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Published: January 20th 2008
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Hey you's!!
Sorry not been updating my blog recently....I am alive!!!! Just been busy and not had much time to get on the net and update this thing really!
Don't know where to start with the update as has been so long!! So gonna try and do it in sections...
HOUSE
Yep, after all the stress of trying to find a place, finally found somewhere!! It is a place called Rose Bay on the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney...and its a really nice area! We get the strangest looks when people ask us where we live and we say Rose Bay...not renowned for having backpackers there and suppose to be very upper class...Ozzies call it 'Nose Bay' as people are up their own arses!! Ha, classy birds us see!!!
It is a nice place though...we all have a room each which is great! Felt wierd sleeping on our own again for the first few nights as had spent so much time together in the one room...had to leave our doors open so could talk to each other still, and many a night someone would get lonely (or see a spider) and creep into someone elses room! hehe,
gaylords aren't we!!! What will we be like when this is over and we really are on our own again! EEk!!
Like living in this area too as feels really Ozzie...walk out of our apartment and the first thing you see is the Harbour on the other side of the road! It's lovely! We even had Sting chilling in our harbour for a week over xmas! woohoo!! Tried to crash his boat party but he was having none of it! And we can get a ferry to the city centre which is even better!
So all good on the house front...well semi! Only down side is about 2 weeks after moving in, a whole load of builders showed up! Turns out the building about a metre away from my bedroom window was being demolished (along with 2 others next to it!)...oh my god, they were sooooo loud....Ste, you can vouch for me on this one! The whole building shock, if I left my window open rubble would fall into it! And the builders would stand outside my window chatting and shouting at each other...I know them all by first name now!! And you will have heard bout how
The Killers
Boring Ozzies though...most of them were sat down half the night... laid back the Ozzies are...no lie!!! I could have pulled the building down quicker...all went down brick by brick!! 7am every morning including the weekends!!! AHhhhhhhh!!!! But one good thing has come from it...the building are now down and I have a harbour view! woohoo!!!
JOB
Ha, the job situation is defo something to laugh about in the future! Started with a job promoting a hairdressers in the street, getting people to hand over money there and then for some kinda package! All cash in hand and totally commission based! And it was run by a bunch of arrogant muppets! Should have seen the signs as I got the job without showing for the interview - Sar and Nik went and i was given the job also on the condition that I looked just liked them too - in other words pretty and not fat!! Perverts!! We lasted a whole 2 days...and I made a whole $40 (not even 20 quid) which was more than Nik and Sar made, bless them!
Then got a job for a promotion company called CSMG...promoting a bank called Bankwest! They are actually owned by HBOS...thought I would never work for them
robbing bastards, but hey it's that or go home!! So thats how I came to stand in a bright orange t-shirt, on a kiosk in a shopping centre in Bondi Junction for the rest of my time in Sydney! It's an easy job but soooo tediuos and mind numbing!! Work for 9 hours a day trying to get people to enter a competition and walk into the bank...easy as not actually selling anything! And me, Nik and Sar are all working together...most days it will be just us 3 on together (and theres no managers around to keep an eye on you...although I have been caught slooching a few times when they've come for a sneaky spy!Opps!), so it can be a laugh! and met 2 other wicked girls both called Michelle (no excuses for forgetting their names hey!) who will prob be in touch with for ever now!
Only prob with this job is never got the hours that we were promised! Took it as a full time job, but hours changed every week! So although working nearly everyday, they were pooky 4 hr shifts that weren't worth getting outta bed for! But no choice when rent to
St Kildas in Melbourne
Doesn;t it remind you of Brid Spa!! hehe! pay! The whole thing is coming to an end in 3 weeks now and I can't wait!!!!! No more orange t-shirt crew!!! woohooo!!! And no more working on a weekend (least i hope!)...felt like we were 16 again! It's the type of job we would've doen when we were 16 - or maybe not even then - and was wierd having to work on a weekend again! But half the fun of it all that the job was so stupid and something we would never dream of doing back in England! And it was good money compared to other jobs!
Hmmmm....running out of time again, so gonna upload my pics as that kinda lets you know what I've been up to, then will fill in the rest of the text when get chance!
Hope your all well!
Miss you's!!!
xxx
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