Hello everybody! So it turns out that Elvis finally learned how to dance. Ama-za-zing I know. But it just goes to show you that not every one is a hopeless hip thrusting cause.
Just so ya know Elvis, I always knew you had it in you :) She's the little tiny one dancing with the fella with the yellow tie.
Oh jeez!! I don't even know where to begin!!! I guess I'll start at the end and work my way to the beginning!!
The most recent thing in my life is that my room is a mess. I've got most of the crap stored away in it's proper places but there's still work to do. Poop me :( At least I have sheets to sleep with tonight rather than just a mattress and a blanket. Speaking of blankets, that blanket on the 'Brave Little Toaster' was freaky. In fact that whole show is messed up!! Who was the genus that came up with the plot for a kids show to be based on household appliances?! I don't know about you but as a kid the vacuum and toaster scared me. With all those things they tell you at school about how a toaster can electrocute you and kill you, I was terrified of the toaster. Of course I'm not any more but why would you make the star of a kids show something so terrifying? I'm surprised I could watch that show as a kid. It's WAY worse than watching the Cookie Monster.......*rolls eyes*
Next most recent thing is that Leo is home safe :( After his crazy flights he finally made it home on Friday. The kid is super unlucky for being Irish, he had flight trouble one the way here and on the way back. I wonder if he's really Irish. Hmmmmm, I wonder......It's not really in order but we had a great time with him. If you didn't get to meet him while he was here you missed out because he is a really swell guy, not that I'm biased or anything! Pffff!!! What would give you that crazy idea?! We took him to Heber, Logan, Moab, downtown, Arches, Zions, Snowbird, and Lake Powell. We did as many things as we could with him in the month he was here. It was a lot of freakin fun :)
The third most recent thing is that I am engaged to the Irishman named above.
Forth item of business is that I sold out and bought an iPhone....I am ashamed....It is pretty groovy though :) It just made sense because I own a MacBook laptop and apple products sync so easily and well with each other it would've been a little dumb not to get an iPhone of some kind. My number is the same but some numbers haven't made it into my new phone, just an fyi for those of you who text me and get a confused response. Some of you might think that is generally my state of being but that is not true. I have brief moments of consciousness and clarity.
Ok, ok!! Put your assault weapons down and I'll tell you how he proposed to me!! Sheesh!! Some people's children *shakes head*. We went hiking up the canyon by my house and when we got to the top of this hill we were out of breath but we had to get back home for my sisters birthday dinner. Before we headed back home he took some pictures of the valley and went pee. I wanted to go back home because it was cold and windy but he kept telling me to wait because he wanted me to catch my breath before asking me but I didn't realize it and kept trying to leave so he would kiss me to get me to stay a little bit longer. I could tell he was nervous and he asked if it would be a good time to ask me. I told him that he should ask whenever he wanted. All he said was ok and looked even more nervous. Then he asked if he should get on one knee and I told him to so it whatever way he wanted. He again said ok and looked really really nervous. He told me he needed my hand and then got down on one knee. When he looked at me he had big eyes and looked super cute like puss in boots. He looked at me and asked "Will my little princess marry me?" After to try think of a funny response and not coming up with diddley or squat I finally said "Yes." He stopped looking so freaked out and smiled. There you have it :)
The least new thing with me since my last blog is that I'M HOME!!! It's been really good being home and seeing all you great people again :) I am sad to have left behind some really good people in Oz :( Reno, thanks for everything mate. I miss you like crazy and hope that things are going well for you. I can't thank you enough for all that you did for me my last few months in Oz. Especially giving me a place to live, eat, and a ride to and from work. Thank you and Earl so very much! My plans are now find a job. I'm not sure about school as I need to figure out visas and stuff like that first. Pictures of the last month can be viewed here. I'll keep you updated as life continues like it always does :)
Come one, come all! Leave your loops and milking stools. Coop the hens and pen the mules. Come one, come all! Close the churches and the school. It's the day for breaking rules. Come and join the feast of FOOLS!!
