lebanon hey?

Chateau Ksara, Baalbek and Anjar

2007-12-04T08:26:00.000-08:00

Ok so last weekend neil and I went on this tour thing of Chateau Ksara Baalbek and Anjar. It was a really good trip and I had a great time but, like, blogger takes soooo fricking long to upload photos that i'm not going to bother and if you want to see all my totally awesome pics you'll have to go to my facebook because facebook shits all over blogger when it comes to uploading photos.

that is all.

Bring Back The Biff

2007-11-26T04:45:00.001-08:00

My Birthday

2007-11-14T22:25:00.000-08:00

Today is my birthday.

I am 22.

That is all.

Kids halloween party

2007-11-01T03:44:00.000-07:00

The mums organised a halloween party for the kids.

Kids before the party

Strawberry Shortcake

Valentina having her close up

Group shot

Group shot 2

Pumpkin. Pretty self explaintory i guess.

Any Takers?

2007-10-30T05:16:00.000-07:00

is it possible to see eureka as the birthplace of australian nationalism? is it a strong case? why?

Coming Home Countdown

2007-10-30T04:12:00.000-07:00

42 Days til i'm home!!!!

Ooooo so exciting.

9 Weeks

2007-10-05T02:12:00.001-07:00

9 weeks left til i go/come home.

Dammit.

Cyprus part 2

2007-09-26T02:36:00.000-07:00

More pics from Cyprus

Cyprus

2007-09-25T03:38:00.000-07:00

Last weekend neil and i went to cyprus for the weekend. I finally got my balls and got a tattoo but i was also sick and whinged the whole time. Still i had fun.

..................... yes thats my tattoo

..............more photos soon.

Oceana part 3

2007-09-17T02:48:00.000-07:00

Ok so here we go AGAIN with the oceana pics!

Stephan with a sexy hat

Neil and Stephan

The sun.

This is of even greater importance now as summer is almost over.

I'm off to cyprus this weekend with neil so when i get back i'll post some more photos.

Oceana Part 2

2007-09-14T01:59:00.001-07:00

Ok we'll see how many pics it will let me upload this time.

Just more pics from oceana.

Mats and Rachana

Me...looking HOT!

Dude nice hair

Ok so the uploading thingy has died after 3 pics.

Blogger you are fucking useless!!!!

Oceana

2007-09-13T01:15:00.000-07:00

Some random pics from the last few weekends at Oceana.

Stephan dancing

Neil and Stephan

Mmmmmm beer

Stephan and Neil

And now the uploading thingy is shitting itself so i'll add some more pics when its feeling better.

love you all long time

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Tiesto Concert

2007-08-16T03:44:00.000-07:00

Pics from the tiesto concert. Yeah the concert was like a month or two ago but i've been working on lebanese time so its taken me a bit to get these pics up.

DCA bbq

2007-08-11T22:47:00.001-07:00

These are some pics from the DCA bbq that was at the al fanar a couple of weeks ago:

Stephan and Jason

Chris and Claire

Neil and Stephan

Homeless cat living in an almaza box

Me and bernie

Me and kels and stephan being a wank

The sugar before the awful awful absinthe shots

And they dont taste very nice

Woo hoo everyones so happy!!

get your best face out

Sharing the love

More loving

And even more loving

4 Months

2007-08-09T02:54:00.000-07:00

For those of you who care, and its probably only me, i have 4 months left until i go home. Dont it make you sad.

Chopper Read - Does the Weather

2007-08-09T02:36:00.001-07:00

Pool party

2007-07-11T06:14:00.001-07:00

Last sat night there was a pool party that we went to that wasn't really a pool party because we were the only ones swimming. Not that we had a problem with that. After the pool party we caught the bactec booze bus back into town where we headed to skandars for a bit of a dance and clothes swap.

People just chatting

The bactec guys got hungry

So they ate,

And ate,

And left a big fat mess.

