Family

G'day,

I'm back! I've decided that today's blog will be all about family! Scrapping what I got up to this weekend, I'm deciding to talk all about my sister! Tonight we were invited for the stylin' cookin' of the amazing Emma! 

It all started a couple weeks back when Em decided to let me know she was working up in Healsville every Monday and thus wanted to come around for dinner to my place not that far away in junction. And, since then when we're both available we meet up either in town or at Em's for dinner. Tonight we - Cassie and I - went to hers for dinner. Now for those who know her she is a dietitian and therefore - like the most of us - tries to eat healthily. She asked if we trusted her to cook a meal for us, not knowing what it was, we agreed. To our lips hit the amazing taste of a cous cous salad with chicken! Needless to say I'm mouthwatering just thinking about it! 

Once we ate Em and I let Cassie choose a movie out of Em's collections. She chose "Pocahontas", which I must admit is one of my favorites, so I was happy with that choice. We sat down and Em decided to let her hyper dog Dexter in, who instantly fell in love with cassie and cassie with him so after about twenty minutes in Dex calmed down and sat quietly on cassias lap for the rest of the movies. 

Then after much debate with Cassie on how much she would love the movie we sat her down and chose the next movie for her. We chose Wall-E. after about the first minute she had fallen in love with our mister main character and wanted the movie for her own. Both Em and I think of this as a success story. The skeptical Cassie was converted!

And so, after that we called it quits and bedtime. 

Just another snapshot.

Cheers.

Gone for the weekend!

So just thought I should post a little one today, to inform everyone that I'm on a rafting trip this weekend and won't be updating until I return on sunday night.

Wish me luck!

Cheers.

Faith

Hey all,

This day always gets to me! It’s not a bad day it just makes me think about all my friends and family. It also makes me think about God. Now I'm not gonna post a very preachy blog but it will definitely have a bit 'o' religious stuffs. The activity we did today if you haven't figured out by now was the leap of faith. To quote my older brother "we put faith in all these systems" the systems he was talking about were worldly things like banking and how it’s all electronic with very little money (notes and coins) actually passing from person to person. He also mentioned having a faith in God. For me the latter is more important however we're talking about the physical today.

The kids we have go up on the leap of faith climb a 8m high - ever so slightly - swaying telephone pole going the first 12 feet by ladder and the rest by metal rungs which are large enough to fit only one foot on and are staggered like steps. Once they have climbed to the top the stand on a wooden box, which is about the size of a shoebox or maybe a bit bigger. Finally once atop this box the aim is to stand take a standing leap and see if you can reach or grab on to the pole, which is just over 2 meters away.

The reasons behind my comments earlier were that we build up a repore with these kids so that; when it comes to this activity they put their faith in people like me. Now for those who know me will realize that they can put their faith in me for other things but take it to non life or death situation and most will see me as the little annoying immature kid I used to be (mostly) not the mature adult I have become this past year or so, thus not having faith in me to catch them at all.






Yet Program after Program kids end up trusting me and my fellow staff members to catch them. Faith is a weird and wonderful thing whether it is faith in people, equipment, banks or God. Faith is power, and to do the leap and trust in a person you've only known for 10 days to catch you and save your life is a huge thing!

Just another snapshot,
Cheers.

The First Hot Day Of The Season!

Good evening ladies and gentlemen,

Today I had the morning off!!! YAY for me!!!! Especially because it was a scorcher of a day hitting 28 where I was. So as I casually rolled out of bed (at about 10:30), I went upstairs in my home and made myself a lovely ham and cheese omelet!! I relaxed, ate my omelet and I checked my Facebook and emails. Once I had done this Cassie and I went downstairs and out the back door to my pool which for the past week or so has had the solar heating on so this being the first really hot day the pool was hitting that prime refreshing temperature. 

Having been refreshed I unfortunately had to end the fun and games in the pool and head to work. I got to work and I met up with Robbie (my colleague and besty) in the kitchen. He and I chilled as we got the dinner ready for the children down in a paddock enjoying the day labeled up here as Cultural Day. Cultural day is a day where a descendant of the native aboriginals to this area. Any-who we rocked up to the paddock and we helped the kids down there. To cut a long story short the fun things I got to help with were eating sugar ants - surprisingly they taste like lemon sherbet -, cooked damper and kangaroo and lamb stew - see left- I maintained a wicked fire - see below - and we listened to Ian tell stories and play the didgeridoo. Also I've thrown in a pic of the wonderful view from Wad (our earth studies center) 

Just another snapshot!

Cheers

Landcare!!

G'day,

So today we're talking about land care. Land care is always the day after the school group arrives home from expo in coordination with rustic furniture making. So for the Kingfishers it's the Monday, the Honeyeaters it's the Tuesday. As today is Tuesday I was working with the Honeyeaters. A great bunch of kids who got everything I asked them to done. Although I may not have had a complete idea of what to do I used my best judgment to sort it out. One of my bosses handed me a typed list of things to do. We did the first couple then got confused so I made up stuff to fill time. Things we did on the list were lay out some straw, we fertilized the citrus trees (you can all relax we used pellets and manufactured food not the home fertilize your lemon tree style if you catch my drift), we put up a rabbit proof fence (that movie bugged me there were NO RABBITS!!!!! and we continue) around the seedlings featured in one of the pictures. All in all we didn't do much on the list at all. Things I made up for the kids to do included painting signs, building a scarecrow featured in the other pics, cleaning the chicken coup in all its glory including collecting the 21 eggs layer by our chickens just today, weeding the plants, weeding the garden beds and a few more things that I can't remember. All in all a sunny, burnt skinned, fun day of adventure.

Just another snapshot into my life


Cheers

Putt Putt to the Rescue!!!

Does anyone remember the game "Putt Putt"??? It was about a car that went around and solved mysteries and helped people. This blog is not about that game however awesome it was, but is about the game with the green grass (generally plastic these days), the putters and balls. That's right ladies and gentlemen I'm talking about MINI GOLF!!!! Having had such a full on day yesterday with church and what-not, it was decide that a sleeping and a game of golf was in order! Having pestered Cassie for weeks she finally agreed to join me in the wonderful game and set the date for today!

As you can see the hour and a half that we spent here was well worth it! We played one outdoor and one indoor game. The overall winner between Cass and I is still to be calculated however I'm quietly confident of my golfing expertise. I hope you've enjoyed todays snapshot into the life of Jacob.

Cheers

HEY ALL!!!!!!!!

G'day folks,

As you may not know, I'm Jake! Some call me Jacob, some call me Corn, I answer to pretty much anything but for today we'll stick with Jake. This is my first ever blog so as I'm new to it all you'll have to forgive my lack of pizzaz, spelling, grammar and the like! So the reason for me joining the wide world of blogging is that I've decided I need to keep in touch with my family and the world while working out in Junction. Knowing that I won't be able to do it every day I've decided that I will post at least 5 pictures each week about my daily life in hope that it gives people an insight into my weird and wonderful world.

So to get the ball rolling I've asked the lovely Cassie (my lovely lady friend) to take the first pic!

So as you can see I'm all rugged up in my "Sesame Street" doona and on my lappy (the mac on my lap). Aside from the few outings I ventured off the couch for, this is where I spent most of my day. If I get days off you will usually find me in a state similar to this. Days off are rare for me this year! Therefore relaxing on a couch in front of the T.V. sounds ace!!!

I hope you all enjoy the weird life of Jake as more unfolds!

Cheers