For The Love of You: Movin' On and Christmas Cheer

Yes I know, it's been quite a long time since our lat post- but we have been very busy! The last few weeks of school had me attending Christmas concerts, craft days, Christmas parties/gatherings and it has been busy on the farm as Mark nears the end of his time there.

I look back at my time here in Sale and I am so thankful for the experience I was given and was spoiled rotten by the staff and students! I came in as a stranger and left as a friend and will miss all my students very dearly. I have learned so much about myself as a teacher in these past 4 months and feel very ready to tackle teaching back home in Canada- well start applying at least- keep your fingers crossed for me!

Although farming here was very different from what we know back home Mark has loved the experience and has learned a lot about working as a team, communication, being a manager and learned how to do some things differently- he especially loved his AI job with Genetics Australia.

On the road I hope we have more time to keep up with the blog more regularly- but I thought I should share some pictures and stories of our last few weeks here and how we celebrated during the holidays!

Mark Round Baling

Family Christmas at Inverloch

Me, Kendra, Rianna, Amanda and Mark knew headed down to to Inverloch ( a town just south east of Melbourne, along the coast) It is a very beachy town with many holiday houses, surfers, and little shops. We stayed at a gorgeous holiday house owned my Trevor and Rita Platt, who own the farm that Amanda works on. We enjoyed a walk along the beach, Christmas Dinner, opening presents, exploring rock pools and the caves and each others company. We will all be headin off in different directions soon so it was nice to spend a weekend all together.

Lounge Room

Pool and Spa

Kitchen

Outside

My (unwanted) plop into the pool

Exchanging gifts/trying them out

Hilarious!

mmmmm iced coffee!

Rock pools- full of little marine life! Such an interesting place to explore!

Fam jam!

We found lots of little star fish

Hermit crabs!

Heading into the caves

Tight squeeze

Mussles!

Eagles Nest

Starfish

Christmas Day

Rianna, Mark, and I spent Christmas day with the Steads (Steve, Kim, and their kids Brittany, Hayden, and Reagan)! Mark works on the Stead family farm and we are currently living in their home and they live in NZ but are here for the holidays. We had breakfast together,opened up presents, and played a game- it was a great morning. The three of us attended mass then returned and had Christmas lunch including shrimp on the barbie! It was delicious! We spent the day hanging out and enjoying each others company!