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View the prompt for Haiku poetry and write a short poem.
Mine is about leaving the city.
Busy city street
awakens in the morning
I like silence best.
Friday, May 25, 2007
TEAM HORN!!!
Presenting the much awaited, super fantastic team horn. I played with the Diamond Valley Brass Band for this years National Championships and got along with the horn section. There is something special about horn sections and horn players that I just can't see in any other section! They all want to be us! Horn players are unique from the other instruments.
This was a great section, I am really sad that I wasn't in a position to be able to play for longer with them. Finishing uni and moving house was just too much to continue with them. I'll miss my section.
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Progress
This week has been a week for getting things done. I have posted off lots of applications for various things, had lots of meetings for my future, paid lots of bills, cleaned up the house, got the fire going well in the fire place, (it's still a little smokey in the loungeroom, hope I don't breathe it in too much) and even started packing up stuff.
Tomorrow is my last ever ever day of uni. I am not relaxed tomorrow until I walk out of the German class and then I am free for a while. Then a 3000 word essay on music, a spoken exam, and a written exam to go.
I'm going home to sign the papers with my new school, to talk about timetables and monies and band instruments and lots of interesting stuff like that. It's all stuff that will require a lot of work, but it's the work I want to be doing and now I am in control of it. I feel like THIS is finally where I can make lots of changes, teach a lot of people interesting things about music. I have all the answers this time cause I am in charge of the questions! And I will finally be moving into a permanant house that is mine. I can plan decorating, I can do a final organise of all the bathroom junk I have stored up over time. I have been able to do those things before, but always behind all the planning of how the house runs here has been the thought that it is temporary, it is only for a short while, so why bother? I'm going to take a car load of things home monday, and bring back a suitcase of stuff back.
Tuesday morning was a bit of a rude awakening. I had planned to get up about 9.30ish, and had still been awake at 2 am just doin stuff, cause I could more than any other reason, yet at 7am Jill comes running into my room saying there is a problem!!!!! Help!!!! There is water sheeting down the walls and out of the roof and the sound of water running in the roof from where the hot water system is. I ran outside in just a nighty, still half alseep and down the side of the house is a fountain of water with clouds of steam gushing from the side of the house. Apparently the hot water system had broken after Jill had her shower. I managed to spot a tap on a pipe on the wall and it turned off the water access to the system. I called the house owner and then the plumber and he came right over, (who would have thought that of a plumber in Melbourne? Nice guy!) and he confirmed that the hot water system was dead. He said it was a 'burst' hot water system. I think of explosions when I hear that word.
So bright and early this morning the plumber and electrition arrived to install a new one, (who would have thought that either in Melbourne?) and a little over 24 hours since the old one broke, we had hot water again. The beauty of this system is it is mains pressure hot water, not gravity feed like we had before. I have known gravity feed hot water systems before, and they are horrible! You feel like there is barely a dribble of hot water coming out of the shower head. Now, I felt like I was pinned up against the opposite wall of the shower from the pressure! We have a big shower head in there, and the spray spreads out a long way from the centre. With the gravity feed it felt like a big empty hole where you stand, I had to sway from side to side to get wet. That problem is fixed, but the water still spreads out, the shower head is too big for the space almost. It will take some adjusting to get it in the right space. And then I will move. And I have a better shower in the new place. No more shower curtains! DIE CURTAIN DIE!
Tomorrow is my last ever ever day of uni. I am not relaxed tomorrow until I walk out of the German class and then I am free for a while. Then a 3000 word essay on music, a spoken exam, and a written exam to go.
I'm going home to sign the papers with my new school, to talk about timetables and monies and band instruments and lots of interesting stuff like that. It's all stuff that will require a lot of work, but it's the work I want to be doing and now I am in control of it. I feel like THIS is finally where I can make lots of changes, teach a lot of people interesting things about music. I have all the answers this time cause I am in charge of the questions! And I will finally be moving into a permanant house that is mine. I can plan decorating, I can do a final organise of all the bathroom junk I have stored up over time. I have been able to do those things before, but always behind all the planning of how the house runs here has been the thought that it is temporary, it is only for a short while, so why bother? I'm going to take a car load of things home monday, and bring back a suitcase of stuff back.
Tuesday morning was a bit of a rude awakening. I had planned to get up about 9.30ish, and had still been awake at 2 am just doin stuff, cause I could more than any other reason, yet at 7am Jill comes running into my room saying there is a problem!!!!! Help!!!! There is water sheeting down the walls and out of the roof and the sound of water running in the roof from where the hot water system is. I ran outside in just a nighty, still half alseep and down the side of the house is a fountain of water with clouds of steam gushing from the side of the house. Apparently the hot water system had broken after Jill had her shower. I managed to spot a tap on a pipe on the wall and it turned off the water access to the system. I called the house owner and then the plumber and he came right over, (who would have thought that of a plumber in Melbourne? Nice guy!) and he confirmed that the hot water system was dead. He said it was a 'burst' hot water system. I think of explosions when I hear that word.
