Sunday, February 17, 2008

See how the patio's going!




Ray has been busy getting the framework for the new back patio up. This weekend we were all needed to help get the side beams up with the wiring through them. We'll update the progress when there's more to see!!

Saturday, February 9, 2008

Chinese Homestay Student


We have a Chinese homestay student with us for the next six weeks. Rebecca has been in Australia for 4 weeks. The first 3 weeks, the 48 students from Huijya Private School in Beijing stayed at Woodman Point in a camp setting and had intensive ESL lessons as well as sightseeing and fun activities. They did abseiling, kite making and orienteering, swimming, fishing and beach games, surfing, archery and lots more. They went sightseeing in Fremantle, visited Scitech, had a day trip to Rottnest and then had 3 days in Sydney before coming to stay with homestay families last Saturday. Rebecca 's English is very limited but is already improving so I am sure we will notice a huge improvement over the coming 6 weeks.
There are 48 students at 4 schools: Oberthur, Bateman, Nedlands and Mt Claremont.
These are the 4 girls at Oberthur: Ivy, Rebecca, Amy and Lisa