Happy New Year!!
We really need to start blogging more often.....
Saturday 15th December
Bizarrely, there is nothing in the diary at all for this day, so I assume it never happened.
Sunday 16th December
It's Elton John time...!!!
We got up at 5am to get the bus to the airport. It never turned up, so we got a taxi instead. We flew to Melbourne Avalon airport (it's a bit like calling Stansted, 'Edinburgh Stansted' - it's nowhere near Melbourne!).
By pure luck it was the correct side of Melbourne for us to get a short bus ride in to Werribee, where the Elton John concert was.
We walked round the town centre to try and find somewhere to stay the night, and ended up at the 'Comfort Inn'. The manager kindly gave us some phone numbers to find somewhere cheaper, and we finally ended up in the 'Monte Villa' bungalows.
It was a lovely place to stay, en-suite, air-con etc, and a pool we couldn't get in to.
We went for a couple of beers in the local sports bar, then had a bit of a kip before getting the shuttle bus from the hotel to the concert. When we got there, we realised we didn't have the camera, so we got a taxi back to the bungalow, and back to the concert again. Lovely stuff.
After two bottles of wine and a brilliant set from sausage fingers Elton, we decided it was time to try and blag our way backstage.
We failed.
It was an absolutely brilliant night though.
Shuttle bus back, beer, bed.
Monday 17th December
We checked out of our bungalow at midday, and tried to work out what to do for nine hours until our flight back to Sydney.
So, we went to McDonalds, then went to Werribee Plaza (a shopping centre), got a hair cut, and went to see 'Beowulf' in the cinema. Don't bother going to see it. It's rubbish.
We got to the airport about 6pm, to be told that our flight was cancelled. So we were given three choices......
1. Get a free bus to the other Melbourne airport and fly from there, thus arriving at the same time as planned.
2. Stay in a hotel nearby and fly at 6am the next day.
3. Can't remember the third option, but there was one. Oh well.
The chance to get an extra night away from Cell Block H proved too tempting, so we checked in to a 5 star hotel, courtesy of Jetstar!! Had to be up at 4.30am though to fly back.....
Tuesday 18th December
We got picked up from the hotel (did I mention it's a 5 star??!!) at 4.30, and got the 6am flight back to Sydney, then got a train back to Central Station, and arrived back at the hostel.
Dave went to the gym to enquire about joining, and was offered a day's free trial, much to Matt's delight.
Had a couple of beers at Scruffy Murphy's (it was still early days... we had to check if it really is as rubbish as we thought), then went to sleep.
Wednesday 19th December
We took advantage of our free trial at Livingwell Gym at the Sydney Hilton, and spent a couple of hours swimming, sauna-ing, and jacuzzi-ing.
Then we got on the monorail and did the whole circuit. It only really covers the city centre and Darling Harbour, so it takes about 15 mins to go all the way round. You are charged per trip too, so it is no more expensive to stay on for the whole circuit.
We eventually got off at Darling Harbour and went to the Maritime Museum. (Free entry!)
We then walked back across the bridge from Darling Harbour, and went to check the prices of the Sydney Tower.
Had a look round Woolworths, then both fell asleep at about 8pm.
Thursday 20th December
Went to the Sydney Tower and had a beer at the top. It had been a while since our last 'altitude beer' so it was good to get back in the habit.
The views are awesome from up there. You can see for miles in every direction. The best bit about it was the double-decker lift to go up! There's a little monitor in each lift so you can see what's going on in the other half of your lift!!
After the tower, we walked back to Darling Harbour to go on the battleship and submarine which are parked up. We didn't do this yesterday because we didn't have the camera with us.
We then walked MILES to King's Cross to try and find Jonny and Murphy who had arrived that day, but we coudn't find them, so we got the train back to Central Station, and slept.
Friday 21st December
We had breakfast on George Street, and then went to the Post Office to buy some boxes to use as a makeshift wardrobe. We did some washing, then went to meet Corrie at Darling Harbour (we might as well move there).
After a couple of drinks we all got the boat across to Manly, and Dave got turned away from a bar for wearing shorts and 'thongs'. Don't worry, it's the Aussie name for flip-flops.
So we went to a different door of the same bar and got in fine. It's my party and I'll wear thongs if I want to.
After a few too many drinks, we got the last ferry back from Manly and stumbled home to bed.
Saturday 22nd December
We went to meet Marie and Michelle in 'Side Bar', which is in their hostel. Yes, their place has it's own bar.
And nightclub.
And restaurant.