Then it was off to skandars for some dancing (neil wearing my shirt (i was cold so we swapped)),

And some singing,

And some more dancing,

And some more singing,

And then everyone was happy!!!!!

P.S how good does neil look in my shirt. Such a nice colour on you neil!

Turkey

2007-07-11T01:11:00.000-07:00

I know its been a while since i've posted anything and things have been happening but i'm trying to collect all the photos before i post so you'll have to be patient. In the meantime i went to Turkey last week and caught up with bridget and brooke which was really good. For those of you back home who are wondering how they are....they are out of money and are going to soctland to try and find some work. Anyway here's a couple of photos of us and stuff.

Here's brooke and bridget

And this is me and brooke after a couple of beers

This is amy and ocean. Amy is a fellow aussie, working in engalnd, doing some travelling and ocean works at the hotel we stopped to drink at.

This the blue mosque. It is blue during the day i promise.

And i have no idea what mosque this is. It sits across from the blue mosque so we firgured we should take of photo of it too.

Seriously all mosqued out.

Kiwi Farewell

2007-06-24T03:38:00.000-07:00

Friday night was the farewell party for the kiwi's. It was an average night.

Saturday and sunday were spent at the beach and sunday night neil and i went to this totally rocking party at the resthouse....there was 4 of us. It did pick up closer to midnight i think then there might have been about 20 people. Yep pretty awesome stuff.

Just got some pics from friday night.

Jayne getting beat up by her niece...nice one lucy!

awww and then they made up

Steve...i think he's trying to hide

I have such beautiful friends

And he told me he's not a big drinker

neil is a tool!!!

This is why i'll never be a photographer

And this is what the photo was supposed to look like

Jayne, Steve, Paul and Sammi

ITS TOOL TIME!!!!!! (sorry jayne i cant help it)

Bit greedy jayne

Whose the random asian?

Alright its now one week til jayne leaves. I've stopped begging her to stay its not working.

Going to have to have a big weekend jayne!!

Love you long time!

Two Weeks To Go

2007-06-19T01:43:00.000-07:00

Two weeks until Jayne leaves!
Jayne, dont go!

my weekend

2007-06-18T04:43:00.000-07:00

My weekend wasn't too eventful due to my getting wasted on friday night and spending ALL saturday in bed with a massive hangover. But i spent sunday afternoon kicking back on the beach with my friends so it was a good end to my weekend.

Got a couple of random photos to post...

So Neil can make balloon dogs...who knew?!

When good balloons happen to bad people!!!!!!

Waves

2007-06-11T01:38:00.000-07:00

Ok so we're still on the same stretch of coast as captain bobs but now we've moved right down to the end where one of the bactec medics has a little shack called waves. Its really nice down there. The guy keeps it nice and clean.

Steve at waves

Jayne loving herself to death at waves. Its alright jayne we love you too!

Sammi on the smokey things

Jayne gives steve a hand blowing up marks boat

Mark in his boat. The water was really rough on this day but being mark he managed to get out on the water for a bit.

South pacific night

2007-06-11T01:19:00.000-07:00

Ok so this post is a bit late too. These are some pics from the south pacific night that was thrown by the kiwis down at UNMACC

This is me and the manager of my pub Hussein

This is a pic of me and another guy called mark. really nice guy.

And here's me and jayne! There were more photos because i get a bit snap happy after a few beers but these were the best of me. Yes i do love myself what about it!?

Fancy Dress party

2007-06-10T09:10:00.001-07:00

Ok this party was a while ago but i only just got my hands on the photos so i'm going to put them up anyway because they are funny.

Have i got something in my teeth?? Jayne looking hot

Steve's so hot right now.

lots of random photos

2007-06-10T08:27:00.000-07:00

So i spent yet another weekend in the sun and some parts of me are starting to peel. dammit. But i'm so tanned i love myself and i'm just going to keep tanning over the peel so hopefully it wont last long.

Here is a heap of photos that jayne gave me of just everyone and everything:

Stephan and a bomb

These are some chickens that jayne's house cleaner bought home one day. Someone had dyed them pink and orange. Nuts.

