Culmination

DONE!

Yes it's been a week and a half since I last wrote a blog. I've been busy!

Last week was my last week of my major professional experience. It flew by faster than any before it. I'm going to miss those little kids and I'd love to see how some of them turn out by year 6! I will send the class a postcard from Perth and hopefully keep in touch with Jenni and Tracy. They wrote me an unbelievable prac report and I leave there full of confidence that I've really found my career. I can't wait to get home and start looking for work and getting paid for it and feeling like a bonified teacher!

This past weekend Julia, Jared and I did our normal thing. Training, walking and just chatting and having a good time. Really trying to soak up Wollongong as much as we can because we know it's almost over! Since I sold my trainer last Thursday, I had to ride on the road on the weekend! :( Just not the same workout. I did have some fun though, riding up to a couple lookouts and seeing parts of the area I otherwise wouldn't have. On Monday we had to go into campus and drop off our reports and go to a wrap up meeting. Big ole waste of time.

Also last week I started reading a John Grisham book called The Appeal. I read a bunch during the week, 10 pages here, 10 there... But then on the weekend I read about 300 pages between Sunday evening and Monday morning to finish it off! I haven't read a novel like that in forever! It felt great to have read a book. I figured I want to read some more so Julia and I went to the mission and I got a couple more (A Tom Clancy and a robert Ludlum) and Jared gave me one as well. My goal is to read all three before I get home to Stittsville. Clancy is my biggest challenge at 1270 pages, then the Ludlum is about 500 and the Koontz is about 400. That oughta keep me busy while travelling! I look forward to relaxing on beaches with a good book... hahaha, what a friggin' nerd.

The three of us managed to sell our tickets to the grad ball. Quite frankly we don't like the people there so chances are we wouldn't have a great time anyhow. We spent $65 on each ticket back in like August or September and we sold 'em for 2 x $40 and 1 x $20. A big hit, yes, but at least we don't have to waste a night of our lives on that. The 3 of us are going up to Sydney today and are going to stay over at Michelle's place and just hang out and see the city again.

So we get back tomorrow evening (Thursday) and we spend Friday getting everything finally cleaned up and packed and we leave Saturday. Our flight isn't until 8:40PM but we wanna get the heck outta here without saying bye to these broads we live with so what we're going to do is take everything down to Jared's (whose place is on the way to the train anyhow) and leave it all there for the day and we're going to have a picnic out by the water during the day and then we'll take off on the train around late afternoon. Just a domestic flight so we only have to be there an hour early, but we seem to enjoy hanging around airports. I can't believe it's almost here! Here's to hoping everything goes smoothly with flights and campervans and car rentals and such. Let the party begin!!!

For the time that we're travelling, I will keep a pen and paper blog as I won't have a computer. I will send quick emails as often as possible to those who want to keep tabs on us and will try to put up photos (though unlikely) on facebook whenever possible.

The next six weeks will never be forgotten by either of us. I can't wait to create all these amazing memories with my tiny Tuna.

Gooooooodbyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyye Wolllllongongggggggg!!!!!!