Day 50 of Work & Travel - Monday Fatigue

Been Coughing quite badly since yesterday, so i bought a bottle of robitussin cough syrup from my shop. 10+USD not cheap, but it seems quite effective, at least initially. cos after awhile i felt groggy and dizzy. So i did not clear customers, i change to packing stuff instead.

I felt better after lunch and was back to normal work.

Had some sort of a "gameshow" today. Our area manager conduct something like a quiz show for all of us to take part. Quite fun, it tests us on our park knowledge. And i think i'm actually not bad, but i did not have the luck to answer those qns. But it's basically a fun experience. I think i was creating fun there too. :P Oh i must mention that i was taking part in this gameshow during my office hrs, so i get paid to play!!! YEah!!

After work i went to the rec hall, it's been a while since i got the chance to play some sports. I started off with some basketball and volleyball. Fortunately i had some players from my team which i play the league vball with around to play with me. :) had quite a good time playing sprts, sweat alot. And I'm really aching all over now. :P

Day 49 of Work & Travel - Boring Sunday

Today's kindda even more boring than yesterday. In fact, i was feeling quite tired still. Think i'm falling sick too. Tired singing today, but din have energy to carry on for along time.

Started coughing today, think that's making me tired too. zzzzzzzzz

Day 48 of Work & Travel - Singing Saturday

Still super tired today, still haven really recovered from my fatigue. And to counter that, I started SINGING!! hahaa. yah, i've been singing like non-stop from i start till i stop. But it seems no one hates my singing, some liked it in fact. The only prob was that i couldnt remember lyrics. So i had to cut my songs short. hahaa... But it was really fun to sing and sing.

Day 47 of Work & Travel - Super Tired Day

Haven slept much since coming back from mount rushmore. It was really a great experience going on a road trip with a bunch of frens. :) but the aftermath is to be very very zombified when i got back immediately to work.

I got back only like 6plus this morning. Had breakfast at the EDR and came back to rot until it's time to go to work. Only took a short nap before going to work at 2pm. Super stone when working today. Just float around, din really do much of work. :P

Day 42 of Work & Travel - Work & planning

Woke up really late today, 12pm but i only start work at 2pm. Spent most of the time awake before work trying to find out info about the trip to mount rushmore. But the lousy internet connection is really giving me very little info.

Work today was not too bad, been folding a lot of tshirts again. Also did some stocking. My ankle is much better now, such that I can move around much faster already. But sometimes the ankle still aches.

Been checking up on the trip ever since coming back fm work. Still the internet sucks. I'm pretty nervous now, cos tml we'll be leaving for Mt Rushmore already. It's so scary to not have a full plan of wat to do and where to go, yet at the same time it's so exciting. :P

Day 41 of Work & Travel - Work & Play

Work today is not really very exciting, kindda drained at work also. But i managed to scrape thru the day happily. :) I still managed to enjoy my day at work by having fun with my co-workers and my customers. It's great to be working in an environment where everyone, including the workers are just looking for a good time. :)

Wanted to go for volleyball after work, but there was no one at the courts when i reached there. quite disappointed about that, but i met 2 frens from china there shooting some hoops so i joined in. I seriously think my shooting is better than the both of them. hahaa. 3 of us went to the pub together for pizza, it's only 12USD for a large pizza with pepperoni and mushrooms. It's good and cheap.

Went to hang around with some ecuadoreans after the pizza. They are really fun and frenly. Had a few beers with them and they tried to teach me how to salsa. I'm relaly keen to learn but my feet and hips are just not listening to my mind. :P But it was really fun and nice. :)

Day 40 of Work & Travel - Cody PowWoW

This morning i went on a trip with the recreation hall to Cody. There's an event known as a Pow Wow, it's like a carnival where native americans get together to dress-up in their traditional costumes and show off their products, dances and such. It's really vibrant and there's lots of ppl around that area where they held the Pow Wow. My camera is not really working well today, which made me rather sad about that, the white parallel lines are back and it seems to be worsening. I'm going to try to reduce the use of it.

