Rodeos and Rumps (Steaks that is!)

And so ends the last weekend in Whoop Whoop.

It's kinda sad thinking that in one week the feloowship of the house will be broken and we'll all go back to our own lives again.

After being kinda apprehensive about being stuck with 8 other interns I hardly knew, I've ended up making some really good friends who have been a blast to live with. We're all different but we all meet somewhere in the middle and have enjoyed our little trip up here.

To celebrate the almost end of our time, we threw a big party on Friday night but by the time I got back form my overtime shift at 11pm it was winding down a bit. Had an interesting conversation with an RMO about cheese and crackers though (apparently Arnott's crackers are the way to go with cheese) and found out that Snickers Pods should not be thrown into drunk men's mouths (we found a lot of crushed Pods on the floor the next day covered in ants).

The next day when the sun shone it's rays into the house we found the house was very messed up and stunk like rotting onions (which we found hiding in an open container somewhere), but with a touch of cleaning it soon went back to normal (although the smell still lingers in the nostril sometimes)

Then Saturday I really just bummed around the house watching Firefly on DVD and then the girls were keen to go to a local rodeo in town. The thought of watching people being mauled by bulls didn't appeal to me so I declined but thankfully they returend very promptly cos apparently they were too late for it or something similar... so the abdominal/orthopaedic trauam spectacle will have to wait for next time.

So instead of watching bulls we decided to go and eat steak at a local village pub. Dr E recommended this pub nearby so we went and ate one of the best steaks I've ever had (in the top 10). The steak itsefl was at leats an inch thick and had a rasher of bacon wrapped around it. It was cooked perfectly to specification and had a mushroom/pepper sauce drizzzled on top. It was served with fried sweet potato shavings and a side of fries with steamed vegetables (including bok choy!) and I was in heaven!

Went to church up here for the last time and said goodbye to the borhters and sisters we've gotten to know up here. I'm gonna miss them even though we've only known them for 10 weeks.

It's kinda interesting how in life we have new beginnings and endings on a daill basis. People come into our lives, we form relationships with them, we interact with them and then they leave again out of our sphere and into someone else's.

It's so transient and so temporal.

I have hardly seen any of the people I went to school with in years. In a few years time, my uni friends will disappear into their training programs and I'll never hear from them again.

All we really do have is today... life is fluid: it courses like a river, ever changing but always the same substance.

And where do we fit in to all this? Are we a constant amongst all this, interacting with other constants? Or are we fluctuating and adapting like social evolutionaries?

On that note, I think I'll go on a Maccas run.