I am sorry about the last post. It may have been all over the place and confusing. I was trying to do so many things at once and then when I read the blog last night with David I realized how much of a gong show it was. Hopefully you understood me. haha.
My flatmates and I have joined the City to Surf run on August 9th. Its a huge annual event here in Sydney where we "race" or "stroll" from the city center to famous Bondi Beach. We are the Bartley Behinds, we are trying to get our behinds into shape and we will be behind everyone come race day (except for grandmas and small children). Bartley is our street name. It will give me motivation to exercise and get in shape as well as support such a great cause like Watoto! To learn more about it go to my fundraising site!
Everyday Hero: The Sun-Herald City2Surf 2009
Friday, June 26, 2009
Nappies
So, my interview was quick and easy. I have a job as a Casual Child Care worker. I will be making 20 bucks an hour. One of the questions in my interview was "do I know how to change a nappy?" I had a good chuckle at that. They call diapers nappies here...as well. soothers are called dummys. That is when I realized that I will be working with 0-5 year olds. I am excited though. It will be a good experience. It is also temporary until the Department of Education and Training decide that they want to cooperate with me. They will be getting emails and calls everyday until I am finally in. I have a really sweet name tag as well. Oh, another funny thing, when I had my training (right after my interview) they had a list for the dresscode and its pretty basic; black pants, polo shirt, rubber soled shoes and a hat. HAT?! haha. They have a policy here 'No Hat, No Play". Even teachers have to wear hats. The hats that are usually worn are called Cricket hats, they are not little either. They are hats with huge brims around the whole hat. I always giggle when I see the kids playing on the playground with the matching hats. It's because of the sun rays here in Australia. Interesting. It's not even that hot here now. Oh well.
There is the exciting news you were all waiting for! I start Monday! :)
There is the exciting news you were all waiting for! I start Monday! :)
Monday, June 22, 2009
New Photos!
My Life in Sydney Pt. 2 - All New Photos.
Biiirthday Week in Australia!
Two HUGE albums to enjoy!
Oh. I also forgot to mention that during my birthday week...I got a phone call for a job with select education. The interview will be tomorrow. It will have something to do with children. haha I will let you know more details if and when I get the job!!
Holly x
Biiirthday Week in Australia!
Two HUGE albums to enjoy!
Oh. I also forgot to mention that during my birthday week...I got a phone call for a job with select education. The interview will be tomorrow. It will have something to do with children. haha I will let you know more details if and when I get the job!!
Holly x
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Birthday Week!
My birthday week has been a huge success! It is the last day of my birthday week and I am just sitting here drinking my morning tea and about to get ready to go to the Sydney Winter Festival with David. It is rainy and has been all week. But hopefully it will still be fun. There is ice skating and a petting zoo. I will break down my birthday week and just let you know how amazing my flat mates and friends are here!!!
Sunday - Jenny took David and myself to Hillsong Church all the way out in Baulkham Hills. It was about a 45 minute drive. I blogged about it previously. :)
Monday - Goutham took me to a restaurant that I have wanted to go to since I first came here called Giovanni's. It looked like a really fancy restaurant on the outside. It was a really nice restaurant. After stuffing ourselves with so much food we walked across the street to Jackson's on George...a bar with four levels. We went to the third level where they had free pool. We played a few games and then a couple joined in with us. I actually did pretty good for not having played a real game before. I actually sunk balls! I even beat Goutham at a game! Obviously, I was just super lucky! After enough of that we went to The Rocks (an older, famous part of the city) and enjoyed some dessert at Pancakes on the Rocks. It is open 24/7 and makes delicious food with crepes and pancakes. I had the Ultimate, it was two crepes with cream cheese in the middle and raspberry syrup with ice cream! Yum! After midnight, we walked over to the Sydney Opera House and took some photos to show that I spent part of my birthday at the Sydney Opera House!
Tuesday - BIRTHday - I woke up to Breakfast in bed with cinnamon buns that David and Juli had made for me the night before. They used my grandma's recipe that David had gotten from my mom. After that, Kanako came in and gave David a plastic bag. It was my birthday present from all the flat mates! It was a big purse that I had been eye-ing while with them last week. David went out to run a few "Errands" while Monica and I went out to get her uggs (in the pouring rain). Later on, in the evening, my flatmates and i went to a restaurant that was a surprise for me. My friends Vivian, Cat and Caz joined us. The food and service (for once) was awesome!!! After we were finished our meal the server brought out a Blueberry Swirl Cheesecake that David had taken over there earlier in the day. He bought it from the store on George St that I walk past every day and eye the cakes in the window with my mouth watering. Everyone sang happy birthday! Luckily there was only one other group in the restaurant so it wasn't as embarassing as it could have been. I was the last one to finish my cheesecake, I let everyone know I was savouring it because my cousin, Stephanie had taught me to do that. haha. We finished off the night with the movie Hangover. It was pretty funny.
