Long Overdue

Hi All,

Its good to know that I have finally seen to it to update my blog.

I can't guarantee that this will be a long one, in fact i could almost guarantee that it won't be.

The last week or so in review.

I dropped Allisons Brother and GF at the airport to go to Europe. The check in line was so huge that they were still in it when the plane was supposed to be leaving. Stupid Japan Airlines, (Thats not to say that i am not even a little bit biased... :P

I tell you what though, standing at the airport waiting to see them off was a little sad.. I wanted to be hoping on that plane. Going OS is coming very slowly....


That week Allison and I went to work getting everything organised for our trip. We are still trying to find accomodation in San Francisco and and finally finshed our application for a student Visa For Canada. $125.00 is a little steep but what was even steeper was that it cost $5.30 for a bank Cheque...

For those of you whom don't know, I am the Vice President of a student Group at Uni, called "The Young Engineers Australia, University of Queensland" The name is a little long as it has been extended in the past year to include the "Australia" as we are a part of Engineers Australia.

Anyway, the group is organising an Engineering Careers Evening for all of the Engineering student at UQ, and possibly QUT and state high schools. Its going to be on the 4th of August and that date is approaching quickly. There is a large degree of pressure to ensure that the night goes well as we actually charge Engineering Firms to attend and meet the students. Last year we made a nice fee of about $8-9000 Although we end up paying alot in expenses like $1000 for hall hire, $1200 for Printing booklets, and this year we are probably going to pay about $800.00 for Display boards, a large fee, although it should make the job look much more professional.

To sum that up though, it has been causing a lot of stress particularly for Allison, (she is President) and some members of the group have been really underperforming and as a result the workload is rather un even.... And here we are wanting to have our holidays... :(

See our Website: http://www.engqld.org/group/yeauq

Anyway, I have got to go, this has been a rather uninformative post but one that I really needed to update...


So until next time.

Phil Signing out.....