The Pow Wow was actually quite nice, i wanted to see the dancing competitions, but we had to leave early cos the rec hall peeps as to be back in old faithful for dinner. :P so we only manage to catch the Grand Opening and glimpses of the competitions for kids. :P

We had a quick stop at the Walmart in Cody, I knew what i need to get and i headed straight for the section where i could find my stuff. I picked up a 250gb portable harddisk and a 2gb mp3player for only 180USD, which i found quite worthed it. :)

I had a quick dinner once i got back to old faithful, cos i was preparing to drive to a rodeo west yellowstone just outside west yellowstone. I had a bunch of passengers along with me too. All of us are new to rodeo, but it really looks quite exciting. There were bucking horses, bucking buffaloes which the cowboys had to try to stay on and gain points for time and posture. There was breakaway where the cowboys/gals will try to lasso a runaway calve in the shortest time possible. there are also events which involves the kids from the audience, they had to chase after a calve to grab a red ribbon tied on it's tail. Really fun to see them running around. And all the kids are given a dollar for their effort, the winner get xtra food vouchers from some restaurant. quite exciting. Had to pay 10USD to watch the rodeo, and i think that's money well spent.

really tired when i got back, but i'm still ok. Just love to see everyone having fun. :)

Day 39 of Work & Travel - Shirts Day

Really tired today when i start work. Only came back after midnite yesterday and i had to open today. I gave myself a huge task today. I'm going to refold ALL the tshirt in ALL shelves so that they will look neat and uniformed. And that's what i did the whole day, standing in one corner getting all the shirts and folding them nicely and putting them back into the shelves. I think a did a great job today, but the best part is that, at the end of the day, i dun have much excess cash to count in my register!! hehee..

I was so tired today, i fell asleep the moment i got back to my room. Only woke up in the night, then i went to terrence's room for fun and got to know 2 taiwanese gals, they were funny ppl. but the funniest part was they tot i was speaking chinese like a chinaman and looked like a korean. :P

chatted around for a while and i'm going to sleep.. still so tired!!!

Day 38 of Work & Travel - Bozeman Day

Took a super long trip to bozeman today. Woke up early for breakfast with the rest of the people who are going with me. I took 7 passengers for this trip. That's the maximum capacity of my car. 3 in front, 3 in the middle and 2 in the trunk seats. Quite cool to have so many people travelling together. This huge capcity crowd is made up of zing, dawn, puiee, louise, kailun, slyvia, diana and myself. This is pretty much a shopping and entertainment trip to bozeman.

We left Old faithful at about 830am. Our first stop was in west yellowstone, i planned to stop for just a while over here but the shoppers were just too passionate about their jobs and went on to extend their shopping hrs. We went to quite a few good shops there, so expectedly they had moreand better things to entice them to shop. We only left west yellowstone around 1145am.

The drive to Bozeman was pretty easy, although this is my first time driving to bozeman, i remembered most of the landmarks when dorothy took me there and that made my driving pretty smooth. It took me slightly more than an hr to reach bozeman from west yellowstone. The view slong the way was pretty nice, very different from the last time cos it was hailing and snowing the last time i went to bozema, now it's all bright and sunny.

1st thing to do in bozeman is to look for a place for lunch, i did some research on my own the night before for food places in bozeman. I'm glad i did that little research cos i was recommending them to try out this Jap restaurant there, Watanabe. It had several good reviews on it's food quality and service. Most of the gang were really keen on having that after so many weeks of repetitive EDR food, except slyvia & diana. They are from ecuador and had never tried japanese food before, so they kindda afraid. But after looking at the menu i managed to convince them that the jap food will be edible to them too.

This lunch was really good, I liked my teriyaki beef loads, the portion was big enough to fill me. Sylvia and Diana have pretty much lifted their fear of the jap food and turned to like it instead. The rest also also blissfully contented with their meal. I'm really glad to see everyone with their looks of fulfillment after the meal, that makes me feel so proud. :p

It was time to start the shopping, stop no.1 Ross. zing, dawn, puiee, louise & kailun got off and started with their shopping. I drove Slyvia and Diana to another mall where they could catch a movie, Kungfu Panda. I dropped them off and went to find the camera repair shop for my camera. It was not hard to find thanks to my limited research. They did a quick check on my camera and told me they will have to order the spare part for my camera. So i'll have to come down some other time to have it fix. But thankfully it can be fixed.

