Yeah, SA--the BUNAC thing works for New Zealand *anytime*, as long as you're under 30 (that's what my friend who's there is doing--though she's actually going to extend her visa for a second year!!!). The UK thing is only right after you graduate, so...do that now, while you can. Plus, I HAVE someone to visit in New Zealand. I need more UK/Ireland folk. :P
Come on out, River. The nice man wants to kidnap you.
Simon ,'Objects In Space'
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meara - Feb 16, 2006 3:42:15 pm PST #7979 of 9843
esse - Feb 16, 2006 3:50:26 pm PST #7980 of 9843
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Sweet. Yeah, I've pretty much made my decision. Since that's something that's so limited in terms of when I can do it, I am going to. My dad won't be happy about it, because he said "What's working in the service industry going to do for your career?" and I told him I didn't want to be a walking resume; and if future employers asked where I was during that time, all I had to say was that I was travelling, which is just as good.
Wow. I have a plan. A plan that will actually happen for after I graduate. OMG, the void is looking less bleak!
meara - Feb 16, 2006 4:12:18 pm PST #7981 of 9843
"What's working in the service industry going to do for your career?"
Who says you have to work in the service industry? You could get a job there that's just as good as whatever you get here. Or you could temp.
esse - Feb 16, 2006 4:16:53 pm PST #7982 of 9843
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
You could get a job there that's just as good as whatever you get here.
My vagueish plan is to actually put together my IT resume and spam jobs with it.
Strix - Feb 16, 2006 7:33:31 pm PST #7983 of 9843
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
there are venomous snakes in Britain/Ireland? I thought there were just...black snakes or garter snakes or something.
signed, grew up in rattler/copperhead/water moc Ville.
billytea - Feb 16, 2006 7:34:51 pm PST #7984 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
there are venomous snakes in Britain/Ireland?
Yup. In Britain, not Ireland. Not exactly of the same level of concern as Australia's finest, but they do exist.
Strix - Feb 16, 2006 7:40:57 pm PST #7985 of 9843
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Huh. Things I Never Knew.
Volans - Feb 16, 2006 10:35:45 pm PST #7986 of 9843
move out and draw fire
St. Patrick apparently never made it across to England.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Feb 16, 2006 11:01:07 pm PST #7987 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
St. Patrick apparently never made it across to England.
Actually, the story (or at least the version of it with which I am familiar) has it that he was born in Wales, and taken to Ireland as a slave, so he was originally from this side of the Irish Sea. But it's true that we still have snakes in England (and Wales and Scotland): the grass snake (which is actually a legless lizard), the adder (the posionous but really rare one)... and possibly one other I've forgotten.
Cass - Feb 16, 2006 11:25:26 pm PST #7988 of 9843
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
the grass snake (which is actually a legless lizard)I don't care what they are technically, that's a snake. ::shudders:: The Tiajuana Estuary has some flavor of legless lizard and no one will ever convince me that they just aren't snakes that are lying to themselves.
I might have a slight touch of snake squick.