Mango Season!!!

I am sorry it has been so long since I have blogged. I have not had a good computer or internet connection. I have saved up some money with David and we both bought a little, inexpensive computer to have with us for the rest of the travels. So I am back in business. Sad news though, I took my hard drive in to recover my photos and they could not be recovered. So I have lost all my photos from the past four years. So bummed.
I have been enjoying my past weeks here in Sydney. The weather has been beautiful! I have worked almost everyday changing nappies and putting cranky babies to sleep. It's not all that bad. I do enjoy spending time in the day care centres and they all have outdoor play areas where we spend most of our time in the sun. It has been the late teens for weather in the past week. The shade is very cold though. This past week I also got to work in an after school care program where the kids were ages Kindie to Year 5. That was a breath of fresh air..haha.
On Wednesday, David and I both had the day off so we took a train over to North Sydney (over the harbour bridge) and walked around in that area for a bit and then settled down to take some photos from the most beautiful sight in Sydney. Here are just a couple photos from that day.





We then walked over the bridge and headed back home. Ah, I love Sydney! It is so big but I could never get bored of it. There is so much to do here. I will miss it when we go traveling again.

And the title....Mango Season. Well, today I went to the market with David and they had mangos all over the place again! It's Mango Season again and I get to enjoy nice juice fresh mangos again. We also bought fruits and vegetables, fish and beef all for very very cheap! I love markets. That is all for now.

Take Care!

Winter Time?

Well, the last couple weeks have been pretty lousy. Two weeks ago David got sick with a cold and flu and I ended up catching the cold end of it and have put up with sore throats, lots of coughing fits, and a runny nose. After two weeks of it I decided to go to the doctor only to be told that I just had to stick it out. This sucked since I wasn't able to work! Going onto my third week of being sick I have been able to go to work I just have coughing fits every once in awhile and an annoying sore throat. It's not as bad as it was.

Two weeks ago Hillsong Conference went on and David and I were able to go to the nights. I was too sick to be around the little tots so we spent the days touring around the Sydney Olympic Park where the conference was being held. It was pretty cool, I took lots of pictures. The conference was awesome. Joel Osteen, Louie Giglio, Jentzen Franklin, Craig Groeschel and Chris Tomlin. I will blog more about that another time.

This past weekend Courtney, a friend from Regina, came to stay with us on her way to a smaller city called Wagga Wagga. David and I showed her as much of Sydney as we could in the time that she was here. She was very lucky with the weather. Right before she came it was very cold and rainy. All of a sudden we have a break in the yucky weather with some beautiful weather. Yesterday we went to Bondi Beach and people were actually swimming and tanning, probably all tourists. I would compare it to a nice summer day in Regina. In Regina I would wake up on a day like that and say BEACH DAY!! It was only 18 degrees out but the sun made it feel a lot hotter. So as we all know, I am obsessed with Bondi Rescue (the reality show here about the lifeguards in Bondi and the rescues they do every day). Well, we found a pair of glasses floating in the water and I knew what this meant.....I had to go to the lifeguard tower and give the glasses to the BONDI RESCUE LIFEGUARDS. I ended up chickening out and Courtney went over to the tower and handed over the glasses to the lifeguard that looks like Tom Cruise with a funny nose job (Monica will know) and he was standing next to Maxy who was posing for a picture for some tourists!!! I was so jealous that Courtney got to talk to them. haha. She had no idea!

Courtney had another famous person moment as well without even realizing it. We went to Hillsong on Saturday night and Reuben Morgan was up there leading worship with the rest of the team. At the end of the night we were standing out on the Welcome Lounge talking to some friends and Courtney walked over towards us...In doing so she cut off Reuben Morgan and his guitar. I looked at Courtney and said to her...do you realize what you just did....haha with a confused look on her face she said no...I responded with a "You Just Cut off Reuben Morgan!!! My cousins would have wished they were in your position!!!" (Cousins being Stephanie and Byron) lol. She thought that was pretty cool! She was here for two days and managed to run into two mini celebrities!

