Sitting in my “back yard” on this beautiful spring day looking out at the boats cruising along the Shoalhaven River and wishing I could be out there with them skiing!!
It’s nearly noon now and I’ve spent most of the morning using my calling card talking to family; mom & dad, grandma & granddad. Good to talk to all of them! I talked to Ellen on Friday for a while so that was good too!
Here’s a quick recap on my last few days:
Thursday
*Archery Training – I had just gone through archery training this summer at home so there wasn’t too much new information here. They have different names for a few things but overall everything was pretty familiar.
*Dinner w/ Alison and Dave – Since Julie and Mel are both away this week, Alison from work invited me over for dinner on Thursday! She is about a year younger than me and newly married – wow. So I helped her cook stir fry! I’m really going to come home knowing how to cook, which is really good! It was nice to spend some time with them and have dinner and everything.
Friday
*Low Ropes / Escape Course Training – Walked through our low ropes course and learned how to facilitate that. PG had us do all of the elements so that was really good. Quickly talked about debriefing low ropes and we were done before lunch time!
*Learned how to drive the power boat- Oh man! So driving the boat itself is not difficult but backing the ute with the trailer on is another story. Dan pulled the boat out of the shed and backed it down the ramp into the water but then I backed the ute with the trailer down the ramp, dorve it up to the shed, and backed it into the shed – pheww. I have a better appreciation for mom and dad driving with the trailer now. I don’t like backing up in a car much less backing with a trailer on and trying to get it into a shed!
Driving the boat was fun though; its’ just a little tin boat with a motor on it, sort of like the launches from crew. Whenever we take a group out canoeing we take the power boat out to have as a safety caution since the river can get busy and roughish.
*Cake! During our “end of day wrap up” everyone sang, although at their own pace and somewhat off tune – hehe, and then they brought out a cake! Very nice!
*Dinner with the Cases – After work I went home with Leanne, who works in the office three days a week, then we went to Tim and Naomi’s for Sloppy Joes! Time is one of my bosses and is from PA, although he has been here for seven years and is married with an adorable 1 year old son!
*Sing Star w/ Church of Christ People – The young adults from Leanne’s church were getting together for a night of sing start, a karaoke play station game, and just hanging out so I went with her to that. Everyone is so nice here I’m not sure if it’s an Australian thing or a Christian thing or both but yeah everyone was so nice and welcoming. Kind of made me think about my group of friends and if someone new came when we were hanging out if we would make them feel welcome. I would like to think that we would but I don’t know. Then I thought about how Rowena came senior year and how she started hanging out with our already established group and if we were welcoming enough and stuff!
It’s quite different going to a new environment where everyone is new compared to going to a new environment where relationships are already established and you are the only knew one. I feel there are pros and cons to each but I won’t go into that now, perhaps another blog!!
*Got home around 11:45 from that, called home and talked to Ellen for like 45min – good to catch up! :)
Not quite like mom's but still really nice :) :)
Saturday
Leanne picked me up, it’s so annoying not having a car; I feel bad making people driver out of their way to come and get me and drop me off for things.
Anyway, a bunch of the guys had gone down to Ulladulla, a beach town about an hour away, to camp for the weekend. One of the guys is from down there and he knew of a national park. So we picked up Emma, one of the guy’s girlfriends, on the way down, and spent the day hanging out with them in Ulladulla. It was a bit cold to swim since we didn’t make it to the beach until the sun was almost setting. The guys played some beach cricket and then we had a bar-b over the camp fire. Already getting sick of sausages – lol! They are like the equivalent of a hot dog but almost worse. :-P Cheap, quick, and easy but not so healthy or appetizing.
Got back around 11:30 again, shower to get rid of the smokey smell then bed.
So it’s been a good last couple of days. Learned a lot work wise and spent time with people outside of work so it’s good. Julie and Mel get home today so it will be nice to have other people in the house again!
Loving this warm weather but thinking about crisp fall, jack-o-lanterns, and candy corn back home – hehe!
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