steissd, If your wish is to immigrate to Australia, you have my best wishes. I'm not an expert on OZ by any means, but from my impressions of a 15 day visit only to the east coast, and having contact with several Aussies on the internet, I think you would be very happy making a life there. It's a big country with a lot of potential for those with the frontier spirit. I'm not European or Jewish, and have friends in the Middle East and Tanzania, but I'm not sure my preferance on where to live would change from my lifelong home of the US. I like the melting pot acceptance of most Americans, and feel we have progressed a great deal during my life time. I also like the opportunity to live a relatively comfortable life in the US not offered in too many places around this globe. c.i.
C.I. and Ms Olga, thanks for good wishes and merry Christmas to you. I am supposed to get a decision of the immigration authorities by 08.2003 and I hope that it will be positive (my immigration attorney counted my immigration eligibility points, I got a score of 115, and he said that this was enough to get a permission).
steissd, Well, things are indeed looking up! We'll count your blessings when that time comes. c.i.
Started out cool this morning. Then the clouds pulled back a bit and now it will burn your ears off.
steissd, I agree with c.i. regarding staying put in the U.S., but of course one tends to judge the fair by how his own market has gone. I'm sure a young fellow could do a lot worse than head off to Oz. You'll at least add to the store of interesting times you've already experienced, especially if you should bump into some of the Aussies from hereabouts.
It's raining cats and dogs here all evening, 66F, mild.
And it got cool again. I feel like I'm livin' in Melbourne.
The previous picture would be my favorite of my wonderful son, Dougy, at about 15 months old.....I have a poster-size picture of this (thanks to Mom) hanging on my wall.
Melbourne, Fl? I'll pick you up in about fifteen minutes..... :wink:
85 and mostly cloudy, or should that be partly sunny. never could figure out those forecast people.
pueo ~ I can't figure them out either.....but wish I made their kinda money.
(P. S. Happy again that you and yours are okay.)
Melbourne Vic. I spent a week there one afternoon.
(I was actually there six months, but I prefer not to remember it)
Pueo, it's best to think POSITIVE ... it's mostly sunny!
There's a story behind that, Wilso.....
Spill it.....
I was in the RAAF. They sucked me in with a lot of lies, and it took me six months to dig my way out.
That was in 1982. Where did that 20 years go???
thanks Rae. i want to hear the rest of Wilso's story too.
Misti, it's mostly hot and humid, but that's typical guam weather.
wow, that was fast. did a short stint as a usmc recruiter. never lied though, made sure they knew exactly how tough it was going to be.
The training wasn't the problem, I finished basic. It was the inability to go to the bathroom without a three page written application in triplicate-room mates that couldn't go to sleep without their radios on-being told at 4:00pm on Friday afternoon that you're going to be working all weekend-it just didn't stop.
