Well, as you can tell from the title of this blog, it's bloody hot here. Today was the hottest day in March EVER! I watched the news last night, and Perth was the hottest city in all of Australia both yesterday and today. Even hotter than the middle of the outback! only 30 degrees there!
So, yes it's extremely hot and we have no air-con and neither do most of the buses that I take to school. Last night my roommate Anette and i lay on the couches in our bathers (bathing suits) with 2 fans facing us, watching horrible tv and unable to talk to each other because we were so hot. We also had a frozen water bottle that we each took turns hugging until we were sure we had frostbite. My other roommate hasn't been around since the heatwave started on sunday and has been staying at her boyfriend's.....I have a sneaking suspicion that her boyfriend has air con....lucky girl!!! An aussie friend of mine told me that in the middle of summer she sleeps with a wet towel to keep her cool at night, I had a good laugh when I heard that one....until I tried it and it worked!!! hahaha
hmmm....what else....we had a fun housewarming party last Saturday with all the new people we've met and then spent sunday at the beach recovering....some of the pics i'm posting might be repeats from the last entry...sorry.
I found out about my practicum placement for school....starting next week I will spend every wednesday in a year 2 class, then will eventually spend 2 weeks at a time in the class.....and i must admit, I am scared to death!!!! My classes are going well, lots of work, but it's really simple/practical work. one of my classes is called "teaching with specialist support" and the class is split into 3 groups. One group goes to Art class, one to Music class and the last group to Phys-ed for a 4 week block, then we rotate. Right now I am in the phys-ed class and each tuesday we have class from 8:39-11:30am and I am having a very tough time coming to terms with the fact that we are in university and playing games!!! For the first part of the class we are taught about children's physical development, motor skills, fundamental movements, hand eye coordination etc....then we all put on our gym shoes and play games that are suitable for primary children, and learn how to teach these skills and games to the kids.
Yesterday we paired up and worked on movement skills needed for over hand throwing, kicking a football, rolling a ball and running. Then we played a game of volleyball where we were allowed to let the ball hit the floor to make it easy for kids. Finally we ended the lesson by playing a simplified version on CRICKET. can i just tell you that cricket is an obsession here (along with footie) just like the hockey obsession in Canada. I don't know the first thing about cricket and I was up to bat and the bases were loaded (just like baseball) and one of the guys in my class yells at the top of his lungs "DO IT FOR CANADA SARAH!!!!" and of course i swung and missed and only tipped the ball about one inch off the plate. hahahah talk about embarrassing!
tomorrow (thursday) is my last day of class for the week since I have fridays off!! On Saturday i'm going on a wine tour with some friends to the swan valley and get to visit 5 wineries (all you can drink), a brewery and a chocolate chocolate factory! fun times :-)
So, yes it's extremely hot and we have no air-con and neither do most of the buses that I take to school. Last night my roommate Anette and i lay on the couches in our bathers (bathing suits) with 2 fans facing us, watching horrible tv and unable to talk to each other because we were so hot. We also had a frozen water bottle that we each took turns hugging until we were sure we had frostbite. My other roommate hasn't been around since the heatwave started on sunday and has been staying at her boyfriend's.....I have a sneaking suspicion that her boyfriend has air con....lucky girl!!! An aussie friend of mine told me that in the middle of summer she sleeps with a wet towel to keep her cool at night, I had a good laugh when I heard that one....until I tried it and it worked!!! hahaha
hmmm....what else....we had a fun housewarming party last Saturday with all the new people we've met and then spent sunday at the beach recovering....some of the pics i'm posting might be repeats from the last entry...sorry.
I found out about my practicum placement for school....starting next week I will spend every wednesday in a year 2 class, then will eventually spend 2 weeks at a time in the class.....and i must admit, I am scared to death!!!! My classes are going well, lots of work, but it's really simple/practical work. one of my classes is called "teaching with specialist support" and the class is split into 3 groups. One group goes to Art class, one to Music class and the last group to Phys-ed for a 4 week block, then we rotate. Right now I am in the phys-ed class and each tuesday we have class from 8:39-11:30am and I am having a very tough time coming to terms with the fact that we are in university and playing games!!! For the first part of the class we are taught about children's physical development, motor skills, fundamental movements, hand eye coordination etc....then we all put on our gym shoes and play games that are suitable for primary children, and learn how to teach these skills and games to the kids.
Yesterday we paired up and worked on movement skills needed for over hand throwing, kicking a football, rolling a ball and running. Then we played a game of volleyball where we were allowed to let the ball hit the floor to make it easy for kids. Finally we ended the lesson by playing a simplified version on CRICKET. can i just tell you that cricket is an obsession here (along with footie) just like the hockey obsession in Canada. I don't know the first thing about cricket and I was up to bat and the bases were loaded (just like baseball) and one of the guys in my class yells at the top of his lungs "DO IT FOR CANADA SARAH!!!!" and of course i swung and missed and only tipped the ball about one inch off the plate. hahahah talk about embarrassing!
tomorrow (thursday) is my last day of class for the week since I have fridays off!! On Saturday i'm going on a wine tour with some friends to the swan valley and get to visit 5 wineries (all you can drink), a brewery and a chocolate chocolate factory! fun times :-)
well, it's 5:00pm here and i am sitting in a pool of sweat (lovely visual, i know) so I am off to the beach to jump in the ocean to cool down.
love , sarah!!!
.... here are a couple pics, the rest are at http://www.ballofdirt.com/members/69530.html
love , sarah!!!
.... here are a couple pics, the rest are at http://www.ballofdirt.com/members/69530.html
2 comments:
The joy of cricket is that you can just stand there all day as long as that thingee doesnt fall down. I say why even swing? :p
is it literally a chocolate factory MADE OF chocolate?! cuz with that kind of heat, i don't suspect that it will be standing for long and that by the time you get tehre, you'll only be licking the building off the ground :P you know.. like when homer got that sugar pile in the backyard and it started raining??
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