Life.

Days off at the Beach :)

I feel like i am finally sorted here.

I know my way around now, i am loving my roommates and coworkers, i have a routine, and love every minute!

I did have a weak moment the other day, i think once i made the realization that i am settled here, it made me miss home a bit. Its hard with the time different. especially starting this next week...tomorrow is daylights savings, but since the seasons are flipped, it is spring FORWARD here, and fall BACK in the states, so instead of the already 15 hour time difference, now its at 17! so we'll see how that affects chatting with home.

I recently got moved up at work! this week is the overlap period though, so im doing shifts for both positions so i am working a lot. BUT one cool thing is labor day is monday and the way wages work out for holidays is double and 1/2, so it basically averages to almost 50 dollars an hour, and i get to work a double monday so i am pretty pleased with that :). its interesting, out here no one tips so you get hourly wages, and the occasional tips, so saturdays and sundays are higher hourly pay.

Oh, here are a couple pictures of my apartment, i just took them and its 1 am so sorry they are not bright! And some pictures of the girls i share my room with (middle one just moved south to melbourne :( and the last night she was here we made cupcakes!

my bed is the one on the right, while my two other roommates are obsessed with twilight, you can probably see their magazine cut outs of robert pattinton above their beds....

Me, Elena (from kent, england), and victoria (from chicago). some really amazing girls i have met here.

So living near china town has its ups. My roommate discovered this sushi place that has a computer screen at the table and you just click and order! its a bit impulsive and dangerous when you get the bill...but so cool! no waiter no huss and fuss, you see the pictures of what you want and it comes to the table right away. loooove it.

kind of a random photo but this is a french canadian that lives downstairs and landed this cool towel in bondi, this basically has all the common australian phrases!

So i have learned a few things out here that i love, and some things that i miss:

Love:

1. walking everywhere, so scenic and relaxing

2. being so in the city but 20 minutes from the beach

3. asian food wherever i turn

4. Cotton on (the most amazing shop ever)

5. I have met more people from all over the world than australians

Things I Miss:

1. when you order a machiatto here or anything else, it is NOT what you would expect, they come in shot glasses?!

2. Walking..in the rain...when you dont have a car

3. My family

4. Mexican food!!!

5. FOOTBALL

6. My best friend laura. (and everyone else too!)

soooo i send my love to texas! miss everyone!