We got turned away from there because we look so damn youthful. While we were in the process of being turned away, we watched the doormen scare some English people away, cos they were being very silly and misbehaving.
We went to a very quiet Irish bar before giving in and going to fetch our I.D's and went back to Side Bar.
There was a bloke in there who looked like Boris Becker. And one that looked like Robbie Williams.
Sunday 23rd December
Went to Scruffy Murphy's to meet Bryan (who we'd initially met in KL), and the girls. All us blokes went to a pub called 'Pub', then the girls came to meet us later. Then Jonny and Murphy arrived too. A right little reunion!
We drank, drank and were merry.
Monday 24th December
Today was affectionately known as 'Christmas Eve' in Australia.
We went on a mission to prepare for Christmas Day by finding a barbecue to use on Bondi Beach. After hours of searching we came up with a foil tray, some charcoal, and a flat sieve-meshy-thing to use as the grill.
Perfect.
We went to Darling Harbour (surprise), and did a countdown to Christmas Day! After that excitement we got a taxi to 'The Gaff', which is a bar / club full of travellers. Most of which were the lovely people from our hostel. We can't get away from them!!
We got rained on heavily outside, and got a taxi back.
We had a sausage roll each too, seeing as it was now Christmas Day.
Tuesday 25th December - Christmas Day!!
We got the bus from Hyde Park to Bondi Beach around midday, put our makeshift BBQ together (it worked rather well!), and after a Christmas dinner of Hash Browns, sausages and burgers, we played frisbee for a while.
We'd bought tickets to go to an event called 'Sunburnt Christmas', which, it turned out, was just a building that had been turned in to a club for the day. Frankie Knuckles was DJ'ing, and it was the only place you could buy alcohol on Bondi Beach.
After some of the people we were with went in and decided it was rubbish, we got the bus to Coogee beach instead.
When we got there we were pleased to see lots of people with lots of alcohol. Trouble was, we didn't have any! We searched for a bottle shop with no success, and none of the restaurants open that day would let us buy any wine or beer to take out. This situation was not good.
We got chatting to a girl outside a shop who knew of someone who might have a box of wine to sell..... Things were looking up! After a very short conversation with some very intoxicated Scottish blokes, we were given a box of white wine FOR FREE!! This was now the best Christmas ever.
We met a legendary bloke on the beach too. His name is Sarge and he was visiting family for Christmas. He lives in a bush normally. We agreed to go and visit him in his bush in the new year, and he's letting us stay in his nephew's house.
It is not clear at this stage whether his nephew will be there too.
We finished off the wine, rang lots of people (Dave Kilner was the first person we rang, naturally), and got a bus back to the city centre. It was a very noisy bus, mainly due to us drunken lot singing at the tops of our voices.
Wednesday 26th December
We decided that the best cure for a hangover is to get on a 1000hp speedboat. Se we did.
There are two main companies in Circular Quay running speedboat trips around the harbour, both boasting that theirs is the best, fastest and scariest. We decided to go for the one that claims to be the fastest speedboat in Australia. It was 1000hp compared to the other company's measly 700hp.
We got completely drenched, but it was absolutely brilliant. The driver basically waited for boats to go past, then head straight in to the wake of the boat, jumping off the waves. The boat does 360 degree turns and 'power stops', whereby it somehow jumps off a wave then comes to an almost instant stop. Awesome.
We had a couple of beers to fully cure the hangover with a girl who looks like Carly from Eastenders. Well I thought so anyway. No-one else did.
We then made our way back to the hostel, made some pasta and went to bed.
Thursday 27th December
We had a pretty easy day, and got on the train to suss out some areas of Sydney that we'd be happy to live in. We just picked random stops and got off and had a look round. We came across a suburb called Summer Hill which was lovely, and popped in to an estate agent to pick up a list of rental properties.
On the list was a place in Dulwich Hill (the next mini-town to Summer Hill), so we made an appointment to view it on Saturday.
That's all that's in the diary for the 27th, so let's assume we had a few beers and made some pasta.
Friday 28th December
We got a train to Dulwich Hill to see what the area's like, and to find the property we would be viewing the next day. As we were walking (bloody miles) to find it, we walked past an apartment block called 'The Denison' apartments, Constitution Road, Dulwich Hill. Little did we know how lucky this discovery would turn out.....
We went to Darling Harbour for drinks with Jonny and the girls, and went back to the hostel to sleep.
