Wednesday, October 24, 2007

About time...Sorry guys

Well first off I want to apologize to anyone who reads this cause I have been soooooo slack. Lets see the last time I updated this thing was.......march whoops.....I was havin waaayy to much fun I guess. Well anyways Ill do a quick update and let ya in on my new plans!
So I headed up to airlie beach from Heron and did my first real hostel thing. It was alright, but it got to be really expensive. So I found a job with a sailing company so I would have free room and board for half the week, that turned out to be suuuuch a blast, and the whitsundays are sooo beautifull!!! So I lasted in Airlie the remander of my first stint in Aus and durring that time lotsa fun stuff happened. I met a guy (of course) his names Paul and Kevin came up about a month or so after I got there so I got to hang with my hommie again which was fun!! Marie also came up for a couple months! So there were heaps of people to chill with and lots of new people to meet!
Anyways Ill skip ahead to now October! I am back in Canada and have been back for almost 2 months. Its been really nice to see friends and fam, but im really excited today cause i just booked my ticket back!! I headin to calgary nov 9, flyin to honolulu then to sydney nov 12th!! Im meetin paul in Sydney and were flyin up to brissy to buy a car then driving back up to Airlie Beach! Were thinkin of heading down to Melbourne for a bit...And I also really wanna head up to asia and the close surroundings.....
well i guess its the start of another adventure for me, hope to get wayyyyy more pix up this time. Ill add a fwe from last year first!! well cheers and wish me luck...(again)
Shawna

Saturday, March 24, 2007

Makin tracks up north

Hello hello, again I apologize for such a long space between blogs, but its hard to do when you have to pay for your time on the net, and theres so much else that needs doin... Anyways quick update, I have left the great Heron Island, I was there for over 2 months, so that was good enough for me! I got some amazzzing photos and when they get home to jess ill get her to add them on! So I took a 8 hour bus ride up to Airlie Beach, which is kinda like the Banff of Australia, except its on the beach, beautifull white sandy beaches. Its also the gateway for the Whitsunday Islands, which is famous for its sailing trips. I have a job interview lined up for some childcare work, so hopefully thatll work out, if not I may head back down south and meet back up with Marie and do some fruit picking for a month or so...who knows, plans seem to change weekly for me as most of you know! Well times almost up so I hope everythings good with everything, send me some emails with some updates on your lifes..im missin ya guys!!
take care!
shawna

Saturday, February 17, 2007

lovin the island life

Hey there everyone, hope alls well! I am doing great and having a BLAST on this tiny island I call home! Its sooo cool here. For the most part everyone is super nice and friendly and its kiunda like one big happy family with alcoholism...hahahaha. I have done a few other things then drink too, like snorkleing, which was amazing. It was like swimming around in a tropical aquarium, sooo cool. And theres tons of sharks and eagle rays at the jetty, where we go for our daily swim after work. The turtles are sooo cool here to, theres sooo many of them and the mommas are masssssiivvee, and the babys are soo cute while they try and make the dart for the sea. Im getting used to the birds now, and Ive moved into a new place thats not quite as mainstream as my last one was, so hopefully that may curb the drinking...we'll see. Oh I guess a big thing thats happened is that Kevin has been voted off the island...haha...we pretend that its a reality tv show and all of you guys are watching and pickin people off...anyways ya they have this thing called an NBO which is Next Boat Off, and if your cought doin somthing they think is worthy of it they will nbo you...me and kev had a bet that OF COURSE itll be me first, but looks like i won that one. Hes gone as of 2 days ago, now its just me...owell ill survive and once he figures his stuff out he'll be good too!! In the mean time I guess Im gunna stay here till at least may and save up some cash then head to meet up with kev and ash somewhere... Australias been pretty good to me so far..(knock on wood) and I am loving it!
well like i said hope everyones good and ill try and uppdate this again a bit sooner!!
Shawna

Thursday, January 18, 2007

im off!

well all i can really say is how excited and ready i am for this new adventure!! I will let you know as soon as i can if its as good as were expecting!
have fun in the SU>>> i mean SNOW!!!!

