Back to the old, with a bit of the new

Well, i have noticed that the tendancy is when you change your blog page, to go straight back to the old one....there is something strange about that new page and the older one looks better. Well, i decided to go one step better and make it a little new with fragments of the classic. Hope you like it....

Anyway, enough rambling....:p

Well, i'm finally back from good. i had the best time at Hayman. I learnt so much, meet lots of people, learnt to survive a little on my own and matched up portering to my personality (like i had done before i went, only this time in realy life) and worked out that concierge is somewhere i want to go.

It was good going up there cause it meant that i was in a place where i just worked (and pretty much slept and ate) but it gave me a chance to put my full time into work. If your wondering why I'm not still there till Jan 17th, I was offered early release because there were enough porters and i had finished my internship time. So i finished training the new porters and headed home.

One thing that i now wonder is how many photo albums i will be in.... :p

However, i am glad to be home for Christmas, with family and friends and someone very special :p in a way, i think that if i was still there i wouldn't probably realise and be as bothered by not being home, but now that i am home, i see what i would have missed so i am very glad that i am home for Christmas.

So now that i am home, hopefully, the updates may happen more often, as i had timed internet that i had to pay a rather step fee for. But now, i have free flowing internet flowing from the mountains so it should be easier....its also great to have my own room...my own space and a desk where i can do things on and write!.

Well, thats it for the moment

Merry Christmas....

(PS. My favourite painting up top there)

Update....finally i know!

Well, here is a small update, can't be too long cuase of the internet but otherwise i won't do it. Things are still going well, still loving the job as a porter and loving helping people. i think that i am growing in my skills of helping people and how i do my job and what i can say to people as i enter in the room. I had a good day yesterday, where i walked in and engaged in a conversation that to me sounded to just so....grown up and respected...not sure why but it did. other than that, not too much is happening, saving lots of money, making friends who, when answering the question "so how long are you planning to stay here" with a simple "oh, i'm leaving next week" ...hmmm, this happens a lot, very transitory people work here, couple of months then move on. But there are people here for as long as i am. but i still love it but at times...hmm, lots of them, want to go home.

Anyway, i have a day off and going to do...um...what i usually do,,,play my guitar for a while then rest from playing ...

Hope to see you soon.

A Quick Update

Well, I can't stay too long cause the internet is timeed (lucky i can type rather quickly!) I have arrived safely at Hayman, and have so far worked three days this week (i have today and tomorrow off) i am thouroughly (whatever!) enjoying the work and love being a porter here on the island/ I am constantly working amongst amazing souroungings (can't spell, typing to fast!!!) I load bags and unlaod them of the ferry things and also deliver them to the rooms, it may sound boring but i love it!!! (and i have a cool walkie talkie to communicate to my team which is also really cool :p - cause its a huge island (which i walk everywhere around it all day!) and i need some way of communicating. i did manage to attend a church service today in the chappel on the island and it was rather good, not too many people but enough and some guests and staff as well. That serivce is run every fortnight apparently!!!!!! good!!! i have some friends from my uni here as well, so we are all trying to get the hang of the place. i am starting to feel a bit more relaxed living and working here but there is not too much to do around. i feel like i know all the people i work with, in my department and others (my team is the best too, very supportive, looking after me)as a porter i pass heaps of staff (and Guests) all day and get to know them, oh, and i get to drive the 6 seater golf buggy, the buggy train with heaps of seats and the 'tug' which carries the bag container and i get to drive them all with amazing views and beautiful scenery.

I think i will leave it there for now and try at some times to put updates up, but because of the nature of the timed internet here, they may not be as recent as before and comments might not be put moderated straight away.

Lastly, thank you all for your prayers and support. I hope that all is well!!!!


God Bless!!!!!!!!!!


Michael

Hotels...again : )

Well...here is to looking like a hotelier again....after seeing the new "Ocean's 13" recently (twice actually) i realised that i do rather like hotels....caue the story line is about a hotel and i liked the things to do with hotels....i like most things to do with hotels...hope this stays when i am actully working in them :p

I should really put something up!

