On Christmas eve I head to a house party, it is such a lovely hot sunny summers day, everyone gets very merry (it is Christmas after all!), the boys wrestle in the paddling pool, we play beer pong and generally have a good fun time! I don't leave too late as I have to be up early to help cook the Christmas dinner, but I stupidly on the way home leave my bag with my bikini, cardigan, sunglasses and some other bits on the train! NIGHTMARE!! Merry Christmas me eh!! Funnily enough though I head to the lost property office a week later and my bag with all of the items is there!!! So thankfully I got everything back! Not sure that would ever happen in England....
The chefs! |
On Boxing day I got invited by my friend Siobhan to go on a boat to watch the start of the Sydney - Hobart boat race. What a lovely day it was, free food and drink - I was topping up nicely on the champagne! And the buffet was immense, probably the best food I've eaten since I've been travelling! I really miss nice good healthy good and decent wine/champagne!
The next few days I don't really do that much just job searching, although everything is closed over the Christmas period so not a lot gets done, not through lack of trying. I start to realise that maybe I have come back to Sydney at the wrong time....
NYE fun! Me and Sharlene |
Rosa, me and Josh |
A few others :0) |
My view |
A few days later I move in the flat with the girls, Liv, Sharlene and Holly. I'm replacing Sarah who is off on a trip from Perth to Adelaide. The flat is in Kingsford, which is about a 20min bus ride out of town. Its a really nice flat and I'm sharing a room with Liv. I had such a good time staying here with the girls, cooking together, watching DVDs, going for runs, nights out together and generally just being a bit silly. I was really sad when the time came to leave them.
Slightly soggy! |
Randomly, 2 of my friends from Rose Bruford were performing at the Sydney Festival on in January. Not having seen them for about 2 years (maybe more) I not only got to catch up with them but also got to see their show 'As the flames rose we danced to the sirens, the sirens' which was awesome! (Their company is Sleepwalk Collective- check them out they are doing so well!) we met up after their show in the Festival Gardens in Hyde Park - such a cool little pop up venue, with some food and drink tents, a DJ, a Spiegeltent and loads of outdoors seating. I also got to see a 2nd show complimentary of Iara and Sammy as well, as they were guest starring in it 'The Blind Date Project'! Was so nice to get back into seeing some theatre! Would have been too expensive for me otherwise on a no job/backpacker 'salary'!
I also went to see Hot Dub Time Machine by Tom Loud at the Spiegeltent another night, great fun dancing away to one song from each year all mashed up and mixed together from the 1950's all the way through to 2013!
Sydney during the festival also had an open air cinema in the Darling Quarter, so a few of us went there one evening to watch Finding Nemo, sometimes its the simple things that are so much fun! We then went to see the giant rubber duck in the Harbour and for some drinks. Funtimes!
One of our good friends from the group, James, decided that it was his time to leave and head back to England to propose to his girlfriend! So we threw him a few leaving do's! Also had a few random nights out in Bondi and Coogee (for all my English friends they are beach towns) and too much fun! I seriously had the best group of friends in Sydney it was so hard and sad to say goodbye. But as I struggled to get a job in Sydney I decided it was time to look to leaving, I'd thankfully managed to get about 6/7 days worth of odd work here and there which kept me going but it wasn't ideal, so whilst I still had a few pennies left in my pocket I decided to head off to Melbourne! All a bit last minute I didn't actually get to see everyone to say goodbye which was such a shame but I'm hopefully we'll meet up again, I do still have 9 months left here!
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