With Steve Irwin attire necessary for my new job, and nowhere on the island to get such a thing, it was inevitable that I was going to have to make the $32 round trip ferry ride over to Townsville sometime this week. And today was the day! Having looked up the nearest art supplies store, and knowing exactly where to go for my groceries, I was prepared for a long and heart-breakingly expensive day of shopping.
Lucky for me, I had made a new friend two nights before. Jacob, who is a Townsville native that had previously gone to college in Iowa. He targeted me because of my American accent, and we got along right away. He had offered to drive me around Townsville to do all of my shopping, and surprisingly, that is exactly what he did. He picked me up from the ferry terminal, took me to the art store, multiple work clothes places (that had nothing that would even remotely fit me), and then stores that I managed to at least find SOMETHING that would get me through the first week. I was impressed. Considering we were practically strangers, and he was driving a girl around shopping all morning, he was incredibly patient and really quite helpful. After a lunch break, and a few more stops, we had to go pick his sister Jasmine up from school. I ended up going back to their house to hangout for awhile before heading back to the ferry terminal with all of my stuff. After meeting their dad and the 4 dogs, throwing the football around a bit, and talking sports, it has already been established that this may be my new adoptive family. I mean, I did get invited to come over for Christmas within the first 10 minutes, if that says anything at all about how well we all got along.
With hundreds of dollars worth of art supplies, work clothes, and an overwhelming amount of groceries, I looked completely ridiculous waddling onto the ferry with my hoard of stuff. But I am ready and excited (and a little bit nervous) to make my move into my new and permanent home tomorrow! Goodbyyyyye hostel living!!
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