Monday, April 08, 2013

Testing my skills

Hey pal, how've you been? 

I haven't written anything here in a little while so I figured today's the day. So yeah, here's something I've been thinking about this morning.

I'm 24 and I've never left Australia, and putting aside the obvious fact that I don't really have the money, it's just never really been a priority for me. 

The last six months or so though I've been starting to change my mind a little bit, I'd love to go everywhere. 

Well, nearly everywhere.

One thing I've decided, as a result of going to the shopping centre this weekend, is that I no longer ever need to go to Paris;

Why would anyone want to go to Paris when we've got a perfectly good Eiffel Tower right here at Fountain Gate?
To get the most out of the great structure I stopped by France again the next day to eat my breadstick and drink my red wine.
The nearest I had to an appropriate stripy shirt is my Collingwood top, the stripes are vertical not horizontal, but it's close enough.
Also, I was driving, so instead of red wine I was drinking Ribena blackberry juice.




I find dunking the crusty bread in the Ribena makes it a lot easier to eat. 
I'm pretty sure that's how the French do it.
After leaving the Eiffel Tower I went into Sanity and, much like my outfit, I couldn't decide between a football dvd and a So Frenchy So Chic cd.
In the end I decided to just get a Boost Juice. 

Here I am waiting for it, which was actually a lot more embarrassing than I was expecting. 
This whole thing was pretty dumb, and I might not've put it onto this blog except that having accomplished everything I could've hoped to in France, as I was leaving Fountain Gate I came across this Footy Fever themed Skill tester.
There was a ball standing on it's end that I thought I might be able to knock down with my breadstick. I couldn't get it, but I just about broke my wrist trying. 



After my failed attempt at getting the ball using bread, I decided to put in a gold coin. 

And so, much like Collingwood did to Carlton yesterday, I had the skills and won the football.

The poor skill tester didn't know what it had been up against though, my skills have already been tested many a time, as in my past life I was actually once a skill tester junkie.

And so to finish off this blog post here's a very old photo of a collection I made, I think in 2004 or 5, in the summer between year ten and year eleven. 

It's called "49 toys I won on the skill tester using only money earned from busking with a yo-yo".

I guess that's enough for now, I should get back into the studio. Thanks heaps to Cherie Peele for taking the photos. And thank you to you, for reading this. Hope you're having a great day, see you soon.

6 comments:

  1. Cool blog post!

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  2. To Kenny,
    We welcome you too our beautiful country.
    Please come back soon, we appreciate your contribution to the French Nation.
    From
    Jean Claude
    French lord

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    1. Ha. To Jean Claude, hey, thanks a lot for the kind message, I'm a little star struck, it's not every day I get to talk to a French lord. I'll be sure to return to your country the first chance I get. Thanks again, Kenny.

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  3. Now I want to go to Paris in Fountain Gate too...but the boquete in the skills tester--that was so wrong.

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  4. Hey Tina, yeah you should definitely head over to Paris in Fountain Gate if you get the chance, it's lovely this time of year.
    Using a bread stick in a skill tester was definitely worth a shot, in the end though I learnt if you actually want a football you'll have to use the claw.
    Thanks heaps for reading, hope all's well, Kenny.

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