g'day all! it's been a while since I posted a nicely detailed update. well after 2 months of being unemployed there hasn't been a whole heck of a lot happening in my life. let's see what I can come up with...

the apartment

our place is now fully occupied by myself, emma, linda and we have a new roomate named soff. he's algerian and he works at em's boyfriend's store. he was looking for a new place and it so happened we were looking for a new roomie since linda is leaving soon. he works the night shift so we don't see him that much as he sleeps during the day. living with a guy is weird after the apartment being all girl for quite a while. so he moved into the big room that me and lindy were sharing. us girls have moved into the smaller room that em previously occupied and it gets pretty squishy and messy at times. we still don't have beds but I am hoping to get a job soon and I will invest in a good bed. I can't take sleeping on the floor for much longer! as for the cockroach situation, mr. flick came again after we complained. I don't think he did much as we still see the odd bug now and then but it isn't nearly as bad as when we first moved in. I think they have all resorted to hiding behind the fridge and other appliances. have I mentioned we now have a coffee table, a clothes washer and even a 2nd fridge!? we are living in the lap of luxury now! from rags to riches!! haha okay I'm getting too ahead of myself.

the job

well there isn't a job yet. em's parents arrived this morning and will be spending the next month here in oz so I will be unemployed and on my own as em plays tourist and takes them around sydney. so with no one to be lazy and unproductive with, I have started looking for employment once again. I have an interview with a company next thursday. the job is basically being a sample girl. you know that girl standing in the frozen food aisle, tempting you with some sort of microwave oven baked goodie? yup, that'll be me if all goes well. I really wouldn't mind doing that as I could bide my time by swiping a few bites or even taking some home with me at the end of the day! oh what fun times that job would bring! I even wouldn't mind being a mascot...look at me I'm a talking block of cheese!! try some chedder!! hahaha...

the social life

not alot to talk about here either. actually I have more of a social life than I did when we were living at spank's (frank's) place. I guess I haven't told the story of how emma met her current boyfriend soff...
one night back in mid-december emma went out to get some tally ho's (cigarette papers). she went into a convenience store but they didn't have any. she met up with me in IGA where I was buying some garlic bread and instant noodles and told me she would meet me at home later cuz she really needed to find some tally ho's. anyway I got home and waited...and waited. she had not returned and I was getting worried. when she got home about an hour later she proceeded to tell me the story of how she went into the convenience store and the guy couldn't find any tally ho's. but after she met me at IGA and was walking back, the convenience store guy waved her down and told her he had found the tally ho's! she told him that was not good customer service and had a little chat about needing a job etc. etc. she came back to let me know she hadn't been kidnapped and she was just coming in to get a jacket because it was chilly out and she was going back to the store! anyway, she ended up staying out until 9 the next morning just talking and even went to watch the sunrise at bondi beach with soff. aw if that isn't romantic I don't know what is!!! and from then on they have seen eachother almost every day. this story ties into my social life...it does..really. so soff has this friend named nabil (I know weird names, they're both from algeria) and we all hang out together. but don't worry he is not my boyfriend, he just wants to marry me. haha JUST KIDDING MOM! or am I? hahaha TNO! we had them over for christmas dinner which soff actually paid for and they even took us to the taronga zoo. they're great guys and they take really good care of us. I'm actually learning alot about muslim culture too as nabil is very much into his religion. he prays 5 times a day and sometimes fasts twice a week. I'm his first girlfriend...meaning a friend who is a girl. don't get all paranoid! haha. we've gone out just the 2 of us a few times now and at 30, he has never done that before (going out somewhere with a girl). he told me it's because I am special. insert the "awww cute!" here. anyway so sometimes we go to nabil's house just to watch movies and em cooks for all of us. I attempted to make beef stroganoff a few weeks ago and accidentally put a whole container of sour cream into the sauce when the recipe called for 1 tablespoon!!! hehe OOPS my bad!!! they still ate it up anyway. needless to say, I ain't cooking for a while. hehe yeah...so that's my social life.

the trip to oz and thoughts in general

it is the 4th of february today. it was 4 months ago that me and lindy (new nickname quite cute and fitting) took off from the edmonton international and started this journey. so far I've spent most my time in sydney and have no plans on leaving anytime soon. if all goes well, I may take a visit to vietnam to visit a girl named mina and I might also decide to make a trip down to perth. I also might head up to the gold cost in march to see a surfing competition with em. I'm leaving the whole eastern coast until probably july/august. I've heard so many good stories about the coast and how travelling up it is really memorable so I can't wait. there is alot of time from now until then though and things can happen so I'm not making any concrete plans yet. but yeah...in the meantime, sydney is home.

blogged out for now,
jazz