So you've heard the big news...

Hi guys,

Thanks for your congratulations and good wishes! Yep, Jack proposed to me on Sunday, it was completely out of the blue. Jamie reminded me that I caught the bouquet at their wedding… so it really works!! Watch out Gab, Kel & Cat! We plan to have a big engagement party in March 'cause that works best for us – at the same time that Kel, Chris & Sue will be spending St Pat’s day in Ireland, I hear! Do you think it's weird to announce an engagement and then not have a party for 5 months?

I’m going well in every respect – I’ve been promoted to position of editor for one of the magazines my company publishes. It’s a fairly dodgy magazine though – more like a catalogue really. But hey, I’ll learn new skills, it’ll look good on my resume and it will hopefully lead to bigger and better things! I don’t want to get too excited though ‘cause I’ve been moved around in this company so many times in the last four or so months that I can’t keep up. Every time I’m about to start on a new mag, someone quits so I take their place and someone else takes my place. And it may be a bit hard for me to do it because the last person in charge of it was full-time and I’m still only part time because of uni – plus I’m going overseas for 7 weeks just before the first issue will be published… don’t know how that’s going to work!

Jack and I are going to Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, leaving on New Year’s Eve… I can’t wait!!! I get more and more excited every day and as soon as uni’s over in a couple of weeks time – for the year, not forever! – I’ll go and get all my injections and make the final plans.

So I have one more assignment to finish before the end of semester, it’s a 15-minute radio documentary about the security industry. It’s been fun to make, hopefully some of you will get to hear it on radio once it’s finished – it might never get there though.

It’s been great to hear/see what you’ve all been doing in different parts of the globe – I’d love to see your photos, Hugh. So hopefully I’ll see lots of you at Luke and Jamie’s in one of my ’hoods on the Central Coast – they’ve recently laid new wooden floor boards to try and impress us.

It’s so cool Chris, Sue & Olly are coming down. I wonder how Olly will get on with Luke and Jamie’s new pets! Unfortunately I don’t know how long I’m going to be able to hang around that day because my assignment is due a couple of days later and I’m nowhere near finished! I’ll just have to work my arse off this weekend to make up for it.

Love to all!
Alice