a walk in the park

i wouldn't be so quick to say that life has been a walk in the park this past week, but it certainly is great that we have found plenty of time to take advantage of the beautiful area in which we're living. the photo here is taken in the botanical garden at king's park, which is one of our favorite places to walk. in the background, you can vaguely see the "federation walkway" that stretches above the treetops of the garden and has amazing views of the river.

as the aussie's say, my course is pretty "full on" right now and i am already forgetting what it's like to have hours of free time on my hands (as was the case a few weeks ago). i volunteered last week with another girl in my educational leadership class to do a presentation this thursday on the theories of educational leadership. we are also looking at how the role of the 'educational leader' has changed over the past 50 years or so. definitely an interesting subject, but a heavy workload for this week. i know it will be good to get this out of the way early, and our professor even said he'd go easy on the first group (that's us) as we haven't learned too much in the class yet, but he also made it very clear that we are setting the bar here, so it better be good! :)

this past weekend we cheered the western force on to win another match against the queensland reds! then on st. patty's day we saw dave hughes, a well-liked aussie comedian, do a show at the historic regal theatre in perth. i was a little worried i wouldn't understand all the jokes through his strong aussie accent, but no worries there - he kept us rolling with laughter straight through the whole show! we had tickets in the 2nd row right in front of him which made for an even better time. luckily, he picked on others around us to poke fun at and we were saved from any embarassment there!