but safe for a short amount of time I am staying in a hostel in Kiev until friday so I cant put photos up yet, but once I get back to Dnepropetrovsk Ill put a heap up. If you enjoy walking around abandoned buildings, going to Chernobyl is money well spent..

Here are some less funny ones. Yesterday I went with my friend Indrek from Estonia and some students from a local University to an Orphanage in another city. Two hour drive in the worst weather ever, snow everywhere. Once we got there it was honestly the saddest place I have ever been. If anyone has been to an Orphanage you will understand, quiet a sobering experience to say the very least. The children put on a little show for us. I didn't take many photos of the place, but if you google "Ukrainian Orphanages" you will get an idea.

I wondered why people enjoy going to the food court to hang out. I have now found out why. The entertainment is amazing. Last night, Oleg ( who i live with ) and his mate were kind enough to let me go out and shoot up beer bottles, on the street ( a quiet street though ) with his mates PM Makarov 9mm. Was fun until the stupid thing jammed, quality Soviet sh*t. Drunk guy coma'd out. People were standing around him getting photos. Then a fight breaks out. 2 on 1. The solo guy gave it his all though, got a few good punches in. But when the two fellas managed to break his nose on a chair it was pretty much over. Quality.

That's about what I thought it would sell for.