I went back to the Ross and Terget area, i went straight to target to get myself a new pair of track shoes, 30USD for a pair of Champion shoes. I meediately changed and put on the new pair and threw my old pair of brroks away cos my brook are really old anf flat already. And i feel GOOD in a new pair of shoes!! :)

I couldnt find any of the gals initially anywhere, when i finally spotted them i realised they had been ross all the time. They have been trying on dress after dress, shirt after shirt, really scary. especially when i saw the pile of clothes and the multiple bags they ended up with. This is only the first stop for their shopping. By the time they were done at Ross it was almost 6pm already.

I took them to another place nearby called old navy before going to the mall to pick up sylvia and diana after their movie. I really like driving around in the car and i really think i'm very familiar with the area already. hahaa.. When i returned to old navy again, i tried to shop around a little too, wanted to buy a few bermudas cos they were on offer, but sadly, those designs i liked did not have my sizes and thos that are my sizes did not have any design i liked. However this is not cos i was too fat now, i realised i dropped back to 36in waist since getting here, but they somehow did not have much 36in bermudas, there are lots of 38 and 40in though. :P

Initially, i tot we would be going to walmart next for our final stop, but the sg gals saw a plastic bag from the ecuadorean gals which says "Aeropostale" and they got so exciting. So i took them to the mall which the shop was at, and did a little more shopping there before going to Walmart. These gals can forego dinner for the sake of shopping. :P

Walmart was pretty quick for them, cos most of them were kindda tired already, but i had to buy some stuff for other ppl as well, so i took awhile exploring the place. But i was done pretty fast too.

It was straight back home after that. almost 3 hrs drive back to old faithful, not much problems, just had a fox running past the car and i reach home safely with the car really really fully packed. :P

This is pretty much a shopping trip and i'm glad everyone was really happy at the end of the day. Perhaps i really should think about being a tour guide. :)

Day 37 of Work & Travel - GAD Day #3

Work today is pretty crazy, almost had no time off from the cashier. Been ringing up sales from the moment i got in to the moment i got off and i actually broke my previous record of sales, this time i hit 4.5K in sales. OMG!! So damn tiring and draining.

Went to play some volleyball after work. Not bad, did not start off too good, but got some pro players came along to make the game more exciting. Tried jumping a little, not much strength in my ankle yet. sobzZ.

Off tml, will be going down to bozeman, mainly to fix my camera and to do some shopping.

Day 36 of Work & Travel - Tiring Day

Super long day at work today, cos boss wanted me to stay back and help setup for tml's GAD day. GAD (Guest Appreciation Day) is a day where there are $5 stuff going on sale. I think i've already said that before, but doesnt matter if i say it again.

This was the faster setup of the GAD stuff ever, i think that cos i was doing it. hahaa.. but now, i'm tired.. need to get some sleep.. zzzzzzzzzzzz

Day 35 of Work & Travel - Big Decision Day

Today is just another monday at work, working on mondays feels kindda weird after 2 days of off. Gotta switch back to working mode, but it was good. My ankle felt much better already and i was able to walk much faster and also go up and down the stairs with much ease.

I made a pretty big decision today, cause i decided to take a road trip to MOUNT RUSHMORE next week. Yeah, there will be a few of us in the car next. I really want to go on this trip, see mount rushmore. WOAH!!! so excited now!! haha..

But at this point of time i only have a destination, there's no idea how to get there yet. hahaa. but i'm confident i'll find something. :P

Day 34 of Work & Travel - Fairy Falls

Slept thru most of today as well, just felt really really tired. Din feel like waking up at all, so i slept thru all the way. Thru mornig, thru breakfast, thru lunch. Only woke up just before it was time to go hiking.

It's fairy falls today, drove to the start of fairy falls trail. That really shortened the trail a lot, perhaps alittle too much. It took us less than an hr to reach the falls from our car. And the hike there was pretty easy, not much up or down hill. Not that i'm complaining, cos my ankle hasnt recovered to 100% yet.

There were 7 of us on this trip, Shawn & Lorraine,Dawn & Puiee, Su & BSZ and me. highest capacity in the car so far, but we could still take one more. Shawn was the driver this time. I still like driving more then being a passenger.

The view of fairy falls is really very pretty, much better than wat we had at mystic falls. It was a really steep cliff and the water fell from quite a height. There were a few marmots running around and climbing up the cliffs, they are fantastic rock climbers!!

