16:01pm - Sydney

-at work & working hard (i.e. emailing people :-)-

Well a lot of time has passed since my last email, but you'll be glad to know that I'm still in Sydney... and I'm still none the wiser as to what my plans are... :-)

It's the middle of bloody winter here, which is less than pleasant. People are walking around in big coats, scarves and gloves... and it's a about 19degrees, which is a heat-wave by my standards. Seriously, the Aussies have an odd definition of winter. Although it has actually been raining for the past couple of days.

I'm still working (so to speak :-) at my job in BNP, although my contract will be ending in about 2-3weeks. As will the lease on the apartment here. So I pretty much have to make my mind up on my plans in the next few days or so.

Currently, my options are to stay on in Sydney (i.e. get another job and make some $$$) until Septmeber, travel a bit (possibly up the coast) in OZ while it's nice and warm again with a mate I met here at work, then go to New Zealand for a few months, then go to America if my dad is there and stay there for a while and then finallllllly head back to the U.K sometime next year, and try to work and save up some casg till University in September. Alternatively, I could leave Australia next week, go to New Zealand for a month and then somehow make my way back to the U.K for September, when Uni begins. Ahhh... decisions decisions... if only there was someone to make that decision for me... (hint, hint!) :-)

Sydney is still 'heaps' (everyone says heaps here...) of fun. Last Saturday I went to an AFL (Australian Football League) match. It was the Sydney Swans against Collingwood Magpies. It was actually really good, and I got well into it!! The Swans ended up winning by one point, and I already decided that I have a favourite player (the guy who absolutely destroys everyone else tackling... :-)

Also, my parents were here a few weeks ago, which was really nice as I hadn't seen them in about 6months. On the weekend they were here, Scott drove me and my dad up to the Blue Mountains, which was spectacular as it was such a bright, sunny day and those mountains are pretty impressive! Also I got some free meals out of it, so I was pretty chuffed ;-)

oh-oh-oh, and I also got all my Cambodia and some of Australia (haven't taken that many here...) photos developed... so I should be able to post them online soon. As soon as I make it to an internet cafe or something! So hopefully you should be able to see them soon! :-)

Anywho, I think I've probably rambled on enough now...

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Love, Kirsty

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