Updates...

Well my last blog was more of an update on how I am doing spiritually...so I figured I better do a post on life in general....

Job...
I am happy to report that I found myself a job!! Its a small little deli/fast food/coffee/chicken place...kind of hard to explain really...but I must say its amazing what you will do for work when you are desperate for money-meaning back home I would have been way to prideful to work in a 'fast food' like place but not so much an issue here :) I will say that I am really loving it. It just opened a few weeks ago and is owned by a group of Greeks (family members, friends, spouses, ect) They are first generation Aussies so they have the accent but speak in Greek all the time to each other...I am the only non-Greek mind you so at times it can mess with me cause I have no idea what they are saying to each other...but they have been very encouraging and seem to like me :) The pay and hours are perfect cause they are in the evenings after school and is enough to cover my rent and groceries-so it works out well.

Friends...
I am so excited to be making such amazing connections with people. I have become very close with some of the 2nd and 3rd year students which has been very encouraging because they have done the journey of 1st year. I am continuing to meet people outside of college which is always fun cause they are local Aussies! I was just talking to a couple people about doing a trip to Queensland or New Zealand during our mid-semester break in May...I really want to check out the Great Barrier Reef!!

Accident prone...
So I continue to be my accidental self...Sunday I slipped on a puddle of water in the supermarket twisting my ankle pretty bad...not bad enough for crutches thank goodness...but bad enough that the pain has been keeping me up at night. I had a chiropractor app. Monday and when I went limping in he couldn't help but laugh at me. He told me that he could tell after our first appointment that I was a very 'clumsy' person...said the nerves in my legs that tend to control the lower body movements were constricted because of something or other which causes my clumsiness...I think I was just born a spaz haha :)

I am starting to swim a few days a week and there are a group of girls that would like to start a boxing workout so hopefully that will get up and running soon. :)
I am continuing to do a lot of cooking...but unfortunately now with the job I don't get to do it quite as much...I had to do a business presentation for my public speaking class-I created a restaurant that also provides cooking classes-I brought samples of something I would have on the menu and my classmates loved it!

Life continues to get interesting around here and I continue to be surprised by my handling of things. Its a journey for sure...but one that I really am excited to be on...even in those times that I find myself wanting to give up and run home...(good thing flights are so dang expensive!) Anyways that's a little update to general life around here...hope everyone is doing well!

britt