A pic of paul. mark in the background looks lik he's having a blast.

Sammi and Stephan's arse

Hey hey its visa renewal time!!!

2007-06-07T06:54:00.000-07:00

Oh its the time of year i love the most and it actually comes around everything 3 months...thats right Visa renewal time. Its too hard for me to obtain a working visa here so i'm on a 3month toursit visa and must cross a border to renew it. Last time i spent easter in Syria this time was a toss up between Greece, London and Turkey.
Well London lucked out because it was too expensive to get there and Bridget is going to be in Turkey at the time i need to leave the country so it looks like poor little Greece misses out too.
But as you could imagine finding somewhere decent to stay in istandbul is an effing mission. I have no idea how to pronounce the suburbs...they all look like this OPAWIur50q23utj9Q3Y5J
Yeah try pronouncing that huh!
The weeks are ticking down (i have 4 weeks until my visa runs out) and suffering really bad cbf syndrome but i'm hoping i can pull my finger out soon otherwise i'm going to have a totally awful (all expenses paid) holiday. But on the super duper plus side i'm going to have 3 weeks away from the children and god there is nothing better than no children...yeah mum if your reading this dont count on any grandchildren from me ok..sorry.
Seriously so looking forward to not being near this family for a while.....Living where you work and 24/7 with the same people is not normal you just cant do it.

Not good for the sanity.

bridget we better have a kick arse time! Cant wait to see you!

Next to bobs

2007-06-04T01:04:00.000-07:00

So we decided to move along the beach front to the shack next to captain bobs. Now this shack is much better. They have music (an old car stereo) and a flushing toilet! luxury! So this is a pic of steve and jason kicking back.

And here's a photo of stephan with his only friend, a prawn.

And here's steve and i with our totally awesome snorkelling kits!

Busted

2007-06-01T22:59:00.000-07:00

No really i was busted.
Jesus ok i was drunk so i wasn't quite as ashamed of myself as i should have been but i was busted by the lebanese cops while i was trying to do it on the bonnet of a car at the beach.
I know its incredibly tacky but you know shit happens!
It was kind of funny because i was still drunk this morn writing this so if there's spellin mistakes and shit give me a break!!!!
It was a german i was doing on the bonnet of his car. No idea what his name was. Maybe thats a good thing.
Will see him down at the pub because i've seen him there plenty of times but it will be interesting to see what happens. After being busted by the cops really dont think i'm going to go there again but then again he is kind of easy.
So ashamed! really i am. I'm terrible.
Going to hide my head under my pillow and wait for my hangover to come.
Oh my thumb is all black...I've obviously jammed it somewhere dunno where though. Gotta stop drinking its really bad for me.
So ashamed!

Bobs Again

2007-05-27T22:09:00.000-07:00

Sammy and steve showing their appreciation for stephan snapping photos of us all day

Me and steve and mark hanging out at bobs...again.

Beggers

2007-05-27T11:42:00.000-07:00

The beggers here drive me fricking nuts. You cant go anywhere without them following you. You go out for a meal and they're everywhere. They carry their little babies around and they send the little kids up to you trying to sell chewing gum. Piss off and eat it yourself you little bastards!
And there is a real homeless guy who lives on the corner of my street but he never asks for money.
They stand there and babble in arabic like i know or give a shit what they're saying and i offer them food but they just want money....I'm poorer than they are! (Probably would help if i didn't spend my entire wage at the pub) Oh well!

The Lebanon News

2007-05-26T09:03:00.000-07:00

I'M IN THE PAPER!!!!!!!!!!!
How cool is that. I'm the paper being my usual drunken bum self with the owner of my pub. Its an awesome photo but i dont have any time to post it now so i'll post it some time during the week. Ran around my pub with a shirt wrapped around my neck like a cape all night. Such a tool. Going jet skiing again tomorrow. Should be good.

