Well it's Monday here and I just wrapped up a great weekend. After a week of job hunting, scams (I'm sorry but door to door jobs are not "professional marketing careers"), and money woes, I was able to finally experience a good deal of Sydney culture. Friday was an absolutely gorgeous day so we went down to Coogee beach and laid out for a while. It was pretty crowded, which makes me a little worried about how crazy it is going to be when universities get out and heavy tourist season begins. Then we headed up to the Coogee bay hotel beer garden for a drink and some people watching... lots of people seemed to ditch out of work early to get a head start on the weekend. Not opposed to this lifestyle at all.
Saturday Montana, Cassie, and I met up with our new aussie friend Alex who showed us around the Botanical gardens, and then we headed to a pub by the harbour to watch an aussie rules footie game. A) SO much fun to watch in a pub with rowdy crowds, and B) holy crap i have never seen so many attractive men on a field at one time. So we sat in front of the big screen as i drooled into my savignon blanc, and watched our new favorite team, the Saints, make a comeback that resulted in a tie. Well what do you know, when you tie in the finals of this crazy game, you have another game a week later. So I will be drooling again next Saturday... can't complain!
Sunday all of us roomies went to the blue mountains, a 2 hour train ride from Sydney, to do some hiking. It was another beautiful day and we lucked out because I guess it rains there a lot. It was great fun except for the incident:
Yes, I fell down the blue mountains. BUT i was a trooper and did the whole 3 hour hike anyway, yay for me. It was super nice to get a day trip in; it's weird how often I forget I am a bajillion miles of home with all of this job searching, paying rent, etc. But walking to the beach, hiking mountains, and hanging out with locals is making me realize that wow, im in freakin australia livin the dream!
As of now the plan is to work my behind off in Sydney until the fam comes for new years, then probably road trip with them up the east coast and settle wherever we end up there, then travel around queensland and hopefully to new zealand for the next 5 months or so! Pretty stoked about this, just need to find a job... I am going to start nannying 2 days a week starting next week, and have an interview tomorrow for being a waitress on harbour cruises (potentially could be super cool, as long as it's not full time) so we will see how that goes!
Cheers,
Mags
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