an aussie accent

this bloke was introducing the John Butler Trio and we took a video cuz he is your typical aussie bloke....a real blokey bloke...haha

John Mayer

We went to the west coast blues and roots festival last weekend and fell in loev with john mayer after this performance! his was the best act over the whole weekend!!

Still alive and kickin'

I haven't posted anything in a while, cuz i have been super super busy. I had my first full week of prac teaching last week in a grade 3 class full of iliterate aboriginal children. I'm teaching in the worst suburb in perth, with the lowest literacy rate and lowest socio-economic area....and so far, I love it!!

my first day teaching a lesson was really really rough and I came home in tears, but the days after that were so good!!! I was actually able to teach the kids the concept of repeated addition and they understood it!!!

I'm on my mid semester break right now, and i can hopefully send a better update soon. In the mean time, i just wanted everyone to know that I have changed my photo website. I will now be posting my aussie pics on http://photos.yahoo.com/snewton_82

I went to a 2 day music festival last weekend and saw tons of wicked aussie bands, plus John Mayer, Ben Harper...sooo fun!!! (pics will be up soon)

I had a big end of term party at my house on thursday night and my whole Uni class came and my friend's band played in the living room! i added pics of that, and some from the past few weeks...

hope everyone is doing well! i'm heading over to rottnest island for a couple of days for some relaxation and snorkelling, but hope to add more pics soon!

xoxox cheers!

sarah

scarborough beach #3

sunday beach day #2

sunday session at scarborough beach

Oot and Aboot Wine Tour

Last Saturday me, my roommate Anette, Dale and friend Chris went on the "Out and About Wine Tour" (or the "OOT and ABOOT" as we called it). The tour bus picked us up at 9:00am, and we drove to the Swan Valley wine region to visit 5 wineries, a brewery and a choclate factory......yes, it was as much trouble as it sounds!!!

There were about 15 of us in total....most of the people were 20year old-ish girls from Scotland that are here working. We were all very reserved at the beginning, but after a few wineries that changed!!!

All the wineries we visited were family run, and we sampled white, reds, rose and lots of port! Each winery also gave us a ton of cheese and crackers, and when I asked the tour guide, Claude if the cheese was supossed to compliment the wine, his reply was "nope, it's just to fill your stomach so you don't throw up" hahahaha....ummmm ok. At each vineyard we sampled about 15 different wines, and I actually learned a lot about the different types and now know for sure that i'm a white wine drinker!

The best wine was at the Windy Esates, and we all took a great wine home for $10. Chesters Micro Bewery was the last place we visited, and of course that's where Anette and I ran into our gorgeous landlord!!! I haven't mentioned him before, but now is the perfect time to introduce him..... Anette and I are renting a house from 2 gorgeous 30 year old doctors that bought the house to eventually turn into their private practice. Until they get their permit approved by the council, they are renting to us....very cheap I might add....so, everytime they call us or come by the house, Anette and I tranfrom from our usual mature, sensible selves (haha....feel free to laugh here) into giggling, blushing 12 year old girls....these doctors are soooo sooo wonderful! Not only are the gorgeous, but sooo nice and funny too! and they one that calls me about rent etc...always says "hey sarah, its paul....remember? the good looking one? " hahaha....ok, i digress.....back tot eh original story....

so there we are sitting in the brewery, 5 wineries down....it's 3pm....a crowd of 30-something guys walk in and I say to Anette "doctor, doctor?"....the crowd parts....and there he is....the cuter of the two doctors walking towards us hahahha....Anette and I don't function well on a regualar day talking to him, so you can imagine our giggling and stuttering at that point hahaha.....it was all very funny and after he left dale said wanted to know who he was and why our faces were so red! hehehehe

next was the chocolate factory, where I ran into a guy from my class who was there with his mother and his kids hahaha....The bus ride back to the city was much much louder than it was at 9am!!! all the scottish girls wanted us to go to the pub with them since it was only 4:30 pm! So off we went to Tiger Lilly's to play drnking games.....I was in bed by 9:30 that night!!! hahaha

Next day was our usual sunday routine as Anette and I spent the day at Scarborough beach playing in the waves....I have lots of pics and some really really funny videos I will add!!!!

grrrrreat weekend!

xoxoxo sarah