Hello!!

I have no idea when the last e-mail was that I wrote so hopefully I don't repeat myself too much.

Emma and I are renting a master bedroom with an ensuite and bathroom in Burleigh Heads, which is a suburb just off of Surfers. We are living with a guy named Chad who is 25 and his younger sister Beth and her boyfriend that are 21. It is really nice here, and feels kinda homish. Other than that not too much is really new as we are just working to save up for the remaining couple months.

We are working two jobs, one in the morning from 8am till 1 working for a charity company and then working at a little Italian Restaurant on Main Beach named Milan. It is really cute and really high class with only 19 tables in the entire restaurant. We work evenings there and are starting mornings this weekend. The weather is just getting warmer and warmer as it approaches Christmas which is really weird to think as I'm used to the white Christmas's. It's really good in a way because it really helps with not getting homesick around Christmas time because it totally does not feel like it. It's weird to watch TV and see all the Christmas special ads and look outside and see a sunny bright blue sky and palm trees and such.

Schoolies is on right now which is absolutely insane; the gold coast gets so much action. It is when the Year 12 students come to the gold coast after graduation for 3 weeks of straight partying. Last week there were over 30,000 17 year olds roaming the streets. It's kinda cool though because every night they have massive concerts on the beach and it is all patrolled by the cops and tons of security so it is really a cool thing to see.

Other than that, life is not too exciting over here, except for the fact that I'm over here. Give me a couple weeks till we are back on the road then the adventure stories will come out. I hope everything is going extremely well back home and have fun with your Christmas shopping. We have e-mail at our house so I check it pretty much everyday so definitely write back if you want as I love talking to people from home. Take Care

                                                                           LaRae