Brisbane Floods

As everyone knows, Queensland was hit by terrible floods that damaged many houses and infrastructure as well as disrupting lives around the region. Although much sorrow has come from this natural disaster, my work has become quite interesting as I'm now working on repairing flood damaged buildings as part of my vacation work with Bovis Lend Lease. I finish up at Bovis this week and am looking forward to an exciting semester at uni.

On a side note, my room mate from my exchange to the USA is studying at UQ this semester. I've been helping her get around with the little English she knows.

Vac Work

I've been busy these holidays doing vac work at Bovis Lend Lease in Brisbane. I'm part of a team that is calling for expressions of interest and putting to tender the preliminary infrastructure stage of a large scale 15 year staged redevelopment project. I've been having a great time learning about subcontractors, tenders and how much a steel Brisbane City Council rubbish bin costs. I've met some other undergraduates and recent graduates who also work there and it's a fun work environment.

I've just returned from Sydney, where I spent Christmas with family. While there we went to Luna Park and took my 3 cousins aged 4, 6 and 8 on various rides including the 'Wild Mouse' and Coney Island. The wild mouse is a gravity-fed roller coaster which is almost 50 years old. Coney Island was constructed in 1935 when Luna Park was first opened and hasn't changed much since. It's a 'funhouse' and has lots of old rides like giant slides, rotating barrels you walk through and moving platforms you walk across. It's great to see that these rides have been preserved!