Aren't I so nice giving you this break from that constant facebook stalking? I know that facebook blue really gets old so enjoy the nice tie-dye of my way-groovier-than-facebook-blog. Instead of liking this post you should make sure you come back again so can get a good healthy dose of groovy hilariousness. You can always guarantee it'll be a funny post, because I'm funnier than people who are funny for a living. Now that's saying something!!
Thank you one and all (well, only those of you who sent a birthday car, email, or messaged me) for the birthday emails :) I really appreciate them and can't wait to see you sometime after 10 days from now. Woot!! I cannot even freakin wait!!! For my birthday the people at work were super nice and got me a cake. One of the seal trainers made me a necklace and later that night most people from work met up at this burger place to share my birthday night with me. Reno and clan gave me a card and some Oz candies. Jesse and Jess bought me Belgium chocolates and a card. It was a very nice day :) I worked with the seals on my birthday and was able to get a bunch of pictures with two of my favorite seals.
I've been kinda busy the last week or two. March 7-10 I flew down to Sydney and had a look around. That is one cool city!!! However, I don't think I could live there. An international co-worker of my dad's (which would also be an international co-worker of Uncle Shan, Aunt Tara, and Uncle Perry's. Horray for Nu Skin! Shan's very favorite past-time and location!) let me stay with him and his family at his house about an hour outside of Sydney. Friday he took me to work (yay Nu Skin!) and I rode the train into town and had a wander up to the Rocks, which is the oldest part of Sydney. There I got a map and went through a free museum. I then bought ferry ticket to Taronga Zoo. It was fan-freakin-tastic!!!!! Not only was it gorgeous but it was such a neat zoo! Lots of animals to be seen in a really cool place! After the zoo I took another ferry to an island just out of Sydney harbor called Manly(heheheh ya know many? hehehehe). I tried to go to the aquarium there but got there 15 mins too late. One of my friends from work gave me three passes to go to some of the Merlin owned attractions in Sydney(there are 5 Merlin attractions). So I explored Manly and visited the beach for an hour before heading back to the mainland and checking out the opera house and the botanic gardens. Both were beautiful(more so the gardens but that goes without saying. Sorry dad. I guess this means Kelcie will be getting my fifth of the inheritance)!!! Saturday Paul took me down to Bondi beach with his family and then took me to the airport. Reno's husband, Earl, works for a company that does helicopter tours and he was able to get me a tour for free. It was SO SUPER COOL!!! Though I do have to say that I was glad it was a smooth day because I got a little chopper sick by the end. Weak sauce I know. Kinda like watered down ranch dressing. But only wheirdos like ranch dressing *cough cough El Tovar cough cough*. I gave two of my tickets to the couple who were on the copter ride with me because on the ride my camera died and they said they'd email me the photos. They've yet to do said kind deed.....but oh well. I had one ticket that I used to get into the aquarium in Darling Harbor. That also was amazing. So much better than where I work. Not much competition, though honestly. Using my awesome social skills I had one of the staff members offer to let me into the zoo at the end of the pier. It was small but cool. Sunday I did a whole lot of not much. I went to a war memorial(Anzac memorial) and that's about it. Just wandered around a lot trying to kill time before my flight. Overall it was an awesome trip and I really enjoyed my stay :) For those visual people, click here.
For some strange reason Paul's little kids really liked me.....they were 2, 4, and 6 years old. I was glad to leave that house. Mostly the kids though. Sorry Trist but I don't think I'm going to be a very good aunt. I guess it's a good thing you have three other sisters that are DYING to be aunts ;)
I've just returned from Fraser Island and it was fantastic!!! I got picked up early in the morning and we drove north up the coast and crossed over to the island via a ferry. We then drove on really bad sandy rodes to Lake Mackenzie It was a very pretty lake. We had lunch there and then drove to Central station where we walked along a boardwalk in the subtropical rainforest. It was really pretty and very nice. There was a creek there that made no noise at all. The natives had named it the silent creek. After that we stopped on the beach for a while next to a fresh water stream that was red from all the bark from the nearby trees. It was so cool watching it mix with the ocean. While we were out we saw some dingos, a bunch of lizards, kangaroos, and some wild horses. It was an awesome day!! Have a look here.
