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Easter Weekend :)

Apr 13, 2009
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SO exhausted

3 days in bloody toowoomba- mountain city and very cold

Easterfest- christian rock festival

Boys writing they love us on pieces of paper and then mooning us

Running a merch tent- lots of free clothes and plenty of people to meet

Shane Henderson is probably the coolest guy ever

Audio Adrenaline were really good

Thousand Foot Krutch was freakin epic!

The best pad thai I've ever had, hands down

We lived in a cloud

The most random house to stay at...ever. Propane tanks under computer desks, nudie calendars, and cushionless couches.

Learning what "wenis" meant

Lots of lovin God.

OH! and a fish store called wet dreams, and a road sign that said speedo check...crazy bogan townspeople!

Ok, my first day at Denim is officially over :) Man, I really hate having to start all over at a new job- new menu, new way of doing things, new prices and people and expectation....I don't like that part. But I can suffice with being uncomfortable all over again as long as I can support myself for the next 2 months here. The girls I met seem nice. The chef is very stern and orders me around a lot, but I feel like if I just keep my head down, I can make this work for the next little bit.

I also booked my flight home......June 18th is the day! I am so sad to walk away from all of this, but I love that I will see my friends and family again. I don't think a day will go by that I won't miss being here though, a piece of my heart will forever belong to Brisbane.

annnnd its gone.

Mar 26, 2009
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Faulty hard drive is the verdict. And the result? Nothing could be salvaged from it....unless I sent it to a specialist who may/may not be able to get anything off it either, but it would cost me between $800-2400 depending on the amount and level of difficulty. No thanks.

So....all my pics of oz and all my music and all my school stuff.......gone.

Nothing I can do about it though. Time to move on I guess.

P.S. I may be asking for some pics that other people have....Toni, I know you have some of the pics I lost- like our old stuff together :) so I'll be asking if you can give me access to those again <3

GRRRRRR

Mar 24, 2009
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Worst day I've had in a LOOONG time. My computer broke. Took it in and the guy said, looks like either the hard drive is corrupt, in which case you may lose everything on it (which IS everything), or the software is corrupt, which is not covered under warranty.....so which one is going to suck worse? I don't have the money for new software, and I have so many valuable thing on that computer.....

So I kind of made a dumb move- I went and did some shop therapy.....not that bad, but I DID spend $40 on a bag. And DIRECTLY after, I get a phone call because I owe a girl $30 for a blender I bought off of her, and $10 for a friends birthday gift. Damn...thats $90 gone!

So I come home in a crappy mood from it all. I'm 5 days late on rent. My paycheck is not in my bank account, but still won't be enough anyways. And the first thing Jess wants to talk about is money we owe her from the cruise. So I get online to look at my bank account, and tristan is on and tells me I owe him $35. At that point, I'm seriously ready to flip out. THEN Jess says, "by the way, I did dishes the last 3 times, I'm NOT doing them anymore." And Olivia starts arguing by saying that she always does hers on her own. Amy's out of town, and I sure as hell know all those dishes aren't mine, especially cuz I haven't eaten at home today or yesterday, but they both look at me. So I left and am in my room. GAH! I hate money and stupid issues. Dishes aren't a big deal, seriously...and I'm not in the mood to argue about something as trivial as dishes.

I hope tomorrow is better!

PS, can't do my pic a day thing cuz I don't have my comp to upload anything :( But I'm saving pics for it....

Day 2: How About Hungarian?

Mar 23, 2009
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The owner of our house, Zoltan, and his sister, who came over here to visit him from Hungary....she speaks very little english, BUT she makes amazing food! Pasta from scratch....she made us an entire authentic Hungarian meal. And made us doileys, haha. Amazing.

Day 1: Rockers

Mar 22, 2009
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Broc and Simon: my rockers. Dude, I wish I was in a band too, then I could be as cool as them, lol. We went to go see a rock show tonight- Amnity Affliction. Flippin awesome. Ate popcorn on my kitchen floor, and played with the camera on my laptop.

60 days, 60memories

Mar 22, 2009
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Ok, so I suck at being very frequent with this blog...OR using it for what I wanted to- a detailed journal of my experiences here. I do it occasionally, but more often, I just end up talking about emotional stuff and missing home and all of that.

