ahhhh back to school!

Yay, finally the kids are back at school after the long summer holidays! They are just too long I think, for both them and adults. Mika is now grade 4 and Coday 2 and they are both very excited about being back! I feel sorry for them having to wear uniforms and sit in class in this heat though-it is just awful! Not as bad as down south though-down in Adelaide they have been having around 40degrees and a lot of bushfires! It is still bloody hot here though!
Mika came home the first afternoon and informed me that she has swimming the first semester now that she is year 4 and she has a camp too! Goody goody, more money to have to come up with, swimming was $60 last year and goodness only knows how much camp will be! I will send her though as she is very excited about it all. Parent/teacher interviews for both are on next week.
I am rostered on for tuckshop next Thursday but I won't be able to do it as I have managed to get some cleaning work. I am not saying no to paid work to do volunteer work-sorry tuckshop! I HATE cleaning work but until I have my degree there is not much else that I can do or rather not much else that I am likely to get a go with!
I have been doing some much needed soul searching over the last couple of weeks and decided that I REALLY do not want to teach. Late last year I decided that I was not going to teach but then I decided to stick with my original degree but then this week I decided once and for all that teaching is really not for me. I thought it was ok in Japan but they were only very small classes, I don't want to do it for the rest of my life and teaching a class of high school kids would be a complete shock to the system! Soooo I have decided that I will continue with just the languages/linguistics part of my degree and hopefully I can get a decent job with that! I REALLY love linguistics and learning Japanese, even though my progress in spoken Japanese is rather slow lately! I have a lot of work to do.
We have been having some trouble in the family recently, my cousin is a deadbeat drunk (yahoo) and has been saying some really awful stuff about other family members. This stuff is not the kind that can be laughed off easily........ My cousin needs a good swift kick up the ass and a complete reality check, man I hate what alcohol does to people! She was a fairly decent person before she became an alco!
Last night we pissed off the old lady next door-yikes! Cody and Mika had a fight (yeah I know, what's new?!!) and Cody was screaming at the absolute top of his lungs, just screaming! His window was open, and you guessed it, directly opposite her living room windows which unfortunately were wide open. ERRRRR I quickly shut the boys' window as she was shutting hers with a foul look on her face, I said sorry but she just gave me a look that could kill and I gave up.........

I feel wooooonderful!!!!!!!!!!!

Why you may ask???? Because, I have FINALLY figured out how to ...........post piccies!!!! I feel so proud of myself! Took awhile but I did it! Yahoo! Watch out, there's no stopping me now!hehe I will post some piccies of the kids.....

I HAVE A NEW COMPUTER AT LAST!!!!

YAHOO! I am just sooooooo excited and having lots of fun playing around and discovering all the things that I can do now that I have a computer that actually works! I was going to try and save money by using the computers at Uni but I figured that since you can't get near them when it gets near exam time and since I will probably have to do a good deal of my work at night I decided that it was a necessary purchase. So I finally bit the bullet and got one! I am one happy camper right now! I might be able to finally post some pictures! hehe

January is already half gone!!!!

Yikes, I just realised yesterday that January 2006 is already half gone! It seems that this year too will zoom by before we know it!
We are back from the Gold Coast now and we had a nice time there-was nice to be able to cool off in a pool for a few days. We went to Wetnwild, a theme park here and it is choccas full of water play; slides, pools, fake waves, whirlpools.......it was a lot of fun! There was a special section for the under 10s called Buckaneer Bay and it had all sorts of stuff for the littlest pirates to do. One thing that was there was this huge bucket which periodically filled up and emptied out all over everyone which usually resulted in a lot of screaming! Conor HATED the bucket and even if he could only hear it he started freaking out but a nice hug each time he noticed it put him at ease again! Conor totally loved the water there and was all over the place-every time I took my eyes off him for 2 seconds usually resulted in- "oh no, where is he now?"!! He is just soooo quick, gave me many heart flutters for sure!! Of course Mika and Cody had the time of their lives too and did not want to leave when it was the end of the day.........
Next week it is back to school time already for Mika and Cody-year 4 for Mika and 2 for Cody, they are looking forward to it. Conor is at a different day care now as the other one was getting too expensive and I wasn't happy with the quality of care there in the last couple of months of last year. Conor seems to have settled in well and loves it, and the director there knows my aunty which is reassuring to me! If only the potty training would only proceed as smoothly!! One step at a time I guess!!

Congratulations Andrea and Li!

Congratulations Andrea and Li on finally getting your visa, that must be a relief to say the least!!! I am so happy for you! I haven't been on the net much lately so haven't had a chance to leave any comments on your blog or even to read much of it but am looking forward to a long read real soon!! Now you have all the packing etc to look forward to...........