When I was at Taronga zoo in Sydney, this Pakistani guy randomly came up to me and in horrible english that was very heavily accented started telling me that it was really hard and scary going around the zoo alone and it was hard to get anywhere because of all the people. I just looked at him said yeah and started walking away. He followed me and asked if I was with a group. Very naively I answered no which he very excitedly asked me if it was also hard and scary for me. I told him not really and tried to walk away again. He asked if he could come with me. Trying to disuade him from following me I told him that I would be going to Manly which he replied without missing a beat, "Can I come with you?" This shocked me so much that I told him I guess if he wanted to. This must have been what he wanted to hear because he looked like he was going to hug me right there on the spot so I very quickly walked away cursing under my breath at how stupid I am and wishing I had a certain Irish lad with me to keep this yellow toothed weirdo away. He followed me around for an hour or two despite my silence and my quick glances at the animals. He insisted on getting a picture with me and one just by myself and told me that I was forever saved on his memory, I was beautiful, and even told me I was like an angel to him. At one point he was trying to get me to stay at his house saying that his house was open to me and that I could stay with him and if things didn't work out with the people I was already staying with I could stay with him.*pulls finger pistol trigger and kills self* I don't know why I couldn't freakin tell him to leave me alone. I think I might suffer from a slight case of niceness or something I didn't know was contagious but I guess I should have expected catching some kind of disease when traveling abroad and living in a foreign country. I finally was able to ditch him by getting on the cable car(kinda like a closed up ski lift) something he didn't have a ticket for. Maybe this qualifies me for the leading role in Mean Girls, but I oh well. I'm just hoping that my niceness and meanness cancel each other out so that I can just get back to being me, a little ray of sunshine ;)
That crazy sound I had on my last blog was a Kookaburra laughing. I think that either many people couldn't hear the sound or else you all are a horrible audience and get a zero for participation. Bad students. To me the noise sounds kinda like monkey's having a crazy party in the bush but it's just a couple of birds telling jokes about zebras.
A zebra dies and goes to heaven where he meets up with one of his zebra friends. They are just chilling, talking about life on earth when the first zebra says to his friend, "You know what I've always wondered? Are we white with black stripes or black with white stripes?" The zebra and his friend talk about it for a while when finally the friend says, "You know, you should go ask God this question. He'd know and then we could finally clear up this mystery." "That's a great idea!" exclaims the zebra, so he makes an appointment to see God. The next day he is brought before God and zebra asks, "God, I was wondering. Am I white with black with white stripes?" After what feels like ten minutes of extended nervous silence God finally answers, "Son, you are what you are." Before the zebra can ask what kind of vague mumbo jumbo answer that is he is rushed out of the room and into the hall. The zebra starts going off on the mysterious God and how his answer doesn't make any sense. A guard over hears the zebra's frustration and asks what he's question was and what God's answer was. "That's easy!! You're white with black stripes!" exclaims the guard after the zebra tells him what happened. "How do you figure?" asks the zebra. The guard explained,"Well, if you were black with white stripes, God would have said to you,'Son you is what you is.'"
In a week I will officially be done with my internship and will be 22 hours away from heading home. As I type I have 7 days 22 hours and 28 minutes until I get to go home, but it's not like I'm keeping track of the seconds or anything. Leo will be there soon and he's pretty excited but nervous as well, despite what he tells you. It'll be awesome to have everyone one I miss together :) I can't wait!! Well, until that timer reaches 0, this is me signing out!!
