where have I been?

Ok, sorry for not posting in a while. Things have been busy. Basically, my grandmother finally died on Thursday, and then I went to see The Boy, and then I didn't buy a surfboard, and basically, I've just been doing other things that have needed my attention more than this blog unfortunately. I'm back home, back at work, and helping my mum prepare the house for an onslaught of relatives. Its part good, part bad. Of course its sad, but better this way than her continuing to be sick.

FMN1 comes to visit on Tuesday which should be excellent light relief. Plus, we'll start to plan travelling and everything, so I'm excited about that. My grandfather has put aside some money for me to spend on my journeys, so I'm thinking about doing some sort of community project, since I don't believe in teaching English (for some reason, I think its quite colonial to go into a country and try and teach them english - why should they have to learn? At the same time, I'm aware I'm being super naive about it, and it doesn't matter about the why or the why not; the fact of the matter is that people every where speak English, and its advantageous to do so, whether or not its right or wrong. So I'll leave the English teaching to someone else, thanks very much!), or some sort of expeditiony thing.

I didn't buy my surfboard. The guy I was going to buy it from disappeared off teh face of the earth. Bloody typical. Never mind. Que sera sera. And since I've just bought a Pentax Optio, I'm a little broke anyway.