November 21st, 2003

Just went outside for a walk and its snowing!

Pictures here. The last 5 on that page!

Woohoo! walking in snow is cool! its real soft and fluffy, sliding down ramps is cool too!… my hands got cold but after a while they jsut get numb and its all good

righto, Melanie jsut came back, time to walk home in the snow!

Posted on 20th @ 2:19pm

Once again – more piccies here

First one is of the space needle in seattle that i snapped quickly as we drove past – more of it will come when i go back there at some stage.

Then there is one of my head…. dont ask me whats going on with my eyes in that picture… tired maybe?

Two cool pictures of a river we crossed on the way to Cheney.

A picture of the steps looking out form the uni library.

And finally two piccies of the little squirrells

Posted on 20th @ 2:06pm @ EWU Library

Just back from having some lunch at the Uni food place here. Was basically like the typical lunch type dealio you see in the movies – grab a tray, serve yourself etc etc.
Sitting down to eat i believe i saw/heard my first true American Jock in his natural environment. It was kinda funny – in a way all the typical sterotypes where true. A lot of the talk sounded like Bill from Bill and Teds Excellent adventure – “dood” this and “dood” that and a few “woahs” trown in for good measure.

I jsut sat there quietly eating my deep friend fish and chips.

Finished up and went outside watching squirrels. Im wondering how many squirrels die of heart attacks. They seem like really nervous and jumpy animals *shrugs* or maybe its just me.

Also tried finding a public phone to ring home but was unsucessful.

righto, might go try and setup my mailing list again…

Posted on 20th @ 10:31am @ EWU Library

Its my birthday today! – well in Australia anyway. Ill have to call home at some stage. Here in America its my birthday tomorrow.

Ok, heres a picture of one of the squirrels i saw

Its not too good, from a bad angle. Ill try to get a betetr one or two today sometime.

Posted on 20th @ 10:20am – Cheney

Well after my blog from yesterday seems to have vanished – ill write up a new entry that includes the stuff from yesterday.

ok – Currently Melanie and I are in Cheney. Its about 5-6 hours away (ive got no idea which direction – maybe east?) from her parents place. Melanie went to the uni here, Eastern Washington University, and has come back to see a few people and give a talk. We drove here last Tuesday after picking up a key to the place we are staying off one of her friends. I saw snow for the first time during the drive!. We go over this ‘pass’ type thing that is fairly high and there was snow on the side of the road. We couldnt stop so i havnt been able to touch it or eat any yet

Yesterday (Wednesday) we went to the uni for the first time. Melanie visited all the people she used to know and we went out for Mexican food at lunch with some of the people from the Maths department. Food was good. I saw a squirrel as well! There are heaps of them at the uni here, running round full of energy. I took some photos which ill put up here eventually. In the afternoon we went for a drive to Spokane – its about 10miles away (not that far) and we walked around a mall there. After that we went to the old spagetti factory and had really yummy spagetti – very tasty.

It was raining yesterday which sucked. Today is clear but its damn cold!, ive never been so cold in my life. Luckily Melanies parents let me borrow some winter clothes, since i dont have that many coming from tropical Queensland.

Melanie has her talk today. At the moment she is having a meeting with someone she knows form the Maths department about her thesis stuff. Im sitting in the warm library using the wireless internet.

The place we are staying at is about a block or so from the uni, which is good. We walk her after getting bundled up in lots of clothes. There is potholes in the road that have frozen over – its cool. As yet there is no snow here. Apparently it snows – but i dont know if it will while we are here for the next few days.

Thats about it. Im annoyed that my last few posts have gone – but oh well. Im not sure what ill do for the rest of the day. Sit around using the internet i guess. There is a student union type building that sells food and stuff so ill probably wander over there at some stage. Melanie doesnt know when / if she will have lunch so ill go exploring (i.e. getting lost) when i get hungry.

righto, im going to investigate why my last few entries dissapeared.

Where have my last few posts gone? dammit…