Ok, well I offically started housesitting with Yo last night but I am not going back for another couple of nights. Are we fighting already, you ask? No!!! Has many terrible things gone so very wrong? Yes, but I still want to go back. The reason why I am not going back so soon is because of work and res obligations. I know, pretty boring, huh? But it is true. I doubt Yo and I will have tons of problems because we will hardly ever see each other - so much for big cooking nights etc. :D Ah, in case you are wondering, the terrible things that have gone wrong are we lost the cat and ruined the TV within 1/2hr of being at the house. Thankfully the cat come back and we, with the neighbours fixed the TV. No problem. :D It is a bit chilly but that is ok. :) No problem, dude!!

Ah, it is good to just stop for a little while and hang out iwht me. :) I have been staying up late working on assignments (schizophrenia is actually a very interesting mental disorder to study), going to class, visiting with Chris, working (I have another flat to clean very fortnight - yipee!!! This lady is really nice too!), getting ready for the Masquerade at college (if stupid student services agrees - it is like they don't want want extra people to come - not that nurses are really extras - I do live in a res that is provided by the college and ASFA supports me on this!!! Sorry, forgot that this is not soapbox time), shopping (yah, the other day I had such wonderful retail theropy - I don't normally do that but I was pissed off about something so I went shopping - brought DVDs and jewerelly!!! Ah, it was great!!), trying to be a good student dean (did I mention I am a student dean now? There are a couple now. Before our new dean, Heather arrived we only had three student deans; now there is four. One for each level!! :D It is fun but sometimes timeconsuming), trying to get a drama (group) happening (Kristin and I want to put on a play sometime. It iwll be open for everyone - students, res people, outdoors, lectorers, hospital employees, everyone, and we will do it to raise money for the res or bring up morale aroudn the place or soemthing. We have ANSA's approval and the Res approval and I would love to the SAH's backing as well - got ot work on that. And our chaplain wants us to do skits at next yr's Week of Scriptural Emphasis too. Hopefully this all works out. Fingers crossed), and just keeping busy. :D It has been fun ... but I am so tired now. :D

I have the next 2 weeks off which is good. I will be going up to Cooranbong to say goodbye to my Nan before she takes off to Russia for a while. Very cool. I will also work a fair bit if I can. :) And get employment at the hospital which I have been putting off but really need to do. I need to. I just have to. It is scary thus why I have to face this fear. I am also doing paperwork that is a moutain high in my room and just chill a bit. :D Hopefully I have a nice break. Hopefully. :D

Anyway, I need sleep. It is late. I miss you all,

Shaz 

I was on the phone to a good mate the other day and we started talking about race, skin colour, social justice etc. And I discovered that we had very different opinions on these matters. And if we weren't such good friends I reckon we could have had a big fight there and then. Thank goodness it was only a small debate with "we will just have to agree to disagree" at the end. :)

But it got me thinking: how often do we fight for something we think is importance and actually end up getting distracted by the fight? We have to be right; the other person can't dare be right; they are the enemy; they are the ones who support the opposition to what I believe in and because of that they should expect distain, dislike and even utter hatred from me.

Ok, I know this situation doesn't normally come up in everyday situations (at least, I hope not) but on the big scale of things I think it does. You know, the wars. How often do we dislike people from a country that our country is at war with just because they believe something different from us and a miniority of the people from that country are taking that belief to the extreme and creating utter mayhem with it. Not everyone does so we shouldn't right everyone off as if they do.

Could we just make friendships with anyone and everyone who comes across our path? Could we make friendship ties strong enough that if they believe something different from us we are able to say "let's agree to disagree" without fighting or hating? Could we at least try?

