more aussie pics:)
July 06, 2003 at 9:33 p.m.
More pictures of Australia! I'm still in the top end up in Darwin, finishing up ASME, the Australian Society for Music Education conference up here, being terrorized by weird birds and ANTS EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!
In fact - check this out - the voltage here is soo different - when I went to test my e.violin equipment, there was a popping noise and a flash of light and then nothing... I think it fried thousands of dollars of my equipment!!
Buuuuuuuuuuuuut - the good and funny thing is that I don't think it's totally fried because I got to see something totally fried yesterday - adn I now know that if the electricity is goona fry something, it FRIES it!
I was in the bathroom yesterday and my curling iron was plugged in and suddenly there was a popping noise, and lots of smoke - the iron had snapped in two and was melting all over the counter.... HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!
I'm cracking.... I'm going NUTS!!!!! But before I do, here's some AUSSIE PICTURES!!!!!!
so this one is where mom and I were feeding fish in the ocean at a special feeding place - cool, huh?
Here's how close we were to the fish! that's our feet!
Here's a pic of the jumping crocs we went to go see! Hunngry sucker, huh... Dad LOVED this trip... has thing thing for crocodlies...
Zis is my ma and me at Mindl beach collecting shells - you know how many cool schells we got?? It was low tide and the ocean was about a mile out.. DUDE!
ahhh... the beach.... me love the beach!!!
This is in Kakadu National Park - I swam in this pristene lake in the middle of the bush - it was just like being in paradise, seriously...
This is the mom and I at another falls in Kakadu... isn't it pretty!!
Just for giggles, this is a sign we saw in a residential area in Sydney...
And I did this because I thought Urmi needed a pick-me-up with all the work she's doing - she started her first internship!! Oh, and I also love her and stuff;)
I was sitting in a concert last night watching this kid in a rock band going jsut amazing on a dijeridoo.....
and this thought hits me... one of the first good ones I've had in a while, since I got tendonitis and all that jazz...
I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M DOING WITH MY LIFE.
But wait - there's more - it occured to me, what a fantastic thing that is. I mean get this -
(I'm spilling deep Reva stuff here, so hold on..)
As a kid, when I looked tot the fiture, all I ever wanted to do, all I ever saw myself looking forward to, was college. I just wanted to go to school, learn, play violin, study - I wanted to do this ever since I can remember.
And now, thats basically over. I have graduated, and getting a masters is different from an undergrad - it's just not the same. And this thought has been really depressing me ... I though, it's all over - there's nothing more I wanted to do.
How, I wondered to myself, do you mamage to get a new dream?
And then - I got this amazing feeling, as I watched these Aboriginal kids rocking out and making their own music -
isn't that the greatest thing?? I thought to myself - I have no precenceived notions about what I want, so that I'll be dissapointed - from here on out - it's ALL an adventure - I can't fail because I've already done what I wanted to do, now I can go out there and have an amazing life because it's all gravy!
Does that make sense?? I hope so... because the moment I thought that, I was HAPPY again. Really happy.
I think everything is going to be okay, I do :)
SUPERCRACK says tomorrow I head for Brisbane... then Maryborough,a dn then I'm back to the USofA!
ps LILIA IS COMING TO THE USA FROM UKRAINE!!! SHE GOT HER VISA TO STUDY AT BYU!!!!!!!!!! if you are at or near BYU, go be her friend!! I insist!!