Dans le jardin

I've unfortunately come down with a cold which has left me confined to home for most of the weekend. However I ventured outside today to soak up some of the occasional sun and couldn’t help but take a few photos of the pretty garden and my beautiful Bella.
The bottom two photos are of the garage which my parents are so lovingly building. Since I live on such a busy street in a residential area there are never any parks for our cars (esp. as we now have two now and only one garage.) Furthermore leaving the car on the street at night isn’t really an option as annoying drunks have the habit of ruining whatever is out the front of our house, including some of our neighbour’s cars. Anyway, after a bit of planning, the garage is underway and looks pretty great so far.
Well any prayers that I get over this cold would be most appreciated as it is extremely difficult to take sick leave from any of my jobs yet it is important that I do if I remain sick during the week. I am however feeling better than earlier this morning so that's a definite positive
Have an excellent week guys
xo

NJ

I thought I'd start this post with a photo from Joel's party sat night so this post is a little more inviting and exciting.
SO THIS WEEK...
At the early hour of 6:30am I woke up and drank green tea till my insides were warm and I could contemplate getting ready. I know everyone has different morning routines and mine is to leave bed, turn the kettle on, let the dog outside, make a mug of green tea and sit down in front of the heater and drink that tea before doing anything else.
I've decided to take a job doing before school care so now my life will forever be full of early mornings (at least for 40 weeks of the year) as this means I'll be working every weekday from 7:30- 8:30am, Saturdays from 8-12 with soccer and JY on Sunday.
I was a little worried about starting this new job the night before but it was better than expected. Basically on the first day I just sat in a room for an hour playing uno, listening to a three year old sing along to a tape and playing hide and seek. Feeling healthy and energised because of the early start, I went to the gym for an hour and proceeded to wear myself out entirely. When I go home I felt great and alive yet I then spent the rest of today just sitting around eating and watching cheesy movies... so much for a productive study day considering I have two presentations and two papers due next week.
And then it was time to go lose some of my hair so the mop on my head becomes manageable once again. I failed miserably at the challenge on Joel's blog to talk to the hairdresser about Christianity as she really wasn’t the typical chatty hairdresser. Basically the hour spent with her was full of awkward silence (awkward turtle time) and the conversation was unable to rise above talking about what products I should buy so my hair stops being so dry and dead from too much straightening.
After that I went off to teach Funk and Groove at an OHSC. This was my first week of 7 weeks and involved 25 Recs to Year 3’s being taught dance by one of the world's worst dancers for an hour. I would like to say it was organised chaos but my organisation didn’t really pay off... it was just chaos. However some of the kids came up to me afterwards and said they had fun. Now I'll just have to edit my lesson plan for next week so it can be more fun and less chaotic.
And now to add to the excitement of this probably uninteresting post about the joys of new jobs (ah did you guess the acronym title?)
Below is me as a Simpsons character according to Simpsonise me. I wouldn’t really say it has a striking resemblance but it makes the post slightly that bit more exciting… ah I’m really grabbing at straws here to make this post worth looking at.

Well hope everyone is having a great week!!!
xo

UP the DATE tree

While I recognise that I cannot live up to the remarkable blogging efforts of Sez, I'm trying to be regular so it's about time I update again :)

I've been doing a training course with the Australian sports commission and finished it last Monday night. Now I am a certified Active afterschool community coach which looks good on the resume (for someone who wants to be a primary teacher) and hopefully will lead to more sports coaching jobs which are always fun... except last saturday when my 11-12pm soccer class was huge and extremely difficult to control. Anyway I have been contracted into teaching funk&groove classes at a school once a week which I'm a little scared about because I know next to nothing about dance. I am just going to focus on movement to music and music games so hopefully I'll get through my 7 contracted weeks...mmm, lol I know, how do I end up with all these weird jobs?

I started an equip course last week with Steph called "God's Big Picture" which is actually far more interesting than I initially thought it would be... it really compliments this subject I am studying called "History of Christianity and Civilisation". I have read the Old Testament many times and know the stories off by heart from Sunday School days yet there were lots of things I never recognised before. For example the lecturer was talking about how the great flood was really a reversal of the creation act and it shows how seriously upset God was about the rebellion of creation and how God's decision to save Noah was an example of grace and God's continuning hope and purpose for humanity; that he hadnt just given up. I suppose I'd always just thought of the story of Noah's Arc as just a story about something that happened when really it helps us realise the consistency of God's purposes.

Ha.. I've tried to make this post more exciting with pictures but it probably hasnt worked.
In other news I caught up with Nadine and Rohan from my Cambodia team on Saturday as Nads was in Adelaide visiting her sister and Rohan came down from his riverland home. We checked out "the beach house" at Glenelg which has awesome looking waterslides which I'm keen to use this Summer. We went to the noodle box on Jetty road for dinner which doesnt sound all that exciting but there was actually this outside eating area at the back which has bamboo walls and plants and candles etc... it was just really nice and hidden. Anyway I'm not very good at describing it but it was really pretty.


Well that's a bit about what I've been up to.
Hope everyone has an excellent week!!!
xoxo

HELP?

Can anyone tell me how I can change it so my links to other blogs work properly?
cheers