Job offer for Dubai

I received a job application form a little while back and faxed it off to Canada yesterday. It was more of a HR type formality form than an application for any job but I filled it in all the same. Today I got a phone call asking me if I would be able to start work next week in Dubai. I said yes.

So provided I recieve an employment contract I am happy with, looks like I am off again friends!

Woot, I am reminded of how when it rains, it really does pour.

Now, let's see if we can break this Aussie drought...

k

I love you.

Thank you for your patience in watching me squirm, question, step forward and push back, in letting me prod you, tease you, capture you and deny you.

I respect your intellect and your stability, your tenacity, ambition and open mindedness, your connection and committment to your family and your independence. You inspire me with your thinking, your spontenaity and your passion. You make me want to be a better person, a fuller person, to dream bigger and act larger.

Even though I have loved others and still do, there is ever expanding room for you in my soul and being. The puzzle you showed me how to piece together is splendid and I can't wait to see what other games we can manuvoure together.

"I love you" doesn't seem to cut it right now but I don't know how else to express how being away from you makes me feel lost, how being with you feels like I'm high and how many times I have caught myself thinking "this is incredible". This IS incredible. YOU are amazing.

I can't wait for more seemingly random, sometimes planned, mostly spontaneous, exciting and moving adventures we will have together but I know you are loving the suspense... you're weird like that. I love your weirdness.

So to my favourite werido, I've just realised I'm in love with you. Maybe I'll freak out about it tomorrow, but for tonight I'm just going to sit with the intensity of my own emotions.

k

Olivia

The English family that recently moved in across the street has three young children, one boy and two girls. The youngest of the two girls is an adopted Cambodian girl called Olivia. Olivia makes me laugh.

Every day their mum walks the kids home from school, a few blocks away, in the heart of suburbia. On the days that I see them, Olivia is always doing something that makes me smile. Sometimes she has her shirt and shoes off and is picking flowers along the street before she has reached home. Sometimes she sees something magical and beautiful (usually a pebble) on a driveway and picks it up to pocket it.

The other day I had my dog outside with me when my neighbours were walking home. The elder daughter's eyes doubled in size as she politely asked her mother and I if she could pat my dog, the son seemed equally delighted. Olivia was facinated. She squated down and got really close to my dog's face before poking her in the mouth. My dog, thankfully, is really really tame and just gave me a "can we go now" look before getting up, moving to the grass and doing a poop. Olivia thought this was the best thing ever and yelled out "GroOOooSSSsss" while smiling with delight.

She may annoy my dog, but I like this random child. She is a total free spirit.

k

Big Gay Day

Brisbane's Big Gay Day Out this year cost me $20 I didn't have but was perhaps the best $20 I've spent all year!

The event helped raise over $30,000 for related LGBT support services and provided me with many smiles, new friends and random stories such as Robyn or Kacee.

Kacee was this 6'3" male ski instructor by day, roaring drag queen by night who was coming onto me after I told her that I liked her bunny tale... Robyn (pictured) was this beautiful woman who walked past me and my friends who we told was beautiful, who promptly told us she was a transexual and who was then laughed at by all of us because we thought she was joking. She wasn't... opps.

I got to see Sneaky Sound System perform but for me, the highlight was seeing Leo Sayer perform and having the chance to have a boogie to the greatest song ever, "You make me feel like dancing.... gonna dance the night away..." live with several thousand other people and their heat in the street, all smiles.

Woot, woot!

I need a job.

Now.

k

I'd forgotten how aweful it is to be sick!

I flew back to Brisbane on Friday morning and was taken straight to emergency with the worst inside and out body pains I can remember, high fever and chesty cough. Emergency had a few people waiting and I told mum I couldn't wait around I just needed to crash.

She took me home and crash I did.

Only waking to occassionally eat and shower I woke up Monday on antibiotics. Today is Wednesday (International Women's Day) and I am well on the road to fighting fit - WOOT WOOT!

So sorry for the lack of contact, I was busy dying. But I am back in action now and rearing to go!

See you soon!

k
p.s. Happy International Women's day - thank you to all the amazing women that inspire me every single day and to the awesome men that support and encourage them!

What an event!

Being behind the scenes at this conference is totally chaotic!

Cultural clashes, programming malfunctions, no sleep, responsibility for young adults I don't know and misinformation. So crazy, so much fun!

I work hard these past few days with other local and international student ambassadors and have made many new international friends, and caught up with some familiar ones. I got to go to the home of the Sheikh and attend the engagement party of one of his daughter's, I got to meet and see Placido Domingo perform, I was introduced to Prince Charles and exchanged dialogue with him about youth affairs and at the very last moment of the conference, the guy that invented to walkman offered me a job!

I am currently looking into details for said job and will keep you updated but it looks like I'll be leaving Aus again soon - yay!!

Peace and love!

k