Saturday 29th December
We had two viewings in Dulwich Hill. Firstly was the Denison, then the other place we'd seen advertised in Summer Hill. The Denison was AMAZING!! They had the show apartment to rent out, fully furnished to a very high standard. With a pool too. Trouble was, it was way over our budget.
So we headed off to the other property which was rubbish in comparison. Unfurnished, shabby and dirty. But it was in our price range!
We went for a coke and a chocolate bar to have a think, and went back to the Denison. We were on a mission! We spoke to the landlordy type bloke and told him how much we liked it, but that it was too expensive. He then dropped the price, as long as we paid cash..... The plot thickens.....
Then we had the issue of only being here for 4 months. We'd told him originally that we'd be here for a year, otherwise he wouldn't have even shown us round.
With our new price to think about, we went back to the city.
After a chat and some sums, we decided to go for it, so we rang matey and told him that we'd like to take the apartment, but that we'd spoken to some friends who were coming over in 4 months time, and they wanted to share a place so we would have to move out.
He was fine with that, so we breathed a very happy sigh of relief. We had our new place sorted!
Dave's friend Kags arrived in Sydney today, so he went to meet her and her friends she was staying with. They went up the Sydney Tower (again!) while Matt fell asleep in the hostel (!).
A few drinks in Darling Harbour rounded off a very good day.
Sunday 30th December
We went to Circular Quay to work out the best place to see the fireworks on NYE. We got a water-taxi to McMahon's point to see what the view is like from the far side of the Harbour Bridge, but after our research we still weren't sure what to do for the best.
Everyone we spoke to said we need to pick our spot and get there early. When they say early, they mean before midday!! The very best spots are gone by 9am - 15 hours before midnight!!
In the evening we went to meet Matt's friends James and Sarah who had arrived that day on their honeymoon. We had a really nice evening, met Kags and co. for a bit too, then came back via 'C' Bar - our new local!!
Monday 31st December - New Year's Eve 2007!!
The plan was as follows...
Meet James and Sarah about midday, pick our viewing point, have a picnic and sit there for 12 hours until firework time.
Matt rang James and by this point James and Sarah had booked tickets to 'Bubble Bar' for the evening of NYE. The deal was free drinks all night, and free canapes all night.
All for the tidy sum of $275. (About 120 quid)
So we thought that rather than sit in the sun all day, we could buy tickets and just turn up about 7pm, have a relaxed evening in a very nice bar, and pop outside at midnight to see the fireworks.
So we did!
The ambulance service had over 1000 calls to the Harbour Bridge area on NYE, probably mainly due to sun-related problems.
We arrived at Bubble Bar about 6.30pm, and had a really good night. The fireworks were amazing, and we walked home getting photos with lots of random people.
Tuesday 1st January 2008
It's time to get back in the real world, which means.... work!
We both spent a while online perfecting our CV's (I never knew Matt was once a Telesales Executive....), then went to the pub called 'Pub' to watch Chelsea play Fulham.
Fulham were 1-0 up for most of the game, but Chelsea eventually won 2-1. Or something like that.
Wednesday 2nd January
We sorted out all the documents we need for our new apartment, then headed for 'Kelly Services' (nowhere near as fun as it sounds... it's a job agency!).
They had vacancies in a call centre and the assessment was tomorrow! 11am sharp....
We had a couple of beers in a rooftop bar (only 5th Floor, not to our usual 'high' standards...), then we went back to the hostel to make some food.
After a power-nap we went out to Darling Harbour to meet James and Sarah as they were leaving the next day.
Mr Owen Ryan turned up too (he used to be Deputy PD at Hallam just in case!!) and he made us drink lots of beer. It was all his fault.
And he has an i-Phone.
It's brilliant.
Thursday 3rd January
After last night's perfect preparation, we arrived at Kelly Services at 10.55am for our call centre assessment. We had to make a series of calls to 'customers' (the office staff upstairs!) and try to sell them a new credit card.
Some of them were very rude.
Anyway, we both passed the test with flying colours and were offered jobs in the new 'American Express' campaign which starts on Monday! Apparently you have to be very good to get on that one, cos it's the most desired campaign. (Due to it being the only one that's 9-5).
So basically, we're brilliant and you're rubbish.
Apparently the place we're working has plasma screens, free internet, a pool table etc. and is full of backpackers. Not sure if that's a good or bad thing yet....
Dave starts work on Monday, and Matt starts in February.
In the evening we went to 'Side Bar' as it was most of the girls' last night in Sydney. We had a very good night and danced a lot. We were, once again, brilliant.
Anyway, my fingers hurt so I'm going to rest them and have a coke.
