I haven’t moaned about a phone in a while

So here we go. I got a Motorola RAZR as my Singapore mobile (or hand phone as they call here). My beloved Nokias were too expensive and Sony Ericsson was definitely out. Motorola had the advantage of me using one last year in America plus this one has iTunes. I have an iPod so I don’t know why that excites me so much but it does.

Tonight I thought it was time that I showed you my much talked about classroom displays. Easy enough, take the memory card out of the phone, put it in the adaptor and put it in the computer. Nooooooooo. Spend twenty minutes trying to get the back off the phone off before you can take the card out is the important first step. I even got the instructions to make sure I was doing it right. Anyway once it was off the rest of the steps were painless so...


A jaggy blue border and a yellow background complement the work on the Paris Peace Conference beautifully. To the right a mosaic of information on Egyptian farming and Chinese dynasties complete the board.

Forgive me if I talked it up too much but I hadflipping well Ancient Egyptian farming to work with. Let me see what you could do with that!

At the back I have a Bible books display which took about four hours to put together and up.


And yet I don’t think it shows it.

In other photo news:

I caught my first cockroach.


Not the best photo granted, but it’s there. There’ll be more though, I just know it.

I spend an inordinate amount of time on the 6th floor of a shopping centre waiting to pick up my wireless router.


I surely cannot be the only one who still, even in older years, is dying to spit from a balcony at great height?

Odd

I went to the gym last night for the first time at my condo. It was nice to see some familiar machines, actually the rower was exactly the same as the UUJ but some things were just odd.

1. I had the place to myself.
2. I was able to run nearly ten minutes on the treadmill off the bat, no previous training and a good four months since last I ran. Fair enough, y’all can run for longer than me, but I was a three minute runner before, remember? Must be the lake.
3. The cross trainer nearly killed me. As soon as I got on I wanted to get off. I normally love the cross trainer.
4. The stepper is a manual thing which pneumatic valves and not very comfortable to use. I predict that will be the end of that love affair too.

Most odd of all was that the predicted pain for today never appeared, and let’s not forget my classroom is on the fourth floor and there’s a lot of stairs to climb to get there. This has encouraged me enough to plan to go tomorrow. Unless of course the pain has a delayed reaction.

Would you rather...

find a mouse in your kitchen or a cockroach?

Not twenty four hours after saying the famous last words of 'I don't even think I'd know a cockroach if I saw one!' I saw one. (A quick Google Image search confirmed it.)

I tried to kill it but the scurrying little bugger got away. But I did manage to remain cool, calm and collected throughout with only the most minor of swear words.

So I think I'd have to say a cockroach. Although I reserve the right to change my mind if I find more of the crusty shelled beasts.

Kari and Phill

If I were at home I would be getting dressed for a wedding. I’m not. I’m watching 'Ellen' lying on the sofa. Oh, and I’m 7000 miles away.

Today is the first of five weddings that I’ll miss this year. I don’t think they’ll get any easier to miss, but having to start with missing with Kari’s is hard. She was one of my best friends in school and I had always imagined that I would be there on her wedding day. It wasn’t to be.

Seriously, I don’t think anyone, unless you have been away to start a new life somewhere, can fully understand how hard it is to do. Not only are you not with your friends on a daily basis, they have the audacity to carry on life with out you!! But stare decisis, I chose to come here and missing things like this is part of the deal.

Anyway Kari and Phill (not that you’ll actually read this for a couple of weeks), I hope you have a brilliant day, you enjoy it all, and you remember every detail (not least so you can fill me in on what I missed!) I can't wait to hear all about it!

The shoes

I’m not one of those crazy shoe people like Carrie Bradshaw or someone but there is something about a nice pair of shoes. The colour, the fit, the heel. Even though I'm tall I like wearing heels, and I discovered today most of my enjoyment from heels comes from the noise they make. This should not have been news to me. I remember when I was little wearing my mum’s shoes and listening to the clip clop noise they made across the tiled kitchen floor.

A couple of months ago I got one of my most favourite pairs of shoes…ever. When I was 'Office Tina' in the Department, they were my favourite thing to wear. The TOM quickly realised their new importance in my wardrobe and from then on they were ‘the shoes’.


That'll be the right shoe.

Today I was wearing the shoes. I noticed a slightly different noise coming from one. Nightmare of all nightmares the replaceable heel bit at the bottom had come to loose. No fear I thought, there’s a man that sits outside the shops by the school and reheels shoes, I’ll get him to stick it down with his super shoe glue. I carefully walked up to him and tried to explain what I needed done. It was a complete waste of breath. I would have been better He whipped off the old heel, and stuck a new one on. Then, quicker than you could say ‘Imelda Marcos’ he’d taken the other one and done the same to it. As I put my shoes back on again, there was no noise, no clip clop, nothing. My shoes were mute. He mutilated, actually mutilated my shoes. Devastated.

I walked on to the bus a quieter and little sadder person.