So, the hundredth season didn’t go as planned. We were outmatched by the bruins and our defense was abysmal. I don’t blame Carey Price, he’s inexperienced, but he was also hung out to dry. Last nights game, the first goal by Ryder was a beautiful pass, I think the defenseman forgot Ryder now plays for the Bruins.
Well, it will be an interesting off season anyway.
Jesse
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Let’s start at the beginning. I was driving to work listening to the local morning show with “Matt and Chicken”, interesting I know. Anyway, they had a guest on that I was pretty sure I knew, but couldn’t figure out who it was. I surmised that it was Jeremy Hotz, but he wasn’t doing material so it was hard to tell. They got to the end of the segment and it was indeed Jeremy Hotz and he’s here in Australia doing a tour at different comedy festivals. I was on my way to work and didn’t think anything of it until I got home. I looked it up and it showed that he was in Melbourne that night through until Saturday. I looked into getting tickets for the friday show, but it would have been very stressful getting to Melbourne in time for it. By chance I noticed a showing at a different location. Even though it had said Melbourne, there was in fact a show in Geelong, but it was one night only and in 3 hours. I tried booking online, but it was too late, I called up the theatre and there were still seats, I bought them and we went.
Yes, that was a long intro that could have been summed up with “We went to a comedy show in Geelong featuring Jeremy Hotz”. Anyway, He was there with 3 other comedians, one other Canadian, a Montrealer, Sugar Sammy (actually very funny), the MC was an Irish guy who’s name I have forgotten, but he was also quite funny. The last act was a bit of a disappointment, but the night in general was great.
I’ll leave you with one of the “jokes” The Irish guy came on and asked the audience how Geelong was pronounced Gee or Guy (as in the french name). It’s neither of these, but the audience played along and apparently in Ireland, Gee (Guy) is slang for vagina, so he went on to say that Geelong is just a long vagina.
Jesse
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So, it seems as though the life of a camera in the hands of Amy is a little over a year. It’s not her fault, they just tend to break after that period. Then I decide that I might be able to fix it because it would cost as much as the camera is worth to fix it, and end up making it worse. This has happened once before, and alas has happened again. So we set out to get a new camera. Oh this isn’t to replace the DSLR (High Quality Camera), this is the day to day (bar night) camera. We actually found a great deal, it’s an older model Nikon coolpix, but it was only $158 australian, which last month was around $120 canadian, but the dollar has had a bit of a swing lately and is now close to $140 Canadian. But, since I bought it with money made while in Australia, that really doesn’t matter.
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So we’ve been in Australia for 5 months now and this has been my first kangaroo sighting, although it wasn’t by chance I did go and seek them out. Kangaroos are quite similar deer in Canada and they roam the golf courses. I went on a road trip with a couple of my friends from uni. down the Great Ocean Road where we stopped for lunch in a beautiful place called Lorne where they make a delicious chicken parmi. On our way back from Lorne we stopped in Anglesea at the golf course where the kangaroos are known to frequent. Picture this...four girls roaming around the rough in the trees looking for some kangaroos. To our delight we found what I assume to be a family of them munching away. To be honest I was a little scared after watching a discovery channel special on when animals attack. But luckily these ones were nice and friendly and just watched us take their pictures. Seeing those kangaroos has made my day...now all I need to see are some koalas and I’ll be delighted.
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I have now officially started my 2 weeks of holiday. My first round of placement was wonderful, the kids were great and I learned a lot being at the school. I now have 2 weeks off to finish up a few assignments and get ready for my next lot of teaching rounds. First comes a week at uni to recap and talk about what we saw at our schools, and then I’m 4 weeks at this school and then well I’M FINISHED!! That’s right...only until the beginning of June until I a completely finished and a qualified teacher!! Something to think about really...
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Jesse and I had our first footy experience...watching the Geelong Cats play the Hawthorn Hawks, a rematch perhaps of last years Grand Final. (Footy a mix between soccer and rugby, but then not at all really.) We had amazing seats, right behind the goal only 30 rows up right in the action! At the MCG with almost 70, 000 people there. The intensity in the atmosphere was unreal! We wanted a close match...however when it came down to it, it was a little too close for comfort. Geelong was up 103 to 66 in the third quarter but Hawthorn came back in the fourth making to 111 for the Cats and 103 for the Hawks. The last 10 minutes of the fourth everyone was on the edge of their seat. THE CATS TAKING IT IN THE END!!!
I had my very first casino experience as well last night, it was all a little overwhelming. Unfortunately luck wasn’t on our side, I think I’ll leave it at that.
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Rob arrived Tuesday just in time to celebrate Jesse’s birthday Wednesday. Perfect timing really. We made a delicious dinner of beer can chicken, green beans and roasted potatoes, YUM. Oh and of course chocolate cake. We had a pretty low key evening...having the real celebration tonight, heading out with a few friends with the key focus of getting Jesse nice and drunk. Pictures will be posted later of this evening.
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March 17th, St. Patrick’s Day. Seems to be a good night wherever you are. We went out with our neighbours to a local Irish Pub “Irish Murphy’s”. They had blocked off a section of the street and were serving Guinness on Tap outside right below that big sign.
We both had to work the next day so we went there fairly early and were home rather early, but it was still a great time.
Well that’s about it for now
Rob comes Tuesday!
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On Monday of this week I had a pretty long day at work, it has been followed up by two relatively easy days which has evened it out, but I haven’t had a chance to blog until now, being that yesterday was St. Patrick’s Day.
Anyway, we had to do this one job putting up a massive marquee. 20M x 50M. 1000 square metres. Massive! Anyway, the day took a toll on my five senses. First of all it was at a horse training facility, so everything smelled like Horse poo, Attack on my smell!! Next, the work itself was hard and made my back really sore and I rolled my ankle too, Attack on my sense of touch!! It was overcast at the beginning of the day, but the sun came out and while putting up such a large marquee, you inevitable have to look up a lot and right into the sun, Attack on my sight!! In each leg of the 20 x 50 marquee, 24 legs in total there are 4 long pegs that are about the diametre of a quarter and a metre long. These are put in with a jackhammer and makes a tremendous noise. No ear protection that day, Attack on my hearing!! Lastly, I didn’t think I would have trouble with my sense of taste, but it was destined to fail me as well. This one is a little weak, but it completes the package, so I say it counts. My roast beef sandwich that I had for lunch was a little suspect and tasted a bit like it had gone bad, Attack on my taste!!
There you have it, all my senses had a bad day monday, but everything is good now.
Until next time...
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