I've been a lazy blogger. But to be honest, there wasn't much to blog
about. With school and schoolwork taking up the majority of my time,
I'd have bored you all to tears if I'd really told you what I did every
week or so. So let's just do a quick summary and then get on to the fun
stuff. :D
MARCH
This was the first month
of classes, and probably the worst, because I had to attend my Wellbeing
and Prevention class 3 times in that month. And three 7-hour lecture
sessions on consecutive Mondays is not exactly what happiness is made
of. So that was dumb. But it's over now. It was also a good month of
transitioning back into the life of a student, which I can't say I'm a
fan of after working full time, as a teacher no less, for three years,
but knowing that each day was one day closer to never having to do a
degree again kept me going.
March brought St Patrick's Day...and homework. That's pretty much it.
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| Canadian friend Lesley and me out for St Patrick's Day |
APRIL
April was a bit more
fun. Still had papers to write and such, but also had a visit from my friend Rebeccah (whom I knew in Bangkok), and Easter - which
brought a seafood feast with my friend Mandy's family on Good Friday,
baptisms the following day at the pier (where we were blessed to see
several people dunked in the freezing water, including Pastor Guy's own
father), and Anzac Day (which I hear is great, but I didn't attend
because I had papers to write).
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| Me and Rebeccah |
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| Spotted outside a farm on a random get-out-of-dodge-for-a-few-hours Saturday |
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| Helping Mandy make the seafood feast - in our church dresses and pearls, no less hahaha |
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| Lilah, the sweet dog. And her feed-me hole lol |
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| Part of the feast |
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| Mandy's nephew with cupcake....everywhere lol |
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| Baptism! |
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| Pastor Guy's Dad and brother |
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| Group prayer |
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| Me, Pastor Guy, Mandy, Paul, Mike |
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| Easter Sunday! |
MAY
May brought the petering out of classes (hooray!), a field trip for one of my classes with a stop at the Eureka Tower, my first meeting with Restore (outreach ministry team at my church that reaches out to sex workers in the city), a free cut and color as a model for my hairdresser friend Jess who was interviewing at a salon, my first live AFL game, the Melbourne International Coffee Expo, and a visit from my cousin Cristi!
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| Sketch of early aboriginal land. Look at the kangaroos! :D |
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| Our field trip group |
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| Beaver skin cloak |
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| View of Melbourne CBD from the Eureka Tower |
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| Me and Abbey |
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| Haha me and Abbey making Dia de los Muertos masks at the Immigration Museum |
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| Cut and color part 1 - trimmed and curl diffuser dried |
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| Cut and color part 2 - blow wave |
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| Cut and color part 3 - color added, but darker than expected and roots still visible |
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| Cut and color part 4 - shampoo bleach to lift the darker color and even out the overall tone |
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| Cut and color part 5 - finished product! Lighter red added, evened, and beautifully blow waved. Thank you Jess and Zedi Salon! |
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| First AFL game - Essendon vs Western Bulldogs - Essendon won! |
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| Just a ridiculously yummy breakfast of poached eggs before the Melbourne Coffee Expo with Tasha |
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| The booth next to ours was the Procol Milk booth, and this guy was also a masseuse...so we sorta took advantage |
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| Studying for my Epidemiology exam |
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| First dinner out with Cristi! |
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| View from the Shrine of Remembrance |
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| Greek food for lunch at Stalactites! |
