7 and a half months down, 16 hours to go...

One of the pros of being in a relationship with someone from another country is that they talk slightly differently (some would say more correctly) to you. Sara told me she had a dream that I dyed my 'bangs' yellow. As far as I knew your 'baby boy bangs' was an African rapper who resides in Melbourne and his interests include meeting you on facebook and taking you to da movies friday night, thats right (for anyone interested I have attached one of bangs' finest pieces of music at the bottom of this update). But no I was wrong, apparently bangs are the same as a fringe. Anyway I don't know if people in Australia call them bangs but I'd never heard of it. Little things, like this seemingly boring conversation, are what you miss out on when you are so far apart and are what I'm looking forward to in 16 hours time when Sara lands in Sydney.

In the time we have been together we have only been together in America. I have had a great time in the states and I absolutely love it over there but I am definitely looking forward to being able to show Sara my home ground. It will be funny for her to be the one with the cool accent (mine was more weird than cool) and for me to be the one with the exotic girlfriend from miles away (not that I'm exotic either). I will be taking her to see my teams play and explaining sports to her and people will be asking her ridiculous questions about the American equivalent of Crocodile Dundee. It's definitely going to be a lot of fun.

This week I also started training for my new job at the Menzies hotel Sydney. Job training is always boring and this was no exception. The thing I find most interesting is listening to the people that are also being trained. On this occasion I had one guy making up stories about how he had by accident, organised for both his foreign supermodel girlfriends to come to Sydney on the same day and another trying to see if I knew some  secret code for some secret society. I'm really not sure what I've gotten myself into here but at least I'll always be able to have a laugh, actually it is reminding me of my work with the Autism Association.

It has been a busy week but my focus all week has been on 8.25 AEST on Saturday the 12th of Feb! Not sure if I will be able to sleep tonight but if I do I can guarantee that I will wake more excited than I have ever been in my life, like all my Christmases have come at once! 16 hours...

Also I forgot to add in my last blog that I am also a Lakers fan!