Love you! xxx
Saturday 15th December
Bizarrely, there is nothing in the diary at all for this day, so I assume it never happened.
Sunday 16th December
It's Elton John time...!!!
We got up at 5am to get the bus to the airport. It never turned up, so we got a taxi instead. We flew to Melbourne Avalon airport (it's a bit like calling Stansted, 'Edinburgh Stansted' - it's nowhere near Melbourne!).
By pure luck it was the correct side of Melbourne for us to get a short bus ride in to Werribee, where the Elton John concert was.
We walked round the town centre to try and find somewhere to stay the night, and ended up at the 'Comfort Inn'. The manager kindly gave us some phone numbers to find somewhere cheaper, and we finally ended up in the 'Monte Villa' bungalows.
It was a lovely place to stay, en-suite, air-con etc, and a pool we couldn't get in to.
We went for a couple of beers in the local sports bar, then had a bit of a kip before getting the shuttle bus from the hotel to the concert. When we got there, we realised we didn't have the camera, so we got a taxi back to the bungalow, and back to the concert again. Lovely stuff.
After two bottles of wine and a brilliant set from sausage fingers Elton, we decided it was time to try and blag our way backstage.
We failed.
It was an absolutely brilliant night though.
Shuttle bus back, beer, bed.
Monday 17th December
We checked out of our bungalow at midday, and tried to work out what to do for nine hours until our flight back to Sydney.
So, we went to McDonalds, then went to Werribee Plaza (a shopping centre), got a hair cut, and went to see 'Beowulf' in the cinema. Don't bother going to see it. It's rubbish.
We got to the airport about 6pm, to be told that our flight was cancelled. So we were given three choices......
1. Get a free bus to the other Melbourne airport and fly from there, thus arriving at the same time as planned.
2. Stay in a hotel nearby and fly at 6am the next day.
3. Can't remember the third option, but there was one. Oh well.
The chance to get an extra night away from Cell Block H proved too tempting, so we checked in to a 5 star hotel, courtesy of Jetstar!! Had to be up at 4.30am though to fly back.....
Tuesday 18th December
We got picked up from the hotel (did I mention it's a 5 star??!!) at 4.30, and got the 6am flight back to Sydney, then got a train back to Central Station, and arrived back at the hostel.
Dave went to the gym to enquire about joining, and was offered a day's free trial, much to Matt's delight.
Had a couple of beers at Scruffy Murphy's (it was still early days... we had to check if it really is as rubbish as we thought), then went to sleep.
Wednesday 19th December
We took advantage of our free trial at Livingwell Gym at the Sydney Hilton, and spent a couple of hours swimming, sauna-ing, and jacuzzi-ing.
Then we got on the monorail and did the whole circuit. It only really covers the city centre and Darling Harbour, so it takes about 15 mins to go all the way round. You are charged per trip too, so it is no more expensive to stay on for the whole circuit.
We eventually got off at Darling Harbour and went to the Maritime Museum. (Free entry!)
We then walked back across the bridge from Darling Harbour, and went to check the prices of the Sydney Tower.
Had a look round Woolworths, then both fell asleep at about 8pm.
Thursday 20th December
Went to the Sydney Tower and had a beer at the top. It had been a while since our last 'altitude beer' so it was good to get back in the habit.
The views are awesome from up there. You can see for miles in every direction. The best bit about it was the double-decker lift to go up! There's a little monitor in each lift so you can see what's going on in the other half of your lift!!
After the tower, we walked back to Darling Harbour to go on the battleship and submarine which are parked up. We didn't do this yesterday because we didn't have the camera with us.
We then walked MILES to King's Cross to try and find Jonny and Murphy who had arrived that day, but we coudn't find them, so we got the train back to Central Station, and slept.
Friday 21st December
We had breakfast on George Street, and then went to the Post Office to buy some boxes to use as a makeshift wardrobe. We did some washing, then went to meet Corrie at Darling Harbour (we might as well move there).
After a couple of drinks we all got the boat across to Manly, and Dave got turned away from a bar for wearing shorts and 'thongs'. Don't worry, it's the Aussie name for flip-flops.
So we went to a different door of the same bar and got in fine. It's my party and I'll wear thongs if I want to.
After a few too many drinks, we got the last ferry back from Manly and stumbled home to bed.
Saturday 22nd December
We went to meet Marie and Michelle in 'Side Bar', which is in their hostel. Yes, their place has it's own bar.
And nightclub.
And restaurant.
