Merriwyn

Last night we were invited to dinner at Merriwyn's home,
who is Jon's cousin and an interior designer living in Windsor.
At her place there is lots of stuff from Asia
and she beautifully co ordinates them with deco furniture.
First we had chat with Merriwyn and her boyfriend, Peter in the living room
having Champagne and dip,
then we shifted to dining room where was lit by candles.
I noticed a Japanese belt (obi) which was used for the table centre.
She served three course meals with formal dishes and cutlery.
Her cooking was marvellous,
each dishes had very delicate flavor.
We really enjoyed meals and chat with them until over midnight.

Dali

The other day we went to Salvador Dali Exhibition at National Gallery. It is holding more than 200 collections in painting, sculpture, jewellery, cinema and photography. I have not seen his works before and did not know he worked film making with Hitchcock.
I enjoyed it very much.

Soccer

On 17 June we went to MCG to watch a soccer game, Australia vs. Japan. There were about 70,000 audience, which are mostly supporter of Australia. Australia won by 2 to 1. Both countries
have already got the ticket to 2010 World Cup in South Africa. If possible I would like to go there and watch the games.

Long weekend

We went to Anglesea on the long weekend.
It takes nearly two hours driving from our place.
We usually change over at half way.
Even though the weather was chilly
there were lots of people.
We browsed around in the farmer's market
and bought honey and went to the art show at community centre.
They were selling the local's works which are paintings, pictures and crafts.
We also enjoyed jogging on steep hills as usual.

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.