Hey Heidi ho! I wish I was on that little pony... Oh the good ole days riding her cross country, standing up out of the saddle yelling, "For Sparta!!" with whip saluting in the air, her bucking sending me on to her neck, and then carrying on like a little retard, oh yes :) Grood grood times :)
So I have a sound for all of you and I would like you to listen to and vote on the poll next to this post as to what is making this sound :)
It has been sometime since my last post and I know some of you were getting antsy to hear from me. CALM DOWN!!! You know I'm not dead, or you would have been invited to the party. What kind of party would it be without you? I mean mean come on!!! You're like the life of any party, they'd HAVE to invite you!
Since that tropical storm that hit and made all that foam wash up, it's been pretty cool, compared to earlier. It has rained a lot as well. The warmest it's been since the big storm is about 80 or so. It's been really nice because heat and humidity s-u-c-k-s. Hard freakin core. Man...*yawns like a lion* I'm so tired I might have to do this later. Nah!! I'm no sissy just a sister!!
Life has been pretty good, I'm happy to say :) Living with the Reno's has been Far and Away more enjoy then the fourish months I lived with Maureen and Andrew. Reno and her husband, Earl, have been so considerate and nice to me :) I can't even begin to thank them enough for everything they've done for me and continue to do for me. This weekend they took me to some shops to see if there were any souvenirs that I wanted to buy and then bought me a meat pie. They are such wonderful people. I don't think they really understand how grateful I am for them letting me stay with them my last few months here. I got the money that my parents had paid Maureen for the weeks I didn't stay with her and my parents asked me to give Reno and Earl the money for food and rent and stuff even though they said they didn't want me to pay them. After slipping some money into both of their wallets Earl asked me to stop. My parents have been super nice and said that I could use the money to go to Sydney if I wanted to. So I am :) March 7th at 3:55pm I leave for Sydney and return back here March 10. I am staying with Paul, he's a Nu Skin employee that works in Sydney by day and takes poor American kids by night. I'm in the process of buying tickets to Fraser Island and will hopefully go there soon because my time here so starting to go by quickly. I officially have 31 days until I will be home. In five weeks (that's including this one) I will be home :) Happy days!! Saying that my time here has been pretty great :) Australia is a great place and if you ever get the chance to visit I recommend it. But, there's no place like home :) I can't wait to see all you wonderful people again, ate lovely food, ride horses, drive, bask in the non-existant humidity, especially when you have a visitor from another country at home to welcome you back :D
Speaking about Taylor's love for the French, watch this clip and laugh.
And don't forget about breakfast
One fun thing I got to do a few weeks ago was I got to go to the Australian Zoo. Luckily for me I know how to wrangle animals because some of the crocs there got loose and I was able to get them back in their enclosures. Reno was luckily able to get a photo of me helping out before I got it back in its pen. It was tricky work but with the help of the staff I was able to do it. I don't want to brag or nothing but I'm pretty much a natural born croc handler. Don't forget to want to look at my pictures. There are some pictures of the Reno's house and also of the zoo. If you really want, after you remember that you want to look at my pictures you should really look at them :)
One weird thing I've noticed is that it seems like the clouds move really fast here. Just staring at them they seem to roll on by before you even get to say hello. It's bizarre to me because back where you lot are(Russains, Germans, UKians, etc, etc. pretend you're in the mountains high above sea level) you'd think that the clouds would move by so fast but comparatively I'd say the clouds here at sea level seem to move more quickly. Strange Oz air is getting to my brain.
And now a word from the hostess:
"Kaiya would you mind boiling the water for me, I'd like some coffee." - Reno
"Yeah sure." - Kaiya, and begins to get a pot out.
"What are you doing?" - Reno
"Boiling water..." - Kaiya
"Just use the kettle." - Reno
"Oh, right." - Kaiya puts pot away and frantically looks around for kettle even though she knows exactly where it's kept.
"...where's the kettle?" - Kaiya
"This one, right here?" - Reno
"Oh yup that one! Got it! Do you want more water added to it?" - Kaiya
"Yes please." - Reno
Kaiya, fills kettle up with water and sets on heating pedestal. After heating device doesn't turn on begins fiddling around to find the on switch.
