Also...

somebody please show grandpa how to subscribe to the blog so he can see that I've posted something.

I just noticed that he isn't even a follower and now I feel bad because I thought I could post stuff on here so he knew what I was up to.

And Mom, can you send Mutti a step by step guide telling her how to subscribe as well?

Peace yo.

Getting out of here!

In my cherished role as a Food and Beverage Attendant on Hamilton Island, I have learnt many new things:

How to tend bar.
How to interact with possum.
How to fight possum.
How to throw possum.
Waiters love your trash and will always thank you for giving it to them.
How to adhere to a contract and not get fired.
How to get fired (I wasn't fired, a bunch of others were!).
Nipple piercing doesn't hurt as much as many people say it does.
Mom actually does know best.
Dad provides useful input too.
How to carry three plates of food on one arm.
How to talk about different wines (mostly just comparing them to other wines).
Ingrown toe nails hurt, but the surgery is very interesting to watch.
Live your life without cognitive dissonance and you can cut out a lot of stress.
I have no idea of how to draw a frangepani.
Although you may not have remembered to share your address with family, they still find you (Thanks so much for the christmas card Grandpa Tom!).

But still, the island has grown stale and in a weeks time, I will be further south in Australia and will be looking for more jobs there while I spend three weeks with my lovely girlfriend Courtney who will be coming down from dubai to see me!

If I dont find anything within those three weeks, I will hop back on a plane when Courtney leaves and come back to the island in search of a different type of job. I will be handing out my CV to a bunch of places, and in specific, the water sports center in hope of becoming a wakeboard instructor for the hordes of Japanese tourists that will be arriving in this summer (your winter).

I went out diving last week or the week before and was at two spots on the great barrier reef. Absolutely stunning scenery. I saw a lot of my favorite fish, the parrot fish, a shark, a stingray, crabs, a meter long sea slug, a coral trout, an octopus, a massive pufferfish and a remora cleaning fish which was firmly at my side for the duration of one whole dive.

The weather has been pretty bleak for about a month but now it has cleared up and everything is sunny and beautiful and lovely.

Thanks for the mail Mom, Dad and Hunter. And thank you very much as well Grandpa for sending me my first Christmas card of the year! I would send you a letter back but I am useless at using snail mail. And I don't know your address.

ACTUALLY!
everyone, send me your home addresses so I can learn how to use snail mail and send you some christmas pictures and letters!


I miss you all and hope that your winter months are as enjoyable as mine!

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.