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Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Landing back in reality...
Is pretty difficult after such an intense experience. I'll have to send snippets of what I experienced, but to join the dots for you, I just spent two weeks at an orphanage 'Jesus Loves the little Children Foundation' in Pasig City, Manilla, Phillipines. I wanted to adopt kids by the end of that.
Now I've landed and boy is it hard to be back at work! And there's a cockroach infestation in my kitchen thanks partly, I am sure, to my not so hygenic house-mate. Well, she blames me, but they did multiple incredibly while I was away.
Next post: flashbacks to the Phillipines!
Tuesday, December 06, 2005
Yes, this is a bi-annual blog
At least that's what it looks like. Sorry all readers who have been hanging on for dear life. I'm just going to have to sneak in little blogs in my breaks of work.
News is I'm heading off to Port Macquarie (thank you parents time share apartments scam!) for a few days with my little sister, Joy. We've got wakeboarding and BBqing planned for Christmas Eve. My parents have cut all semblance of family ties and will be in Taiwan over all of Christmas and New Year. I'm heading off to the phillipines myelf on a mission trip to a boys orphanage.
Yipes! Boss! Back to work!
Friday, July 15, 2005
oh yipes
Oh dear, I've moved into a new apartment as of one week, and my carpet flooded tonight from the bathroom overflowing. So much for Friday night of fun.
I walked into work last week after having spent a night with no TV, no radio, to find out about the london bombings. Everyone was like oh my gosh where have you been! Like the tsunami, it took me a while to realise the scope of it. Only halfway through the day did I panic when I remembered my friends in london. Then I tried to sms them, but my mobile died. Thankfully one of them, Dee posted up via net, and I was fairly sure she would have said something if Lisa had ben hurt.
Still, I'm getting annoyed that we keep talking about how many Australians have been hurt, as if these things only matter when Australians are involved. Do not ask for whom the bell tolls...
Friday, March 11, 2005
So delayed...
Wow. So sorry little blog, you've been neglected shamefully. Here's a quick update.
So I returned from whirlwinding around Tasmania (now birthplace of Princess Mary of Denmark to the rest of the world) and entered FULL TIME work!
This explains an amazing amount. Like why I arrive home from my 1.5 hour commute and napped till 9pm today. And why I no longer do fun things like nick off to the beach at midnight, but instead am usually in bed by 11.
Sorry all those full time workers in the past who I have hassled into staying up till 3 am, or paid out as grannies when they went to bed early. I now see the bleary, too early light.
But, for anyone interested, work is great. I mean, how often does a job come with a perfect combo of office peeps, equipment and work? Just the location sucks - and even then, it is right near the beach - just far from my house!
Okay, so here's my office people, there's only 4.
There's my boss Dan, who had a two week old baby when I started, so at least most of the time he looks worse then me in the mornings. He's quite funky, drives a black VW bug and as a sideline he sings for commercials and has probably the most relaxed personality a boss could have. I think he's still adjusting to being a boss.
There's his sister, Lisa, who has the title office manager, and boy does she deserve it! Unashamedly addicted to golden oldies and always shocked when I can't recognise a one hit wonder popular before my birth.
Then there's Corrinne, another newbie who started about the same time I did. Much more proactive about being useful than me, she also sings quite random little snatches and has joined the no shoes office union quite happily.
Ok, that's all for now folks.
Oh hang on, by the way, when I got back from China, I tried to say a couple of little sentences about the experience and ended up crying in front of THE WHOLE CHURCH!!! But now that it's been a few months, I think I can safely say something, so that's what the next blog will be about.
Tuesday, December 14, 2004
Mid Dec in Xi'An
It's cold and I have one.
English teaching is one of the most energy sucking things I have ever done. I have seen near 1000 students in the last week and gradually realised that I can't relate to all of them in the limited time I have here. In fact, I am getting quite lazy and sort of relating as it stikes me instead of the 24/7 attitude I started off with. Probably healthier.
The teaching team is a bit in chaos. I spent nearly every waking hour on the weekend with them, touring the Terracotta Soldiers and then in a friends apartment for 10 hours straight and by the end of it I just wanted to run away and retire to a life of hermitude. Instead I went to a coffee house, then to a piano bar where we had impromptu karaoke. Denise did some of the worst singing I have ever heard in any language. I nearly threw peanuts at her.
Amelia and I attempted to sing amazing grace, but we didn't have any fold-back and I couldn't tell which was my voice and which was hers because we sound similar. Well, they clapped anyway.
The classes have been great though, and we keep recieving gifts from them. Teachers really get respect over here.
Well, gotta go.
