Holidays

I'm on holidays. Sort of. I still have uni, of course, but I'm not working for two whole weeks, while General English is on holiday. This is Very Nice. Here is is, Monday afternoon, and I'm at home, relaxing, and Getting Things Done. I could seriously get used to this. Pity about the two (or four) assignments I have to work on. It is really nice, however, to have the time and brain space to devote to my uni work though. More about uni and work on my serious blog.

The other thing I have brain space to do is finish booking my flights. Sean and I booked some flights a couple of weeks ago, but I still need to get to Darwin, and then from London to Vancouver. That will all happen this week. I also thought we'd need to look into visas in Asia, but as far as I can see, we don't need any for any of the places we're going. I've written about our travel plans in slightly more details on travelpost.

But right now, I think I'd better go work on my assignment that's due Thursday. Luckily it consists of a lesson plan and 15 minutes of teaching. I think I can manage that...

The mysterious life of Kat.

So my life isn't really that mysterious. I haven't been writing about it because it seems so ridiculously busy and complicated that writing anything seemed too difficult. So I'll just write a list that explains how almost every minute of my life is timetabled.
Most of my life is taken up with work, and study. More the work than the study, I have to admit. I now work on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, and I have uni classes on wednesday and Thursday evenings. On Monday nights I go to belly dancing (although I think I'm going to drop that in favour of a second yoga class after Easter), on Tuesday evenings it's choir rehearsal, Wednesday mornings I have a yoga class, Thursday afternoons a training class organised for QUT staff (I like being employed by an enormous organisation that does free things for its staff!). Friday afternoons sees me (and Sean) at a French lesson in town, after which we usually hang out at Rowan and Klaus's for the evening. Saturday and Sunday aren't usually overly scheduled, but I do have to do readings for uni, housework and shopping etc somtimes. I also have wednesday afternoons and friday mornings "free" for these things, but it never seems like enough time!

Canada

I realise it's been a while since I wrote a post. A long while. This often happens when I arrive back in Australia, but this time I have a good excuse. I've been working like mad at QUT International College. I'll post more about that when I can - which will be soon, as this is the last week of this session, and next session, I'm doing a maximum of three days a week (thank goodness!)
Anyway, I was finally prompted to post because I got an email today telling me that my application for a working holiday visa for Canada has been approved! I'm going to Canada! The plan is to arrive in Montreal in August, after my English Summer Camp, then travel across the country via various interesting things to Montreal, where I want to live for an academic year (yes, that will be a new record for me for working and living in one place!). I plan to speak lots of french there. I hope. After my year, I have a vague plan to head south and see how far I get. Argentina, if i'm lucky and have enough time and money! I haven't been to south america yet, so it's pretty high on the agenda!
Until then, however, I'm working AND studying at QUT (convenient, really!) and doing three million other things while I'm in Brisbane. I have A Life here. I'd tell you about it, but then I'd be late for choir, so I'd better go! More regular posts should return when my work hours decrease...

Finished! - Brisbane, Australia
visited Jun 16, 2006
It nearly killed me, but I finished all my assignments. And a mere 6 hours or so before my flight north. Now I have two weeks of whitsundays and far north queensland to look forward to! And NO UNI WORK!!!! until next year that is...

Cert. TESOL class of 2002 - Brisbane, Australia
This place was Great visited Mar 10, 2006
I discovered recently that over half of my Cert. TESOL classmates were in Brisbane, and decided to organise a dinner party so we could all meet up. Thanks to the wonderful Eileen for hosting and to everyone for coming. It was great to see Juz for the the first time since the course, I think, and to meet his wife Maggie. Another new face was Marlin, Mal and Dave's new baby.