We got turned away from there because we look so damn youthful. While we were in the process of being turned away, we watched the doormen scare some English people away, cos they were being very silly and misbehaving.
We went to a very quiet Irish bar before giving in and going to fetch our I.D's and went back to Side Bar.
There was a bloke in there who looked like Boris Becker. And one that looked like Robbie Williams.
Sunday 23rd December
Went to Scruffy Murphy's to meet Bryan (who we'd initially met in KL), and the girls. All us blokes went to a pub called 'Pub', then the girls came to meet us later. Then Jonny and Murphy arrived too. A right little reunion!
We drank, drank and were merry.
Monday 24th December
Today was affectionately known as 'Christmas Eve' in Australia.
We went on a mission to prepare for Christmas Day by finding a barbecue to use on Bondi Beach. After hours of searching we came up with a foil tray, some charcoal, and a flat sieve-meshy-thing to use as the grill.
Perfect.
We went to Darling Harbour (surprise), and did a countdown to Christmas Day! After that excitement we got a taxi to 'The Gaff', which is a bar / club full of travellers. Most of which were the lovely people from our hostel. We can't get away from them!!
We got rained on heavily outside, and got a taxi back.
We had a sausage roll each too, seeing as it was now Christmas Day.
Tuesday 25th December - Christmas Day!!
We got the bus from Hyde Park to Bondi Beach around midday, put our makeshift BBQ together (it worked rather well!), and after a Christmas dinner of Hash Browns, sausages and burgers, we played frisbee for a while.
We'd bought tickets to go to an event called 'Sunburnt Christmas', which, it turned out, was just a building that had been turned in to a club for the day. Frankie Knuckles was DJ'ing, and it was the only place you could buy alcohol on Bondi Beach.
After some of the people we were with went in and decided it was rubbish, we got the bus to Coogee beach instead.
When we got there we were pleased to see lots of people with lots of alcohol. Trouble was, we didn't have any! We searched for a bottle shop with no success, and none of the restaurants open that day would let us buy any wine or beer to take out. This situation was not good.
We got chatting to a girl outside a shop who knew of someone who might have a box of wine to sell..... Things were looking up! After a very short conversation with some very intoxicated Scottish blokes, we were given a box of white wine FOR FREE!! This was now the best Christmas ever.
We met a legendary bloke on the beach too. His name is Sarge and he was visiting family for Christmas. He lives in a bush normally. We agreed to go and visit him in his bush in the new year, and he's letting us stay in his nephew's house.
It is not clear at this stage whether his nephew will be there too.
We finished off the wine, rang lots of people (Dave Kilner was the first person we rang, naturally), and got a bus back to the city centre. It was a very noisy bus, mainly due to us drunken lot singing at the tops of our voices.
Wednesday 26th December
We decided that the best cure for a hangover is to get on a 1000hp speedboat. Se we did.
There are two main companies in Circular Quay running speedboat trips around the harbour, both boasting that theirs is the best, fastest and scariest. We decided to go for the one that claims to be the fastest speedboat in Australia. It was 1000hp compared to the other company's measly 700hp.
We got completely drenched, but it was absolutely brilliant. The driver basically waited for boats to go past, then head straight in to the wake of the boat, jumping off the waves. The boat does 360 degree turns and 'power stops', whereby it somehow jumps off a wave then comes to an almost instant stop. Awesome.
We had a couple of beers to fully cure the hangover with a girl who looks like Carly from Eastenders. Well I thought so anyway. No-one else did.
We then made our way back to the hostel, made some pasta and went to bed.
Thursday 27th December
We had a pretty easy day, and got on the train to suss out some areas of Sydney that we'd be happy to live in. We just picked random stops and got off and had a look round. We came across a suburb called Summer Hill which was lovely, and popped in to an estate agent to pick up a list of rental properties.
On the list was a place in Dulwich Hill (the next mini-town to Summer Hill), so we made an appointment to view it on Saturday.
That's all that's in the diary for the 27th, so let's assume we had a few beers and made some pasta.
Friday 28th December
We got a train to Dulwich Hill to see what the area's like, and to find the property we would be viewing the next day. As we were walking (bloody miles) to find it, we walked past an apartment block called 'The Denison' apartments, Constitution Road, Dulwich Hill. Little did we know how lucky this discovery would turn out.....
We went to Darling Harbour for drinks with Jonny and the girls, and went back to the hostel to sleep.
Saturday 29th December
We had two viewings in Dulwich Hill. Firstly was the Denison, then the other place we'd seen advertised in Summer Hill. The Denison was AMAZING!! They had the show apartment to rent out, fully furnished to a very high standard. With a pool too. Trouble was, it was way over our budget.
