Sandown 10km race

We had a 10km race at Sandown Racecourse.
The course was almost flat but it was windy today.
Though I have got a personal best
I am not very happy.
Because I thought I could run much faster.
This time Tarquin drove us there.
He is amazingly thin and very fast.
Maybe I am too fat that why I run very slow.

school excursion

I went to the Ian Potter Art Gallery on a school excursion.
First we viewed indigenous arts.
Our teacher explained Aborigine's 'Dreamtime' and also 'stolen generation'.
Next we viewed early day's Australian arts
which are The Pioneer by McCubbin and Shearing the Rams by Tom Roberts.
And finally we viewed young student's arts.

After the excursion Jon came to the gallery.
We ate big pizza for lunch
and looked around the gallery together.
We became members of National Gallery of Victoria.

Cross country in Lardner Park

Last Saturday we joined the cross country race
in the Victorian State Championship.
Stuart drove us to Lardner Park in Warragul
for over one hour.
There was a beautiful stock farm.
But it was a difficult race for me
because the course was wet and hilly.
I ran 19minutes 26seconds for 4km,
which was 10th of my age group.
Jon ran for 8km and got a good result.
We are very happy.

Old Scotch AGM

The other day we went to Annual General Meeting of our running club.
I had great time with old and new pal.
This year an Olympic gold medalist, Steve Ovett was the guest.
Everybody enjoyed his talking.
But it was too fast for me to understand.

English school

We came back to Australia last Tuesday.
Since next day I have been to English school.
The class starts from 8:45am to 1pm.
I get very busy now.
In my class there are about twenty students from all over the world.
I noticed their strong accents from each countries.
Most students are very active.
They try to speak English even if their English is not perfect.
I knew I am bit quiet.
I would like to utilize this great opportunity
and brush up my English.

short trip in Tokyo

Yesterday we stayed at serviced apartment in Aoyama, Tokyo.
That was the prize of Most Improved Woman in 2008.
We've got two bedrooms and living room and kitchen.
Internet and paper were available in their comfortable big lounge.
We explored around fashionable Aoyama area and had a dinner at the barbecued chicken shop.
This morning we walked from Aoyama to Tokyo Midtown in Roppongi.
We really enjoyed this short trip in Tokyo.

Sakura

We went to see the cherry blossoms in Yasukuni shrine area.
As it was a warm day there were so many people.
After eating a bento box
we walked around the Palace.
There we saw beautiful cherry blossoms and a lot of people again.
And we enjoyed free Japanese tea and rice cracker at National Theatre.