Instead today saw china town come to life with a parade to mark the start of the Chinese New Year, the year of the pig. A colourful display of dancers, dragons and paper sculptures made up the parade which lasted for over an hour, interspersed with walkers and supporters of different organisations. I managed to take one photograph before my camera decided to hibernate, which was just as well as the heavens openned somewhat. I'll have to borrow get some photo's of someone else to display.
Said goodbye to some of the German friends I've made here this evening. In the morning they travel to Melbourne, so if I don't get a job here in the next 2 weeks then I shall probably follow them down for a day or two. One of them provided me with this photo:
Whilst we had a bottle opener people became impatient so the German's showed off some of their bottle opening skills. This photo show me trying to copy them by opening a bottle of beer with a stove lighter....and failing! How embarrassing.
1 comment:
Hi Lee
Glad to here you are keeping up the training especially for opening that bottle. We are like you and have missed the snow much to Daniels disappointment. Have just finished whaching France snatch a victory away from Ireland at the last minute. Have sent you lots of previous messages but had a problem with my password and site so sorry they have not reached you but I have followed your progress. Good luck with the job search and hang in there while enjoying the experiance. I took Kelly to see the grounded ship HM Napali at Sidmouth (20 mins away)The freights had washed up on shore and there was a lot of looting 2 weeks ago. Kelly is off to Spain Easter with her course and then straight off to France skiing on a Uni week. She also goes off to South France for 6 weeks in the summer. God what a life students lead it is quite hard but someone has to do it. Just like taking a gap year. Oh by the way I like the picture of the 'wine o' on the park bench!They get everywhere!
All the best Lee love Gill.
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