Email #5 18 Febuary 2007

Hello Campers ,

It has been a long time since you have heard from me. Have no fear this instalment should get you all up to date and back on track with what is happening in my luxurious life as a house boyfriend, Jazz singer, Swimming Tutor and Sportsman.

Under the table work

First of all I have been training very hard to secure and under the table employment While doing this I have found that getting consistent work under the table is slightly difficult or more to the point quite impossible.

Swimming Tutor

I have been successful in securing a Swimming pupil that I teach at the local pool 15 mins walk from our house . I advertised in a local website that I was available to teach swimming. I was very happy to get a pupil the day after I posted the ad. This has now been going for two lessons and the child is showing good improvement and of course I got some money for my efforts. I am hoping I will get some other clients through word of mouth.

I have a job waiting

After tutoring my swimming pupil. I was talking to the aquatics director at the pool and randomly asked him if they had any work at the pool. He was very happy I asked and went on to explain the different options I had. Basically I have a 40 hour management job waiting for me as soon as I get my Working Visa.So now I am waiting for the government to send me my visa , and as soon as I do I have a awesome job , working for the city with great benefits and a very nice pay packet. Yeee Haaa things are looking up

House Boy Friend

As the days have gone by as I wait for the Work Visa I have become and expert in the house boyfriend job description; doing the dishes , Making the bed, Doing the vacuuming, Putting out the rubbish, Cleaning the floors, Wiping down the window sills, making dinners, giving back rubs and shoveling the drive way. I am very happy with my new found skills and I think I might try to market myself as a house cleaner.

Jazz Band

Finally a day has been set for us to record our demo disk. February 24th we will be cutting our music for the club owners. I really hope we get some gigs soon , I really am getting very excited about singing in front of a live audience instead of practicing. We have also been accepted to play in a festival in June that will have up to 10,000 people ! So I really cant wait for that.If anyone is interested in a copy of our cd send me an email.

Sports

I have been training very hard in the gym over the past two months. My fitness has improved so much , Merin thought it would be a good idea to start to work on agility and running for the Rugby season, that right rugby season ! I am taking the plunge and learning how to play our national game in the U.S.A. It feels good to be running again and it gives me so much more confidence for the rugby season. Training starts on Tuesday and the first game will be on the 31st of March. Because of the Snow the game will be inside on turf. So its going to very fast paced. I have been working on interval running and now I have to work on my speed so I can at least keep up with the game and at the same time learn how to play ! and hopefully put in at least one good big hit for the team.

On valentines day I received my very first pair of Ice Hockey skates ! As soon as we can get them sharped Merin will be showing me the basics. And my goal is to skate daily on the local pond so that I can learn enough to play on the social pond hockey tournament that Merins friends play in. It sounds like a lot of good fun and laughs so I am really looking forward to getting out on the ice and practicing hard.

Well there you have it that's pretty much the up date, I have added some pictures of me and the snow that I shovelled off the drive way and me standing in the snow with shorts on , NOT recommended, my legs were cold for about 30 mins after that.

I love you all ,

Till next time

Mike