the arrival

I am currently somewhere over the states. I like the fact that this plane has individual movies with a touch screen in the seats. I've already watched The Soloist, though I don't think I got the full effect, as it's rather noisy in a plane.
On a good note, there was a 12 year old child sitting in the emergency exit seat which isn't allowed, in case of emergency of course. So they asked to switch with the people behind them, which happened to be me! of course, being the obliging and helpful, I was glad to change to the emergency exit seat.
now I'm watching Star Trek... tee hee

man that's a great movie....
I'm now in San Fran.... wishing I could get out of this building to visit the city I love....
alas, it is not to be and I am sitting in front of the ginormous plane that is to take me to Sydney. It's 8:35 pm local time.. but it's 11:35 my time... I'm usually in bed.. I've bought a cold coffee.. tastes disgusting.. but I hope it will keep me awake till the 10:45 local time take off...so far so good. but it's only been about 20 minutes and 3 sips since I bought it..
I'm debating buying one of those neck pillow things... they look rediculous... though right now, I'm considering looking rediculous a pretty good option in regards to comfort... that and I have over 2 hours to kill.. sigh.. shopping... not good.. I have no room for all this nonsense!
Speaking of which, I saw a book (only sold here in the states of course) all about FARTING! Dad... I thought of you... It was a sound book that you touched buttons to hear different farts! lol.. If I had room... it'd be yours :) Oh speaking of books that would be yours.... I saw those books I was telling you about... the Outliers and Blink books... they're sold here for $20.. so probably about $25 or so back home...
What I didn't realize was that you have to pay to use the internet at the airport... (or else I would have sent this right now instead of when I get to Sydney).
I think this is all for my ramblings at the moment... I'll go walk around for a bit.. hopefully wake up a bit..

It is now 6:45 pm at home and it's 8:45am here in Sydney. I have made it to my room. The internet isn't working... I'm thinking that I'm going to shower... ask how to use the net. send this letter then go walk about. :)

I'm starting to get tired. The flight was long, but bearable. There was someone in the middle seat, but thankfully, they left at the beginning of the flight for a better seat. We took off at 11pm local time (in SF) which was 2am back home... they then proceeded to serve “dinner” lol.... at 3am!?! I slept. we got into Sydney at 4:10pm Home time, or 6:10am local time.

Mom, you may want to make sure to sit on the left hand side of the plane... they got to see the Sydney Opera House... my side didn't. I've only seen the airport, the subway and my hostel room so far...

The room smells and looks um, well there's a bed... and I haven't seen bugs.... eh... we'll see... it's only for 4 nights :)

I think I'll take it easy today... my head is spinning and I need to get my bearings.

I've arrived.. I'm in Australia... the Southern Hemisphere... holy crap! lol!

I'm leaving... on far too many Jetplanes... for a looooonng time :)

Well, the big day is here!

I'm leaving in an hour and 15 minutes... rush rush rush.. to sit sit sit! lol

Yeah, I've got the butterflies.. excited and sad and anxious and... can't cram another bloody thing into my backpack if I tried! lol

I have learned how to bend the space-time continuum and managed to fit 5 month's worth of stuff in an old back pack! Did me well in Europe.. here's hoping the ol' gal holds up through the land Down Under! :)

Well, I'm going to go and finish my last minute running around and snuggles with Syd... I'm going to miss her like crazy...

See ya on the flip side! ;)

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3. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada


4. Lyon, France


5. Gap, France


6. Biarritz, France


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9. Naxos City, Greece


10. Florence, Italy


11. Rome, Italy


12. Lausanne, Switzerland


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So Perth it is!

Well, it's official! I am heading to Perth! I have been in contact with the executive director of the Multicultural Services Centre of Western Australia and he seems delighted to have me join his team!

I'm thrilled! I really can't wait. From what I've read, it seems like it's going to be such a great place to work. I am anticipating a pretty steep learning curve, though I do hope that my current knowledge will also be of value to the centre.

I'll post more info as I get it!

Trying out a new keyboard

Well, I've decided to keep a blog for my time away in Australia.

Being that I'm not there yet, and I'm leaving in roughly 8 weeks, I figure that I should at least get a handle on how this "blogging" stuff works.

So here I am, using one of those "mini" computers, as I've just recently found out are called Netbooks, very shnazy! Only difficulty I've found with this new itty bitty computer is that the keyboard is also micro sized. My fingers just don't seem to work well on it.

So I put my great problem solving skills to work. If this keyboard doesn't work for me, what else could? I could always plug in an external keyboard, though awkward to drag around with me... so why not one of those flexible keyboards?

I went to staples and... voila! I'm trying it out as I type. I read some pretty bad reviews about the flexible keyboards, but I'm actually not minding it so much. I think that it will be a welcomed addition to my trip!