"Huh, Reno,.....how do you turn it on?" - Kaiya slightly embarrassed.
Laughs, "What?! You don't know how to turn on a kettle?!! What planet are you from?!" - Reno
"One where tea kettles aren't used I guess *barely gets out in between chuckles*" - Kaiya
"You flip the switch! *flips big silver switch that sticks out of kettle*" - Reno laughing.
"Yup. I thought it was something like that." - Kaiya laughs at own idiocy.
"Geez! You sure are from some sheltered world!" - Reno
"You know that's right!" - Kaiya
The moral of this story is don't ask a Kaiya to do anything you could do yourself because they always make it more difficult than it should be.
Today I skipped work, approved skipping but I'm still a rebel ;), and went up to Noosa with Jesse and Jess. Jesse is a guy from fresh and Jess is a girl from seals. They are a couple and are super cool :) We were going to hike a "mountain" but it's been raining so much they didn't want to go up. Instead we went surfing. It was a lot of fun but I wasn't nearly as good this time as last time. I got up twice but really poorly because both times I got up on my knees first which is a no no. They were much bigger waves than the last time. I also got thrashed a lot more than last time. I seriously felt like a towel in the dryer getting tumbled around. At one point I felt like one of those crazy flexible people that can bend backwards and touch my feet to my head. I was bent in half like that but then getting spun around in all sorts of crazy directions. But the best part is when I finally got my feet under me and stood up, after a second of not being a pretzel I realized my top had been washed completely down and both my boobs were greeting the world. I quickly fixed that situation and did a quick survey of the beach and only saw some people up at the surf club. So that I can sleep well tonight I am saying that they weren't watching me and even if they did happen to see that they were too far away to get a good look. Thank you terrible rainy day!! I tried a few more times but was too tired and weak to catch any waves. After that we did a five walk to a lookout in the national forest. It was beautiful. That is one thing I will miss about Australia when I come home. It is like paradise and to these people it's just life. After that we got brunch and went back to their place to watch a film on African animals. About 10 mins into it Reno called and said I needed to decide if I wanted to stay there for the night or come home with her because she had to leave early because the roads were starting to flood and be closed down. Jesse drove me to Underwater World where I was able to meet up with Reno. All in all it's been an adventurous day :)
We may or may not go into work tomorrow because it's been raining so much. *shrugs* Oh well! We'll see!
Besides having my first good meat pie on Saturday, that's about all I've got for you this time folks.
Hello lovely people of the world. You've come to my blog for some reason, more than likely looking for something specifically. If you came looking for a turtle face then rest your weary bones because I have just the face for you!!
If you do not fall in that elite category of people speak to the elbow because you're not worth the extension. For those of you who are, unfortunately for you, related to me and are required to read this so that I do not have to be continually on repeat about my life, remember just grin and bare it. I'll even let you plug your nose if it'll make swallowing my cynical views on the world any easier to swallow ;) Turtle, turtle, turtle.
HOLY FREAK, WHAT A WEEK.
Let's start with the fact that my friend from work, Reno or Amanda or Amanda Reno (whatever you want to call her she answers to about anything kind of like child that hears the word 'candy'), the gal who is in charge of the salt area, got back from her month long trip to the states about 2-3 weeks ago. She had heard I was having drama with my host family and when she asked how I was doing asked about the drama. I finally told her everything on Monday and she told me that she wanted me to move out and in with her and her family. Her husband is American, Earl, and her son, Wyatt, is 16 months old. Tuesday came and she told me Earl was all for it and wanted me to move in with them too. By Wednesday I had talked with my parents and the people I set up the homestay with and had arranged to move out on Friday. Wednesday night after work Maureen came to me and told me that she was surprised, sad, and hurt that I was moving. I told her there was just a big personality difference and I thought it would be better for everyone if I left. She told me that it wasn't a personality difference that I was just hard to get to know. I wrote Andrew, Maureen, and Joanie (Andrew's mom) thank you notes for Christmas gifts and such. I was sad to be leaving Andrew and Joanie but not Maureen. There are some people that are just really hard to jive with. Who is you're Maureen? ;)
Even though it was a trying time this last month living with her, I am glad I did it. I don't recognize everything I learned from that situation but I know that what I did learn will be applied at some point in my life.
