Tina's wanderings around the world

Here I am back at work after the long and lovely holiday break, and I remembered that I didn't write about a particular preoccupying thought that has been floating in and out of consciousness since Christmas time. Around Christmas time, a few shark attacks were reported on the news, one of them in northern Sydney (about two to three hours south of where we were staying at Marcus' mom's house). I was a little freaked out about going swimming in the ocean over the next few days, but went anyway. The shark attacks weren't around our beaches. Uh huh. Well I'm reading through the latest shark attacks today (there were one or two yesterday and then another one today) and there was a shark attack at one of the beaches we went swimming at during Christmas. Creepy. Though I must say, these Aussies are very good at fighting back and punching the sharks and certainly not all of the attacks (and possibly most of the attacks) are not fatal. Most of the people also make referenc...

Well, the holidays are almost officially over for me. I don't go back to work until Thursday the 8th, thanks to the audit office or the government or whoever it was that decided that I needed two full weeks of vacation! Australian Christmas. It was strange to have yet another warm Christmas. Christmas in Lima wasn't exactly warm last year, but same idea. This year I spent Christmas in shorts and a tank top and yes, it was weird. Marcus and I worked for half a day on Christmas eve (evil office dictators that decided we needed to work on Christmas eve I am not a fan of!). Anyhew, we met at the train station and began our three hour train ride up north. It's still funny to be one of those people who travels everywhere by train since my main mode of transport for almost my entire life was a car. Driving, driving, all the time, and although I miss being able to pick up my car and drive to the grocery store at any hour of the day or night (and the 24 hour grocery stores) and I mi...