I am busy in the final two weeks preparing and seeing friends before i go of for the 6 months at Hayman. Hence why i havn't put up a new, flashy post to make the boring dreary page seem new and tended to.

: )

Instead i will leave you with a picture of what i have been doing last week : )

Enjoy.

I Passed My "P"s Test!!!!!!!!!

Thank goodness!!! (well thank God and all those behind me sooooooooo much!!!!!! God Bless!!)

Conflicting

I am conflicted inside at the moment.....the stuff i'm studying is really stuff that i am interested in but i am having trouble useing that to help me study it....i am interested but when it is "formalised" study, it just makes me not want to do it as much...even thought i want to at some time sit down and read through the stuff and learn it for practical use....i just don't feel there is enough time now....

Crazy Socks (i should really stop posting about my feet!)

While waiting for the floor to dry just before i go and have lunch in between study times.....its not that bad at the moment. I thought that i would take a pic of my socks! My mum commented this morning that she didn't remember buying them (which she did) niether of us realised that they had the big stripe, they are the really short sports socks (all aliteration aside :p)....i still think they are cool though and they are rather warm....and i need to be wearing socks with the cold here in sydney........raining, cold...and i'm sick so don't want to risk it!

Go Mum!!!!!

Driving to pick up my brother this arvo, we were talking about the driving test. One thing that my mum said really made things better:

"You know that if you passed you wouldn't be driving now"

This is because of the insurance stuff and it is too ridiculous to change it over to me being a "P" plater from "L" cause according to the insurance company, i'm a very dangerous driver! (they have never meet me though). Therefore if i was now a "P" plater, i wouldn't be able to drive cause i wouldn't be insured! So i am still able to drive and pick my brother up from soccer!

Way to go mum for helping to find my silver ligining in this storm of grey rain clouds.

Damn It!!!!

Today, i had my driving test fo Red P's. I did everything very very well (i am rather sure) parked well, three point turned well, drove well. I got a 90+ score on my test, suggesting that i would have passed....however at one time, i went over the speed limit for a couple of secs, instructor told me and said can you lower your speed because i wsa over, and i said thanks. That right there was an 'imediate fail' item which means that although i did really well, i failed! So because of that and that i have a cold (a really great weekend though!!!) i have felt absolutly terrible all day. Thanks to those who made me feel better : ) i did pass a personal communications assesment...thank goodness i passed something today!!

Tomorrow is another day

Notes

These are my notes for the wine process for F&B exams. I found these diagrams in the book and thinking back to school where they suggested that i am better at learning from diagrams and such (visual stuff i think they concluded) i thought why not copy them down, use pics, have fun drawing (you might be able to tell that i got a little less interested in the end of drawing, the pictures become less precise) (did white first)

Think i might put them up on the wall to keep looking at them (another tip from school) put them up on the wall to keep looking at them and remembering them -never used it before, will see if it works...

Rather True

Rather true at the moment, except its thoughts in mine.....swirling and colliding

Just To Note

When reading through the bible, my mind immediately wants to go to the notes on the bottom to be told something amazing about God and life, however, it is becoming aware to myself that this shouldn't be my first port of call, instead, work out what i think/ am being told and use that brain that God has given me! I have been finding as i go on personal bible studies, sometimes i work things out that i'm not sure whether they are right though so i then go to the notes to check my suggestions....

In the words of Nathan Tasker:

"Now you look at me,
expecting easy answers that will join the dots,
make the picture plain for you,
and i'm happy to help erase,
the lines drawn incorrectly ,
to make the picture beautiful"
(Nathan Tasker, "Must Be More")

His songs are great!!!! Check them out.
Plus can't wait to led the 6pm service this week!!!!! (lot of exciting things happening this week!!!!! :P thank you God!)

Big News!

I got a job as a porter on Hayman Island!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wooohoooo!!