Monkey

2007-05-20T00:43:00.000-07:00

We got a monkey!!!!!
Ok we only borrowed her. Her name is baboo and she's a baby baboon. A friend of mine, mark, saw her chained up outside a pet store and has since been borrowing her for a day or two. She is really funny and i think she gets fed and looked after better with mark than she does at the pet shop but she is hard work...she's worse than children!
We took her to capain bobs but she wouldn't go near the water so she sat around and ate. On the way home from the pet store she was stinking up the car. I had to hold my head out the window so i didn't puke everywhere.
But she costs about 800 to buy so unfortuantly she's not coming home with mark for good.

found the silver lining!!!!!

2007-05-19T01:03:00.000-07:00

Yeah so even though i got shut down last night and i was all depressed and shit i found this this morning and its a key ring (duh) that my friend steve gave me.
He works for a demining company and look...its got a little bomb on it!!! isn't it just the cutest little bomb ever!!!!
So there was a silver lining to my totally non awesome night last night.

Shut Down

2007-05-19T00:04:00.000-07:00

Went out last night and i was effing shut down! its so effing depressing dude

More drunken tales

2007-05-13T07:03:00.000-07:00

Some how after every weekend there are tales to be told. Although we go to the same pub, drink the same drinks, listen to the same music we seem to be able to make our own fun. It certainly helps when the staff and owner of the pub let us do whatever we want.

I didn't go out friday night but that just made me more prepared for captain bobs on saturday where we drank and were merry until neil threw me off the jet ski...NOT COOL....not cool because he went right into the beach and then came out over the waves so he was getting all this air and of course a couple of those and you can barely hold on so i let go...letting go as we went over a wave so i flew in the air and looked down to see the jet ski was still under me. To avoid an awkward landing i tried desperatly to throw myself to the side hitting my leg on the side of the jet ski as i came down. It hurt a lot and bouncing across the water hurt too.

But we continued the party at our pub and i worked the register but being drunk and it being a busy night i couldn't really keep up but they keep saying if i go in on a week night they'll teach me properly and being the drunken bum that i am i swapped shirts with one of the little bartenders and his hairy chest was popping out all around my singlet. Quite funny.

And then we hit captain bobs again this arvo but it was really choppy and windy so we just kicked back for a while.
I must credit captain bobs though because i am tanning at a rapid rate due to being drunk and being able to sit in the sun for a long time without worrying about burning.

My New New Hat

2007-05-06T22:59:00.000-07:00

Yay i got another hat! My pub has let me walk out wearing another hat.

I went jet skiing again yesterday and this time i was thrown off twice and i have some awesome sunburn to remember my day by.

Not Happy Jan

2007-05-05T08:13:00.000-07:00

Yeah so i was wondering how long it would take for the lebanese to fully live up to the sterotype they have in australia.
4 months.
I've been here 4 months and have had the usual whistling and rude comments from the lebanese males but last night they exceeded all expectations when one indecently assulted me in the lift of my own building. I was on my way home from a boozy night at the pub and i wasn't seriously hurt or anything but i was very shaken up by the experience. Not one that i wish to ever have again.

I love Skandars

2007-05-02T02:49:00.000-07:00

I love Skandars so much. I got pissed and noticed the staff had new uniforms, ok so i noticed the uniforms then i got pissed but the point is i asked them if i could have one and they gave me two and they let me go behind the bar and crack some beers which i handed out with half their lids still on i was so plastered.
I love Skandars.
Note to everyone: If your ever in Tyr, Lebanon go to Skandars it is just a pub but its also more than just a pub.

The weather's getting warmer!!!

2007-04-29T04:35:00.000-07:00

Here's me jet skiing over the weekend. We all went down to a place called captain bobs and drank beer and jet skiied all arvo. Not a bad way to spend a saturday. The water was fricking freezing but this jet ski in the pic is awesome it goes so bloody fast. I wasn't thrown off but there were several moments where i thought i might go...and poor neil prob has scratch marks all over him i was holding on so tight. I had a go at driving one of the jet ski's and having never driven one before it was quiet interesting and I threw my friend steve off twice, by accident, so i'm going to need some more practice. But it was good clean fun.

