First Day of Spring – First Day of Training

Monday September 1, 2008
First day of Spring today, although it feels an awful lot like our fall – the end of our fall – cooooollllddd. Not sure if it is because I am coming out of our summer or just because I dislike the cold so much but ugg :-P It’s all right though – should be getting warm here soon enough I suppose. Kind of neat to have fall-like weather for a little bit. I guess having cold weather for a little will make me appreciate the warm weather more when it comes.
So I’m back up at Port ‘Hacking after two nights down at Shoalhaven, where I will ultimately be working. It was nice to go down and meet some of the people I will be working with, all of whom are awesome and amazing and aussie and nice! I got to sort of start getting settled into my room, although most of my clothes are still in bags! And I got to check out the site where I will be working – eventually. Seems like I do have about a months worth of training before I actually begin working but it will be good.
Today was the first day of first aid so it was pretty much a repeat of what I had at Sandy Cove at the beginning of the summer just with a bit of a different twist.
Aussie word of the day: snipper whipper
US translation: Weed Wacker
My whole CPR training class, about 10 people, got a laugh out of that one! Which then led into a debate of which word made more sense – although both are pretty funny if you think about it!
Staying at a house here at beautiful Port Hacking and working on connecting to their wireless!!! I got connected but then needed a user name and password, grrrrr. . . .So hopefully I can post all of these tomorrow. So annoying that I can write each night but then have to post them all at the same time – oh well.
Guess that’s it for now – trying to keep them shortish

Tuesday Sep. 2, 2008
REALLY MISSING MY INTERNET ACCESS :( :-P Good thing I mentally prepared for this but I am still experiencing withdrawl. Wish I could post more and add pictures but I'm using a staff computer at Port Hacking b/c they don't have their wireless hooked up properly yet. Quite annoying b/c I can connect but then no user name or password will let you in b/c it isn't set up yet - grrrr.
More Pictures and posts will come asap - which could be a while.
Having a fantastic time though - soooooo many nice people. EVERYONE I've met is sooooo nice! I feel so welcomed and "right at home" besides my accent standing out heaps :-P
Miss you all though.