New look Amy, but will it make her blog more?

Amy does apologize for her absence from the blogosphere. Ok, she didn’t use the word blogosphere, I added that one. She is insanely busy with school and becoming a magnificent teacher. (Those were her words(ok, maybe not!) They are true nonetheless.

Sidebar: How did nonetheless get the status of a single word, it’s obviously not, it’s three separate words. Or, nevertheless, something fishy is going on there somewhere. I use them, but I maintain that if a word has “the” in the middle of two other words, it’s not a real word.

Alright, that’s enough of that for now. Oh yeah, the picture above, Amy got a hair cut (well she cut all of them actually) and also it seems mysteriously darker. Oh, well for you guys it doesn’t really matter, it’ll be different by the time we get back anyway, but I suppose it’s still news.

Oh, how about people make Amy feel guilty and leave a whole bunch of comments asking her how her teaching is going? Yeah?

until next time, or maybe Amy will finally pull up her socks.

Jesse

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Rugby..... League??

I was invited by one of my work friends to go to a Rugby League match in Melbourne. The Melbourne Storm Vs. the Canberra Tigers. We cheered for Canberra at my friends insistence because he hated Melbourne. Three of us went and we had some drinks and argued with some Melbourne Fans for fun, some got angry and left, others took it lightly. It could have been because Canberra lost by 30 some odd points.

Already, here comes the technical bit. In Australia (my research has shown in many other countries as well) there are two types of rugby. Rugby League and Rugby Union. Rugby Union being the game we know and love in Canada (apologies to the people who know little about rugby).

Here are the differences as far as I can tell. There is no rucking over (this is the big one), instead, when a player is tackled, the defending team must back up 10 metres and a player on the offensive will move the ball out again. They only have 5 attempts at this, if they get tackled on the 6th attempt, it is a turnover.

The rest of the gameplay is similar, there are scrums and the movement of the ball up the field remains the same, but there are only 13 players on the field instead of 15. And there are no Line-outs. If the ball goes into touch, a scrum is held with one of the teams putting the ball in. (I couldn’t figure out what determined who gets to put the ball in the scrum.

Anyway, after the loss, we headed back to Geelong on the train. It was a good night, work the next morning was less than good.

Jesse

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Who Wouldn't Hire us?

The Job search starts again, or continues I suppose, but with more urgency. Amy will be finishing up her program in early June just a few days before the last day I’m legally allowed to work where I currently am working.

My Australian Visa only allows me to work with the same company for a maximum of 6 months and that deadline is June 9th for me.

The job market is a little sparse right now, so I’m going to have to call up a bunch of places and really look for work where it isn’t being advertised I think. Hard to do right now as I am still working everyday, but I’ll start this weekend I think.

I really don’t want to have a transition period between jobs, have to pay the rent and all. Amy is also looking, but it’s a little harder for her as she can’t start until the 5th of June while if I find another Job I can just leave my current one or still do a couple of shifts for the marquee place while I start a new job.

Here’s hoping this isn’t too frustrating a time.

Here’s a quote, (well it is now, I’ve just written it)

If finding a job was my full-time job, I think I’d quit.

I hate looking for work, even a bad job is better than that period while you’re searching.

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Amy's Back

Amy has made it back to Australia and she’s right back into the thick of it. Not 12 hours after arriving back in Geelong, she was in the classroom teaching little gaffers. And she had lots to do on the weekend, I’ll let her tell you all about her art preparations, haha.

Made some salsa today, almost took my thumb off doing it too, stupid knife.

Not much more to say, I have the day off tomorrow which is nice after having so many days in a row that I worked.

Talk to you soon

Jesse

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Anybody Still out there?

I realize that keeping a blog is intended to continually update people on whatever the topic may be. Alas, we have neglected this responsibility and I hope that we have not lost any followers because of it. A lot has gone on since the Habs perished in the first round, even aside from Hockey.

I have uploaded some pictures to this site, click here to see them.

We went to our second Footy match to see Geelong absolutely embarrass the visiting Adelaide. It was a cold wet game, and there was no doubt after the first 20 minutes that Geelong was going to win handily, but that didn’t stop the full stadium of Geelong supporters sticking it out in the cold rain for the entire game, us included. You can see us all bundled up in our seat in the pictures.

I have been working a lot lately, which is both good and bad, I fear that it may lead to a period of less work, so I have to remain frugal with the money I have made. As most of you know, Amy made the voyage back to Canada. She went the wrong way too, making her flight even further, but allowing her to say that she has travelled all the way around the world.

Back to what we have been doing. Amy’s classmate had a party for her course to celebrate something or other. We went and they had a karaoke machine set up, it was quite entertaining, have a look at the pictures for an idea, not sure if there is a video, not sure I would show you if there was.

Alright, I will leave it at that for now, but have a look at the pictures.

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