We took quite a few nice pictures there, luckily most of the photos in my camera turned out quite ok. Some of them had horizontal parallel lines in them making it look like being seen thru a fence. i'm going down bozeman soon to get my camera fixed if possible. :p

We had xtra time on our hands so we went back to the car and proceeded to midway geyser basin next. It was and even shorter walk, 20mins and we are done. There was this spring there called the Grand Prismatic Spring. REALLY huge, but to really enjoy the full view of it, you gotta take a helicopter to see it totally. But we dun have that luxury, i tried going up a hill to have a better view but it wasnt much better. Still slightly better than on flat ground though. :P

Super tired, today actually, sweat quite a bit but it was not that tough. Perhaps it because the temperature is rising already. Summer is really here, lots of flies and mosquitoes and other bugs are starting to appear.

But as the sun sets and the temperature drops, the insect disappeared. I'm starting to love the cold instead. :P

Day 33 of Work & Travel - LoneStar Geyser

I slept thru the bulk of the day cos last nite's dancing and staying up really tired me out. And i'm glad i had the day off to sleep in. :) It was a much need sleep after a few days of lack of it.

The first thing i did after waking up was to take some photos of MY car!! :) It's a a 1992, Ford Taurus. It's a really good car and i realise i can legally take up to 8 ppl in the car, how cool is that?

Din really have much of plan about where to go initially, was suppose to go somewhere with annie, but it seems she left without me. but the day has not ended yet. I went for dinner and met Lorraine and Su there, and we decided to take a hike to LoneStar geyser. It turned out to be a great trip.

The hike was easy, mostly flat ground all the way with huge and obvious paths to walk on, so we wouldnt get lost. It's a cool forest trail to walk on and when we finally reach our destination, it only took us like an hour of leisure pace walking. But that's not the greatest part, the greatest part is that we were kindda just in time for the next geyser eruption. The eruption was fantastic, it was not as tall as the old faithful but the jet is very clear and strong, looks simply majestic and it went on for about 20mins before toning down. We took loads of pictures there, but i did not use my camera cos it's kindda injured from last nite. I lost the small metal piece which protects my lens. :P

OK, back to the lonestar, the geyser is really quite cool. From one side of the cone, it kindda looks like an old man. See the pics below, these 2 are not in fotopic, check out fotopic for other photos we took there. :)

Day 32 of Work & Travel - Friday 13th!!

It's been a very eventful day. but the start of the day was kindda torturous for me cos i was so so tired. Only slept a few hours yesterday before going to work. Really felt so so tired today, could make myself active and greet people or entertain people. But i was happy that i managed to scrape thru the shift. i did not do much sales today, was folding shirts and stocking stuff most of the time, so when i checked out, it was really easy and fast.

After work, i went on a short hike with some frens, annie, chino, allison & su. Annie is our RC (Resident coordinator), she needs to get to work at night i nour dorm, so we did short hikes. Really short ones. We went to Keplar Cascades. I've been here before sometime back when Mike drove some of us around, but this time we did not stay at the viewing gallery. We climb down to the bottom to see the falls even closer. It was quite cool. :) we took a few pictures there before climbing back up. The Climb was short but quite tiring, cos very steep and it was kindda like rock climbing already.

Went back to the dorm and got ready for a PARTY!! There's a PJ party going on at the pub, and i decided to go crash it!! The music was crap in the beginning, cos they were playing western music. I think i'm not the only to feel weird trying to dance to it, just doesnt click at all. But soon the DJ realised change is required and on came the familiar dance mixes. And fun started!! Anyway the DJ is my BIG BIG boss, hahaa.

That was basically my first time dancing in a pub, had quite a few beers but it was fun. I was alittle uptight at first, but as the beers add on, i convinced myself to let loose and that was fun. I also took my camera and went around snapping photos with whoever i knew. Danced with many frens, both guys and gals. I also made my boss mike buy me several drinks. I think in total i had like 10 beers, and i think i'm still ok. :P

The photos are up at fotopic check them out. You will notice my face is like super super red.

Day 31 of Work & Travel - Parkwide Volleyball

Started work early today so that i would have time to rest a bit before going down to mammoth. somethine pretty eerie happened in the morning when i just got onto my register. I was talking to my fren for a while, den i hear a sudden click, i turn and looked at my cash register's monitor and i saw "8" being keyed in. No one else was around. Scary. The rest of the day was pretty boring, nothing much happened and morning's are always very slow.

