BEST DAY EVER

I survived my first week! WOO. Today was the greatest. To start, I woke up to the beautiful sunshine (it's been raining quite a lot since I've been here). I got to work easy breezy on public transportation, which hasn't been a problem but I'm quite confident with it all now. On my way to work, I made a phone call home to my beloved ex-roomy Lindsey Giroux. It was wonderful to hear her beautiful voice and feel the love from home! For my first work week, I was taking a course offered by the organisation I work for (Australian Institute of Export) to get a better feel for the expertise I will be working with in these up coming weeks. The course is a vigorous 3 days of pure Australian Export Handbook definitions and case studies, so you can only imagine how I felt about the whole thing, although I did learn some very resourceful information. Today was the last day so it felt good to walk out of there. I actually got to leave early to go off to a short meeting with my supervisor. We walked further down town from my building and went into this high rise, where we went all the way up to the 48th floor!The view was absolutely amazing. I never really realized how big Sydney is until I got to see the WHOLE thing today. So my adviser and I met with a supervisor of another company to discuss some up coming events and then we went to textile panel where we handed out pamphlets for these events. Once we were done, my adviser let me go home early! yeah! On the way home I stopped at Liquor Land and bought my first bottle of wine, legally! double yeah! Now, I'm sitting here, kicking off my weekend with some wine and cheese and crackers, waiting for my fellow mates to get home from work! It's a four day weekend because I always have Friday's off and Monday is a national holiday, the Queen's Birthday! Some of my mates and I have super fun plans to get out all around Sydney, can't wait to share with you all. One of my Swiss house mates just passed me a bar of authentic Swiss chocolate so I'm going to go indulge myself some more now.....
Peace, love, party !

~mrlb