Hey guys well its taken all that time from my last post to today for the electrician to come over here and get the lights done. It's a nice change to have ceiling lights but I wish the electician wasn't so useless as to take a week to come back and do them. Works also cut my days from six/seven days a week down to only three. This = BAD! I am saving to go travelling. I can't afford to get my hours cut that severly. I knew they were going to get cut because Bonny some new chick who arrived today was hired but I thought it would be down to four days minimum. However in a few weeks Dai leaves so hopefully I'll be given another day or two then. Meanwhile I'm going to put up a babysitter for hire notice at the local store. Or maybe I should apply for another job. Blue Lagoon though is real cruisey and I know the ropes as well as any one there and even though the bosses are old and going balmy they're good friendly people and thats a rare thing when it comes to bosses. Gah I dunno. I need a coffee. That tends to cheer me up a little.

Catch you guys later.

Luv!

Sharn

 

Hey everyone, My internet is so slow that this is barely working. I'm still on Lord Howe Island. Working my toosh off to save. Next year on February 14th Sylvia and I are flying from Brisbane to Auckland New Zealand! I can't wait. I've booked just about everything already.

I've bought myself a mailing address there that will activate the day we fly in which is Valentines' Day! For those of you who don't know the date valentines day it is the 14th of February. My mailing address  there is

Sharn Simpson

#5093

Nomads Fat Camel Travel Desk

38 Fort Street

Auckland City

New Zealand

For some reason they didn't give me a postcode  Maybe it doesn't need one for Auckland.... I dunno. Sylvia are going to Auckland, Rotorua, Queenstown and Christchurch. She flies out of Christchurch on the 28th then I'll be travelling Solo. I'll be sticking around in Christchurch then for a few days figuring out what I'm doing.

 

I've bought myself a 60GB Creative Zen Vision W MP3 player which is being mailed to me right now and when I get that and put all my music on it I can sell my laptop and gear coz then I can use the Zen as a portable Hard Drive, much easier to handle and lug around than the laptop. Then when I get to NZ I'm hoping to buy a duty free unlocked mobile with a good quality camera in it. That way my only two valuable items are the mp3 player and my mobile. Much cheaper to insure. 

 

I'm currently working at Blue Lagoon Lodges. Wish I was working at the Liquor Store. My work collegues are all over 40 which is a difference. I used to working with 20-odd year olds. Not sure if this is a good or bad thing or simply different.

 

My cousin Elouise came over to visit from Sydney for three weeks, twas awesome to see her again. She's such a cool chick. We took heaps of pictures and we went kayaking over to a secluded bay over here that doesn't have any roads leading to it and had a picnic on a rock platform that juts out of the cliff on the opposite side of the island to that bay (The island gets very Narrow near that bay so it was easy to walk to the other side). On that rock platform are pristine rock pools that are about 3 or 4 metres deep. beautiful to swim in. We saw a whale swim past 50 metres away which was awesome. I had a brilliant time with ellie. Sorta sad she's gone.

 

I went partying the other night at the radioshack. It's so awesome down there. Deon Owens kept trying to get me to go home with him and I'm thinking ew leave me alone! Because he's like the missing link in human evolution from apes to human. Not to mention hes a distant relative! YUK! (Ellie if you're reading this! You KNOW why its so gross and he asked me to come back with him like 3 times XS) But other than that it was groovy, dancing, good music, lots of grog. I tried ginger wine for the first time and I dunno wether to love or hate it. It's thick and syrupy sweet and tastes just like ginger and leaves your mouth feeling spicy. I'm not much of a ginger fan but that wine had a certain appeal. I had to work the next day and felt alright just needed more sleep untill I walked out the next morning and took a swig of juice and i didn't know my mum and dad had mixed wine in with it! Nearly puked. Worst thing to have first thing in the morning after a party night.

 

Ummm other than that for the past two years my mum and dad have been living in a not quite complete house. Doing things when they manage to save for it. So for the past two years we've had all our power running off two powerpoints next door with a load of extension leads, powerpacks and double adapters. Our only source of light being multiple lamps what with having no ceiling lights. Not being able to use things like the kettle and the toaster at the same time. But just yeaterday Jeff Deacon the local electrician finished the powerpoints! So now we can have tea and toast at the same time! We can have a freezer! (we've been using the deep freeze next door) and no more tripping over extension leads. And sometime this weekend he will finish putting up all the ceiling lights so then we don't have to be satisfied with just lamp light! Believe me, after all this time, its a luxury.

 

Umm thats about it.

Luv

 

Sharny-moo