Sorry folks!

Hey guys, it's been a while since my last update and I do apologize.

I have been really busy at work recently and have actually been moved into the bar! That's right, Aidan is a bartender. I'm mostly doing cocktails, but I am also really good at pouring beers and making pretty much all coffees. For all of you who may or may not have known before (I know I didn't), a Macciatto is a shot of coffee with a teaspoon full of milk froth laid on top or stirred onto the surface of the crema (the milky brown stuff that rises to the top of the coffee when first poured). Yeah.

I am also proud to say that I have completed all of my Christmas shopping already. Mom, Dad, Hunter and Courtney will all be thrilled to find that they aren't getting a home made Christmas card and a clay model, dripping with PVA glue. Now that I'm making money, I have decided that for my first Christmas abroad, I will be buying people some quality gifts that hopefully wont end up in a drawer somewhere.

Also, my mom and I have been working really hard. Well, she has been working really hard, to get my applications to universities sent off before the deadlines and I'm really happy to know that I have finally gotten the applications ready and sent off and can now relax and make some money before December, when I will be spending the month with my girlfriend.

During my month off, I will be applying to different restaurants and probably a few other types of companies or businesses as well, so that I can get back to Hamilton Island, make a few applications around the island and if after a week, I can't get a place to work, I will take my OzExperience bus south to brisbane and hopefully by then, I will have heard from one of the places I had applied to during my time with Courtney. If I get to brisbane and I havn't heard anything, I will continue southward to Melbourne and meet up with my friend George who is also working in my bar right now and find a job there. Melbourne has been called the "most livable city" in australia and apparently, it resembles London on a smaller scale, with cafes and restaurants always looking for bartenders and waiters.

I have also received a date for my rescue diving course here on the island. With any luck, I will be a certified rescue diver by the 17th of november!

I got a new camera too and will be uploading a bunch of new photos as soon as I can find a computer that will let me access the files on the memory card. all the ones here are like "NONONO!!! we dont let you upload stuff because you not administrator!!". Oh well, I guess it will happen when it can happen.


theres a fat guy watching videos of parrots dancing next to me and he is FULLY absorbed into the screen with his face almost against the screen and his jaw hanging down to the floor with wonder. Hilarious.

peace.

New pictures!

Things are going well on the island but my employers are looking for people to lay off now that the big event season has gone. Im working extra hard to stay ahead of my team so I wont get fired because if I do i will be screeeeeeeewed...

New pad? Hell yeah

I just leased a house on the island today after thinking, "you know what, I'd rather be able to say that my first house was on a paradise island than some grimy place next to my college. I think that liing like a hobo has gone on for quite long enough and am happy to be moving into a small house in 17 days.

Still saving money, still staying fly and still flying high fo life yo!

Later homies xoxo

Pictures from Aidan in the present

I have been much fun and been making much money and I have been going to the shooting range and stuff too! I'm a sharpshooter for life yo...

Hope everyone is good, sorry for the shortness of this post, I cant stay on very long.

Oh possums...

So I have made the amazing discovery that possums are awesome. First I saw them cuddling in the trash room munching on half eaten sammiches and rotten tomatos and thought "rough, but cute", as they are all fluffy like. Then I saw them everywhere, just chilling out and watching me and walking up close like "yo, wassup bro?" and I was like, "yeah they seem like an okay crew" so I decided to let one take a look around my appartment because it was right outside my door and I was curious as to what it would do, it wasn't keen on the place so it walked out and I fed it a cracker and filmed it and he just held it with his little paws and he was just om nom nomming away and then he started sniffing a towel I was holding as well. In the end, I decided to lead him out of the door and get on with my life, but as he was leaving, the little coward bit me and did a runner out of the open door. I named him Timothy and declared him my nemesis.

Today, I went to the mainland and bought a water pistol and went to get my revenge on Timothy in the place I knew I would find him... The trash room...

