September 2004

Friday 24 September, 2004
Hi Emma,
I hope you are well. Yesterday I had three friends visit my house for tea. I cooked them a nice vegetarian dinner (cornchip casserole, butter chickpea curry and a vegetable flan). I think it is good fun to cook for your friends! My visitors were all people that I met from a set of classes for people who worry too much. Since I haven't been able to see you I started worrying too much, which is not good! The classes have finished now but I found them very helpful. It is also good that some of us can still meet up after they have finished and chat about things.
I have another assignment coming up in just over a week. This weekend I need to get stuck in and work on it. Wish me luck!
Lots of love,
Aaron :-)
xxx ooo

Sunday 19 September, 2004
Hello Em,
I hope things are fine with you. My trip to Sydney went OK last Monday (13/9/04). I visited two customers and that went fine, so that was a relief :-). I was quite tired after getting up so early though. I went to the Monday night Conversation English class straight after getting off the plane. I could have missed it but it was Meredith's last night, so I really wanted to be there. Both Meredith and Alex are retiring from the class, which is quite sad. Chris, the minister, has found a new person to take over leadership of the class. He is a young man named Jesse. I hope it all works out because the class has been good fun.
I had a nice dream about you on Saturday night, Em. I saw you again and it was really great. I really miss you a lot. It will be wonderful for me when I really see you again.
Sending my my best thoughts and prayers.
Lots and lots of love,
Aaron xxx ooo

Sunday 12 September, 2004
Hi Emma,
I hope you are well. Things are OK here. Last Thursday night (9/9/04) I went to see the movie "Princess Mononoke" at the Astor Theatre in St Kilda. It was a really good Japanese movie. It is a cartoon and is directed by the same person who made "Spirited away". I remember seeing Spirited Away with you at the Forest Hill cinema, Emma. It was a great movie and it was even better that I could see it with you :-). Princess Mononoke was an earlier movie by Hayao Miyazaki but it had some similar themes to Spirited Away (like being kind to the environment). The only thing you wouldn't like about it is that a bit too violent. I guess you could watch it when you are older though.
Tomorrow I have to go to visit a customer at Sydney for work. It is kind of exciting to go on the aeroplane but it is also going to be a busy time. I have to get up at 3am tomorrow morning so I can catch a 5.15am flight to Sydney!
Love you very much Emma. It has been a long time since I saw you so I hope you haven't forgotten about me completely! I know I am thinking of you always.
Love you heaps and heaps,
Aaron xxx ooo

Sunday 5 September, 2004
Hello Em,
Welcome to September!! It is almost a year since I started this web diary. I'm really glad I have been writing to you using this. It makes me feel much better when I write to you. I'm not sure you will enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it but I hope it isn't too bad. Don't feel you have to read any or all of it!
Last night I had dinner at the Veggie Hut Restaurant in Box Hill with Joe and Jane Wang and their son Adrian. Joe's cousin, Crystal, and her daughter were also there. Crystal and her daughter had only just arrived from China and they were very happy to be in Australia. We had a really nice dinner together. The food was great and Adrian showed me his new card trading game called "Yu Gi Oh". It was a complicated game but it looked really fun. I wonder if you are playing this game now? I think you might enjoy it.
Today is Father's Day Em, so I bought a present for Grandpa. It is a book called "Consolations of Philosophy" by Alain De Botton. I think he will like it. I phoned Grandpa and Grandma today too. They are both fine and wish you all the very best. I thought about you a lot today Em (actually I think about you every day!). I hope you are well and happy and that you can sometimes feel the happy thoughts that I try to send to you :-)
Love you heaps and heaps,
Aaron xxx ooo