Aussie Joy's Life

This has been the month of Cindy, my little sister.  She turned 21 the week before her wedding!  I can’t believe my little sister is all grown up. Thought I might post my ‘maid of honour’ speech along with some shots of the past couple of days worth of ‘Cindy’s events’ —————- Thanks…. What a [...]

That’s the question three of my mates are probably gonna be asking very soon… man there is nothing worse then chaffing! Andrew Carnell, his cousin Dave Carnell and Andrew Sav have just begun walking from Cairns to Stanthorpe – 2000 kilometres (1250 miles) for ‘The 2000 walk’. They are walking one kilometre to represents 2000 [...]

What an incredibly effective awareness video!

I’m really not much into politics probably because I wasn’t brought up in an environment that openly talked politics.  It’s a big issue though.  We see every election – whether in America or Australia (for me) candidates make promises and then break them by using lots of big words and complicated jargon the average joy [...]

Right now there is a great deal going on at OPTUS where you can get an Optus Wireless Broadband E1762 USB Modem for $10 a month which can be cancelled after three months.  You can then sign up for a BYO Post-Paid Virgin Broadband for great internet deals.   (OR if you already have a great [...]

I’m sitting at ‘Classic Coffee’ in the quaint city of Glendora grateful to see the June gloom clearing and the sun beginning to shine and California become all that it known for! I’ve been back  in the United States from Sierra Leone now for just a couple of days recovering from jetlag and catching up [...]

Found myself wondering why Sierra Leonean blokes were so ripped… check out this for a workout. Squats then lifting weights (bowls full of gravel or concrete) above their heads to pass to the next person… and all in sync with each other! Everything built by manual labour here. Every rock, rio and concrete is manually [...]

I’m writing tonight from the ‘Harmony Hotel’ (highly recommend this place if you ever come here. Its close to the airport, run by a honest Christian man who understands Western Culture) in Lungi, Sierra Leone. I’m lathered in mosquito repellant and have just finished watching the British tie in the World Cup against Algeria with [...]

Today I got to visit a school for the International Day of the African Child. In Soweto, South Africa, thousands of black school children took to the streets in 1976, in a march more than half a mile long, to protest the inferior quality of their education and to demand their right to be taught [...]

Today we visited Freetown, Sierra Leone to run some errands and visit the Logos Hope. Firstly I exchanged some American dollars. Things you should know about currency exchange in Sierra Leone… -          you will get more for your buck if you exchange $100 bills and they most likely wont even take a $1 bill -          [...]