i made it!!

I made it!!

So I guess this is the morning of my 3rd day in Australia. I’ll count the first day at the day I got here since my flight landed at 6am. The flight went well… there weren’t many good movies, but thanks to a couple Benadryl I slept at least half the flight so it didn’t matter.

The first day was pretty uneventful. I was picked up at the airport and taken to a motel, where I’ll be staying for a few days while I find a place to live permanent. Luckily the motel is a couple blocks from a large shopping center so I walked down there to get some food and wander a bit. Otherwise I just chilled and watched tv and went to sleep at 6pm when I couldn’t keep my eyes open anymore….

Day 2 I was up at 4am… way too early… and made even earlier when the wireless internet apparently gets turned off at night…. I was picked up at 9am to be taken to the office to meet people and be shown around. I then went to Wivenhoe dam, where the control center for the seismic network is currently (it’s in the process of being moved to where my office will be) to be shown around there and meet more people. It was really pretty out by the dam and I got to see wild kangaroos!!!! Unfortunately they hopped away before I could get a good picture, but I was told that kangaroos are everywhere so I should have plenty of opportunities to get a pic. Everyone I met was super friendly so that’s good. After all this I was taken to a grocery store so I would be able to eat in my hotel room. Yay for food! And I found kinder bueno for an even bigger yay!!! I managed to stay up til 9pm.

Day 3 up at 4am again… ugh… I’m supposed to be picked up at 8am today, I’m not really sure what all will be going on today though… I do know that Fridays are social lunch days at the office so someone makes lunch for everyone and everyone hangs out.

Although my body is still completely screwed up to the time differences, I don’t mind the doing stuff cuz it’s better than sitting in the motel room watching tv. I did find a pretty good tv station from the limited number at the motel. It’s a very random selection of old and new American shows… everything from NCIS and Law & Order to Get Smart and Bewitched.