Shopping

2007-04-29T04:18:00.000-07:00

Grocery shopping is the perfect place to meet mr right so its essential you wear the right shoes and make your hair look nice.

My New Hat

2007-04-17T02:48:00.000-07:00

This is my totally awesome new hat that the owner of my favourite (and practically only) pub bought for me.

Syria - Damascus

2007-04-10T03:05:00.000-07:00

I went to Syria over the easter weekend and so here's a couple of pics of what Syria looks like. Pretty interesting hey.
It is the middle east after all.

A pic of part of the mosque taken from the souk.

A pic of the souk. The souk is huge and has lots of little side streets but i found they all sold the same stuff. I mean if you have a linen fetish you'd be in heaven. I swear every second shop was a linen shop but it was nice to see the place for myself as everyone who goes to damascus comments on the souk. And its another country in my passport!

Lebanon life

2007-04-05T05:03:00.000-07:00

Alexander had his 5th birthday last week and would you believe this is the lebanese idea of balloon decorations.

ok my dirty mind helped out a bit but as if you weren't thinking the same thing.

Valentina's Birthday

2007-03-24T03:44:00.000-07:00

Friday was valentina's second birthday. Here's a couple of pics from it.

Uncle Sams!!!!!!

2007-03-22T03:51:00.000-07:00

So all my darwin friends, i maybe on the other side of the world but there are touches of home here.

my belly

2007-03-16T05:35:00.000-07:00

HEY YA I GOT MY BELY PIERCED!!!!!!!
Yeah how crazy is that. This guy came to our apartment and did it for me. And then he tried to show me all these photos of tats that his brother has done on ppl and tried to tell me how his brother is like the no.5 best tattooist in the world.....since when was it a competetive sport? Whatever.
(Excuse the fat guys i been drinking a lot of beer and not doing any exercise but the boss' rowing machine is supposed to be here soon and then i'll post another photo just to put you all in your places)

What really happened tuesday night???

2007-03-16T01:38:00.000-07:00

You know thats a bloody good question. Tuesday night went a bit like this:
jayne and i at skandars having a quiet beer with some dudes
a couple of tequila shots were downed
BLACK BLACK BLACK

My memories of tuesday night went like this:
quiet beer with jayne and some dudes, a couple of shots were downed, something about throwing up and then also a very faint memory of being in some dutch guys house.

So Jayne and i spoke on wednesday morning and neither of us could remember what actually happened.

You know how they say the truth hurts? Well i know jayne was hurting but i was told by jayne who was told by our dude friends that i had a nice big spew in skandars (in the toilets thank god) and then i chased my dutch friend down the street cos he was going home, then proceeded to invite myself in. I was only there for 5 mins before i thought i was going to be sick so i got up and left not actually sure whether i said goodbye or anything and then walked myself home. Lebanon isn't really the place where you want to be walking at night.
But the most devastating part of the night was that we were both home by midnight.

Dont know what they put in the drinks here but it doesn't seem to be doing me any favours. However its not going to stop me hitting the turps again on sat!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mmmm chocolate croissants

2007-03-15T05:07:00.000-07:00

So not everyone likes chocolate croissants.....thats cool more for me

Lebanon, nothing but sunsets and clear blue water

2007-03-15T04:52:00.000-07:00

Just posting one of the the awesome sunsets we have over here.
If it wasn't so bloody cold i'd be able to enjoy them a lot more.
Summer is looking more and more promising everyday.

And this is a pic of the clear clear water over here thats not very clear cos my camera is a bit dodge but my point is this is for my darwin friends who will be jealous. And coming from darwin i can really appreciate it. And when summer comes there will be photos of me in my bikini every post so all you perverts can piss off i dont want you spoiling summer for me.

The Saga Ends...