Friday came and I moved into Reno's spare room and helped tidy up as best I could. That afternoon we went to visit a coworker that just got his appendix removed. Everyone thought he was milking it just to use up his sick leave but he really was sick. He had it removed no problem and everyone now feels bad for making fun of him. Sounds familiar to me.....Kelc, that goes to show ya that horrible friends and family exist everywhere, not just in Utah ;)
Yesterday I just hung out and in the evening I made dinner to say thank you for letting me move in with them. They are being stubborn about accepting money for rent and food but I'll pull a mom and sneak it into Aunt Carols wallet, I mean Reno's wallet. Today I've played a board game, helped make brownies, showered(surprise surprise, twice in a row!), swept the floor, and cleaned the dishes. It's been raining pretty much three days straight now and in Mooloolaba, the city I use to live in, the power is out. Work was cancelled for Reno this morning because there's so much water everywhere.
I am now sitting on a window seat like every Morris girl wishes to do, relaxing while the rain and wind pounds on the window. Life is so good :) I really like the new place I'm at, 8 Griffin Place Coes Creek QLD 4560 Australia, is very nice and I feel much more at home here :) I'll have pictures of my new place next time. They are still getting things sorted away from their trip to the states and I don't want to take pictures until things are more settled down.
I live in the house the purple arrow is pointing at
BUT this week at my internship was FREAKIN AWESOME!!!! Monday I was able to do the extrem shark dive that UWW offeres :D So cool!! OH! And last the week before last I got to help with three turtle releases. That was cool too but I learned a valuable lesson that day. Never trust anyone when they say the water will be flat, it won't be flat. They are lying to you so come prepared with your sea bands and Dramamine. Australians *shakes head* will lie to you every time ;) Thursday I got to do the seal swim because I was working back in seals. That was so cool too :) We also got 80+ fish, one leopard shark, three gray reef sharks, and two cow-nosed rays for the tunnel. Super good times. Here are pictures for your viewing pleasure.
Funny story. One of Kelcie's roommates friends went on this blind date and after they went out to dinner or whatnot they went back to the guys house to watch a movie with his family but the girl had to go to the bathroom really bad but was too embarrassed to ask where the toilet was and so she came up with a clever plan. She asked if she could wash her hands saying they felt really gross and that she would like to wash them. Her blind date points her to the room where the nearest sink was. She goes in there is just sink. FAIL. Her plan epically failed. Still embarrassed to ask where the bathroom is and not wanting wander around the house looking for a toilet, she closes the door and wonders what she's going to do. Having to pee very badly she decides to make due with what she's got, so she pulls her pants down and positions herself over the sink and starts going to the bathroom when her hand slips and hits her head knocking her out. The guys mom decides to check on the girl, because she's taking so long washing her hands. The mom opens the door and finds the girl on the floor, unconscious with her pants down and pee in the sink. Needless to say I don't think that girl made it to any first base or any base for that matter and I also don't think she will ever be afraid of asking where the toilet is ever again.
Well have a good week and good luck granny with your operation on Monday. I hope it goes well and I love you lots.
Hello, I love you. Won't you tell me you name? No? Really why not? *laughs nervously* Don't be absurd!! I'm not going to stalk you and take your wallet!!! What kinda person do you take me for?! *shoves three wallets in dresser and smiles awkwardly* I'm perfectly harmless...
