now a thirtysomething from Brisbane
Off to Beerwah
“Papa, can we climb Beerwah today?” Little Dark Chocolate Bunny asks.
“Yeah Papa, can we?” Little White Chocolate Bunny echoes.
“I guess we can, but don’t tell your Mama”.
“Yeah, Yeah” squeal the little bunnies.
An older photos from 2007 but I still love this series of photos I took.
I’m busy working on two assignments – having a “great time” working on cost variances …..
I’m settling into life here in Spring Hill – I’m tucked away in a nice street up near the windmill on Wickham Tce which means I’m enjoying walking/running up and down Jacob’s Ladder when ever I go anywhere in the city which isn’t work. That plus living in a terrace house is making a difference to my legs for sure!
At the moment though, I’m pretty much “head in textbooks” or “fingers on calculator”, I’ve got a exam tomorrow and I want to get the best mark I can possibly get.
My study set up doesn’t so much look like this any more (I do miss my balcony and all that light) but is a corner of my room. Will have to take some photos of my room shortly.
Still study is study and it must be done.
Study of course makes you hungry. I won’t however be eating the below pictured. I may be a big supporter of adding a spoonful of Milo to corn flakes/any breakfast cereal but pre-packaged porridge sachets with the Milo already in it? sigh.
Went to do some grocery shopping with one of my flatmates and snapped this picture on the walk back up Edward St.
Now it’s time to finish off some practice questions and get ready for bed.
Contrary to public and possibly opinion, I’ve not yet disappeared off the edge of the earth.
I have however changed postcodes about just as quickly as I changed at the start of the year. I moved into a lovely quasi terrace house in Spring Hill on Sunday. Saw the ad on Friday, inspected on Saturday and then Bob is my great uncle I moved on Sunday.
I’m totally loving the 8 minute walk to work compared to the 40 to 50 mins it was taking to get to work in the morning. And oh so nice to get home quicker after uni. I’m living with a nice bunch of people which is of course good stuff.
One of the great things is that my room has 3m of wardrobes on one side of the room 🙂 🙂 🙂
The view from the window is in some ways quite urban but also a bit suburban with the trees etc.
Here is to Spring Hill.
Well, we arrived home on Wednesday morning and boy were we relieved to be home. I’m slowly going through all my goodies (about 22 different Kit-Kat flavours just for starters) and even more slowly going through photos. I’m starting to catch up on the 2.5 weeks of Uni I missed as well as work. I’ve found it extremely difficult to read/watch/listen to any more news about what is happening in Japan. I almost burst into tears whilst reading a news article about people waiting for lost loved ones to hopefully be found alive whilst on the bus home the other day. Whilst we we were nowhere near any of the devastation it was just so heavy in the air across Japan during our last few days.
We ended up seeing a lot of places, doing a lot of shopping (oh the shopping), eating all sorts of things (Kobe beef!!! OMG), talking to a random mix of people and most of all enjoying the plum blossoms. We did see some cherry blossoms but personally we prefer the perfume from the plum blossoms (we were talking to a volunteer guide at the Osaka Castle Gardens and he said that that preference is quite common amongst westerners).
Plum Blossoms in the Osaka Castle Plum Orchard.
Quick update, we left Tokyo at 8am this morning and have spent the day in the Kyoto area. We are now in Nara. No earthquake damage here.
Well we are now at our third night in Tokyo and whoa what a city it is. People watching, shopping and walking has been done not so much “proper sightseeing” but that is coming.
We had rain through the night last night and woke up to it snowing this morning, it continued up until midday’ish. The snow melted pretty quickly but it was nice for that little while.
The shops, whoa. It as all about variety and then some more. In some way I like the limited ranges of things back home. For example you want a pair of nail clippers; back home you probably have about 5 or so to pick from in a shop, here we were in one big electronics store and I kid you not there would have been at least 70 different types!
Still we’ve been having a ball and tomorrow is the halfway mark 🙁 :-).
Mum, the baking powder photo is for you, does it look familiar?
Cherry blossom season is getting quite close and the shops are filling with cherry blossom/sakura themes items (no Kit-Kats yet 🙁 )but I have had the cherry blossom frappacino from Starbucks and mmm it is very nice, will try the lattes soon.
Tomorrow we are doing more of the sane from the last few days and going to karaoke tomorrow night with a bunch of people from the hostel.