Things I will miss 5

The Beer

Of course I will miss the Aussie Beers that I have grown to love, and I was lucky enough to work for the company that makes one of my all time favorite beers Victoria Bitter!

Things I will miss 4

The Footy

Rugby Union (pictured), Rugby League (and my favorite the state of origin series which I watched in an island bar made of sand last year, hours from shore), and Aussie Rules Football it's always been fun to watch a game even though at first I had no clue what was going on. Everyone is so into sports here that it's a great atmosphere wherever you are watching a game and whatever game you're watching! Some of my best nights out have been watching the various footy games Australia has to offer!

Things I will miss 3

The color of the water and the cliffs, with such unique looking rocks--absolutely beautiful!

Things I'll miss part 2

Lawn Bowls

Yes lawn bowling is a real sport and yes it's mostly old people dressed in all white. However nearly every town in Australia no matter how small has a bowls club. There were 2 within spitting distance of one of my old houses. The advantage of the bowls club? Cheap food and booze of course! Every night of the week the bowls club is invaded by younger people taking advantage of the bargain basement prices, good locations and sometimes dodgy live music and poker machines! My old local lawn bowls club was the last stop on a pub crawl I did last Sat. night and there was also a fancy dress party in full swing in part of the bar, from the outfits I'm guessing it was a pimps and hoes party..the bowls club, not just for old foggies!!

Things I will miss, Part 1

Queenslanders

The Queenslander style house is the most common in the state I live in (you guessed it Queensland!) and are perfect for the warm weather, they are made of timber and have beautiful verandas and are up on stilts with the whole underside of the house just being open and you can often just see all the way through to the backyard. I've lived in 2 different Queenslanders since I've been here and absolutely loved it, if I ever moved back here I'd live in an old queenslander for sure. The picture is of a queenslander that was just down the street from where I used to live, the whole neighborhood is full of beautiful houses like this and most are very close to the river, so have beautiful views.

New Look!

New blog, title and new blog address and new resolve from me to blog more often. The next couple of weeks may be iffy though because of my mini-vacation home to the US, but also realistically I'll just be stuck at my mom's house all day so perhaps extensive blogging/internet surfing will be in order!

Important Announcement!!

Hey everybody, here's an important update for you, I got my employment contract and final placement for my new job! Drumroll please...I will be a Regional Manager in South America based in Sao Paulo, Brazil!! So who knew it's back to Brazil for me for a while. I'm really excited about the position. I'm gonna be super busy the next few weeks though, I'm leaving Australia at the end of August to come back to the US until around Sept. 20th when I will leave for training in Thailand and then in October I will go straight from Thailand to my post in Brazil...so lots of globetrotting in my future. Can't wait to have lots of visitors in Brazil. Meanwhile I'm in a panic about languages, I really need to ramp up my spanish quick (as other countries in my region include Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Peru and Columbia) as well as get some basic portuguese down..so I'm really freaking out about that, not to mention this is going to be a crazy busy job but I'm looking forward to the challenge!! Hope to catch up with some of you when I'm back home!!!

Absent

hey all sorry I've been absent for a bit, things have been mighty hectic over here! Currently I"m working full time at Fosters for the next few weeks and then I'll leave to start training for my new job! Yep I managed to get a real job right out of school using my masters!! I'm really excited about it and will be headed to training in SE Asia at the beginning of Septemeber before being relocated to (hopefully) the US! The job involves lots of travel so I don't mind being based in the US, as I'll probably spend at least one week a month overseas!! Anyways just waiting for final details on my training dates and my final location placement..will keep everyone updated on my whereabouts..more stories to come!!