So the week of the last was gr-r-r-r-r-reat! Calm down Tony won't be around this time. I installed gr-r-r-r-r-reat tiger proof locks. It was also really long. Tuesday came around and this girl Dash, she starts on Tuesdays, came to me and said, "You have Mondays off right? You're coming with me to Moreton Island next Monday." I told her that I don't have Mondays off but that I would be able to get it off. She's nice but she is really pushy like that with everything. The week was long because I worked Monday through Saturday. Harrible, just harrible. I did work some days in seals which was nice because there were some bloody humidly hot days last week. Ick! The humidity sucks so freakin bad! Saying that I've heard it's ri-donc-ulously, a ridiculous dinosaur, cold back home in good ole Utah, so I won't complain too much because I know most of you can't wait for summer and a bit of heat.
I helped with a lot of injections for the sick sea turtles and stuff like that. It was all grood. There was something else cool that happened but I just can't remember what it was....
By the time Sunday rolled around I was very very ready for a break. This day I had a group surf lesson in the morning. It was lots of fun :) In some ways it's similar to wake surfing and in other ways it's very different. The instructor taught our group about rips, how to find them and what to do if you get stuck in one, how to stand up, and then let us loose in the surf. We never went any further than chest deep but just before a wave would break, the goal was to be on the board facing shore and paddling. When the wave caught we were suppost to stand up. I was able to stand up fairly quickly which I don't think made me friends with the other two people in my group as they struggled most of the lesson. The instructor told me I had a natural talent for it, but I just smiled, said thanks and thought about my totally official surfing class I took about a year ago in a pool and all that pro wake surfing I do ;) It was a lot of fun and I'm tempted to rent a board and go out again. We'll see though because I also want to go visit other places.
I was picked up early Monday morning and four of us drove down to Port of Brisbane and caught this ferry type thing to Moreton Island an hour and half away. Getting off the island everyone was saying how it would be better if the weather was a little better and not so overcast. All I could think was "Wow! They have paradise so close to them! Do they realize people pay tons of money to come here and they treat it like they're just going camping!!" It's also the same island in Scooby Doo (2002). We walked along the beach to a bush trail that took us to this really big sanddune.
Dash attempting to sled down the dune with an old body board we found on our way there.
We walked back along the beach and spotted a dugong and some dolphins out in the water. After walking back down the beach we snorkeled some shipwrecks. The water was not clear at all and because there was a storm blowing in the water was really horrible and there was a strong current going through the water. Luckily I had fins and made it to the wreck. There were a lot of cool fish hanging about the wreck. Unfortunately the water wasn't clear so it was hard to see everything. Like the little retard I am, I managed to cut my hands and knees up on the barnacles around the wreck. Sharp little buggers! Saying that, typing this post has been slightly painful because my fingers are cut up and sore. See how much I like you guys?! On the way back to the beach the life guard came and picked me up on his jet-ski and totted me back to shore. Everyone laughs because apparently all the foreigners drown but I wasn't drowning....yet *clears throat* After that we had lunch and then got back on the ferry and went back. Even though the boat was rocky I didn't get sea sick because the people I was with distracted me quite well :) All in all it was a good weekend :) My pictures from my island adventure can be seen here. I might update them later once I get the other peoples photos so check back at some point if you'd like.
On the way home I saw a kangaroo which was cool :) My very first ever not dead wild kangaroo :) Another super wicked awesome thing that happened this last historical week was that Leo bought his tickets to come visit when I get home! :D So be sure to have a bunch of really annoying questions and stories about how you're Irish because your great great grandfather was part Irish. He loves those types of things. I'm super excited and can't wait to ask him a bunch of annoying questions of my own because I just don't ask enough questions as it is ;) Also, Granny C, I'm keepin you in my thoughts and prayers :)
That was my week. I hope you enjoyed reading about it as much as I enjoyed living it. I also hope all you english and grammar nuties enjoyed picking at my writing. I purposefully sound stoopid for you.
I know some of you silly people may have been worried about living through "doomsday" that was predicted by some randomers and an ancient civilization that was able to perform successful brain surgery before Europeans realized that you can't bleed sickness out of people. Explain that one to me. Simple, the guy who had the job of determining the end of the world was the test dumby for the first time they performed brain surgery ;)
In any case welcome back. I hope your new year has been a good one so far, if not fix your attitude because it bloody well should be. After all you are still alive ;) So, I have a few pictures I took the week of Christmas. The divers dressed up in Santa and elf suits to clean the tunnel.