2007-03-14T01:41:00.000-07:00

If you note my very first post you will notice i slept with someone but i said it was the wrong person....well the right person (i'm not using names just in case in some totally freakish way they find this blog i can insist it was a different two guys) as i was saying the right guy came back from work and asked me to meet up for a beer........................
That was until he found out about me and the other guy and cancelled our beer sesh.
I know jayne will read this and be saying 'get over him he wasn't that hot anyway' or something like that but i just have this feeling that he was the right guy. Not that kind of right but he was really nice and i really did like him. Well he was more right than the guy i slept with.
Oh well there is only one thing to do, well three actually, eat ice cream, popcorn and watch terrible love movies.

weekend in Beirut Part 2

2007-03-12T07:53:00.000-07:00

I did this post in two parts cos i'm too lazy to sit around and write it all at once. So i was saying they have cheap juice and its true they do but our first day there we just walked around and shopped pretty much all day. There is lots of shopping and its nice to be around shops that i recognise unlike in tyr but i really didn't think it was that awesome. And then we kicked back at the hotel before hitting the hotel bar for our free beers. After that we headed out for dinner and a bit of club and pub action.

This is where we met some american/lebanese girls who took us to a gay bar. It wasn't a bad bar it was pretty groovy and it had an open bar which i was pretty stoked about but, i know it was a gay bar so there's going to be a strange vibe but there was this vibe that made me more uncomfortable than if i was in the gay bar in darwin.

After that we checked out monot street which is where all the clubs are and you really need to like arabic music or you need to be really really drunk to have a good night here. There were some places that looked appealing but i couldn't get past the music while i was sober.

And there's not much more to say. We did some more shopping on sunday before we came home quite tired but still managed dinner and some beers at the pub here at home.

I forgot to add this pic before....this is a pic of a hezbollah truck that is on the side of the highway (makes you feel soooo safe)

Weekend in Beirut Part 1

2007-03-11T07:47:00.000-07:00

I'm home from my weekend in Beirut and i hate to say it but Beirut aint all that. Its only an hour and a half drive from tyr to beirut but the highway still has parts missing from the war.

Here's our trusty rust bucket that the power steering died in and was near impossible to turn but got us there and back without any serious arm injuries. The thing about driving here is everyone drives at 150ks an hour and they're rude and impatient so your driving along at a safe 100ks an hour and people beep at you from every direction. This isn't helped by the fact that people beep if your too slow, if they want you to move out of the way, if they're coming around a corner fast and dont want to stop or give way and if they're a taxi driver and your walking along the street. You pretty much beep for everything so its quite unnerving if your not used to it.

Well we stayed at this really fancy hotel where, being with the UN, they gave us some free beers! woo hoo!!!!

Here is the totally awesome indoor swimming pool at the hotel. It was lovely and heated. This was the kind of hotel you go to and stay inside the whole time your there. They had a gym and sauna. Oh and you can only really appreciate this if your from darwin but the hotel lights in the the hallways were on sensors so you could run up and down the hall and try to beat the lights. Ok darwin doesn't have anything like that in their hotels.

This is a photo of the ocean strip at beirut and the orange juice man. If there's one thing this place has going for it its the juice. Fruit grows great here and everywhere along the ocean front are these little men with their carts full of oranges and you can get a big cup of fresh juice for about 50 aussie cents.

Lebanon's education system

2007-03-09T00:13:00.000-08:00

This is just a quick post to let everyone know that the education system in lebanon is a piece of crap.
I cant remember when these kids last had a full week of school. They have holidays for everything around here. They had a holiday for valentines day. When was the last time a 5yr old cared about valentines day?
The lebanese say what a good education system they have but I would like to know how they got so smart if they never went to school! they have another day off today for 'teachers day' and would you believe it the teachers wrote in my children's diary 'friday there will be no school because of teachers day, please do not bring presents for the teachers'.
Presents? You think I would give you a present when you dont work a full week? How special do you think you are? I work 7 days a week, where's my present? Yeah thats what I thought. When you teachers learn how to work then come and talk to me.
Thanks for letting me get that off my chest guys!!!!

