Yea my peeps, wickedy wickedy woo and all that.
Arrived on Friday the 26th, after a flight that made me feel like I'd been squeezed into a jamjar. Luckily, had no jetlag! So I went exploring.
First thing you gotta know, this place is crazy hot. So exploring for half an hour is no small feat. And I think I went walking to the Harbour Bridge, the Opera House, all round there, and it's beautiful. Bought a harmonica.
Later, I realise that the harmonica prevented me buying myself food, but hey, at least I can express my hunger through soulful blues.
So in the next few days, I've been trying to find a room to rent, open a bank account, get a tax number and contact a guy about a job removing people's furniture.
The tax jobby was the easiest! The room to rent involves jumping on trains and going all over the city, something nigh on impossible when your wallet's empty, the guy with the job tells me he's got no work, and I've been walking miles every day to where I thought the nearest bank was, finding out banks are closed on Saturdays, and then I find a bank AT THE END OF THE ROAD NEAR MY HOSTEL. This ticked me off slightly, but I was in a good mood after going in for a job interview (Oh yeah, I'll be working on construction sites maybe. Woop! Scaffold diving, yeah.) So I walk into the bank, to find it currently short staffed. Gotta wait till tomorrow morning. With 9 dollars in my pocket, and an urge for spaghetti and meatballs I want to buy.
Once I get money, I'm gonna take my roommate out for dinner to a nearby yacht club. He took me there yesterday, and told me how he wouldn't mind eating there one day. He's great, a 22yr old German called Hendrich. And then I want to buy some kind of hifi, I'm craving music at the moment.
Anyway, that's my mini adventure from Friday to Tuesday. I'll try and keep you posted, if I remember how to get onto this blog site.
See ya!
Heya guys, today is Thursday I think. Days don't seem as important to remember anymore.
Good news, I now have money! Turns out my english bank had blocked my card, because I hadn't told them I was going away. Kinda foolish really, but worked out ok in the end.
First thing I bought was another week at the hostel, some M&Ms and Jaigermeister. Love it.
So yesterday, I tried going out in the evening, to a club I'm gonna try and join weekly. I'd looked it up on the internet, drawn maps, checked train prices, everything. So I have a really quick dinner (Mum's spaghetti and sausage meatballs, cooked to perfection) which I ate so quickly, it had no chance to cool down from the cooking, and burned my mouth like hell. Rushed shower, managed to get out and just get onto the train in time.
Got off about 15 minutes later, and looked for street signs, but nothing matched the selfmade map, copied straight from google. Went a kilometre down a road I thought was right, turned out it wasn't so headed back to the station. By now it was almost the time the session began, and I really didn't want to troup in late, so I asked the train station guard for help. He pointed me down the right road.
So, after running 2 kilometres down wrong roads, getting really scared by getting lost a couple of times, I finally give up hope. The session started half an hour ago, I was close but couldn't find the right road to go down. Heading back, I spy the road I'd missed! Sprinting down it, I headed to the correct location, to find a huge construction site.
:-l. Turns out it should have been finished last April, but no. It hadn't. So I headed back to the station, finally got home, showered, and drank my Jaiger while slowly chomping M&Ms. Not happy that night...
Last night was annoying too. My roommate, Henrich, brought a girl back. Try feigning sleep while a girl is moaning feet away from you. She sounded happy though, that's nice...
Today was more fun. With nothing to do, I went to the beach for the first time. Temperature of 31degrees, but the water's still facking freezing! So I chilled out, had a casual swim to try and relieve my aching muscles, from the night when I was running everywhere for that damn session. Didn't try surfing. Could kill someone, with the board shooting away...
And since then, I've literally come back on the train, headed to this lovely (free) internet place, and written up the continuation of my adventures. I wonder if people are still reading, haha...
I'll try an post again soon. Might cook risotto tonight. Ah, did I already mention that the wall next to my bed is now a montage of friends? Yup, I'm on the lower bunk, and near my pillow is a small collection of pics my neighbour made up for me. So I sleep at night next to my mates.
All the best, peace!
Heya fellow readers, hope all is well. Today is Sunday. Not much has been happening the last few days really. Today I went to Chinatown, it's nice there. I went because a job I'd previously turned down became more enticing. I was offered a job in this warehouse business, but to take the job I had to have all black clothing. It might be a henchman job, could be fun. But I turned it down because I didn't have all black clothing, and I thought another job was going to be offered in the near future. Well, after days of carefully spending money that wasn't getting replaced, I decided to make a small investment. I'd already bought steelcapped booties, but I went to Chinatown to buy some black trousers and t-shirts, and then phone up the company and report that I wanted to take up my previously declined role.