My Christmas was so quite and lad back. It was very weird. It honestly did not feel like Christmas between the warm temperature, the food, the lack of many loud relatives, and being with people who can be difficult to get along with. Saying that it was a good day. I opened my gifts from home when Maureen got home in the afternoon, which I don't know why she wanted me to wait so bad for her to get home to open them because she didn't really seem to care that much. I did though, so thank you to all of those who sent me gifts :) I loved them all and have pretty much devoured most of my gifts ;) I got a bracelet t-shirt, and surfing voucher from Maureen. I got pajamas, underwear, and chocolates from Andrew's mom, Joanie. It was very nice of both of them to get me things :) I did feel really bad though because I was going to get flowers for Joanie but didn't end up getting to the store before we went up to her house. At Joanie's house we had lunch and it turns out that I don't like oysters, at all *makes a gross yucky face like I just sucked on one of Jared's dreads*. Michael T. Brewer, you may eat all my oysters forever and always. Along with my pickled pigs feet, escargot and all other yucky weird things that someone who fell into a sewer would like. After lunch we swam for a bit, then had dinner. Not many could eat all of their dinner though because everyone was still pretty full from lunch.
Boxing day, the day after Christmas, was a really tough day. Probably the hardest day since I left home three months ago. I'm glad I was working or it would have been even worse. It sounds like everyone had a good time so that's good :) On Christmas one of our rays had 17 pups. They sure were cute :)
By December 28th, they were all dead. The mom died the day before and we think that because she knew she was going to die she aborted the pups early. Really sad that none of them lived because they were all so cute, for sea creatures ;)
New Years I stayed home while everyone went out and partied. It was very nice, seeing as it was the first time I'd been home alone in weeks. Especially since the "talks" I'd had with Maureen the days before I was really glad to be home alone and do whatever I wanted without worrying about upsetting her. Things seem to be a little bit better but I'm not sure because I never knew in the first place that she had such a big issue with me in the first place but whatever. I'm doing what I can to try and make her happy but if what I'm doing doesn't make her happy then I'm going to try and get out of here because I don't want to put up with this crap. I mean don't go off on someone for not being helpful around the house when every time they ask if they can help you tell them no and just relax. Anywho, my new years eve was much like this turtle, just chilling and hangin out.
Last week I got bit by one of the water mertins. I was feeding the three mertins and the biggest one just randomly bit my leg and then carried on like nothing had happened. Knowing Australia is famous for having more deadly animals in the world than anywhere else in the world, I quickly finished feeding and went to my supervisor. She was just about to jump into the tunnel to feed the sharks and there was a behind the scenes tour right next to her. I had her come close so the public wouldn't hear and told her I was bit and asked if I would be ok. She smiled and said I would and just to clean it out. Later the guy diving with her came up to me, quite amused, and said that I had been thinking of Komodo Dragons. Those were the lizards that would have killed me if they bit me because they have very toxic venom. Phew!! Is all I can say :)
The last Sunday of 2012 one of my co-workers took be to Brisbane for the day. It was fun. We went through this free museum and then meet some of her old college friends for a few hours. On the way home we stopped and took a look at a Wild Horse view point. It had a really neat view of the Glasshouse Mountains. It was about 700 meter walk, so almost 1/2 mile and was pretty steep the whole way. It's really sad how outta shape I am :( I guess it'll be butt kicking time when I get home.
Lately I've been thinking about all the boring and lame adult stuff I will have to do when I get home, bleh! Get a job with benefits, buy a car, find a place to live, pay for the finishing touches on my degree, and blah blah blah..... : / So I think that I'm going to enjoy my remaining 11 weeks here before I have to come home and be responsible. What a bore. Cya for now kids! I'm gonna go to the zoo!
