April 8

**The first Picture is of me with Alicia, and the second is Sonia and I. She'e the one I've been doing all the volunteer stuff with**
The weekend was SO good!
I went to Wagga Wagga with a group of people from the St Vincent De Paul (Vinnies) volunteer stuff that I do. There were seven of us from Sydney travelling down in a big van/truck.. a five hour drive. We had a great time travelling there, although there were plenty of dead wallaby's (mini kangaroo-type creatures) on the side of the road. I was telling the others that it reminded me of the raccoon's that we see in Canada and no one knew what a raccoon was. odd.
We stopped off on the way for some famous Australian savoury pies from some place with pastry awards, yum!
Saturday night was the St Vinnie's Ball, it was fantastic! I borrowed a dress from Laura so that I didn't have to go out any buy anything new. I won one of the prizes.. a bottle of wine and a $25 certificate for a local store (although, Wagga is so small that nothing was open on Sunday and I had to give my certificate away to a local!!) We had a great dinner and danced the night away.
After the ball, we all went to a local bar (of course in our high-class attire) and had a fantastic time till about 3am. I swear that no one in the bar had ever seen a female before. Those country guys were like white on rice, although when I'm in Sydney, no one generally cares that I have a Canadian accent & being in such a non-tourist place, the Aussies were loving it. We ended up staying in a Catholic Boy's school for the night because it was free, but it was such an old creaky place it was creepy in the middle of the night.
Sunday was chill too.. just relaxing in the park and preparing for the long drive home.
I was back to work on Monday which has been pretty uneventful lately, although I still like what I'm doing, I'm losing a little respect for my boss. Always making promises that he can't keep.
That's about it, I suppose. See you next time.