Well folks... I'm sitting here in the computer lab trying to stay in contact with family and friends. Why am I not in my room you might ask? Well the answer is simple!!! My laptop screen is on the fritz! It has a short in it apparently. What a lovely addition to the trip! I guess we should incorporate that in the list of things that went wrong that was made back in my first post in the country!! Well here's the kicker - Samantha's computer did the SAME thing, on the same day! Who knew our computers were so in sync?! We've gotten a $300 estimate which simply brightened the light that was already just SHINING on my quickly draining bank account. Fortunately for us Meredith College has agreed to cover all repairs needed since if we were back in Raleigh we would have it repaired by our tech services team free of charge. We're so lucky that we attend such an amazing school back home. I'm missing it there sometimes (mainly when I have to walk twenty minutes to class instead of two). So hopefully those laptops will be back in action by the end of next week so it'll be back to communication as usual.
On a brighter note I started the 100 day photo challenge on Facebook which will count down the one hundred days until I return home to my loving family and friends... and all of the food I'm missing so dearly (I'm not sure which I miss more the people or the food... just kidding guys it's definitely YOU!) So I'm now on day four which was supposed to be "Day 04 - A picture of yourself and a family member" well of course I didn't want to pick just one person so I tried to incorporate as many people as possible. I decided to use a photo of all of my grandparents and our 5 piece Chickens (aka Jenkins) clan from Peyton's graduation. So for those of you out there who were in that photo YOU'RE IN THE COUNTDOWN! Feel honored - really. :) This leaves us now with 97 more days in the beautiful Gold Coast, Australia.
This weekend Samantha, Alex, and I are venturing down to Byron Bay for our surf weekend. We are learning to surf at Spot X on some of the greatest waves in Queensland. Byron Bay is supposed to be one of the really neat cities around so I'm excited to go. I'm also ready to learn to surf. My uncle Brad taught me how a looooooong time ago and I caught ONE wave back then (Thanks for your effort) so hopefully this will turn out better for me! haha. I'll be sure to let you know how the weekend goes and post some pictures a bit later when I get the computer back!
G'Day until then mates!!!
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