Blogging Bug

It's been a while but the blogging bug has bitten again. It really only bites when I'm going off somewhere new. Otherwise, I see all you people regularly and my stories are really much better in person. Sunday the 14th I'll be heading off to OZ/NZ with my friend Michaela for a year of adventure in anticipation of the ego-crushing experience I hear is the norm at law school. I'll be adding pictures and updates to chronicle our adventure. In the meantime here's a sample of what we'll be doing in OZ sent to me by Christina, the amazing woman we'll be working with in Cooktown!

Hey girls.. Just thought i would give you an idea of what you are in for when you arrive in Oz.. The day after you get here we are hopping on a boat to get dropped off on an isolated beach about an hour north of here (the road goes along the beach and I don't want to ruin my car).. We are getting dropped off at an aboriginal camping group where I will be training aboriginal youth (12 - 20) in scientific surveys of the coastal country.. You guys will be camp assistants and can come along with me and learn what I am doing since you will have to do some of it while i am gone.. There will also be people doing kayaking and sailing training and if the weather is good we will get to sail out to local islands. there will also be video training exercises.. How cool dies this sound? WE'll be camping there for 2 or 3 nights and then trekking back to Cooktown on Friday. the following Monday we will be driving to a remote National Park and testing the water quality in different parts of a massive river system for 2 days. Then we get back and head straight out into the sea grass meadows for 2 days of monitoring and sampling seagrass.. Then on Friday the 26th it's off to the Wallaby Creek Music Festival where we will camp in the rainforest with my bellydancing group the Typsy Gypsys... 2 days later I leave and you guys become babysitters for Sundi.


Happy dance! Happy dance!