smash it

in my last entry 3 weeks ago i had just done my french C1 and was about to fly off to wodonga for the weekend for some locum work. today i've just finished my german A2 exam and tomorrow i jump on a train for a weekend of work in warrnambool. as i suspected, life is just a series of goethian repetitions. here's a pic i shouldn't have taken from the window as the plane was coming in to land in wodonga. it was so lush!!! thanks la nina weather pattern!

after a recent muslim festival, all the ladies at work were turning up with henna tattoos. here's a hand that i snappety snapped of one of my lovely patients. henna me up girls.

pong organised a paint-ball event that i was unfortunately unable to refuse, no matter how devastatingly intense the desire to pike on the piker ;) it was bogansville with guns. not a good look. we marched out to play, fully dressed in camouflage with masks and coloured armbands etc, so as to be unable to recognise individuals, just teams. i had a millionth of an inkling of what war might be like in that moment. anonymous. just kill the people opposite you because they're a different colour or because your boss has told you too. 'i blew phuong's head off because julia gillard told me to'.

the death squad: mee-hong, phuong #2, yi, phuong original version, darren, anthony, hello_ondrej

i felt sickened and deeply troubled looking around at the machos shooting each other, though was able to put this feeling aside for just a few moments during the wild west game where i was opposite the bank door with immunity and just took 'em all out. shudder. i'm still afraid of guns, even if they only contain paint. check out one bruised thigh below. as it turns out, paint fucking hurts.

here's a quick grab of g and i with zee and emma when they visited melbourne today before their massive world wide adventure next year!! bon voyage ladies!

now that all the exams are over, our life might go back to normal again. can't wait to cut loose this summer! as the weather hots up melbourne men are stripping off and i am liking what i'm seeing on the streets of this town more and more. regarding those exams (for interested parties), i passed. the chinese A2, the french C1, and though i don't have the results for the german A2 i did today, i'm pretty sure i smashed it ;) i'm feeling proud of myself. almost as proud as i feel about the success i've had with my beautiful home grown cacti!!!