Iron Girl

So.......... in an attempt to shed some kilo's and improve my fitness for the coming hockey season, I have decided to take up running! ;-)

Up to now I have done the PWC 5km, The Iron girl 9.2km last Saturday and the Pennypinchers 10km this past Saturday. Yeah for me!

Only problem is, my times are getting worse!

Anyway , here are some highly entertaining shots of me going over the finishing line. How was I to know that they were photographing this?

Hehehe, My winning time!! ( Not!)
The girls from the office who took part ( and Candice). Oh yes, did I mention that I got a fabulous medal?
P.s. I had to sleep for the rest of the day!

Bad Karma

What, two posts in two days...who would have thought. But this one is a tale of woe.

Yesterday on my way home after work I was rear-ended, but the guy hit me so hard I hit the car in front of me which in turn hit the car in front of it. My glasses flew off my face from the impact. Amazingly, no one except the cars were hurt.

I don't mess around, 5 years of bliss in my citi and I'm involved in a 4 car pile-up on Settlers Way. Miraculously, my car is still drivable, but badly damaged. It's off for the insurance assessment today. News to follow...

Prom night

So a couple of weeks ago I had a 30th birthday party to go to and the theme was 80's prom. Not owning clothes from the 80's, a trip to Chinatown, Spargs (where the 80's went to die?) and PEP was in order.

Here are some of the results...

Me, sporting a fabulous top from PEP and Mon with something that came from the sale rack at Spargs.

Cath (far left) in a 80-ified bridesmaids dress and Juliet (far right) in another gem from the kiddies section of PEP.
These were dresses that were borrowed. The owner grew up in the 80's made these dresses and wore the black one to her real Matric dance and the blue one to a wedding she attended. And although this isn't a good angle, those sleeves were pointy, but she won the title of Prom queen, complete with crown and sash.
Well, um... yes

I've got a feeling........

......that 2011 is going to be the year of gloom and doom for me.
I don't know why, I just know!

31 December 2010 - 5 January 2011: My gran is in hospital (anemic)
17 January 2011 - My uncle Vernon Died (My grans son, My fathers dad)

2 February 2011 - Fudge, my sisters gorgeous Labrador pup, dies of biliary at only 3 months old

December madness

Hi Guys

It’s been ages since my last update, I hope you’re all happy and healthy J

So in December I finally graduated – woohooooo I’m finally a graduate...it’s been long enough!! Here’s a pic of the happy day:

My Mom and I with Marco :)

Then the family went to the Kob for the holidays, twas great. We whaled in the river and paddled and four wheelered and fished and played cards J It was wonderful. And the Tanj came down for a week after a bit of persuading. FYI she is a TERRIBLE paddler and when she was on the four wheeler I could WALK faster than she was driving – frightening. But still alot of fun.

We went on a 4x4 trip one day with the Tanj and I in the little bakkie and the rest of the fam in the other bakkie. Everything was going well even tho it was raining a bit til we turned onto a black clay road and just saw the other bakkie  skidding and sliding all over the place, natch I slammed on the breaks and also started started sliding straight into the gutter. So Stace leaned out of the bakkie in front of us and indicated that we should reverse which we tried to do but we went no where so I switched on the hazards and the Tanj and I evacuated the bakkie which was easier said than done. The super slippery mud made walking quite tricky and the Tanj was going well until she over balanced and to save herself  she stuck out her thumb and somehow managed to support her entire body weight on just one thumb!! SKILL! But even more impressive was my Dad coming to rescue us. He has these massive slops that he was working in an ice skating type of motion which was super effective even if it did look a bit weird J

My Gran spent Christmas with us which was great. We played alot of cards. Our fav is a form of gin rummy which we have called Wild Coast Rummy which is so much fun and pretty addictive!  My Gran also tried to teach us Bridge which was really really difficult and we gave up eventually.

Mom, Gran and I having a whale of a time :)

One day the whole family went up the river; Tarryn and I in one canoe, Stace in another and my Mom, Dad and Gran in a tiny little boat with an engine which we call Titanic 2 (It’s really really small and almost looks like it’s sinking with 3 ppl in it!) Anyway we were going up this small side creek which the canoes were fine in but the motor of the boat was too deep so they lifted the motor up and when I looked back my Mom and Dad were sitting in the boat while my Gran tried to paddle towards us! Poor Gran. BTW the Tanj and my gran got on so well that the Tanj was calling her Gran by the end of the first day!! What a hoot J

After three weeks at the sea I was going insane and went home a few days earlier with Tarryn and made it home in time for Cathicles’  early birthday party which was a lot of fun. Saw Gail and chatted about her wedding and met the fiancé

And in other news which I think you all know I have semi decided what to do with my life; I am looking for a job in a Municipality  for the year but if I don’t find one by the end of the month I am gonna register for Masters and finish it off!!

I am also excited about my Korea trip in July which the Tanj has agreed to come along on...will keep you updated as the plans unfold J

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At the moment I am back in the Cape, came here for Stu’s wedding on Sat which was great fun but I might have had slightly too much champagne and also might have behaved in a semi rowdy and unruly manner...oops.

BTW Bongs is happy and healthy (I’m sure you were all wondering)

Lots of Love

Moi

right, a few facts to update y'all.

A fringe/bangs are not easy to maintain if you have curly hair and are not disposed towards grooming endlessly. I had to buy a hairdryer and hair stuff to keep it looking good. blurgh.

I am purchasing a hedgehog tomorrow. It will be my pet/friend/family member. I am unbelievably excited about it! I learnt the Korean word for hedgehog so I could tell all my students. Actually, let me back track a moment. We have been learning about calendars, birthdays,and 'before and after' this week in my one pre-school class. So the one activity was writing down your birthday and everyone else's in the class and then saying what you wanted for your birthday. Now the teacher is expected to participate in these sessions and so I duly wrote my birthday on the board and when asked what I would like for my birthday I said a hedgehog. well. I just laughed and laughed. Jeong Min (pronounced Jong Min) gave me this baleful look and just said: I can't get you a hedgehog. It was the sweetest thing and so touching. I said she didnt have to I was going to get it myself, but I would really like a pen or something else small.Which made her happy again.

So there it is. As soon as it is all settled in my apartment i will begin photo taking and filming and will post them so you can all see the wonderfulness that is a hedgehog.

Today my one student, pre-school again, Eun Gyeol (this is a tricky one, and I still say it wrong sometimes, but it goes something like this: Oon Gi-ol), looked at me so strangely today when I was gleefully bouncing up and down over receiving a letter from Sarah from when she was in Vietnam (random aside, so it took about a month for that letter to get here, but it only takes 2 weeks for things from home to get here, and Vietnam is in Asia - confirm that that is weird.). Eun Gyoel duly asked me who the letter was from and I told her it was from a friend in South Africa. Then she said, 'teacher why?', and I said because she misses me. This brought about a look of utter confusion on her face and then she said, "But teacher, you go South Africa-Korea, Korea-South Africa (she repeated this many times with full body actions in tow)"...now it was my turn to be confused, and I said "Ummmm, no. I stay in Korea."

AMAZEMENT. JAW DROP.

She was like "You Korea live?!"

"Yes"

"Haa. Really?"

"Yes"

"You no go home everyday?"

"No silly"

stunned silence.

"All teachers?"

"Yes"

disbelieving look. and then: "Teachers all live same?"

which I deciphered as: so all the teachers live together?

"No"

Well this just about rocked her little 7 year old world. It was hilarious and lovely all at once.

Otherwise things are moving ahead fairly smoothly. Had a few hiccups, but feeling good again.

love and miss you all. Please send news.