So after wondering around a busy market for a few hours, I finally see what I was hunting for; black combats. Yeah, gotta have the combats, those leg pockets are the best. Phoned up the company, but the woman on the other end told me to phone back Tuesday, a slight bummer to the plan but never mind.
So yeah, a future job is hopefully closer! I chilled out for a while, went to the cinema, saw a film called 'Eagle Eye' (Shia LeBouf, I love that guy). It's a pretty good film, basically 'I,Robot' but without a ripped black guy.
After the movie I slowly made my way back to the hostel. Changed my mind before I got there, decided to go to my chillout zone, a small bay. I sit on the wall overlooking the water, hearing it gently breaking metres below my feet, and watch the sunset. And then when the sun does go down, the bats come out, in their hundreds, silently clouding the skies. I sit on that wallfront, thinking, getting away from the crowds and noise of other people.
I'm starting to do this more often now. I come back from a day out, and read for a few hours. I bought a book before I came to Oz, and finished it last Friday I think. And after I finished it, I immediately went out to a bookshop round the corner, and bought four more. I bought 1984 (a book I tried reading years ago, but gave up halfway through), a guide to the rules of Samurai, The Assasination of Jesse James and The Remains of the Day. By yesterday, I'd finished the first two listed. People in my hostel go out clubbing; I stay in and read, or go out late at night to the bay and exercise on public Exersites, conveniently near to my chillzone. I'm not really in this crowd, but at least I realise that, and am living the way I choose to. I am myself :).
Speak soon, I'm gonna heat up the rest of my spaghetti and read about Jesse James. See yaaa.
Hey again. Today is Thursday. I've perked up a bit since my last post, upon the discovery of... basketball courts! Yup, the first I found was right next to the park I go to on Mondays and Saturdays, but the problem is that the court is on the top of a hill, so it's pretty windy. That annoys me. So that court will only be used rarely, when I'm going to the park anyway. But the second court, that's five minutes away! It's perfect, as from what I know it's not used that often, and it's got all the court markings and stuff. So while I'm STILL waiting for this woman to phone me about the job, I can now spend my time training for Exeter basketball practice. Seriously, when you watch my games (when I'm professional, of course) you'd better sit in at least the second or third row. Because I'm gonna slamdunk the ball so hard, the hoop won't fall down, it will literally implode. And I don't want you guys getting sucked into that mini black hole of AWESOMENESS. So heed my warning.
Yeh, so I bought a new ball, it's pretty nice. And I go down to the court, well a lot at the moment. Once the job starts, it'll just be in spare time. Not much to report on really, nothing's been happening. Oh yeah, washed my clothes yesterday. Lavender fresh, ooh yeah. Well, speak soon, stay cool. :)
Hey! Today is Friday, I know I posted yesterday but big events have happened since then.
I've made friends! Hell yeah, haha, my sociable side kicked through finally. Last night I came home from a short trip out (not to the bay), and instead of going up to my room to eat my peanut butter sandwiches, I took them downstairs and chilled out in the TV room. And watched some crap TV, made some mateys, and then watched a film, called Boondock Saints. So yeah, it didn't take much, but I just wanted a change of atmosphere, and hell, I met some fun people.
And then, in a double whammy of friendship, I made like 20 new friends playing basketball. Admittedly the oldest is eleven I think, but hey, I'm not picky. Yup, when I was playing basketball yesterday I saw a small group of kids skateboarding nearby being overlooked by a young woman. And I just left them to it then, but today I've just been playing ball again, and when I took a short break 20 of them came and took over the court, playing basketball! So I went over to the woman, kinda joked around about them taking over the court and being better than me (they weren't, no hoops imploded) and after about two hours, I was playing rugby with them all, shooting hoops, piggybacking and carrying them, it was great. So yeah, had a good day. I like watching kids having fun playing sports. And the woman was pretty cool, the kids love her. Might drop by again soon, if I don't get a job by then. I phoned up the woman who interviewed me, and sent off my CV by email, and she hadn't the foggiest who I was. But once I gently reminded her, she said she'd find out when I could start work, and to wait for a phonecall from her, telling me when I can start. So while I'm waiting, I may as well do something active. Might try and find out where the nearest gym is. I've discovered that I'm slowly becoming addicted to M&Ms, so gotta try and get over that.
I guess all it takes is a small move of sociableness, and then the rest is easy. But now I gotta remain sociable by taking a shower. Speak later, thanks for the comments guys :).
