Perth InternationalEnglish College of Issue 5, 2011 October 2011 Inside this issue: Students sPICE of Perth International College of English Drinks from around 2 Holidays in WA the world A Recipe to try! 2 We will show you some places to visit in WA. There is Rottnest Island, Penguin Island, The Pinnacles, Fremantle, and Cottesloe Beach. Saving Money in 3 Rottnest island is one of the most famous places Perth in Australia. There are some Quokkas which are small and similar to rats. They are cute but you Finding a Job 3 shouldn't touch them because they are dirty. The views are absolutely beautiful. You can hire Students and 3 a bicycle and ride around the island, yet there Technology are a lot of hills, so it makes you exhausted. Be Some great Music 4 careful about snakes on the beaches. It costs Festivals in Australia around $100 including bicycle hire. You can catch a ferry to get there at Barrack St Jetty near Girls Generation 4 the bell tower or Fremantle Jetty. Penguin island is in Rockingham. You can go there by train at platform 2, it takes around 30 minutes. It costs about $30 for a return ticket to the island. If you want to see sealions, there are extra tours. I recommend you bring your own food and Special points of water, for it is interest: expensive there. Christmas is Fremantle and Cottesloe are the most famous and visited places in WA because many tour- coming! ists go to Fremantle to buy souvenirs and to eat Classes finish fish and chips. I recommend you go to Cicerel- los where there is the most popular fish and on Friday the chips. If you want to swim or surf, you should 23rd of go to Cottesloe because it is absolutely superb and you can't miss the sunset. December and The Pinnacles are about 280 kilometres north of Perth. When you go there, it looks like spikes coming out of the earth! You can have a picnic with your begin again on friends there, even you can drive inside all of those pinnacles, that is amazing, Tuesday the don't miss this place. One day trip for this place is the better. In fact, 3rd of January. in summer, you can go surfing there, but other times, nothing very interesting Planning a trip? around those pinnacles, there is a small Ask Tracey and town, you can't see many people even in Georgina what noon, and the food there is expensive. And the tickets to go inside tours are the pinnacles is really cheap, 11 dollars available. for a car. Even though it is far, it is worth it. By Huyen,Mai,Leo Drinks from around the world A traditional spanish drink: Sangria Ice Cendol One of the best-known Spanish drinks all over the world Cendol is a sweet dessert broth that is found is sangria. You can find this drink in almost all countries throughout Malaysia and Indonesia, as well as in the world, but if you really want to taste a real san- South Thailand and Singapore. In Malaysia, cen- gria you should go to Spain. The main ingredients for a dol is particularly popular in Penang and Malacca real Spanish sangria are: red wine, lemon or orange but it can be found in any part of Malaysia. The juice, soda, sugar, some pieces of fruits like orange, ap- ingredients of cendol are coconut milk, palm sugar ple, peach..., also the peel of the orange and a liqueur or (gula melaka), red beans, grated ice and short vermouth. In my country sangria is a popular drink but we starch noodles traditionally colored with pandan don't usually ask for sangria if we want to go for a drink, leaves. Nowadays artificial colouring is used. we usually ask for a canha (an small glass of beer) or for By Martin a tinto de verano (red wine with soda or lemon fanta). By Mar Caipirinha Brazil is a tropical country and we have samo '' Che" - a traditional refreshe cocktails but the must importante is The dessert in Viet Nam Caipirinha, It is made of Cachaça, sugar and lemon, It is veryeasy to prepere. In the summer time, the weather is It is a refreshe cocktail and you can drink in a very hot and everyone feels thirsty sunny day or in a party with your friands. and wants something to drink."Che" Ingredients: is a type of drink so famous in Viet 1 lime, quartered Nam. It is a sweet dessert which is protein rich. It is cooked with different 2 tsp fine sugar beans such as "red bean", "black 2 oz cachaca By Rogerio bean", "green bean" and sugar. In the south of VietNam you can find this Japanese Drinks kind of drink in small shops along the Speaking of alcohol in Japan, it is Japanese Sake streets. "Che" is put in a glass with 3 which is very strong and made of rice malts and type of bean, coconut milk and some mineral water, but I would like to introduce you to ice. When you drink it, you feel cool non-alcoholic beer. Some people will say it is and you will forget the hot weather. By Huyen nonsense, but the taste is almost the same as beer. Chinese Wine In 2009, beer with alcohol 0.00% was sold for the The name of this kind of chinese wine is "Baijiu", means first time in the world. It has been popular "white liquor", it often translated as "white wine". This for drivers and pregnant women. Other beer kind of wine is even stronger than Vodka. White wine has companies have followed it and sold a lot. Nowa- some diffrent taste and smell, but for normal people in days, in addition to non-alcoholic, non-calorie China, they can not distinguish all of them, because is beer is getting popular too. If you go on a diet, hard to do it. In China, on some important days, people you can try it instead of Australian beer! By Mai like to drink this white wine. By Leo Here is a recipe for one of my favourite dishes - Aqua Pazza! Firstly, I will show you how to cut the fish. Itdepends on the kind of fish and it is very difficult to cut them, even Japanese people. You need many practice to do it well. Now, I will describe how to cut snapper. 1.Prepare the fish on the chopping board. 2.Remove the scale from tail to head with a blade knife. 3.Cut out gills, head and tail and then remove the organs and wash the fish well. 4.Cut and slide along the bone and turn the fish over and repeat the above steps. Do you think can you do that? It seems to be easy, but I described this very briefly. If you are a beginner, it will take more than 30minutes. I would recommend you to buy cooked fish. It is much better! Now, I will show how to make aqua pazza with this fish. 1.Prepare some tomatoes, shellfish and chopped garlic. 2.Heat and put oil in the pan and cook fish on the middle heat. 3.Put the chopped garlic, some tomatoes and white wine in the pan. 4.Warm it up for five minutes. 5.If it doesn't taste good enough, put salt and pepper. 6.Garnish it with parsley. By Mai Page 2 sPICE Some things you can do to save money in Perth We are overseas students, we need to pay for tuition and some different fees for studying and spending money in different places for living in Perth. How could we save money while we have a quality life? It is really an important prob- lem we should think about. We have some big parts in our life that we need to pay for. First one, rent. As we know, homestay is really expensive when we study abroad. Students move out after 18 or when they find a share house. In fact, share houses are the best way to save rent. How do we find a good share house? We can check the information on websites like http://www.gumtree.com.au/. This website has lots of information about every- thing, of course including the rent information. We can find some nice houses which are near your school or really easy to get to your school, and also, it is much cheaper than homestay. But a good household is important, careful about those in- formation on the Internet, maybe it is fake, they just want your money. Second, food. This is the most important spending in our general life. Doing the cooking by yourself will much cheaper than have meals in restaurants. Perth's restaurant always are over price, eating home is the best choice. You can do cooking with your friends who live in the same share house, you can eat everything if you can cook it. Then, buy some high quality and inexpensive food also can help you saving money. On Friday afternoon, Saturday afternoon, Sunday afternoon, there will be a very cheap market which selling vegetables and some fruits in Subiaco. If it is possible, go there on Friday afternoon, that time the vegetables are the fresh and good. Also, there is a market will open on Saturday morning, it is lo- cated in Canning Vale, meat, fish, vegetables, both good and cheap. But this is far from Perth City, so may be you need a car, and you need get up early in the morning, one last thing, in Canning Vale, buy more, save more.