I drove to mammoth for the Parkwide volleyball tournament. It was a pretty long drive, look me almost 1.5hrs to get to mammoth. First time driving out of Old Faithful and first time on mountain roads, it was quite fun, but gets boring after a while cos there was no music in my car, it only had a cassette player which kindda sucks. There was no audio input as well. Double sucks!! But it's okay, we got there safely and without getting lost.

There were 5 of us going there together as a team, not the same team as the one i play with last week. These guys are better, much better. We actually thought we had a chance of winning something, but i thought wrong, there were really strong teams around. Good thing we are in as champions of Old Faithful, so we dun have to meet any strong teams in the first round, we got thru to second round which is also the semi-finals and we lost!! But at least we lost to the eventual champions so i'm not too sad about that. And they were really good, we had no chance at all, they are college players from columbia, super zai.



We had pizza and nachos at the employees' pub at mammoth, that place looks like a cooler place to chillout compared to the pub in old faithful. Nice place. The drive back to Old Faithful was pretty exciting, cos the WHOLE journey was pitch black. There were no street lamps at all, the only light were head-on traffic which did not turn down their high beams when passing, ASSHOLES!!! I almost knocked over an animal if the car on the other side did not flash me to hint me to slow down. It was like a racoon or something crossing the road, dumb animal!! Got back to old faithful around 1am in the morning, very fun day of volleyball. :)

Day 30 of Work & Travel - Test Drive

Woke up really late for work today, but it was still ok cos i was within the 2 hrs limit but just barely only. But i did have a chat with the manager cos of that, he reminded me that after 3 official warnings i'll be GONE!! But luckily this is not a warning yet. Phew....

Went to pick up the car from Lorraine today, had a short drive from her side to mine. It was pretty ok. But going down to mammoth tml will be the challenge.

Day 29 of Work & Travel - Off to Bozeman

Asked for off today so that i could go Bozeman. Actually there's really nothing much for me to do there. But i'm quite glad i came. Dorothy our co-worker drove me, su and her boyfriend, Bian Shang Zhi to Bozeman. Dorothy is very nice, it is her off day, she had almost no purpose in Bozeman but she offered to take us there on a trip anyway.

We had hail coming down on us when we reached Bozeman, luckily it ended pretty soon or else it would have been a really bad weather to be in. We only had one simple aim when we reached Bozeman. Look for Ross, a shop that sells branded stuff cheaply. After wandering around for a while, we finally found it. That was not before we went to Sears for lunch. There was a foodcourt there and it has chinese food, so i had that for lunch. Pretty good. :)

Ross was tough to find, but when we got there, we had a good time looking for stuff we would wanna buy. Most of the stuff there are branded and cheap, the only downside was a lack of selection. I got myself 2 pairs of NIKE shorts, wanted to get a pair of shoes too, but the design i wanted did not have my size and none of those shoes my size are anything close to what i want.

There was a Target store next to the Ross store, and we went there next. More shopping and i bought a Spalding volleyball, an air pump and some snacks. Target is a better store than Walmart is you ar elooking for brands, walmart has really cheap prices but there's no famous brands on sale or something. They had a whole beach volleyball court set on sale, and only 45USD. I was so tempted to get it. :p



We made our way back after that, it was quite an exciting way back. First we reallyed we had a punctured tire and had to change it at a mechanic shop nearby. As we made our way to west Yellowstone, there was snow, rain and hail. We also saw lots of bisons along the way which was pretty awesome. It's either seeing them in herds or seeing them really close to the car.



We had dinner dinner at west yellowstone, ate in a chinese restaurant cos dorothy said she liked it. And her favourite was egg drop soup, which is bascially "dan hua tang" to us. but she liked it. We ordered a few other dishes as well, and it was not expensive. We treated her to dinner after she had spend the day bring us all the way to Bozeman.



I had a great day.

Day 28 of Work & Travel - Car ARRIVEs!!

