All Night Long

I was up all night last night and no it wasn't for a fun reason. I was finishing a paper, a very long, involved paper. Today my eyes feel like sandpaper and it was so hard to get up to turn in the paper after 2 hours of sleep, I think I must just be on some adrenalin rush at this point, don't know how I haven't fallen over yet. Anyhow I finished at 6am, have no idea how coherent the paper is but the important thing is that it's done..one more paper to go and that's it..masters degree here I come. Let the celebrations begin!

World Record Holder Here!

So I never thought I'd set a world record for anything but hell you just never know what might happen after you wake up in the morning. Yesterday I was at the Paniyiri festival (huge greek festival in Brisbane), little known fact outside Australia it has the biggest Greek population outside of Greece. You get tired of hearing it though, it's an often repeated fact here, especially that Melbourne is the largest Greek city outside Greece. Anyhow I was one of the many, many dancers in last night's successful world record attempt for the world's biggest zorba dance! Yep there were nearly 2000 of us, all with linked arms and doing the zorba for over 6 minutes, it was good fun. As we know I'm about the least coordinated person on the planet so I really did have to keep repeating the instructions for the dance over and over again in my head but it worked and was really great and I didn't fall down or lose the grip on the shoulders of the man next to me so all in all a success. Also I did have some Mythos (greek beer) and ouzo and see lots of hot greek-australian men so a great time was had by all!

Sweet!

Today I started my job with Fosters and can I say I couldn't be more pleased. First of all I have my dream schedule start time of 10am, which allows me to get those extra zzz's in the morning. Next and best of all found out this morning when I was getting the grand tour that there is a bar on the premises, not too far from where my desk is turns out and it opens at 4;30pm everyday and drinks are you guessed it FREE! Unfortunetly I'm sick and so no drinkies for me but one day I shall be well and then 4;30 here I come. Also my co-workers are pretty funny, rough as guts Aussies for the most part. Kylie (yes there are lots of Aussies named this) who was training me was telling me that when I run across wine orders to highlight them so they "stand out like a dog's bollocks", cracked me up. Then my boss says hope you don't mind cursing and carrying on, we find it helps to pass the time. Should be interesting, and my time today went by fast even though I did feel like someone had my head in a wrench b/c of this damn cold!!

Just in Time

Today is my birthday and I have a cold, so I was still aslep when the temp agency called me at 950 am and asked if I could make it to an interview at 11am. Sure I said even though I didnt wanna get up because I do need a job. So I jump up run to use my roommates computer to see where this place is on the map, only to go through a super frustrating experience because well her laptop is french and little known fact but the french do not use the same keyboard we do, the letters are arranged differently,instead of qwerty they use azerty, which means i kept typing in things wrong and I was in a super hurry!! I managed half running to get there on time and the interview went great and before I made it back to the bus stop I got a call offering me a job with..Fosters Australia(no one does drink fosters here but they make lots of aussie beers, wines and spirits that people do drink), yes I now work for that most Aussie of beer companies..I feel this will round out my full Aussie experience...Happy Birthday to me!

And the Adventure continues...

Big news in these parts-- I got a job in Japan! So looks like in September I'll be moving to Osaka. Can't wait should be a really good time. I will be sad to leave Australia though, after spending about 2 years here I've really grown to love it and totally wouldn't mind living here for good one day. But the adventure must continue, time for me to explore a new place on a new continent, hopefully giving me another perspective on this great big world we live in. In the meantime though I plan to enjoy the sunshine and good beer and try to see as much as I can before it's time for me to go :)

The Fuzz

So last week was fun, we had the threat of an immigration raid on the house because of my landlord and his damn kiosks!! Anyways I got a phone call and had to run home and basically had 30 seconds to grab stuff from my room. Why did I have 30 seconds you ask?
1. Immigration had already turned up to one of the kiosks looking for 3 of my roommates who were working illegally so they thought they'd be looking at the house next.
2. My landlord was burning all his business papers in the bbq outside and I didn't want to be implicated because I was in the house.
3. Due to a crazy theory told to me by my grandma I felt like I should get my passport before it was seized and used to "blame god knows what on me"

Anyways so I ran in grabbed my passprt and my photos and ran out to my friend's waiting car and then I was free. You know why I was free because at that moment I really was okay with never seeing any of my other stuff again, I was just glad to be outta the situation. Yes it would have really sucked to lose it all but you know there are worse things..such as being put in immigration jail somehwere in the outback.

Needless to say 3 of my roommates left and now my landlord is determined to only hire legal workers, so 2 british backpackers are moving into the house tomorrow..let the fun and games begin again.

P.S. yes I am considering moving but dammit I've only got 5 weeks of school left and it's just too much to even think about at the moment, at least I know all the incriminating evidence has been burned.