How do you even get that job?!?

Hello everyone!!!!

I think it's time for an update!  After all my adventuring I ended up in Melbourne!  I was in Melbourne for a couple days and got a call from the dive instructor who took me diving for the first time on my boat trip in the WhitSundays saying "Come back and work".  I considered... contemplated.. and then somebody said to me "Why would you NOT take that job!"  So here I am.. working in paradise... on a boat.  The link to the boat I work on is... http://www.airliebeach.com/Sailing-adventure/Boats/maxi_apollo.html if any of you want to look into it!  No Pressure!

I am working up here in Airlie Beach for the next 3 weeks or so.. then heading to Sydney/Blue Mountains to go camping with a bunch of friends and then back up here for a couple more weeks of work and then I head off to California!!!!!

I went for my dive medical today.... I'm "fit".  Tomorrow I go to dive school to get my open water certification.  Would love to stay here longer and get my dive masters and my dive instructors.. but that would take MUCH more time then I have unless I extend my trip.... 

If you look up names like... "Whitehaven Beach", "Hayman Island" and "Langford Island"...."Daydream Island".. that's it I think.. Those are the places I see on a nearly weekly basis.  Langford Island is the island that if there is a commercial made in OZ that has a beach... that's it.  Gorgeous. 

What do I do on the boat, you ask??  I will tell you.  I cook... for about 30 people... 3 meals a day, for 2 1/2 days.  It's a TON of work.  Cleaning the entire boat... keeping everybody happy.  All this while still having a smile on my face and being "nice" to the passengers... they say working on a plane would be hard!!!  I have great people to work with for the most part.  I work Monday-Friday, get paid enough to eat, live and still take some home.  Apparently getting a job like this is hard and everybody wants it.  True... lucky for me I was on the right boat at the right time meeting the right people.  Job literally landed in my lap!

Hmm, not sure what else to say about this.... not too much is happening other than the above.  The town I am living in is one street.  It's pretty much like Wilkie... prettier.  Not saying anything about Wilkie... I love that place.  The weather is better here.. sometimes.  On that note... yes Airlie Beach is one street.  It's got about 5 bars/clubs, a few nice restaurants (cheap too!)  So many people walking around... definitely a tourist trap!  Making friends here has been easy because I work on the boat.  Pretty much all the staff are friends so I just wiggled my way into that group. 

All in all, life is good.  I try to find time to miss you guys in between loving life and working my butt off!  Just kidding, always thinking about ya'll and about how you'd all love it here!  Hope all is well!

Take care!

Cheers, Mates!

Yay!! Our orchid is finally blooming! I think it has been 2 years in the waiting. Can you see the little face in there??

Well here's my update! (Since Karin did one!)

I am currently on my second week of covering the senior math/chem position at McLurg. Mrs. Zoller is gone indefinitely because of the accident so I am doing my best to fill in and teach until the school and division office figures out what they want to do!

I am most definitely working with a steep learning curve! But so far I've been able to stay ahead of the kids and I just make sure that I learn everything before they do it so that I will be able to help them. I worked all day Sunday on stoichiometry - I thought I was going insane since I was always off by 0.01! Then I had the teacher tell me that being off that much is okay...that I may have rounded differently and my answer is still correct. Yay!

Good moment today - just as I was helping a student with a math problem and explaining it all to him the principal walked in. Golden :)

Sarah