and christmas dinner......

A FIEST!!!!!!!!!!!!! hum mothe, maybe i should try to remember some of the table presentations I have seen here..... I mean... you know.... not that ours aren't as good but...

more photos....

i don't feel like writing much so i'm posting photos instead. yesterday was x-mas day, so we started by opening presents and then did nothing for a while.... but then, Rob, Melissa's farmer boyfriend invited us for a ride in his header while he was "stripping" or a better known version of this word, harvesting...
that was good fun and interesting, Here are a few photos to show where we were...

x-mas brekkie

i look a bit funny but anyway....
from left to right... the christo, me, Marie (Mum), Gav, Emma and Katrina.

nice photos taken at various occasions...

the two photos above were taken at Emma's 21st
and the ones below were taken at Leanne's with the massive king island double brie that Carol made Leanne get me for my b-day.... yum, i'm trying not to eat it all at once but it's difficult!!

dedication!!!!

i worked for 15 hours yesterday, which got me home a bit after 2 in the morning!!!! I just finished what I had to do now, around 1pm....

where do you start after so much and so long...?

the last time I wrote on this blog, it was to announce that I had gotten the job, and I was pretty excited about that. now, a bit more than a week after starting, i'm happy to notice that I am still fairly excited. things are going really well, the office is a great size and everyone there is really friendly and helpful (which is good since I need quite a bit of help). i've been given real jobs, which take me 5 times longer than if anyone else did it, but I think I am learning along the way, and generally going ok. my first conclusion about the purpose of work experience is to make you feel really stoopid and help you realise that everyone goes through that and one point or another... well I feel stoopid at the moment, and I wonder how long it is going to last...
there are two things I am finding harder to adapt to... and that's the fact that what I am doing is for real and not for some 5 minute long jury, which means that things actually have to work and be accurate, which i find pretty difficult still, and the other thing is that I still don;t understand when people are meant to do stuff outside of work, like writing emails, or food-shopping etc... I've been working until 6:30 or 7 every night so far... but it;s ok, i'll get used to that too....
Anyway, besides work, it has also been a really good week with lot's of stuff happening! I'll just quickly run through them, without too much detail...
saturday 3rd and sunday 4th of Dec : we went to Albury for Emma's 21st
Monday: 1st day of work
tuesday night: graduation exhibition opening night in Woolloomoolloo (pretty boring and bad bad food)
Wednesday: My B-DAY!!!! we had sushi on the beach in Coogee.... and Chris got me a wonderful new lens for the camera (28mm)
Thursday: office x-mas party: Golf in the arvo and dinner at night in Paddington
Friday: hungover at work....
Saturday: Breakfast bbq in Coogee with a small crew (that was really nice), clothes shopping at Burkenhead Point, beers at Kris' in Ashfield
Sunday: Heleana's b-day cruise, awesome as you can well imagine, lots of yummy food, drinks and swimming!!
and back to work.................
Well I hope that gives you a small idea of what;s been happening and gives me an excuse for not having been the best with emails.....
I love you all so much, your laura
ps: Caz, thank you for your email, don;t worry about being late, I know you were thinking of me and i was thinking of you too, wish you could have been here, but we'll have plenty more to celebrate together later, and in the mean time, you can travel the world and i can commute to work, but no matter what, our paths will meet again soon enough... I miss you a lot and love you even more!!
pps: I took many photos with the new lens of the bbq etc... which i will try putting on the blog sometime soon hpefully, doing my best at the moment...

quick news before we go

For those who don;t know the great news yet, I just want to let you know that I had an interview yesterday for a job. They mainly do commercial work like office buildings, restaurants, retail, hospitals etc etc... + some residential. Anyway, I am very happy and excited to announce that I managed to convince them that I was good enough and so I will be starting this coming monday at 9am!!! my job will mainly be drafting on Cad but that's ok since i still have a lot to learn from that.... and whatever else comes up for which i can be useful....
More details when we come back, we are just about to leave for Albury for Emma's (chris' baby sister) 21st. we will be back on sunday, before my first big day which will obviously be the subject of a posting on this blog in the very near future,
I have to go now, but will be back very soon,
Love, Laure the Happy Yupy