6 days and counting...

i can't actually believe that i have less than a week to go before i jet off to the states... as they say, time waits for nobody!! in the next 6 days i have loads of goodbyes to say, 2 exams to write and one big farewell to have... oh, and pack, EISH!!

it's definitely with a heavy heart that i'll be getting onto that plane but i know once i'm there loads of fun will be had and i'll be doing all the travelling i want to do and i'll get to see my twins again... which i'm really excited about!

last week i spent a week in the Eastern Cape and completed the very grueling Otter Trail but i'll post fotos and stories about that adventure as soon as i have time to stop and breathe!

anyhoo, just wanted to give you a quick update :)

Wake me up when September ends...

... cos i'm leaving on a jet plane at the beginning of October, Florida bound! :)

Going back to the states has always been in the pipeline but i haven't been able to get it right... until now and i'm super stoked! I've got a waitressing job at one of the top golf estates in the states, Johns Island Club in Vero Beach, Fl... the job sounds almost to good to be true but it is true and i'll be there (visa pending) at the beginning of October! Watch this space for more details :)

In other news, i've just finished another semester of studying... this degree is slowly but surely getting done and who knows maybe one day i'll have some kind of qualification from an actual university and not just honours from the university of life! :)

The Billys crew

This Sunday just past was my work xmas party... yes, xmas in June, this is what we do! :) we had an awesome day, the first half was spent chilling at the dam on bean bags around a fire while some of the crazy boys went Wake-boarding... bbbbbrrrrrr. For the second half of the day we took over Taco Zulu for lunch and a few too many drinks, but fun was had by all! :) i am gonna miss the crazy bunch i work with but i'm moving onto bigger and better!!

The bestest waitresses in Durbs, oh and the bossman :)

U.N. issues report to stop Issuing so many reports

Back to present day! Just finished my second exam... and as all my exams go, it was ok! I can never tell how i did til i get the results... so here's hoping! I have one more to go (Tourism Management)... but only in 2 weeks!

Otherwise, things here are pretty quiet at the moment! Besides studying, i've been working lots and trying to finalise all my travel arrangements for the various locations i'm off to (Chicago, Alaska and home!). The biggest challenge i'm having is baggage, trying to figure out the best and most cost effective way to get 2 years worth of stuff out of here... not as easy as it sounds (if there are any suggestions out there, hit me with them... pretty please)! The family has found a new au pair, which is great news... so things are starting to wind down! :)

A quick housekeeping issue... i started that picture of the day thingy but as it turns out, it's too much effort for me (and i'm running out of pics) so i'm gonna change it to picture of the week... any objections? Talking about pics... the twins and i had professional photos taken yesterday, so as soon as i have them in digital form i'll post them!

Well here's to sunshine, suntan, a couple days off, 2 weeks left of studying and a month left of employment... woohoo! :)

PS. today is LiveStong day, so i hope you are all wearing yellow... i am!

A Stampede and a Wiggly Party

On Wednesday night was my au pair friend, Noelia's farewell... so i decided to venture out on a weekday night (my, the times have changed). Myself and a whole group of au pairs line danced the night and early morning away at Stampede... take a guess at the genre of this bar?? It was ladies night, the best invention ever... free entrance and free drinks til 12, what more can a girl ask for? I was expecting to get in there and be surrounded by old people, doing their line dancing and the such, but not to be... there was a wide varity of peeps, i even bumped into a gangsta cowboy... he had the hat (just a smaller version), the boots and the belt buckle and of course, what you see on every cowboy... the bling bling! It was a most enjoyable evening, but a little sad, because the only friend i really made here has now left!

The rest of the week was business as usual, working and studying hard, but come the weekend and the boy's 3rd birthday party with a Wiggles theme... the Wiggles drive me crazy!!!! Anyhoo, it was a pretty hectic day with loads of toddlers running around, high on gummy bears, cake and ice-cream. My main job before the party was to collect the balloons... 3 dozen of them! Me and my car nearly did a Mary Poppins... up, up and away! It was good to have some adult company tho, and everyone was asking me about my pending return home. It was great to talk about it... made it more real (41 days til i'm unemployed... woohoo)!

Well my first exam is coming up on Wednesday, Economics... not my favourite of the lot, but i'm relieved the exams are finally here because it's been dragging lately! I also have a 2nd round playoff game to go to next week (Avs vs The Mighty Ducks), so stay tuned for the results of both exam and hockey game!

PS still trying to work out how to add captions to pics... i'll get it together one of these days!
Song of the day: Music is Power by Richard Ashcroft