I woke up really early today, had breakfast for the first time in a long while. Even after taking almost an hour for my breakfast, it's still too early for work, but wth, I still went to clock in and start my shift. Business started off really slow today, perhaps it's monday, and i think most people are rushing to get out on hikes cos today's weather is quite good. traffic picked up as the day wears on, but there were too many of us around, and i mainly hopped from one register to another just to help pack stuff. I did not do much cashing at all, so i had plenty of change and kindda became the money changer to everyone.

highlight of the day is basically shawn coming back with our CAR!! I have a car here in yellowstone. It was late at night therefore i did not take any pictures. I'll take some photos of it when it's daylight. It's a big car for a cheap price, I piad 700USD upfront and i'd likely get most of it back when they sell it before going back to singapore. I'm happy about it. :)

Day 27 of Work & Travel - Off finally.

I slept through most of my day. I only woke up at 12 just to go for lunch. I met Corina, one of my assistant managers. She's really nice at work, and i had a long chat with her at lunch today. She wants to work on a cruise ship, disney one to be exact. So exciting. Dorothy, one of my co-workers who's around 80, joined us for lunch and i had a long chat with her too. I asked her everything about her life living in a farm. She used to live in a farm long ago and she had cows, pigs, chickens and many other crops. So they were pretty much self-sustained. I kindda envied that sort of life, she also found that period of her life a very enjoyable one.

After a very long lunch, I went to find the personnel manager to get a transit room for dear. The room situation is somewhat settle, but also somewat unconfirmed. Cos it seems that she could promise rooms only for now, and if some emplyee comes along and needs the room the room for themselves. It might be taken away from me. And i'll have to find some other way out. Getting a room from the hotel may seem the next possible course of action but July is really the PEAK period, so rooms are likely to be lacking by the time they tell me the transit room is not available. And they are not cheap(dear, check www.travelyellowstone.com for rates). The last option is to talk to my room mate and see if he could move to someone else's room for a few days for us, seriously last option. But currently the situation will be, i have the transit room from 18-21st jul. I'll check with them again at the end of the month when they could possibly give me a more confirmed answer.

After dinner i when to the rec hall to see if there's volleyball for me to play. But, there was a church service going on so i couldnt play volleyball. they would only be done at 9pm, so i felt kindda dejected and came back to my room. Internet connection totally sucks during this time of the day when everyone else is also trying to get online.

However i did check on the availability of hotel rooms before coming back to my room. And it looks very bad for me, cos the period when dear will be here is TOTALLY fully booked. So there's not much of an option left for me. I'm kindda depressed about that. I really want her to be able to spend as much time as she can with me over here.

Day 26 of Work & Travel - Snowy Day 2

The snow did not stop today. It kept piling up since morning. Worked late today again, it's my 6th day of the week and i'm kindda feeling tired. Especially with the past few days standing at the cashier the WHOLE day really made my right heel very sore. So yah, there's more sore than pain in my ankle today. But I did much more walking around today, I did some stocking, fold shirts for most of the day, swept the floor too.

I'm happied i did different things to standing at the cashier, cos that meant i had less $$ to count at the end of the day and i was right. I was the last cashier to close the counter, but i was first to finish my counting and paperwork for the night. hehe.

After work me and allison had craving for fresh pizza from the oven since yesterday. That's cos i took and ate a slice from Annie, one of our RCs yesterday. And so we decided to go get one ourselves. 2 Equadoran guys, davin & chino came back to the dorm as we were going off, so i got them to come along. So 4 of us went to the pub together. Allison is jewish, so she doesnt take pork and not beef & dairy product at the same time. So i order the pizza with only pepperoni on 3/4 of the pizza. Chino & Davin are really cool ppl, they are fantastic drinkers, cos beer is cheaper than water where they come from.

Day 25 of Work & Travel - Snowing Again

It's been 3 day since i sprained my ankle. I think it getting much better already. Can walk abit faster, as long as i dun twist my ankle when i walk or stand it's pretty much ok. But I believe it will still be a few day before i get back to running and jumping.

Worked a late shift today, so i woke up quite late. I finally have the confirm dates which dear is coming over to find me. I tried to find the personnel manager to arrange for a room for her to stay, but jenny the personnel manager seems to be playing hide and seek with me. Always couldnt find her when i need her. :P

And today, it started snowing again. It was just hail in the morning. Then it became snow and that lasted almost the whole afternoon. The whole place is covered in white snow again. very beautiful, but that means all the hiking trails will be covered again. Not good for hiking. :P

Took a few pictures in the snow this time. Check it out.