Finally, I cannot complain...The weather is beautiful. If I could I would stay here another year. I do not want to come back to Canada weather after experiencing this weather. I do miss my jobs. I miss subbing and teaching. I am repeatedly asked to go to a Childcare center here that treat me so mean. No hellos, no goodbyes, just a lot of do this and do that. I had a bit of a break this morning because there was a male sub also in the room. But as soon as he left it went right back to the rudeness. I am trying to be positive about it but it really sucks!! Sorry that I leave my blog on this post. Hopefully you remember the cool stuff that I have gotten to do. I think David and I might get to go whale watching this weekend! That will be fun!

That is all for now I believe.

Holly

Toma - toes

Well, its about time for a little update since things havvve been happening rather than me always saying, "I did nothing, I have no job, I went job hunting." I have worked a couple shifts with Select Education and have worked a few shifts on the South Steyne (a restaurant in an old ferry in the harbour....take a look around the site: South Steyne). It is nice to finally have some income and start saving so I can travel.

I also finally got a hold of DET after re fowarding my emails a few times to them and calling them every day. Unfortunately I have to do a week of training with them and the soonest possible date is the third week in August. I will have to decide on what I want to be doing. I am enjoying working with the babies at the moment so I may just stick with that. It makes decent money. Select Education is a place that recruits people to do part time or casual work with them. Schools call Select Education and tell them that they need a casual and then Select Education finds a casual for them. I have been working with 3 year olds and 4 year olds usually. Its pretty fun. They are really cute. Today was not so great because I could not talk. So when I had to be bossy the kids took advantage of the no voice. It was frustrating.

Working on the South Steyne is okay. I am still a bit shy with the boss there and need a bit more confidence...Then I should be fine. I think the worst part is the cook when its busy in the restaurant because he is always freaking out. I usually just work on the weekends which is nice because restaurants pay their employees way more on the weekends. So Saturday is 22 bucks an hour and Sunday is 27 bucks an hour. Thats pretty sweet! That is my rent paid with some left over.

I always complain that it is so cold here. I then have to remember that it is winter time here and that 15 degrees with lots of wind really isn't that bad. It is cold.. but its not Canada cold. Today, at work, they were complaining about how cold it was today and that I should be wearing a jacket. It got to a high of 16 degrees. I laughed and said. Do you know how cold it gets in Canada? This is not cold. They were worried about the kids catching colds from playing outside. There was one time last week where it was probably 20 degrees and the sun was hot. I spent the day down by the water at Circular Quay. But once the sun went a way it became very windy and cold. Their winter here is pretty much our fall. If you can relate to that then you know the weather that I am experiencing at the moment. Hopefully, soon enough though, I will be going up to warmer climates.

Besides, have a cold where I actually have no voice I am doing very well. We have two more house mates that just moved in...A boyfriend and girlfriend...Mira and Catherine. They are from Czech Republic. They are super nice people. Catherine came out of her room today with some medicines from back home that she takes when she has a cold and flu. She had to explain them both to me as I know no czech. It is great how everyone that moves in here all get along really well. I love it. I will definitely hate when August comes and some of us start to go back home to our original countries. It's definitely great to have these friends from all over the world though.

Anyways...there is my brain throw up for today. I say that because I really just think and type...so sometimes i feel as though it is all over the place...

oh and the title... today for lunch a boy kept telling me that he really liked 'matos' but he was pronouncing this word so funny that I had no idea what he was saying. Then, he was asking me if he could have some more, please. So I assumed he was saying cheese...and wanting more pizza. I just kind of ignored him and replied oh thats cool, is that your favourite food? But still not understanding. Finally he said to me, I want some more matos plllllease? And I looked over at the salad and said...tomatoes??? and he was like "Duh Miss Holly, yESSSSS!!!" But they say it funny over here...like TOMA - TOES. I had a good chuckle. I like the words that are said different to us here.

Adios..

Holly