Sunday, January 7, 2007

Finally my plans are solid

Alright, so sorry I havent put up any pics of new years, I dont really have any good ones, so I'll have to get them from my friends sometime...
Anyways I have got a ticket BOOKED!! Im leaving Sydney on Jan 20th!!!! YAHHHHH Its works perfectly as the new nanny will be flying in that morning!
So yuour probally wondering what my final plan of action is....and belive me its alot better then fruit picking!
Me and Kevin will be flying 4 hours up the coast to a town called Gladstone, its an industrial town with not much to do ...but... then we will be getting on a catermeran for a 2 hour ride to here http://www.heronisland.com/. Heron Island is a72 arce resort Island. Its soo small that there is only the resort and a national wildlife park.
I found out about this job one week ago while reading a book about fruit picking/working in Australia. I applied oinline last wed and the hr lady phoned me on friday to set up a phone interview! I told her I was going to be traveling with a friend and she said no problem, ill interview him at the same time!
So Kev and I had to put off planning anything for a couple days, which was nice, to wait and see how the interview would go on Sunday. She rang my mobile at 930 and offered us both jobs by 945! I will be doing housekeeping, thank god for an 8-5 job and a break from kids!(no offense miss hairy eyeballer)Kevin also lucked out big time and will be bar tending and serving, which he really enjoys, so we are SET!
I still dont have too much information about it, but I will def keep you updated to how its going!
Hope everyone is having a great new year and is VERYYY jealous hahahaha!
luv ya
shawna

Tuesday, January 2, 2007

New Years

Hey everyone, bcause im lazy and hate typing, and we did the EXACT same thing im just copying kevins new years post, enjoy!
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year everybody! I hope everyone had a fun-filled New Year's Eve, as I know I did (from what little I remember). New Year's Eve is a pretty big thing here in Sydney, seeing as it's one of the first major cities to see the new year, so they like to do it in style. Basically, we were told they would be lighting fireworks off the Harbour Bridge and to see it, you can find a park around the harbour (of which there are many) and just hang out. But, of course, everyone else has the same idea, so we wanted to get there early. We started the day off at 2pm, and it all went downhill from there... As we were taking the ferry from Circular Quay to the park we had chosen (at Cremorne Point, about 2km away from the bridge) 3 WWI bi-planes flew overhead. I thought it was pretty cool, though I'm not sure why they chose to fly those instead of something a little more 2007..I also decided to take a picture of the Harbour Bridge before it was lit up and I got too drunk to know what was going on. If you click to zoom in on the picture, you'll notice that there's an outline of a coat hanger on the side. We were all baffled as to what this meant, so Kevin asked one of the guys he works with at the restaurant, who is an Aussie and has lived in Sydney for 22 years, and he told him it's because the Harbour Bridge was initially designed using a coat hanger. "That's one enormous coat hanger," Kevin exclaimed. It was then that he pointed out that it was just a model, and that kev should lay off the glue. kevin agreed.This is the view we had of the bridge from our spot at the park. There were approximately 4 billion people in this park, but we were able to bribe and execute enough people to get this spot.Shawna was smart enough to pack this flag, which we hung on the tree just above our heads. This proved to be a wicked smart move, as people would walk by, and just say, "Hey, you're from Canada!" or just randomly shout "CANADA!" to which we would all go "WOOOO!". Keep in mind that this went on all night, and we were about 10 meters from peoples houses, so we really kept the property values way down if anyone happened to be doing any house shopping on New Year's Eve. But really, you don't want those people moving into the neighbourhood anyways, bunch a party-poopers!OK, so it started off with just 3 of us at this event, Kevin, Shawna and Ashley (who is actually from Winnipeg! NOBODY from Winnipeg goes anywhere! Hi Ashley!). A buncha of other people just decided to join us because we had the Canada flag hanging, and they're all Canadian, from various cities. We seriously had about 2 dozen people just stop and chat with us because we were Canucks. Some joined us, some ran away in fear. It was good times.

wow that was alot easier then tping, maybe ill always do that, hehe.
Well happy 2007 and Ive only got 3 weeks left in Sydney!!!!!!YAAAAAA
Shawna