Its been some time since we last spoke. I guess I’ve been waiting for something exciting to happen. Well, if you think rain is exciting you’re going to be on the edge of your seat. It seems as if its been raining here for the past two – three weeks. At least the weekends have […]

Just when things here start feeling like home, they do a complete 180. Banana bread for example. Part of my weekly diet at home, plain and simple. A loaf of bread is sliced, I eat it. Over here they complicate it by toasting it and buttering it up. Why?!! Although I had to try and […]

My my… A week has gone by and somehow I am supposed to remember all the interesting things that have happened… well here it goes. I literally jumped out of bed when my alarm went off on Tuesday morning. Not that I was excited for my first day of work, instead I was lying awake […]

It begins… my journey to the land where kangaroos drive taxis and boomerangs are used as a form of currency. At least thats what I thought, I was in for a big letdown. My name was flagged upon check in because it sounds suspicious. The lady at the counter said they were checking to see […]

Tonight be my last night here in the beach city that sleeps early. Having completed my open water diving course without drowning, I was given my certification. Hooray! Now I can dive myself up to 18 meters and get my own air tanks filled… oh the possibilites. Today on our final dive we went down […]

Not much has happened the past few days. Just diving, eating and sleeping. I wish that I could take my camera and show what im going to try to describe. On the first dive I saw some great sea creatures… another puffer fish and a moray eel or two. After swimming along the bottom of […]

The other night I ran into Ilya, Aaron, Dave and Mark on my way back to the hotel (to use the water closet). Lucky for me they were on their way to the shooting range, so I decided to tag along. We roll up to a really fancy hotel down the road thinking we went […]