When I walked into the trash room, I was holding my six shooter water pistol and was filming the whole thing to document my epic triumph over nature. It was an intense mexican stand off and he was staring at me and I was eying him down but in the end, the high velocity jet of water proved too much and I had him dancing on the trash cans like a moving target range. He ended up going and hiding behind the trash cans all sissy like and I walked out, victorious, a man of TRUE POWER!!!!

oh yeah, work is good. and the Australian elections are going on between some old ginger cat-lady and a guy with massive ears. Silly ozzies.

First day of work

Yesterday was my first day at work and i'm really looking forward to going back tonight for work. I've been put in a hosting position in the bistro. I basically just have to seat people and make them comfy while try enter the venue. And I get pretty much any meal from the menu for just 6 dollars :)

in a while, the manager has said that I will be learning the bar so I can start bartending!

My accommodation is pretty decent, but the fridge is really mouldy and will have to be replaced sometime. The only cooking instrument I have is a kettle. So I bought 75 packs of instant noodles. Booyah.

I've been coming up with some awesome designs so far. I figure that I'll have about 300 designs on me by the time I finish my trip.

Well I hope everyone is doing well, keep it real y'all.

ON THE ISLAND!

Got to Hamilton island yesterday morning and am staying here, just hanging out, until I start working on monday!
The island is awesome so far, I'm really lookign forward to starting work most of all though, I don't plan on going out drinking very much, but would like to do my rescue diving PADI course during these upcoming months. That will look very good on a uni application, I'm sure... as will a few months of working at a luxury resort island I guess...

Speaking of applications, mom and dad, can you figure out application deadlines for ASU and some other ones on the list I gave you? I like putting dates and schedules on my iPod so I can organize myself. It's been working really well so far and I havn't even been taking my concerta yet. I will when I start work though, I dont want to drift.

ANYWAY, on the island, we have parrots, cockatiels, mssive black birds, gulls and most commonly seen are the butterflies, you can look up from the pools and just see tons of butterflies around, its cool. There are also Opossums or Possums or whatever the real name is, iguanas and spiders. big spiders. spiders so big they should have small gnomes riding them around.

Met a couple of people last night who were very cool to hang out with but I have been told that there are a bunch of people being introduced to the island like me on monday when the jobs start.

I have been told that there is a lot of money to be made in the next month because there is a race week starting and with the race comes a lot of customers. Hopefully I will be doing a lot of overtime work to keep myself occupied and making mucho mucho monies. And after the first month, I can start doing something called multi-employed or something where I can do another part time job in my free time if I want, to develop peripheral skills as well as make some extra money.

They have wakeboarding and other watersports on the island but it is expensive so I dont know if I'll be doing it very often if at all. Maybe I can do my multi-employed work at the watersports hut doing teaching or driving the boat. OH YEAH! I plan to do my boat and jetski licence here too. So Dad, you can expect me to be able to drive Sugar around by the time I make my return, if you havnt sold it off and bought yourself a pickup escalade.

I also just set up a bank account, dont worry Mom, I read through all of the text that there was to read on the pamphlet before signing, it's a simple transaction debit card which I will be getting my salary put onto. I'll be getting my online banking stuff sorted as well so you can transfer the money I have left onto that one and the HSBC card can just be my backup card like it was supposed to be.

I will be working for 17.60 Aus Dollars per hour, with a minimum of about 36 hours a week, minus 90 dollars a week for accomodation which includes, toilets, fridge, kitchen, water, heating and AirConditioning. And a roof. I did the math and although I didn't do super well in my math exams, I am pretty sure that I can leave the island in 4 months having made around 9500 Australian Dollars, taking into account the cost of food and accomodation but excluding the cost of dive courses and extra activities like golf on the GOLF ISLAND!!! thats right homies, theres an 18 hole golf course which covers a whole island with mountains and stuff... well good... And there's a shooting range and a gokart track, fishing, minigolf and other stuff.

Anyway, I'm sorry I havnt been putting up pictures but I will think about adding some more sometime soon if I can.

Peace out, A-Bomb.