The Heir Of Adelaide

Question is which is the rightful heir...

Or...

International Peace Day

I arrived to work on Friday to be greated with tribal drums, hundred of cranes hanging from trees and people everywhere. Somehow I had managed to forget that over 250 students from local schools were coming to the college for International Peace Day! It was ace!! I've never seen anything like it and if we could do it at Shenley it would be so wonderful!!!

There was a free BBQ (with over 600 sausages, burgers etc to cook) free coffee, tea and water. Free music - which the students provided... workshops in dances from all over the world. The Save the Children Foundation were there running workshops with the local primary kids and there was a whole section of the hall dedicated to making hundreds of cranes for peace.

It sounds strange but it had exactly the kind of atmosphere I would hope Matt and I's wedding would have. There were Balanese flags blowing in the wind. Everyone was outside enjoying the sun and the music wandering arounf with food in the hands or sitting and enjoying the view! Brilliant.

It's amazing when you think about what some of our students have been through. One poor woman who came to Oz recently from Sudan with her 2 chidlren found out that soldiers visited her village over the weekend (last weekend) and slit the throat of her mother, father and husband. How terrible and shocking that that can happen?? There are so many of the pupils who have witnessed things they should never had to have seen and it makes me very thankful that I am safe and that they are too. One things for sure: they certainly don't take peace for granted and enjoy the fact that they can celebrate it where they are now.

A case of Deja vu

It's here already. The time to pack up and leave is upon us. Granted we have to ship stuff a couple of months in advance but I am certain that the remaining 10 weeks will fly (they did the other end) We arrived with only 2 boxes, 2 suitcases and 2 guitars and are leaving with 4 boxes, 4 cases of wine, 2 suitcases, 2 guitars and 1 office chair (That's 13 items eik! 13!!! it's a good job i'm not superstitous! ;)
The boxes are packe d now anyway and the man is coming tommorrow to put it all in a container and then onto a boat. It will then spend the next couple of months at sea until it lands at my parents' house - at which point, no doubt Mum and Dad may have some valid concerns about where they are going to put all that stuff whilst we travel back! lol I'm afraid I have counted the wine though! Infact I have to list it all with alochol content for the Tax people who are charging us £3 a bottle to bring it into the UK! Cheeky buggers! Either way it'll still save us money in the long run. I think that make the celebratory bubbles for our weddding £9 each! lmao! Woo hoo! and it's soooooooooo tasty good! ;)

You will also note from the pictures here in that LOF still has not cut his hair. I believe he has left his Bon Jovi phase now and is entering an altogether different phase. I do have it on good authority that his first hair cut since last October will occur soon however. It's getting too hot! lol As soon as we find him underneath the fluff I'll send you a picture :)

Anyway time to label the boxes - Erasing the words Destination 'Brisbane, Australia' and replacing them with 'Worcs. UK'.
mmmm...

I love these songs at the moment...

I'm developing a lot of respect for Pink... At least she has the guts to mak political comments with her music and without making that comment ambiguous! I always wonder what Bush must feel when he hears it.

Australian Driving Vs UK

This was on a post on the Expats forum and it made me smile

The Royal Adelaide Show

LOF and I have had a really good day today. We spent it at the Royal Adelaide show. Imagine the Kings Norton Plant Show, the Three Counties Show, The May Day fair, a Fashion show, a bit of crufts and the equivalanet Cat shows and mix them all together and you'll have an idea of what the Adelaide Show consists of.

We got to see countless animals - which of course included lots of pigs, some dogs at the dog show, Cats and Kittens, some beautiful flowers and gardens that were on display and we heard and watched the fair ground rides going round and round!

The highlight of the day for me was the access to all those pigs!
They even have pig racing and pig diving on three times a day! How COOOoool! Check out the videos ...








There were of course some unusual farm animals on display likes these silkies... (the yellow and pink one)

They're like really fluffy chickens and are very cute! I don't think they're supposed to be that colour though. Something tells me that the farmer has died them. LOF told me that they used food colouring and then promptly added that this was so when you ate them the meat was also that colour! Tut tut!

There were also some baby emus and, much to LOF's delight, some Collies and Siberean Huskies to talk too! :) LOF was also very happy to discover that corn dogs are called "dagwood dogs" in these parts. He promptly ate one dipped in sauce whilst i tucked into a plate of "danish pancakes" mmmm tasty!


It was also really cool to wander around the horticultural bit and see what an Aussie spring garden might look like. There were some sensational flowers on show.








It was a lovely, sunny and blummin warm day!
Here's some Piglets to prove how wonderful it all was!

A warm feeling..

That's partly because today it is 24 degree and hot hot hot! lMAO and I've been stuck in various classrooms and offices all day instead of being outside enjoying it :)
But also because I have had a slight feeling of achievement today... something I haven't felt for a little while! lol
I've been asked to work with a college to train their staff in the ways of the IWB. Today, for the first time... instead of boards in corners I saw several instances of boards infront of rooms and had staff asking me to help them modify resources they'd found for their students! Yay!

I even managed to convinve one important member of staff that we should get rid of the data projector in the room as we had the IWB in their and enlited their help to rearrange the room. It felt right then! The IWB at the front with the PC attached and computers all around the edge of the room! (LS1!!!! LMAO) yay!
;)

No one is making the mistake of using the board to just project either.. they're all using it interactively!! WOO HOO! straight off! YAY! and i think i had something to do with that ;)

it's a nice feeling :)

And now my head is too big to fit out of this door! LMAO

By the way... PROMETHEAN RULE!
LMAO

A note or two

Well... we all know I love to sing.
Some of us know I pay money quarterly to a website so I can sing along..
Now they've created a new site called ww.YooSing.com!! and it's great fun. You stream the audio as on ww.singtotheworld.com but you can also record yourself on your webcam and enter online comps LMAO! ACE!

Look at this loser to start with!


LMAO ;)