what is, and what should never be.

The day actually began rather peacefully. When I gave up on homework, and went for a walk in the snow shortly after midnight. There is something perfect about the cold air combined with silence and swirling snow. Something I haven't appreciated in almost two years now. It let me think.

-Thoughts that came back to me now as I drift back and forth between the priest in white robes and memories of summers with Dan up north. The rows of old friends in black cloth, and the brutally abrupt reminder that life on this earth is fleeting.
-please live accordingly-

In Memory of Danny Hay: 1987-2006

back to repetition back to repetition back to repetition back to repetition back...

Too long. I agree. But who really has time for this?





So summer. It's gone. Along with it goes the warm weather I have grown to love, and the possibility for constant adventure.






I've gone back to school. i know. I never thought it would happen either. From now on it's going to be alot more repitiion than I would like.



Anyone who has ideas for adventures or travling on the breaks(christmas...march break, next summer) let me know.

So now what...

Its been awhile since my whole experience. Life is nearly identical to the way I left it here. It's not going to be an easy thing to remember everything I have learned and keep those experiences as applied parts of my life. Over various bits of spare time during travel, and back at home I compiled a list of all the interesting things I did, saw, and eperienced During this past year. Its seems so far away when I graduated, worked for 5 months and let the experience begin. But, since that time...


I have...

~Eaten McDonalds in 5 different countries.

~Been to a live cock fight.

~Surfed the gold coast of Australia

~Had surgury in a third world country.

~Sailed the south Pacific.

~Logged 100 hours of air time.

~Swam in a sub-teranian Lake.

~Snorkled off a coral reef.

~Walked in four countries in one day.

~worn an aboriginal G-string

~Saw a shark

~Traveled by land sea and air in one day.

~Had tea with the british and mexican with a Mexican.

~Come face to face with a pair of wild dingos.

~Puked out a bus window, puked over a cliff.

~Had my feet in..

The south china sea

the philippine sea

the atlantic

the pacific

and the gulf of mexico

~bribed a cop, and a security guard.

~got tanned on over a douzen beaches.

~Got tazered.

~saw a sporting even in Ali's collosium

~Fallen asleep in a:

Bus, plane, train, boat, taxi, and jeep.

~Fed a kangaroo

~touched a Koala

~played and beat the UK in soccer

~learned to surf

~got a tattoo

~been changed













































So the main event is over a done with. And as I mentioned before, the challenge now lies in making sure these experiences change me for the better.



In conclusion, though I have not seen enough of the world to consider myself knowlegeable, I can conclude that this world is a place in witch we must live each day with eyes wide open. To see everything for what it is, and not hold yourself above anyone.

In a world of seeking people we must understand first,
and then be understood.
- jimi elliott

My last days of camping were followed with a quick flight back to sydney, and after a day or two there .... it was a thirty hour trip home.

Here are some of the best parts about fraiser Island.

a day of huge spiders...

red rock...

and ship wrecks

Was followed by a wierd sun set over the shark infested waters of north Queensland. Hundreds of raven like bats flew over head as everyone joined in a huge soccer game of UK vs. the world. Dispite their bragging and british accents, we beat them good.

THe next day was full of cool stuff.

from swimming in/exploring the champange pools


to climbing cliffs and teaching everyone how to be a stylish Canadian with track pants and beaters. It was good times.

THe flight back to sydney was cheap and un-eventful. I spent the night wandering the city. Impressed with the atmosphere of Frday night in Sydney. IT was midnight and the streets were full of people.. THe next day I did some shopping around Sydney before making the hour long "go train" ride back to Eugene's house To pick up some stuff that I had left there. They wouldn't let me leave again before spoiling me with more incredible food and a much needed night in a good bed.

Thirty hours after arriving at my gate in the Sydney Int. Airport. I had done alot of thinking, as well as making brief stops in Tokyo, Japan and Ancorage, Alaska. My trip was done. Everything planned or un-planned had taken place. I would not be moving to a different town in a couple days. I wouldn't be sleeping with a room full of strangers every night. I would, for a change, be with people I knew. In a town I had been in, and around a thousand times. This was/has been/ and is, a tough adjustment.