I am finally better, the garlic remedy worked for a little while, and I think helped open the airways, but it took another two days to run its course.

I got my new placement, am going to be at a boys middle school. It should be an interesting experience, I don't remember much about what boys were like at this stage of school, I didn't start taking any notice of boys until at least year 10. At least this time I have plenty of notice this time, I can go to the school beforehand and meet the teacher and the classes so that I can get better organised, and know what kinds of things I'll be teaching for three weeks. This placement is 15 days.

Today is a lazy day, I'm still in my P.J's laying around. There is big contraversy on T.V over the end of the football, no-one can hear the siren, usually it's really loud, but someone must have turned it down, or something was wrong with the sound. The most contraversial thing is that it resulted in a draw. It will be interesting to see it discussed this week. Everyone is very confused.

Cures that taste bad

I had a remedy suggested to me by Steph, who lives with me. She said that I should eat a garlic clove, better than taking garlic tablets. So first she made roast chicken, and roasted heaps of garlic, and the next day I felt a lot better, my nose cleared up and then it was just a head ache and funny throat. But it came back yesterday, and my nose was all blocked and it was making it hard to sleep. Not to mention my nose is all sore from blowing my nose heaps. SO this morning I thought that I would try eating more garlic cloves to see what it would do. It was hard though, trying to swallow bit of garlic with my weetbix. Ugh. Yet, my nose is now clear, and my throat feels a lot better. Half an hour and I felt better. I can still taste the garlic in my mouth though... its not a remedy I would try convince many people of.

My cat loves me. My new haircut looks pretty good too.

Uni

Do you know that I only have five more weeks of uni before I am back on break again? I feel like I am always on holiday. Then after the five weeks, I have six weeks off, and then placement for three weeks.

I taught piano yesterday, and it went really well. The students made great progress during the week, and it was easy to teach them more about music. They remembered the facts that I taught them.

I have been really sick this week, I felt like I had a sandbag on my head when I laid down to go to sleep. Steph cooked chicken for dinner the other night, and roasted me heaps of garlic that I ate whole. I'm not sure if it made the difference, but the next day it was almost gone. I still have lingering effects, but should be gone by tomorrow.

SIck of being sick

Ohhhhh, I am sick sick sick. My head it all blocked up with stuff, and I can't get my nose to clear at all! I hope that it goes away soon. Sudafed isn't having much effect, neither is the panadol.

Never the less, it is Netty's 21st, and I am going to get out of my P.J's and go into town with her and steph and aaron. I think we are going bowling. That should be fun.

My kitty is sitting here with me watching me type. I love my kitty.

Living with Mark is so far pretty good, everyone is adjusting to having someone else in the house, it's easy cause mark doesn't take up that much room. I watched a movie today in my cinema room, its just fantastic. I watched the Notebook, it is sooooooo sad and romantic, I love it.

Home Theater

Oh Broadband is a wonderful thing, no more waiting around for five minutes hoping the page will load. Now, click and you're there!

You should see the set up in mine and mark's room now; stereo, 106cm plasma t.v, dvd recorder, surround sound. Its like having your own cinema. Everything is sooooo big now! Pity we couldn't get an advert editor, then we would be really cool. I think that we will be watching a lot more dvd's now.

Netty's birthday tomorrow! Yay, 21!

Ahhhhhhhhh!! I haven't been blogging for ages, I am back at home now and using a dial-up connection at the moment. I swear it took me 15 minutes to get the page to load just so I could sit here thinking about what I am going to write. Inspiration fails me some times, and I think that I don't have the energy to post something. There is always something to write about, its just it seems a lot of effort to then go and write it all down.

My kitty, Felix, is growing up beautifully. She really is a georgeous cat, its sitting on my lap at the moment, in a daze, looking up at me.

I am on holidays this week, still in P.J's and its after midday! I have done some washing and the dishes though... so not all bad!

Mark has moved in with me, and he is working very hard this week. He hated the store he was in, and is liking this manager a lot better. He has had a few weeks off work on sick leave with depression, living by himself in a strange little country town didn't suit him so well.

T.V is so horrible at the moment, I need more dvd's or more x-box games. Netty and Aaron are back from their little holiday in the country this week, and are bringing some cool games with them.

The kitchen is very full now that we have another person in the house. The old crappy fridge we have at the moment was often full to bursting with four of us in the house, so with an extra I got Mark to bring down his old fridge, and we decided to keep it as well as the old crappy one. As long as they still work they are good fridges. Until I have my own house somewhere then they will do nicely.

Co-incidently my room, with another person in it, seems less full. I have thrown out a LOT of stuff, or I just haven't gotten it all back yet from wherever I stored it. I'm washing the sheets today, but otherwise I've been able to make the bed when I get out of it. (well, eventually).

Promise not to let it go so long before the next post. XO.

If you haven't seen this show, you are missing out. I have only managed to see it on T.V a few times, but it really appeals to me.

This is the best site I have managed to find yet.

http://simplebliss.net/dontpanic

Placement

I have been staying in the country for a few weeks, I am out on my first placement at a highschool, seeing how the other half works. I like the role of the teacher, and the few classes I have taught so far have worked relatively well. There have been some things that I can improve, but the teachers I am working with have given me so much help and information. I don't know how they can give up their classes and let me teach them, and make a mess of it. But I guess that they are all not far out of school themselves, and they are giving back what they had when they were student teachers themselves.

Today I am teaching kids to play chords on guitar. Not to mention that I can't really play guitar myself besides the 4 chords I am teaching them today, but by the next class I will have to have learnt something else. I taught a theory class yesterday, and I felt really good about it, the class didn't go wild, and I think that they learnt something. The other class, the discussion, didn't go so well, I rushed through the discussion because I was so nervous. I still feel a bit funny about it, because I stopped talking when I got to the end of the notes, and realised that I should have taken more time. I have to get rid of this feeling that I failed a little. Because the discussion went well, I got answers to my questions and they didn't talk too much.

Its Marks birthday on saturday. Yay! he'll be 24. oooooh, old.