Working

So not much has been going on in my universe for a while, just chilling out being on holiday. I rang safeway to try and get on, and I am going to have to go back through all the process of induction, the videos and training and stuff before I can get regular work again. I know that as soon as I have been through it, I can get back into working as much as I can to pay off the last bit of debt that I have from the holiday. I know that if for a while I put $100 a week into it, rather than the savings account that I have been for the last few years, then I will have it paid off in no time. Then I can start putting money back into the christmas club to put away in some kind of investment for when I need to buy my own house in Melbourne.

One-Arm-Driving-Tan

I drove home from Melbourne today, the arm is worse now than it was. I tried keeping a t-shirt on it, but some of the sun still got on it. I should put some more stuff on it to make it not hurt so much.

Katrina, Suzie and myself decided that we should stop being boring and go out somewhere friday night. We shouldn't have left the house though, we all weren't in the mood and ended up only getting one drink at one place. The hardest thing is finding somewhere to actually go. And then the public transport ends just after midnight, which is no good for going out. Places are that much harder to go to, and if you go out one of the streets away from the city, you have to spend so much money on taxis to get back into town, or to get home. The most important thing is who you go out with though. Some people just love to be out in a pub or nightclub, and it makes you want to be there with them. Sometimes going out is so overrated.

Sunburn

I was driving in my car yesterday, and from the sun being so hot, I have one sunburned arm. Maybe I should tan the other one, it looks weird, and very noticable. Hopefully it will fade soon.

I have started moving back into my room in Melbourne. My belongings are scattered far and wide, at several places. I don't remember where I put things in the mad rush to be ready to travel overseas.

I am so glad to be home. There is something so comfortable to me about the place that I live in.

New Place

Sorry everyone who has been checking, I have been very tardy getting a new post up. To be honest I have been to the new post page a few times, but each time I leave without posting anything, not liking anything I typed.

I have moved with Mark to a new place for his work. Its a two bedroom unit just around the corner from the city centre. I like this place, it has heaps of history, and I remember from when I was very little coming here with my grandparents. The shops we went to visit, the ice creamery and toy shop are still going strong. Both Mark and I remember it as a bigger toy shop somehow.

The other house is having the floorboards done, and new benches in today, I can't wait to see it, should look a million dollars. Or at least 250,000 dollars we hope. Mark is going to get renters in, our first investment property. He's going to look around here over the next few weeks and see if there is anything worth buying.

I am so glad to be home, havent done that much practice, but that will change over the next week. I have to find things worth practicing, with a mind to auditioning for the orchestra back at uni. If I can get into the orchestra, then I can have that as one of the electives in the course. Otherwise the only playing I will be doing will be for lessons that I have to pay for myself.

Next few weeks, mostly over Feb, I will be moving back into the house I was in before I left. Netty and Aaron, two of the three people that I live with, came to the unit to visit and have a drink with me. They are both so much fun, I look forward so much to being in the same house with them. I missed seeing Netty in the morning when I was having breakfast in my room, and setting off to classes with her. We should both have the transfer this year, we both have such good grades. My grades from UVA were really good, 3.75, I was very happy with the results. Especially being overseas and being Australian and all.

Hail to all those overseas, I got sunburnt yesterday. Enjoy the snow y'all.

Home

I made it home safe! I am chilling out at Marks place, happy to be back. Its like I never left. I was wondering how I would react with the driving, but it wasn't even an issue. I think that it was mostly due to being somewhere so familiar. In the airport I couldn't stop grinning at the voices I could hear around me, I could hear the difference that everyone reacted so strongly to every time I opened my mouth over there. It is so good to see Mark again, I was playing down how much I missed him. I look forward to seeing friends and family over the next few days.

Hometime

well everyone, this is it. Its time. Time for me to leave the USA behind and head back where I came from. Back to being just another Aussie, instead of that weird foreign girl that speaks funny. To familiar territory, places and people I know. Still many people to meet, but they wont ask me where I am from anymore when they hear me speak.

I will miss mostly the people I have met. It took me a while to get to know them well enough, but this last trip on the bowl game, (THAT post next time) was just amazing. I'm pretty sure that it wasn't just the fact that I stayed up all night New Years Eve that made me cry when the buses pulled out from the hotel. I will most likely never see most of these people again. A special few I know that I will meet again in the future.

So running the airport gauntlet again. Tomorrow there will be so many people in the airport travelling home cause it is the end of the public holiday and the end of the Christmas, New Year holdiay season.

Keep reading this page. The title that I thought up in the week before I left home still applies. Leona Is Gone from America. But only temporarily.