The last six months in one blog, can it be done?
Trip Start
Sep 06, 2007
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Trip End
Ongoing
Brisbane,
Australia
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Glass House Mountains
! with a parachute I hasten to add. It was absolutely incredible and so much fun. I have a DVD to commemorate the experience but I will never be showing it to anyone again as I look almost exactly like a chipmunk, a chipmunk with severe bingo wings! anyone that has seen it has been incapacitated by laughter for at least half an hour, so maybe it could be used as some form of taser gun/defense tactic by the police to subdue and control crowds, one look at my DVD and they will be helpless with laughter! A dangerous weapon I will be keeping to myself. This experience was followed by a BBQ where my friend Shannon insisted on showing the DVD to all my assembled friends, cheers hun! Faye left me to go back to work shortly after my birthday, so Christmas was a bit of a lonely affair as all my flatmates went home to their various countries. I worked on Christmas day so it was a bit of a non-event. Unlike my New Year which was great as I spent it with friends in Sydney on a roof top in Bondi Beach where we watched Groove Armada play on the beach, the night was topped of by a morning dip in the sea. That weekend in Sydney was a real tonic as the weather was lovely (did I just say tonic? am I in the 50's?), Brisbane has had a very wet summer. I was told before arriving that the state was in a drought and that the summer got seriously hot but it pretty much rained non stop from August when I arrived until February, so the summer has been pretty bearable for me! Despite all the rain there are still water restrictions as the dams are in the wrong place
Glass House mountains again
! I don't care what anyone says it is not possible to shave your legs, shave your pits, wash and condition your hair and wash your face in four minutes! And you cant buy two in one shampoo and conditioner, here where they need it most! Fools! This is one of my favorite rants about living in Australia the other being the quality of news broadcasts, half an hour on how spot the dog rescued a small child from the jaws of a crocodile up a cliff, and 5 seconds on violent protests in Tibet/Burma/Zimbabwe/insertinternationalnewshere is not what I call news. But they do have weather reports that include surf, diving, fishing and swimming reports which I love, its always good to know which areas are good for Bass fishing on any given day.I have managed to fit in some diving as well mainly in Byron Bay where they are begining to know my name at the dive centre and also on North Stradbroke Island. A beautifull Island just of the coast of Brisy in Moreton Bay, the diving there was great and we saw loads of leopard sharks which are pretty friendly and well pretty. So I have probably missed a lot of what I have actually got up to whilst working but it turns out summing up six months in one go is a bit tricky. The best and most rewarding thing about my time in Australia so far is having managed to survive. Ive managed to make friends and not give up even when things haven't exactly gone to plan, it makes me think I can do anything! Well maybe not anything, I still cant touch my nose with my tongue but I'm working on it!More to come on traveling with pops in a camper van.
all my love
Rachel/Squid x
PS it turns out the curious smell in my room was emanating from an amazing form of fungi growing on my carpet, which was wet due to the washing machine leaking on the other side of the wall! Nice.
