Tuesday? No thanks

Well I am here in Australia!!

The trek to get here began in Memphis with a little over an hour flight to Dallas. I love sitting by random people, actually I really don't like it at all but I love the stories that almost always come out of it. Memphis to Dallas was this super southern Mississippi girl who wanted to be an archeologist without going to College. So I just went to sleep instead of talking to her! Oh and also on this flight was another Germantown High 2008 grad that I hadn't seen since ummmm probably graduation day? So that was cool!

Dallas to LA 3 hours and 15 minutes. I was sitting next to this cool architect grad student from Hawaii. She cracked me up, but also sharing this row was this old Asian lady who talked us through the ENTIRE "six steps to salvation" and no matter how many times we told her yes we are Christians and yes I already own a bible she was very persistent! But nonetheless she was sweet and now I laugh about it.

In LA all the AustraLearn students met up in our obnoxiously orange tshirts and then endured the 17 hour flight to Sydney. Yes ladies and gentlemen it took 17 hours.. Talk about a bonding experience? Then we flew another three hours to Cairns (pronounced cans) and on those flights I was just next to fellow interns.

So the title of this blog. yeah I skipped Tuesday May 31st of the year 2011. Completely was never in it because of the time zone changes and the travel direction. Weird??? I thought so too. Try to wrap your mind around that one :)

I am going to LOVE Australia though! The lingo is just awesome and the culture and atmosphere is just that much better. Aussies work to live not live to work and think Americans are fools for always working so damn much (in their own words) Here, if you have a doctorate or PhD you still go by your first name even to strangers, no formal titles because that would put you above everyone else. Slightly communistic? maybe. but still I love it!

Tomorrow we go rainforesting then the next day scuba diving at the coral then fly out to each of our intern sites so it might be awhile before you all hear from me again. The scuba diving is an extra cost, but hey go big or go home right? :) Other than that this three day tourist extravaganza is all the interns just getting to tourist to the max before dividing up to really jumping into aussie culture!

G'day mates (bahahahaha i have a loooooong way to go before I can master the accent but I am working on it!)