So bright and early this morning the plumber and electrition arrived to install a new one, (who would have thought that either in Melbourne?) and a little over 24 hours since the old one broke, we had hot water again. The beauty of this system is it is mains pressure hot water, not gravity feed like we had before. I have known gravity feed hot water systems before, and they are horrible! You feel like there is barely a dribble of hot water coming out of the shower head. Now, I felt like I was pinned up against the opposite wall of the shower from the pressure! We have a big shower head in there, and the spray spreads out a long way from the centre. With the gravity feed it felt like a big empty hole where you stand, I had to sway from side to side to get wet. That problem is fixed, but the water still spreads out, the shower head is too big for the space almost. It will take some adjusting to get it in the right space. And then I will move. And I have a better shower in the new place. No more shower curtains! DIE CURTAIN DIE!
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Sydney
The fast paced stressful week that is my life continues. Right now I am in Sydney, about to head off to a Jazz bar to hear some music. I've been visiting with the Virginia Marching Band this week, catching up was awesome with old friends. Most of them remember me, and remember my accent. It is great to have them on my turf, though they ask me a lot of random quesitons that I'm not sure of the answers to. Oh well. I even forgot the words to the national anthem. Shame. It's been a while since I've had to sing it.
Not helping matters is the fact that last night and all today I have been so so so sick, throwing up and nausious. My dad has had it too, a baby cousin of mine had gastro and we must have picked it up. Anyway, at this stage I'm keeping dinner down, and I have some tablets that will hopefully help me sleep. At least I can be sure the plane trip will be alright. The trip out here was sooo quick, and the staff were great.
I'm off now to listen to the band play, they've decided to do a pub crawl with instruments. I wonder how that would go over with an Australian band....
Not helping matters is the fact that last night and all today I have been so so so sick, throwing up and nausious. My dad has had it too, a baby cousin of mine had gastro and we must have picked it up. Anyway, at this stage I'm keeping dinner down, and I have some tablets that will hopefully help me sleep. At least I can be sure the plane trip will be alright. The trip out here was sooo quick, and the staff were great.
I'm off now to listen to the band play, they've decided to do a pub crawl with instruments. I wonder how that would go over with an Australian band....
Thursday, May 03, 2007
Imagination
I'm running on the treadmill when I notice on the running track out the window in front of me an older guy, about 45 - 50, African, pacing the long jump track painted on the side. He was dressed in normal casual gear, I have no idea what he was there for. As I'm watching, he walked away from the lines, and about 10 meters back, he turns and stands ready to run. I watched him brace himself, glance to the imaginary crowd, then jog up to the long jump, and do a little hope, step and jump. He didn't go any more than 2 meters, but he threw his head and arms back and celebrated like he had won the Olympic gold medal. It really made me smile, to see him living out his day dream on the track like that. He lined up the jump at least another 10 times like that, preparing himself with the utmost concentration. He was having a great time.
I ran on the treadmill for 10 minutes today, tried out the rowing machine, did some sit ups and stomach crunches. I feel a little out of place still, I am waiting till I get back home to try out some of the gym equipment with a little more guidance. I'd like to meet with a trainer once a month or two months to get the most out of the time I spend running. I'm thinking of putting Jenny on hold for a few weeks while I get things on track, finish exams, move house, plan for a new job, and just get myself moving towards a new life. Thats what it is, after 5 years of this life, I am on to my next life. New house, married, new job, new responsibilities, location, even clothes cause I don't fit any of the old ones. I think that shopping online might work for me moving home. So will getting a sewing machine and making my own clothes. I will finally have space and time for it, now that I don't have to work nights to earn money while I study during the day. I can finish what I am doing by 5pm and be home for the night. In theory anyway.
I ran on the treadmill for 10 minutes today, tried out the rowing machine, did some sit ups and stomach crunches. I feel a little out of place still, I am waiting till I get back home to try out some of the gym equipment with a little more guidance. I'd like to meet with a trainer once a month or two months to get the most out of the time I spend running. I'm thinking of putting Jenny on hold for a few weeks while I get things on track, finish exams, move house, plan for a new job, and just get myself moving towards a new life. Thats what it is, after 5 years of this life, I am on to my next life. New house, married, new job, new responsibilities, location, even clothes cause I don't fit any of the old ones. I think that shopping online might work for me moving home. So will getting a sewing machine and making my own clothes. I will finally have space and time for it, now that I don't have to work nights to earn money while I study during the day. I can finish what I am doing by 5pm and be home for the night. In theory anyway.
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