Hey kidz :) I have am now in the wonderful land of Oz. It's very interesting here. Sydney is beautiful. The people are nice. In the two nights I was in Sydney I found two DnB parties to go to and met some kewl people :) I'm at my uncle's right now. He lives in a middle of a national park in the mountains south of Sydney. We are 25km from the nearest town (which has a population of 400) and another hour drive from the next closest town that is kind of a vacationing spot on the ocean (good surfing) and from there a 2 hour train ride to Sydney. It is much colder here than I thought it would be. The area around here is a temperate rainforest. That means it's a lot like the Pacific Northwest. Cold, fogy, rainy, but beautiful :)
So far I've seen several parrots, two wallabys, an echidna, and a dead wombat. The wombat had been shot by my aunt the day before we arrived. My aunt and uncle get all of their power from solar and wind, their water from a spring, and live in the house that my uncle built himself. It's not as rugged as you'd think tho. It's pretty comfortable (if you remember to pack warm clothing, which I didn't) Not everything is great. I know I'm going to get an ulcer if I don't get a job soon and I don't much like living with family (excepting my brother) I would really like to get out and get a place of my own. I prefer more privacy and solitude than I am allowed living with my aunt and uncle.
Don't get me wrong. They are great people and I'm very greatfull to them for letting me stay here, but the same could be said of my parents who I couldn't live with for very long either... It seems that if I want to get out of here I must quickly become profecient in Java and J2EE because they are very popular here in Oz. If anyone knows anything about those please tell me so I can ask you questions. I'm reading the books I bought and they are making sense but it's not going as fast as I'd like it to. Anyway, I'm going to try and post some pictures tomorrow when I go to the computer center near where my aunt works. They only have dialup at their house (ick!).