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Ok, so what have I been up to? Great question. And one that the answer has been a long time coming. Sorry everyone. Just been a bit busy.
Ok, here goes:
Mel has had a friend from Sweden staying over for a little while. She has been in my room as I am still housesitting with Yolanda. She is very nice and I still can’t believe that she is traveling around the world for three months BY HERSELF!!!!! Very cool but I don’t think I could ever do it. I mean, it would be nice to get away from everyone for a while but I think I would be a bit scared of bad stuff happening to me. Good ya, girl!!
Housesitting has been going well. I actually haven’t seen Yolanda that much at all. It is crazy. From the moment we started till now, the week I am moving out, I haven’t really hung out with her at all. Strange but oh well. It is very nice to be in a house. When I first got there I complained to myself about all the things I didn’t like: dodgy lighting in the kitchen, only one heater in a freezy house, a truly insane cat etc. etc. etc. But now I have had a talk to myself and realised that I love being there. I am in a real house – every room is close to the other, I have my very own kitchen, a living, breathing pet (even if s/he is crazy) and I can play my music louder than I would be able to in the dorm rooms with their ultra thin walls (you know the ones – you can even hear people sneeze on the other side of them ones). I think I may miss this house when I move out. L
I have just finished a week long clinical at Royal North Shore Public Hospital in the Spinal Unit. I found it really interesting. It was great having long-term patients (you can really get to know the patients) who were not demented (no offence to the wonderful elderly folk I usually work with) and being able to do more for a patient than just give them their medicine and take their blood pressure. Some patients needed help with everything and they couldn’t feel in certain places so you could be rough and it would be okay as long as you don’t cause damage. By the time I finished my week I had made some friends amongst the patients – some real sweet older men (wink wink). Actually one of my patients tried picking me up. He kept on about going out on a date and getting married etc. etc. The fact that he was 51 and I was 20 didn’t discourage him at all. I tried everything I could to discourage him and he just kept on being flirty and telling me all the wonderful things about himself. So finally, I tried the only other thing I could think of: doing some serious flirting!!! I made some comment when he started stating how wonderful a catch he was: “Oh, stop, no more. I can’t handle anymore. This is starting to look really good. I mean it, seriously. No more!” When he asked me what I meant by that I just replied that he was a smart man and that I was sure he could figure it out :p When I came back into the room a few minutes later he had gotten all serious and said “You do realise that I was just having a go, right? Just pulling ya leg, right?” Hee hee!!! That was fun. Oh course, I wasn’t sure what I would do if that didn’t work but I am super glad it did. J But it is official – one of my patients has tried to pick me up!!! Didn’t actually think it would happen :p
I am super excited about Big Camp. Five days to go!!!! Yeah, babe!!! Kylie Anne and myself have to take a 7hr train trip up to camp which is going to be so much fun!!! NOT!!! But you know what one my mates said when I was contemplating it: Oh, well, it does sound like a Shaz thing to do! Dude!!! I wasn’t quite sure how to take that. But I actually don’t mind taking the train that much. It is shorter than a 12hr bus trip to Mel. J
And since it is just Kylie and myself I will get to do something that I have wanted to do for a while (just because I am crazy, not because it is anything against Kylie Anne): some friends of my had to take a 3 DAY TRAIN TRIP TO PERTH once and one of them constantly said the other: entertain me! entertain me!! ENTERTAIN ME!!!! J I can’t wait to do that! :P
I watched Girl with a Pearl Earring the other day. Interesting movie. Some things were really sutle. I still have no idea if the painter actually did sleep with the maid. I think I will just have read the book. :p
Talking about books: I checked out Thornleigh church the other day. No too bad. The sermon was interesting: on the 3D/4D dimensions of Time and Space. Ok, I am not really a science friction buff but I was interested by this stuff. And I found out that H. G. Wells wrote The Invisible Man, The Time Machine, and War of the Worlds!!! Ok, ok, I realise everyone else knows this but let me just tell you that my general knowledge of stuff is shocking. Everyone else in my family is aware of all this stuff but not me, I am a bit of a slow learner. The reason why this discovery was even more exciting was because I had actually heard of all this stuff separately and had never connected the dots before. :p I told you I was a slow learner. Anyway, now, I am going to borrow some stuff from Chris in the soon future and be reading the famous H. G. Wells. :p Isn’t it amazing what you get out of church?
Actually talking about church: I caught the last 20mins of First Church a couple of weeks ago and in retrospect I wished I had gone to the whole thing (But as House says: Of course, everyone has perfect 20-20 hindsight, don’t they?) but anyway, on to my point: The speaker showed some footage of a ex-army man with his extremely sick, stuck in a wheelchair for his life, can’t talk, can’t do anything for himself, son. The son had heard about a trianthon and wanted to run in it. If you looked at him your first reaction would be hell no!! Mine was. But the father said: ok, if you really want to do this, you can. And the father pushed/pulled him. The father would swim while tugging the son behind in a lifeboat, then transfer him to a seat on the front of a bike and then later push him in a special wheelchair while he run behind. I don’t know if it was the opera, the footage or the fact I was extremely tired at the time but I was crying by the end of it. And all the speaker had to say was: our father is just like that: he will push us because nothing is impossible with his help. J I thought that was just great. :p
Anyway, I need to get going. I have a bus to catch. I will catch u up on the rest of my life a bit later,
Miss ya,
Shaz
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