So we headed off to the other property which was rubbish in comparison. Unfurnished, shabby and dirty. But it was in our price range!
We went for a coke and a chocolate bar to have a think, and went back to the Denison. We were on a mission! We spoke to the landlordy type bloke and told him how much we liked it, but that it was too expensive. He then dropped the price, as long as we paid cash..... The plot thickens.....
Then we had the issue of only being here for 4 months. We'd told him originally that we'd be here for a year, otherwise he wouldn't have even shown us round.
With our new price to think about, we went back to the city.
After a chat and some sums, we decided to go for it, so we rang matey and told him that we'd like to take the apartment, but that we'd spoken to some friends who were coming over in 4 months time, and they wanted to share a place so we would have to move out.
He was fine with that, so we breathed a very happy sigh of relief. We had our new place sorted!
Dave's friend Kags arrived in Sydney today, so he went to meet her and her friends she was staying with. They went up the Sydney Tower (again!) while Matt fell asleep in the hostel (!).
A few drinks in Darling Harbour rounded off a very good day.
Sunday 30th December
We went to Circular Quay to work out the best place to see the fireworks on NYE. We got a water-taxi to McMahon's point to see what the view is like from the far side of the Harbour Bridge, but after our research we still weren't sure what to do for the best.
Everyone we spoke to said we need to pick our spot and get there early. When they say early, they mean before midday!! The very best spots are gone by 9am - 15 hours before midnight!!
In the evening we went to meet Matt's friends James and Sarah who had arrived that day on their honeymoon. We had a really nice evening, met Kags and co. for a bit too, then came back via 'C' Bar - our new local!!
Monday 31st December - New Year's Eve 2007!!
The plan was as follows...
Meet James and Sarah about midday, pick our viewing point, have a picnic and sit there for 12 hours until firework time.
Matt rang James and by this point James and Sarah had booked tickets to 'Bubble Bar' for the evening of NYE. The deal was free drinks all night, and free canapes all night.
All for the tidy sum of $275. (About 120 quid)
So we thought that rather than sit in the sun all day, we could buy tickets and just turn up about 7pm, have a relaxed evening in a very nice bar, and pop outside at midnight to see the fireworks.
So we did!
The ambulance service had over 1000 calls to the Harbour Bridge area on NYE, probably mainly due to sun-related problems.
We arrived at Bubble Bar about 6.30pm, and had a really good night. The fireworks were amazing, and we walked home getting photos with lots of random people.
Tuesday 1st January 2008
It's time to get back in the real world, which means.... work!
We both spent a while online perfecting our CV's (I never knew Matt was once a Telesales Executive....), then went to the pub called 'Pub' to watch Chelsea play Fulham.
Fulham were 1-0 up for most of the game, but Chelsea eventually won 2-1. Or something like that.
Wednesday 2nd January
We sorted out all the documents we need for our new apartment, then headed for 'Kelly Services' (nowhere near as fun as it sounds... it's a job agency!).
They had vacancies in a call centre and the assessment was tomorrow! 11am sharp....
We had a couple of beers in a rooftop bar (only 5th Floor, not to our usual 'high' standards...), then we went back to the hostel to make some food.
After a power-nap we went out to Darling Harbour to meet James and Sarah as they were leaving the next day.
Mr Owen Ryan turned up too (he used to be Deputy PD at Hallam just in case!!) and he made us drink lots of beer. It was all his fault.
And he has an i-Phone.
It's brilliant.
Thursday 3rd January
After last night's perfect preparation, we arrived at Kelly Services at 10.55am for our call centre assessment. We had to make a series of calls to 'customers' (the office staff upstairs!) and try to sell them a new credit card.
Some of them were very rude.
Anyway, we both passed the test with flying colours and were offered jobs in the new 'American Express' campaign which starts on Monday! Apparently you have to be very good to get on that one, cos it's the most desired campaign. (Due to it being the only one that's 9-5).
So basically, we're brilliant and you're rubbish.
Apparently the place we're working has plasma screens, free internet, a pool table etc. and is full of backpackers. Not sure if that's a good or bad thing yet....
Dave starts work on Monday, and Matt starts in February.
In the evening we went to 'Side Bar' as it was most of the girls' last night in Sydney. We had a very good night and danced a lot. We were, once again, brilliant.
Anyway, my fingers hurt so I'm going to rest them and have a coke.
Love you! xxx
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