Piggeries

I just got back form an awesome 5 day placement at a piggery near Corryong, VIC.

It was a fantastic experience. We got to do lots of different activities and learnt alot about the system. We even helped assist some sows and pulled out some piglets! They were sooo cute and adorable.
We also helped vaccinate them and move pigs around to different sheds. Doing rounds to make sure all piglets were healthy and treated for any problems they have. We did post mortem on some dead piggies to see what happened to them....

The whole experience felt more like a holiday than a placement! They even took us to the local Corryong cinema. It was very cute and 'high class' the chairs reclined, and we were served gourmet food with a bottle of wine. Yummy!

We then had a short tour around town before heading back home.

On the last day it rained which made working abit better as it was cooler. Better for the pigs as well so they don't over heat....

Our last dinner there was fantastic, we had fresh oysters with this amazing sauce that was made from grapefruits. Mind you i don't really like oysters but that might just convert me =0

We then had some glasses of wine and just chatted with the lovely family.

And of course i got to mention Cocoa, she is the most spoilt chocolate lab I've ever seen. But anybody who saw her would end up spoiling her!

I really miss staying up there in corryong, it definitely is a very nice town!

Birthday Dinner @ Lowenbrau

So finally i can celebrate my bday after the midterm. We went to Lowenbrau and had great food, it was sooo filling, we couldn't finish ours. I will post up some pics later...if i remember....

The actual dinner wasn't that eventful, i was worried ppl weren't having fun! we even paid the bill by now....then it all started....first they got the guys from Lowenbrau to sing happy birthday to me, so everybody in the restaurant knew who i was and some random ppl on the next table over shouted "sing a song!' - That was scary, but i didn't (phew).

They had a few entertainment numbers during this time, and they get customers to go up and perform....
As the Lowenbrau ppl already knew my name, i was an easy target!
They picked me out and a bunch of other girls to play "Edelweiss" on cow bells....and made us do a silly chicken dance....

After that, i thought i was through the "on stage" thing, but i was wrong, they got me to go do this beer drinking competition...with 2 other girls...but anyhow, everybody wins a prize and i guess we all got free beer!

But I must admit, it was actually quite fun~ I did dread it, but when it happened, it was quite fun especially the cow bells~

Thanks everybody who came!!!