SO....we're gonna change it up a bit!

I plan on leaving here a few more than 60 days.....so I'm going to do a daily journal for each of those days with at least one picture for every day, and a brief explanation.

Hope I can do it!

:)

After much debate....

Mar 16, 2009
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Well, not really..... there was no debate in making this decision.

Before, I wanted to come home because of the family issues. I wanted to come home because I feel stagnant here....no longer like I am enjoying not doing anything, more like I am wasting my time doing nothing. The novelty is long gone and when I'm in Brisbane, I'm working, and going home.....not much of a change from Reno. But mostly I just miss having familiarity...I miss my dad and my friends. BUT I know that is not really a legitimate reason to give all of this up- because of a feeling, so I've been waiting. If a better reason came, then I would leave, but not just because of a feeling.

And a reason came.

I needed to start picking my classes for when I come back in the fall....and as I was choosing the classes I need, I found that a lot of them aren't even offered in the fall. 2 that are classes I need to take ASAP because the rest of my schooling is built upon them, will only be offered this summer. And so I have to decide....do I come home early and save myself an extra semester (and use the last year of my millennium scholarship as fully as I can) Or do I stay here and just take whatever classes I can in the fall to keep my scholarship and get serious about schooling next spring? Well for me that answer is pretty clear, if I pushed off school even more, it wouldn't be legitimate, it would be stupid.

So as it stands (God-willing), if I can get the classes I need for summer, then I will be home by the end of May :)

The past month and its adventures

Mar 15, 2009
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I could sit on here and write in detail everything thats happened the past month, but I'm afraid it would take up pages and pages and everyone would get bored halfway through......SO instead, I will write the main parts and add a few pics. If there's any part you want me to detail, send me a message ;)

Death Cab For Cutie Concert

Jessy came ALL the way from Reno to come visit me, so we decided to go to the death cab concert! Because Australia is so much smaller than America, the shows are typically smaller, so we were in this tiny little venue and super close up.

Jessy and our adventures, including Sydney!

We went out a bunch and saw heaps of stuff around the city....then we went to Sydney and hit the zoo, saw the city sights- Harbour Bridge, Opera House, and lots of going out every night. Some crazed and obsessed kiwis and a cute irish boy :)

Our Cruise!

The Ship: We met loads of new people, and ended up spending most of our time with 4 guys from Townsville. Great mates :) We went out (well, you can't really go out on a ship, but you know what I mean) dancing every night, and by night number 5, I was sick from not enough sleep and too much activity. But I stuck it out through the cruise. Lots of wining and dining and dressing up everyday!

Noumea: French Settlement- speak very little English- French mostly. We were there for a day and went swimming and bought some french beers (3 beers costed like 70 dollars!) They laughed when we tried to speak french and all I could say was Bonjour.....

Lifou: When you think of island nothingness- that is Lifou. People live in grass huts.....lots of rainforest and prett much nothing else! We rented a car and drove to the other side of the island to the most beautiful deserted beach I've ever seen. Went to the only place that sold food we could find....and they spoke only french, so we ordered things we had no idea what they really were....I ended up getting food poisoning. We saw an islander walking down the road with no shoes or shirt and a rifle....and lots of naked tribal kids running around.

Vila: I seriously think this place was a 3rd world country....all the buildings were broken down, everything was extremely cheap, and there were kids on the streets begging for money. We hired a man with a bus who took us everywhere and waited for us at each place the WHOLE day for $20 a person. Went up to the Cascade waterfalls- the most beautiful thing I've seen. While we were swimming in them, a tropical storm started, and the river got pretty scary....we were stuck under some trees for shelter til it calmed down a bit, then had to hike back down. Before the storm, we crossed a river that went to my ankles....when we had to cross again to get down, it was to my thighs and super swift....definitely scary to cross.

All my pics of the cruise are getting put up on myspace, so I didn't wanna upload them twice....

Love:

Feb 23, 2009
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This is one of my favorite quotes, please read and tell me what you think :)

"There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love at all and your heart will most certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglement; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness.

But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless and airless- it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside of heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all dangers of love is Hell."

.... then it goes on to say...

"We shall draw nearer to God not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him, throwing away all defensive armour. If our hearts need to be broken, and he chooses this as the way in which they should break, so be it"