Well, i just had a really awesome day - a daytrip to Avondale with great friends!!! :D

Got up at the unearthly hour of 6:30am, and caught public transport to make it to Gateway by 11:20am. It was a very different service with a lot of skits done by a traveling drama group. Very cool. Had lunch at Kristin's grandmum's place and that, as always, is awesome. The food was fanastic and I got to know a couple more people from Avondale. Then to allow the food to digest we walked down to some friends' house. I had only met these two guys once before and so I didn't realise how much fun they could be and how social. THey are awesome and well, let's just say they are definiately my friends now :p Caught public transport home and then to top the day off I had chocolate with fruit and movies. Yummy. It has been an awesome, relaxing day full of fun and friends. The best kind. :D

So, that was my day ... I definiately enjoyed it. :P

Ok, what else have I been up to? Well, I have been getting sicker and sicker as the week has gone along. Not good at all as I had some work and two big assignments due. Pretty crazy. I got to the end of the week and I was so exhausted it was insane. But I plan to spend all day Sunday in bed watching movies and maybe some study and well, some work right at the end. :p Well, I am saving up for a car ... and the sooner we get one the better. It is badly needed. :(

Not much else really happening that i can think of ... of course, it is late now and I am basically half asleep. But I can tell you this ... I have missed writing emails and blogs. I really miss some of my friends. It is weird when I stop blogging as I am so dedicated (got to be dedicated with something right?) and well, I don't know. It just feels weird. :p

My friend, Oni is coming down from QLD to hang out for a week or so which should be awesome. She is a crazy, fun girl who is insane!! She really truly loves highschool teaching which some people find hard to believe but it suits her to a T. :) It should be awesome having her here. Movie nights, trips into the city and housesitting.

Oh, did I tell you I will be housesitting soon? Well, I will. Yo is housesitting for 6 weeks and I will basically be keeping her company on and off throughout that. It should be very cool. Nice to be back in a real house and all that. :) And have a real kitchen again. Man, and to actually learn how to cook. Yo and I are going to try as neither of us can cook. It should be interesting at least. :p

Tell ya what? Avondale sure is different. I used to be so in love with Avondale and passionate about it and I still am, to a certain degree. But I definiately have toned down a lot. I have been back twice since college started this semester and well, it is weird not having Brandon (yes, I know he has been gone a long time but it just rehit the other week), Becky (again, I do realise she has been gone a while but just pls put up with my nostelgic moment), Chris, and Kristin. I haven't even seen Daniel I around for ages - just disappeared. It is all so weird. I mean, Avondale is still an awesome place - Taylor, Casey, Kel, Daniel V, Rus and everyone else is still there but it has changed and well, being me (a person who doesn't adjust well to change) it is taking a while to accept and come to terms with. Quite weird but also quite true of me. :p

Ok, onto brighter things:

My top 10

1. Great friendships

2. Chocolate

3. Old dirty men who flirt outrageously

4. Movies

5. Sleeping in

6. Catching up with old friends

7. Hanging an assignment in on time when while doing so certain it will be late

8. Making new friends

9. Venting on my blog

10. Wisdom

Well, that is all from me at the moment, Miss you all

Shaz

WOW!!!! Life has been so busy. My parents have flown back to PNG (it was so good having them here - it was awesome!!!), Chris has moved a couple of suburbs away - Mt Colah - and is living with two other blocks in a beautiful house (us girls are going to head over there sometime to use the beautiful, spacey kitchen), I have been working and going to classes and starting on assignments, Kel has moved back to Avondale to do primary teacher (she will make an awesome primary teacher), Yolanda and I are getting ready to housesit for about a month and getting this ready for when Lionie comes to visit in a little while, and now Avondale College has started so I have come up to bother everyone again for a weekend!!! It will be pretty cool!!! Once the place starts to liven up again :) 3pm on Fri afternoon means the place is dead!!!! :( Oh well, dinner will be here in 2hrs :)

What else? I have missed emailing and blogging. I have been a major snob and I am sorry. Sorry everyone :)

Oh and I am saving up for a car. I would love to have one by Xmas and then I can use it to travel up to Avondale every weekend in my last yr (Well, not quite, but you k now, it would make things a lot easier when family are here and clinical in hospitals across the city and well, life in general!!! Of course, I do need to learn how to drive but it doesn't look that hard - I am sure I can do it!)

Anyway, write more later,

Shaz