Day 24 of Work & Travel - Limping Victor

Called dear today before going to work, ask her to go visit my mum cos she was in the hospital a few days ago. So i'm wondering how is she doing.

Started worked early today. I was allowed to stay at the cashier position the whole day again. But i tried to walk around and do stuff whenever i can. I think my ankle is really feeling better today. Wearing the higher cut hiking shoes help by keeping my ankles steady and not twist any further. I suspect there could be some hairline fractures, but it shld be fine, think it's healing already.

Ended work quite early today, 2plus and i'm back in my room. I din know why i suddenly felt really tired and i fell asleep. I slept past my dinner time and i had to go to for the volleyball 3on3 tournament. So yah, i skipped dinner and had a huge snickers bar for dinner. :) The volleyball tournament was not very exciting. I won, with a team of people who i'm not familiar with and are definitely weaker than our opponents. I pretty much killed off the opponents with serves, i couldnt jump, couldnt dive. All i could do was receive and serve, which happened to be enough to win. And so i'll be going down to mammoth next thursday for the parkwide competition. I hope the opponents are just as bad. :p

Day 23 of Work & Travel - Immobilisation

After having my ankle sprained, my movements have been pretty much impaired and inconvenient. I still went to work today at 10am, but i requested to stay and the cashier the whole day and not move around stacking or stocking. However, i realised, just standing there is not easy too. There's constant pressure on my ankle, and the swell can be felt thru my shoes. i've been limping around the whole day, and that's such a sucky feeling. I hate this disabled feeling yet the pain is so intense that i cant ignore!!

I tried to play a little volleyball today after work, limp around the court as well, but i think that's enough for tml. tml will be the 3 on 3 tournament, i really hope my ankle kindda heals tremendously overnite, so i can play well tml.

I've finally uploaded some of my pictures for the past few days, check it out.

Day 22 of Work & Travel - Birthday!

It's my birthday today. And i'm really happy. I think i'm partially high now as i'm typing this blog, but i think i'm alrite.

I started off the day just like any other day, missing my breakfast. Work was as per normal, it seems no one remembers it was my birthday. We had this retail product info session today, and that's when i reminded people that it was my birthday. And i started going ard the rest of the day, telling my co-workers that it's my birthday and we shld all go to the pub together.

It was really an awesome time at the pub, cos many of my co-workers turned up. And i was really glad i had company on my birthday. I appreciated it LOTs!! I had a couple of drinks there, free one of cos, cos i was making people buy me drinks. But it's ok, i'm think i'm still sober enough. I took loads of photos at the pub, it was really fun there. I've got my 1st birthday card in the US too!!

I also attended a sports league meeting today, and i'm planning and trying to get a volleyball team up for the volleyball league. I hope there's response for the sign-up form i put up. :)

I sprained my ankle on the way back from the pub. It's not too bad for now, but i know it's surely going to swell like hell tml!! AARRrrrggghhhh. What a 26th birthday for me!!??

Day 21 of Work & Travel - Back to work

Back to work again after a weekend off, it was really good to have rested the whole of yesterday. But i still did not wake up in time for breakfast. I had to even drag myself up and out for lunch. I was really tempted to skip lunch too, but i was hungry. Talked to dear online, and on the phone yesterday. Finally talked to her in a while. She sounds so sad and stressed with her work. Poor thing. I wish i could have been there for her.

I sent something to her today, hoping it will make her feel better. Although i totally dunno how long it will take to reach her. And i seriously hope it does reach her. I know she will like it when she sees it. :)

Went to the general store today. But not to buy anything, just went there to change a raincoat i bought 2 days back before going up the Tetons, from another general store. I accidentally bought the kids sized one. So I got it changed for an adult sized one. Lucky for me i did not have to use it during the hike at tetons, otherwise it would be rather embarassing.

Worked till close today, nothing very significant happened at work today. Felt rather lethargic at work today, but i think i still brought certain level of entertainment to everyone, which is good. I'm glad these americans get my lame jokes.. hahaa.

Day 20 of Work & Travel - Sleep In

Wanted to go on the bus tours today initially, but my legs and back are just too tired to get out of bed in the morning. So i slept pretty much the whole day.