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!!!!
Thursday, January 18, 2007
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
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
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
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