2007-03-08T01:45:00.000-08:00

Hey ya

so i went out again last night with some british friends Iive made and they're pretty awesome people i mean i really didn't excpet to make friends while i was over here but yes lebanon is exceeding my expectations.

Yeah so i went to my pub again and it was a fairly quiet night as far as quiet goes. A couple of beers and then some tequila shots. I'll be the first to admit i'm a bit of a cheap drunk a couple of shots and i get pretty messy as if you didn't get that idea from my first post but anyway. We have this truly great bar where the bar staff and the owner love us and he gives us free beers and lets us play with his decs and things so they are really great people. So we got a bit drunk and had a bit of a dance. It really is a pub there is no room to dance so we sort of dance inbetween the tables and things.

So this is one of the gang, steve, and me. There is a big group of them about 8 or 10 and we were all going to head to beirut this weekend for some shopping and check out the clubs and pubs but they got in trouble at work and they're on contracts so they got in a bit of trouble but a good, fun bunch of guys anyway.

Yeah so now i'm going to beirut with just jayne, my british friend and ary one of my work mates. So we'll check out beirut and i'll take my credit card as they have all the best and most expensive eruopean shops here so i can max it out.

And there's jayne, good old jayne.

Actually jayne is really really good. I left a part out of my first post and that was that when i woke up the next day after my swim and romp all my clothes were wet and as it was a boy i slept with all his clothes were too big so jayne being the nicest person in the whole world and living not to far from his house brought me some clothes so i could get home. Love you jayne.

2007-03-07T22:37:00.000-08:00

Another part of the beach front but this part is extremely rocky. Thank god I didn't go swimming there...or maybe I did. If you look close you might be able to see the snow on the moutains in the background.

Tyr's beach front apartments

The famous beach front that was just too good to pass up having a swim at 1.30 in the morning.

So my very first post

2007-03-07T07:27:00.001-08:00

Well i thought i should start my blogging with the most important piece of information ever to come out of lebanon.....I got some sex.
Thats right ladies and gentlemen after 8weeks and 2 days (whose counting) I finally got sex. Now it wasn't the guy i was hoping for and by sleeping with this guy i have screwed every chance i ever had of sleeping with the other guy but life waits for no one and you need to make sure your priorities are in order. And its not like he's a terrible guy I mean he's australian so he gets points there and he's not bad to look at and he looked after me when I got completly maggoted. Yeah so he's a bit of a gentleman.
Do you want to hear how the night went? well tough if you dont cos I'm going to tell you anyway. Started off as quiet drinks on a wednesday night just chilling out after a hard days work and then the group slowly got smaller and smaller til there was only him, me and some very spunky looking swiss guy. And then the tequlia shots started flowing du du du duuuuuu. Yeah it got messy really quicky. I have this pair of hot as black boots but would you believe they have no grip so i go from a standing position to on my back without actually moving. pretty clever i know. So my guy helps me up off the floor and i start abusinig him for spilling my beer which was in no way his fault. But my beer was gone and i wasn't happy.
So i could barely walk and we already new what was going to happen cos he was all over me even though i'm not into that PDA stuff but we started the walk home to his place which happened to be on the other side of town from the pub and my place. (my place is right next to the pub...as if my boss didn't do that on purpose) But its a really nice walk along the beach front until you decide that this is the mediteranian and its too good to just walk past so you jump in only to realise the water temperature is 10dgrees. Of course the natural reaction is to get out of something that cold and i dont think i stayed in for long but the temperature of the air at 1.30 in the morning is a little colder than the water. I know your thinking what kind of crack head does that and I didn't realise just how bad a decision it was until i looked around and found we were only meters from the pub and his house is on the other side of town.
But wait it doesn't end there. I have woken up to bleeding knuckles and no idea how i came to get them. Strange place this lebanon.