What's in a Name?

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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Canadians Taking Comedy Down Under: Content Warning

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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HAPPY EASTER

HAPPY EASTER

Wishing you all a very Happy Easter. 

Jesse and I had our own little easter egg hunt this morning and this is the loot. Easter dinner tonight a yummy roast, and chocolate cake. 

X Amy 

New Camera

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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Great Ocean Road Animal adventure Pics

I posted the pictures of our animal adventure with Rob on the great ocean road. They can be accessed by clicking the “GOC” link.

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Great Ocean Road Animal Adventure

Here are some pictures of our furry little friends from the trip; 

Jesse, Rob and myself drove The Great Ocean Road this past weekend with the hopes of seeing as many Australian animals as possible, and I'm happy to report that WE DID!!! We saw loads of kangaroos, and koalas and one lonely echidna while we were enjoying the view of the 12 Apostles. We stayed in a hostel overlooking the ocean which was wonderful!  Met lots of interesting people, a group of 9 Irish girls, 2 guys from Sweden and 1 guy from Holland and 2 couples from England. Had a few drinks with them and then came back to Geelong, but chose not to take The Great Ocean Road back...all the twists and turns wouldn't have helped our state.  

X Amy 

We’ve been in Australia for 5 months

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.

X
Amy

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One Down, two to go

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...

X Amy

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CATS vs. HAWKS

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.

X Amy

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Jesse Turns 24

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.

X Amy

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St. Patrick's Day

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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Attack on my senses

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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Don't Drink Drive

Saturday March 14, 2009 

Here in Australia they don't call it "Drinkin

g and Driving" just "drink driving".  This goes along with their constant need to shorten everything.  Here are a few more examples. 

speedometre becomes speedo

service station becomes servo 

and the list goes on and on. 

But, back to the point of the post.  On our trip down the great ocean road we got stopped by what we would call a "ride" program.  They call it a booze bus or something like that.  They do it a little differently here though.  Instead of stopping everyone and talking to them and only breathalyzing a few if they suspect alcohol, they only pull over a few and breathalyze everyone they pull over.  

So we got pulled over and I had to blow into the breathalyzer.  I hadn't had anything to drink so they just waved me on.  They didn't check a license or registration or anything. 

Also, in Australia it is perfectly legal for the passenger to be drinking as much as they want while driving.  

Jesse 

NEW UPDATES!!!

Alright so it's been brought to our attention that some of you on dial-up aren't able to load the new blog so since we want everyone to know what we're doing we've decided that we are going to post on both blogs. So no worries no one will be missing out on anything, we are going to try and keep you all up to date from now on.  

X miss you all Amy 

New Blog Address

http://web.me.com/jwootton/Site/Blog/Blog.html

New blog address

I've decided to switch the blog address to make it easier to share pictures and such.

Also it looks a lot cooler.

I am a little worried that those of you on dial up may not be able to view it as fast, if that is the case I may abandon it and remain on here for blogging,

the new address is

http://web.me.com/jwootton/Site/Blog/Blog.html

try it out and let me know

Jesse

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We just drove the great ocean road.

Stopped in a little town on our way back to Geelong after our long drive. We have some amazing pictures. We'll get those uploaded when we can

Cheers everyone

Jesse

4 am start tomorrow

Hi everyone, well I start work at 4am tomorrow, that's noon your time, I'm going to try to follow the trades that go on, but it might be hard.  If anyone wants to email me any significant ones tomorrow that would be appreciated. 

So, I've been working a lot, but it's Labour Day this weekend, so a long weekend.  Yeah, that's right it's Labour Day this weekend.

I definitely haven't had time to post the pictures yet, hopefully this weekend. 

The wind was ridiculous today, Scaigren could have done 10 knots with just the mast.

Cheers everyone, it's 8 pm and I'm going to get ready for bed.

Jesse

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You Yangs

On Saturday, Amy and I went to the you yangs, a mountain of sorts outside Geelong. It was a nice clear day and we took a drive up and around the mountain, then stopped and had a BBQ lunch. Then headed up the 40 minute hike to the apex. From the top you can see all the way to melbourne as well as all of Geelong.

We took a ridiculous amount of pictures (385). I'll post some later when I sort them out.

watch out for the poop volcano

What comes to mind????

I feel as though that title needs a little explaining...so in the mail the other day we get this later stating that there will be some work being done on the sewage system which could cause a minor inconvenience, however they suggested that we make sure the lid of our toilet was weighted down for 3 months! Just incase they had to pressurize the system and well you can figure out the rest. We found it rather hilarious that their classification of a minor inconvenience would be a resulting poop volcano.  I've decided to start practicing putting the weight on the toilet seat in the off chance that I forget when the work starts.  However they did say there was a very minor chance of that occurring, HOWEVER I don't think we should test it.

So I've survived my first week of placement.  The children in my class are lovely and I think we are getting along fairly well.  There are about 10 of us at this particular school so there's a lot of support.  I am having a hard time remembering that I have an accent and they I need to slow myself down when talking to the class because they have a hard time understanding me.  Other than that though things are going wonderful.  I teach my first lesson on Monday, it's a small group guided reading lesson and then Tuesday I'll be teaching a guided writing lesson.  It's all very exciting and just zooming by really.  I've got 4 more weeks at this school and by the end of that I should be teaching for an entire day...EEEKKK I'll have to keep you posted and let you know how it's going.  

I'm still swamped with assignments as well...but they are slowly coming together which is nice.  We've actually all been given extensions for most of them, however I've chosen not to take them because I want to get them done and over with so I can focus all of my attention on my students. So I should get back at it, keep commenting we love reading them! 

x

Amy