I had some wine with dinner tonight so I’m feeling happily fuzzy and there will probably be lots of typos and little sense in this post.
So, what’s been happening? M and I have been trying to get some more driving in before the end of the FBT year, so last weekend we drove to Tailem Bend, which is around 100 km from Adelaide. It was a beautiful day, and we had a bit of a problem finding somewhere to eat. We went to one pub, which was quite smoky and deserted, so we left and went to a cafe instead. That seemed more like a canteen/cafeteria arrangement rather than a nice cafe, so we left there as well and eventually decided on the Riverside Hotel Bistro. It turned out to be a good choice as we had a lovely view over the Murray River, and the food was quite good too. After lunch we walked down to the river and had a bit of a walk, after which we drove home. That seems to be the pattern of our drives - go somewhere, eat lunch, then come home.
Still, it was very nice and I’m still enjoying our little trips across South Australia. Today’s photo was our view during lunch - not bad for a pub, really! If you’d like to see some more photos, I made a new album in my gallery. I took them with my phone so they’re not that great.
Tomorrow M and I are going to a wedding - a friend of mine from school is getting married. It’ll be the first wedding I’ve been to as an adult (not including my own), so I’m sort of looking forward to it. Only sort of, though, because the only people I’ll know other than the bride and groom are people I went to school with who I don’t particularly like. Hopefully they’ll just hang out together and M and I can latch onto some stranger or other.
I mentioned in my last post about tafe and that I thought that this year would be the one where I actually notice some improvement. Well, I’ve decided to put that to the test, and have set up my webcam again (I haven’t had it set up since my last hard drive died). What I thought I’d do is make videos of myself throughout the year, and at the end of the year I can watch the ones I made at the beginning and hopefully see that I’ve improved. In theory, that seems like a good idea, except that I hate being videoed, and I hate watching myself on video. But part of this exercise is also becoming more comfortable with being videoed, so hopefully I won’t be so nervous in assessments (in which a video camera is often used). I’m not sure whether it will work, but it’s worth a go. And since I don’t have any deaf friends, I don’t have anyone I can practise my Auslan with outside of class, so it seems to be a beneficial idea all round.
