A Saturday

Saturday September 13, 2008

It was so warm today!! Really felt like summer and just two days ago I was freezing. My room travel clock says 83*F right now and it has been in the 60s, which has felt freezing!
Didn’t really do too much today. Walked around a bit in the morning and took a few pictures of the staff housing. It’s about a 5min drive from the main road down a bumpy, windy road deep in the bush to get to Waterslea and Koloona, which are collectively known as the Shoalhaven Centre. Waterslea is the larger site and located on the water; it sleeps about 150 people, where as Koloona is back in the bush (woods) a bit more and only sleeps about 50 people. Both are nice and have their own meeting rooms and dining room area, although the kitchen is located at Waterslea. Waterslea also has a game room, an outdoor pool, a boat shed with many canoes, the offices, and our programs staff room, which has Tim and Julie’s office, a bathroom, some of our equipment, the two staff computers and where we each have a locker.

Waterlsea is located at the top of a rather large hill overlooking a cow pasture, which is rented to a farmer. Just beyond the cow pasture is the Shoalhaven river, making for a really great view! The water is cold now but I hear in summer it’s great for a swim! While I was wandering this morning I saw a boat go by pulling a water skier! Also while wandering I found a new climbing tree!! It is massive and overlooks the water.

When driving in to Waterslea you pass the staff houses on the left, go down a pretty large hill, along the cow pasture a bit, then back up another large hill. The tree is located on the way down the hill from the staff houses but not too far down the hill, it will be nice to have a tree here!
So anyway, after my morning wander I just kind of hung around with my house mates Julie and Mel until the afternoon when we went “into town” to the store. I think I am going to end up spending a bit of money on groceries but then I will also be learning to cook too, which is good. Meals are included when we are working and we can go back over for dinner but Mel likes to cook and knows lots of recipes so we cook dinner a lot. We worked it out that we will each pitch in $20 a week and that should cover our food.

Back at the house we hung around a bit before fixing dinner: sausages, mashed potatoes and vegetables – broccoli and carrots! Now we are watching a bit of footy (rugby) before bed.
A pretty good Saturday although a bit boring. Tomorrow I have to do some laundry and pack for Kangaroo valley, where I will be for training for the week.

Man, I took a video of the house and a video of my room and lots of photos but they are taking FOREVER to load so I guess they will have to wait until I get a better internet connection - bummer