then, Monday night was my first night with the Simon Community where i did a street cafe and streetwork... the cafe is just serving, tea, coffee, soup, and rollies to the homeless people who come to the aldwich and chatting to them. then, streetwork is wandering through the streets in a pair giving sandwiches, coffee and rollies to people we come across on the street. (was good... don't know if i agree with the rollies, but if you have had a crap day and have nothing to look forward to then i suppose a rollie is better than nothing). i am doing all of that again next monday too.
Tuesday was just my normal gym and biblestudy (although we are doing an awesome series in Biblestudy, reading through Road to Calvery by Roy Hessian, great book!!)
Wednesday, had a kid ask me a question in History (Tudors and Stuarts) that i couldn't answer. then the other kids were like, 'oh my days, this kid knows more than the teacher'... clang... now what do i do?? make a joke about it. I told them, that i am going to do a crash course this weekend (in prague, as that's where i will be) and then i will try and know more than the smart kid on monday. if i don't then he can teach the class.
On Wednesday, we also went to our staff meeting at the pub (with no agenda, quite nice) played 3 games of pool on team with the english teacher helen, i sunk the black ball to win 2 games (luck) and we lost the 3rd. then off to busabi eatthai restaurant for a lovely thai meal and then went to Jimeoin concert... the funniest thing i had seen in ages. Jimeoin was GREAT!!! sooooooooo funny. just kinda your humour on everyday things. but loved it!!! this was with Mark (good to see you again as always, thanks for a good night out) and two of his friends. oh and i got paid today... yay!!!
by thursday i was dead tired. met up with Alex and some of her friends to see Dave Strassman. HE WAS FABULOUS too... my goodness. Skipped spanish class (and apparently missed nothing but a waste of money, so kinda glad about that) and went to Islington area to see this ventriloquist guy http://www.puppetronics.com/ didn't realise who he is... it's a bit incorrect (politically and otherwise) but a great laugh!!! i even wrote down some of the lines that i loved...
...you've got cows that are mad, sheep that are cloned and birds that have the flu...
... i can't talk while he's laughing, i don't know why!...
... i wanna be in southpark so i can go to kill kenny... no, kilkenny is in ireland (derr)...
... you're american too... yeah, only because he can't do any other accents...
haa haa haa haa haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa... had me laughing at least!
and then, well, today was a great day at school (didn't really do much), still dead tired, so skipping the pub with friends... getting caught up with my blog (thus the update), watching neighbours, going to the gym, watching crocodile dundee and then maybe ummm, i dunno, an early night in order to get to the airport for a stupidly early flight tomorrow morning!
saturday/sunday... hopefully a lovely weekend in prague doing not a lot, but relaxing in a foreign city and reading over stupid tudors and stuarts stuff so i can know more than my smart kid on wednesday! hehe...
well, i think that is all for the blog, oh, by the way, spring is coming... the daffodils are out, trees are starting to bloom, the sun is starting to shine, it is GREAT!!! lovin it... bring on the spring!
and now, enjoy the photos!!!
clem, me and mat on our breakfast when i got back from oslo... louis is still asleep
and here he is... ahhh the sleeping angel... hehe...
jo, jeremy and two of their friends (sorry forgot their names) outside the walkie before The Cat Empire... good night hey!
nick and me eating a good aussie style meat pie at the walkabout
the cat empire putting on an awesomely good show... well done lads...
mark and me, doing what aussies do best (besides eating meat pies, or course)... drinking VB at the walkie before the cat empire... have i mentioned that it was a good night??
stu, mark, alex, karen and nick (token english at the walkie), after the Cat Empire Gig... what did you think of our aussie music nick??
tami and me having a bit of fun with her new mac computer... oh, check us out, we belong in an art gallery... a few photos there... enjoy them (hopefully almost as much as we did making them)... i think i'll get some of the others up on myspace (if i get around to it)
our ears are soooo warm =phope you enjoyed my posting...
love to you all,
deev
xxxxxxxxxxxxxx times a million
2 comments:
hey deev, as always you sound like you're leading such an adventurous life. who goes to prague to study for the weekend?! wish i could join you...one day soon. your smart kid sounds like a challenge. but be thankful that you don't have my challenging kid at the moment. she is attacking people like a lion (i.e. scratching, lunging, biting, screaming, extreme paranoia and anxiety). want to swap? anyway, love you and take care x x peace out...and to quote a famous UTS student "I'm just not feeling motivated today."
oh my goodness!!!!!!! helloooooooooooooooo lian!!!! how are you my dear friend?? it has been like since ever!
cheers for the text you sent me too... umm, no i don't want to swap, because I LOVE my job!! never been a fan of high school, but this school is great (and they don't mind that i didn't major in History, Geography OR RE... ha). sucks about your kids...
who on earth would say 'I'm just not feeling motivated today'??
my phrase that i am heard to say many-a morning is 'Do you know what? today, i just don't care!' usually said about 15 times to clement on the days i have slept in and am running late for school. (and of course haven't quite prepared my lessons etc etc...)
anyways, come visit me soon!!!
deev
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