A Trip Of A Lifetime

Ok, ok, I know… sorry I’ve left it so long to update this!!

So let me see, what’s been happening… well I’m working anyway – on reception for a security company in Waterloo, in the eastern suburbs. I’m going to be here until Christmas, and possibly a little while after that, I’m not quite sure yet. It was a bit of a let down because I just missed out on getting a well paid 3 month Project Co-Ordinator role, and also missed out on an extremely well paid 2 week job… this job isn’t great money and it’s not exactly riveting work, but it’s something and at least I can rely on having work for the next few weeks. And they’re a good bunch of people here, so that helps too. My next step is to look for some evening work, 2 or 3 evenings a week if possible – I don’t want to end up doing the long hours I was doing when I was working two jobs earlier this year!

I have a new housemate since I last wrote too, and the atmosphere in the house is loads better now. I went down to Canberra with them this weekend – it was sooo good to have a change of scenery and get out of Sydney for a couple of days. Sargon was going there for a music retailer’s 10th anniversary party on the Sunday afternoon, so me and Daniela went along as well. It was a really nice afternoon – one of the people we were talking to was particularly interesting, he was once tour manager for Status Quo (and many others I’ve forgotten!) and was friends with the Beatles for many years… lots of stories!! The day Sargon was working, Daniela and I did the touristy thing and went to the National Gallery and Parliament House before making our way back to the city for a bit of shopping. Canberra is a very odd place – it doesn’t feel like a city at all! The city centre is really much more like a town centre (and not a big town centre at that) so it’s very strange to think this is Australia’s capital.

The only other new thing I’ve done is that I signed up for a 6 week beginners yoga class… I went to the second class last night and it was noticeably tougher than last week so I have a funny feeling I’m going to hurt even more next Wednesday!!! :-)

Other than that, to be honest, I’ve been living a very quiet life!! The weather’s still very unpredictable – for example yesterday it was lovely during the day, about 23°C and sunny and then there were thunderstorms last night… where’s the summer?!! :-) My main plan now is to try to sort out what I’m doing next – I’d really like to move on from Sydney (hopefully to Perth) and I’m hoping I can get enough money together to move on at the end of January - sooner if at all possible!

I’ll add some photos to this in the next couple of days…

Miss you all loads, keep in touch xx