Six Days of Summer

The first stop on my trip is Brisbane. My best friend Naomi (and her manthing Aaron, another really good friend) live here and I figured that I won't be able to see them much once I hit the UK. And a few days in Brisbane might be the only sunshine I see for quite some time. So far the weather has not disappointed. Temperatures have been in the mid 30's since I arrived and the only patch of bad weather hit further up north from where I am. Not so lucky for Aaron's parents who are also visiting. They were caught in the thunder and lighting storm that up rooted large tree right in front of them. Nay and I had decided to stay home and seek air conditioned spaces so we missed all the excitment!
For the first two days of my visit here we did all the tourist things: going to markets, visiting a mountain thingy in the middle of Brisbane and having lots of bbq's. Good times but I don't think that I could live here, just too damn hot and really the city is not that pretty!
The best part so far has been that fact that I have escaped from work! There was so much to do before I left but now that I have I can't worry about what still needs to be done, bugger the scheme, school mag, junior camps and Kamar! I did find a whole lot of photo's from the school cross country that I had been fantically looking for but hey can't do anything now! Instead I have been reading books and taking nanna naps!
Naomi has time off from work on Wednesday and Tuesday. She is menat to be "working from home" and I am sure we can do that in shopping malls and beaches.
Hope everyone at HGHS is enjoying school camps

Catch ya later

The Great Plan

So finally I am off on my big OE. I know that most people my age have already done their big travel experience but I was always a bit of a slow starter. As most of you know I am off to England for 2010 bu on the way over I am travelling through the Middle East. I have created a wee time line of the first part of my trip so you can work out where I am and what I might be doing.



And the good news is that I have a job! That was the one thing that I was really worried about and it didn't help that EVERYONE kept asking me if I had a job. I was being to think that I was unemployable! In saying that the boss lady at HGHS has hired three people to replace me. That does make me feel special!
The school is called Thurston Community College and I have included a line to their website. I will be living in the town of Bury St Edmunds which is about 1 &1/2 hours from London by train and 45mins to Cambridge. It is also close to Colchester and Clacton-On-Sea where I ended up after the Paris disaster last year so I have fond feelings for that part of the country. The town looks really pretty in the pictures and has 11 shoes stores!

Look out world..... here I come!