Group Grope

Hello everyone!

After close to 20 hours in flight time plus innumerable hours waiting at airports, I am finally in Australia!  Actually, we were supposed to get into Perth at around one in the afternoon, but since our flight from LAX to Sydney was delayed from 11:50 at night until 3:30 in the morning due to New York's weather, we missed our original flight across Australia and had to be rerouted through Canberra on a much later flight.  Therefore we got into Perth seven hours later than we were supposed to, and needless to say missed the first day of orientation.  The good thing about all of this was that the nine of us that were on the plane together got really close, especially after the initial five or more hours we spent in the warehouse-like terminal our flight was supposed to board at.

It's almost midnight here in Perth, which is fifteen hours ahead of Phoenix, and I must say that I am so sick and tired of planes, that I don't want to get on another one for the rest of my life (wishful thinking, of course).  Since we really haven't seen much of Australia due to us flying all day, I can't really tell you much about what it's like just yet.  Although, all the Australians have been super nice to us, and they actually do say "G'day"!  And some of the guys were rather attractive. ;)  Another great thing that I've noticed is that since it is winter in Australia, it was in the fifties when we landed and left the airport.  Talk about a temperature difference compared to Phoenix, where the high was supposed to have broken triple digits!

Anyway, I'm going to get into bed before I pass out at my computer, and hopefully figure out the whole internet connection thing in the morning, since the only one I could find wanted me to pay five dollars an hour or some crap like that.

KK

P.S. This was actually written two days ago, since we were just given free access to the internet today