Looking Up

Rachel:

Leave it to a change in weather to make you feel better. I started my first week at my new placement school and things are going WAY better. I have pretty good classes (the kids can be wild, but I need to work on cracking the whip, so its a good thing), my supervisor teacher is nice and there are bunch of other student teachers there, so I have some good company.

Plus, September 1 is the first day of spring and we've had two really nice, sunny days. Friday was 23C and today is 26C. The sun makes you feel so much better!

I'm also getting really excited for our trip to Fiji. We leave September 29 and we will have a week to lounge around out front our beach front Bure! Hopefully I will get rid of some of my whiteness.

Hopefully things will just keep getting better...

Australian Word of the Day: Its a phrase, "Who do you go for?" which means, "What team do you support?" usually an AFL team. It is sometimes confusing when you are speaking with an Australian and they ask, "Who do you go for?" especially when you aren't even talking about sports. What team do I go for? Kurtis and I go for Essendon! GO BOMBERS!

Homesick..

Rachel:

Homesickness…. It’s finally here. We’ve been okay for about seven months, but we’ve hit the breaking point about now. I think seeing my parents and then having this trouble with school has pushed me over the edge. I don’t know what Kurtis’ excuse is. We’ve been talking about things we miss about home and I’ve compiled a list:

- Pop-tarts

- Wal-Mart at 401/Morningside

- SCARBOROUGH TOWN CENTRE x 1,000,000

- Our own beds

- Costco (and the food from it)

- Cosmo (Kurtis’ cat, and I can’t say I miss her that much)

- Driving places instead of using public transit

- H&M

- Reasonably priced clothes

- Reasonably priced eating out

- Red Lobster

- Soft chocolate chip cookies

- Shamrock Burger (mmmmm)

- Having our laundry done

- Full fridges

- The Beaches

- The EX

- Cottages

- A TV with more than 6 channels

- Our family

- Our friends

- Insulation

- No data restrictions for downloading on the internet

- CANADA!

You never realize how much you love your country until you leave it…

Canadian Wordsof the Day: Words they don't understand here (Canadian code) are: douche bag, sketchy, sketch pad, chesterfield, touque, Halloween, inexpensive, Tragically Hip, Tim Hortons, double double, The Leafs, Don Cherry, hoser, T-Dot, loonie, twoonie, TTC, "Yo guy, links me a bus ticket" etc etc etc.