That was a belated Garrr since I completely missed International Talk Like a Pirate Day on friday and only realised today. Boo.

I’ve been in a good mood all week – which was amazing since I had to get up a 5am every day to be in work for 7. But, it was already light by the time I left the flat, so wasn’t too bad. Just meant I went to bed at 9:30pm most nights!

I had my day off on monday and it was great! Summer has suddenly struck at full force – it was a stonking 27 degrees on monday so for the first time I went to use our pool. I had it to myself when I first got there – it was bliss! I did about 50 laps (its a 25m pool) and then sunbathed on the side for several hours. Then I strung my hamock up in our terrace and lazed on that reading my book. Couldn’t think of a better way to spend my day off!

I had my last salsa class at level 1 on monday evening, and to celebrate we had a salsa party the next day for all the beginners to try out their moves. It was hilarious! Twice as many women than men turned up! To relax us all and get us into the mood the teachers started the night be teaching us Merengue. Each guy had two girls and were told to just ’stack ‘em up!’ – I ended up in the middle between a guy and a girl which given that it had been 27 degrees that day and the air conditioning wasn’t on it was pretty hot in there! The guys just spun on girl from each arm and we tried to avoid hitting each other – it was ridiculous and very funny! After that the salsa music was put on (slowed down for us lot) and it was up to the guys to ask us to dance. I danced with 4 or 5 guys and got lots of wine bought for me, so when I cam home in the evening I was very drunk, and probably still a bit drunk when I woke up at 5am the next day!

My new housemate also moved in that day. She’s been great to live with so far. She actually comes out of her room, unlike Candace. In fact it was a real delight to come home on wednesday night. I could hear laughter coming from the flat before I’d even opened the door, and there were Alice, Farz and Jitinda (Alice’s friend – no idea how to spell her name) all in the kitchen and a lot of vegetable chopping had been going on. I ended up cooking it as a stir fry and we all sat at the table tgether to eat – was really nice to come home to a fun  and lively house!

Work has been good too – I’ve been able to get away from the linac since we’ve now employed a few more people so I can actually get on a do more organising for the project. So I’ve been delegating tasks left right and centre and have people assigned to do a whole range of things to get this linac clinical in the next 7 weeks (only 7 weeks – argg!). Athough I’ve got others doing the jobs for me, I’m still overseeing everything so get to check up on how everything is going an be involved in everything. It’s great!

On saturday the heat had climbed further up to 31 degrees – so again I spent the morning by the pool. Did another 50 laps and soaked up the sun – this time there were a lot more people there, it being the weekend. In the evening it was Dave, Finton and Mark’s 30th birthday party – which was kick-started by…..lawn bowls.

Lawn bowls? Old people in white trying not to do their back in bending over too much? Is it really appropriate for a 30th birthday? Well, the thing is over here Aussies just love sport, regardless. And lawn bowls, or bare-foot bowling as they call it, is done by everyone. At the bowls club it was packed out and there wasn’t a grey hair to be seen. Jugs of beer were plenty though! (however you get chased off the grass by men in black if you take your beer on the lawn itself!). I was actually pretty good at it, and Dave – well, he certainly has his retirement future set up for life of bowling.

After that we headed to a pub nearby where they’d booked a room out upstairs and we carried on the party. We were all quite drunk already from the bowling. Was good fun – just chatting to all of Dave’s footy mates and their girlfriends – all the guys are English pretty much! Dave was very very drunk by the end up it. The give-away being that he was dancing. There was him and some girl doing really stupid moves. At one point Dave was on his back on the floor pumping one arm into the air – no idea what that move was supposed to be but he seemed to be enjoying it!

So today I’ve just been taking it easy after a night of boozing. I just sat in my hammock all day in sun.

To sum up this week: sunbathing by pool, sunbathing in hammock, 2 parties and delegating tasks at work. What a great week!