Where Happiness Lives

I don’t know if Brandon even reads this blog but this Scrubs quote is for him…
Jake: “Trust you? You don’t even know where New Zealand is…"
J.D: "I know you can dance your way there from Old Zealand…”

That’s right, I am leaving for NZ in approximately 3 days and I am SO excited! Not only is it 18 days that I don’t have to be in school but we are basically touring the entire country (both islands), which is sure to be beautiful. We take the Toowoomba Transit (fondly known as the TT shuttle) into Brisbane were we are catching a flight to Christchurch, NZ (in the south island). From there, we are spending the night in the airport until the car rental place opens on Friday morning, and then off we go…

Back in Toowoomba, I have been busy working and am finding myself busier than ever. This past weekend, 5 of my friends went over to Brisbane while I was stuck here; finishing assignments that are due before I leave. But it wasn’t all just studying. This weekend at my college (Steele Rudd) was Davis Cup weekend which is a big event weekend that we put on. Friday was the Desperate and Dateless Ball at the uni club where everyone dresses up crazy and hangs out. After work I went over and it actually ended up being really fun. Saturday was a road rally and a bonfire which I unfortunately couldn’t attend because of work but the weekend still ended up being a success.

Today and tomorrow I had signed up to do this room audit, where I basically get paid $22 an hour to go around to classrooms and count how many people are in them. AWESOME. And tonight I have to go to this Responsible Service of Alcohol Convention in order to get my Alcohol license so I can work the bar at Hog’s Breath, so I’m definitely staying busy.

My domestic skills are improving (Emily…) as I made the most delicious Chocolate Zucchini Cake yesterday. I wasn’t sure it was going to turn out because I’ve never actually made it by myself, but it did! I was so happy and now I get to sit here eating my favorite cake in the whole world. Life is good. (Don’t worry, I’m not eating all of it…)

For all you people who are keeping up with the Aussie slang (get ready to hear a lot of it when I come back) here is some more…
- Cotton candy= Fairy Floss
- Silverware= Cutlery
- Converse shoes= Connies
- McDonalds= Mackers
- Pickup truck= Ute (I made a fool out of myself when I got a ride home from work the other day and told the guy he “had a nice truck.” He just looked at me and was like “Truck?”)
- They also say “How you going?” instead of “how’s it going” or “how are you doing” which I have started to pick up.

Hope everyone at home is doing wonderfully… although I heard you got some snow, so sorry about that. You should all just move down under to enjoy some warmer weather. It’s no big deal, just fly on down…