8:43pm
It is the last day of November. I've been away for one month.
I had a swim and did a little sun baking today. That was the highlight of my day. Doesn't that sound like vacation?
Leonardo DiCaprio said something in a movie once about the irony of people travelling thousands of miles just to watch TV in foreign countries. I'm watching Lois and Clark, Dean Cain as superman, I never noticed Teri Hatcher was so whiny. I tend to change the channel here until I find an American sitcom. I guess I travelled thousands of miles to see if Seinfeld was any funnier on Australian television. I do watch some Australian programs: I saw the first bit of a Russell Crowe movie the other night and I've become quite a fan of "Neighbours", everyone's favourite after tea, bogan soap opera.
I'm wearing my hair in two braids and it smells like chlorine. Isn't that great? Pleasures can be simple here on vacation, not everything has to be adventure and intrigue. Even if it doesn't make for very exciting reading material. Sorry bout that readers. 9:11pm
10:37pm
I really do like the way Steve says "No worries". It makes me feel at home.
11:30pm
I have trouble keeping ideas in my head in Australia unless I write them down.
11:32pm
It just occurred to me, I mean really hit me, that before this trip, Amy and I had never been apart for longer than a week or two. And I've been gone a month today. Both of us are doing rather well with this I think. I read the message she wrote at the beginning of this book when she gave it to me last Christmas and realize how much both our lives have changed since then. We (she especially) have acheived a remarkable independence in the past year. She has become so strong. She is good at taking care of herself. I like to think I have developed some of that too. Now I am not scared all the time when she's not with me. Still, she is the person I have always turned to and been there for. I think we sometimes take each other for granted, yet somehow we always deep down know that we are close in a way that very few people will ever understand. I carry her with me anywhere I go. There I am. 11:40pm
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