Wednesday - I got together with Tami for lunch at Wagamama. We had a good time catching up since the last time I saw her was before her trip up the coast. After lunch with Tami I caught up with David and we walked over to Kanako's work and ate some Japanese noodle bowls with her when she finished her work. We then walked over to a Chocolate cafe called Max Brenner. They had the coooolest mugs ever and yummmmy chocolate. We had choco-banana pizza with a mocha and a cookie flavoured frappe. Don't worry, I took lots of pictures! haha.
Thursday - I had a few girl friends come over and we had a potluck. There was a ton of food. Jenny came over and made spaghetti bolagnse or however you spell it. I made Lazy Man Perogies! A huge hit but then they had never heard of perogies and wanted me to make those next time..haha. David made beef stroganoff (sp?), Juli made her yummy pineapple cake and Monica made a bean salad. The other girls brought a few other little things. Those were the main meals. It was a fun night and the girls and David learned what a potluck was..haha
Friday - My flatmates and I all went out to the Cruise Bar. It is a fancy little place that is right below the Overseas Passenger Terminal. It's the place where huge Cruise Ships come and drop off the passengers for a little while! It was right next to the water across the Harbour from the Opera House. We were joined by Dee, and a few friends from David's hostel. It was a blast. There was a saxophone player and while I was in the bathroom, taking pictures with Juli and Kanako (you will see why when I put pictures up) David asked him to play me Happy Birthday. So when I had just gotten back to my friends I heard Happy Birthday playing on the saxophone and turned to see him walking towards me. Juli got a video up of it! I will see if I can get it so you can all view it. I made friends with a group of Scottish ladies (and man) who were absolutely in love with me. They kept telling me I was so beautiful and that I should move to Scotland because everyone would love me there. We all had a blast dancing around to oldies music. The last ones standing were Monica, David and I. So around 2 in the morning we went over to Pancakes on the Rocks (yes again, it was close to the Cruise Bar) with saxophone man. This time I had the Mexicana! Soooo delicious...again! We chit chatted about all our different cultures (America, Wales, Australia and Canada) until about 5 in the morning. Sax man gave us a ride home and we hit the hay straight away.
Saturday - Dee took Monica, David and I back to her place in Winston Hills (about 40 minutes away from our house) and we watched the Dark Knight (which everyone will hate me but, I didn't really like it..haha). After that was over we made sandwiches and popcorn and headed off to the Drive-In Movie Theatre just a couple suburbs over in Blacktown! We took Dee's mom's SUV and opened up the "boot" and watched from the back. We watched the Proposal and The Boat that Rocked. David loved the second one as it was all British comedy and a small view of some typical British things. Dee dropped David and I off at the train and we headed back to home.
And that was my birthday week! Maybe boring to read but it was a wonderful, wonderful week! It was definitely sad not being close to friends and family but I will remember this birthday for the rest of my life! Not only was it good times with the people I have gotten to know really well here but it was in AUSTRALIA!!! Woooo!
I will be putting up pictures later on tonight and I will post them on here for you all...It will be an over load!!!
Holly!
Sunday - Jenny took David and myself to Hillsong Church all the way out in Baulkham Hills. It was about a 45 minute drive. I blogged about it previously. :)
Monday - Goutham took me to a restaurant that I have wanted to go to since I first came here called Giovanni's. It looked like a really fancy restaurant on the outside. It was a really nice restaurant. After stuffing ourselves with so much food we walked across the street to Jackson's on George...a bar with four levels. We went to the third level where they had free pool. We played a few games and then a couple joined in with us. I actually did pretty good for not having played a real game before. I actually sunk balls! I even beat Goutham at a game! Obviously, I was just super lucky! After enough of that we went to The Rocks (an older, famous part of the city) and enjoyed some dessert at Pancakes on the Rocks. It is open 24/7 and makes delicious food with crepes and pancakes. I had the Ultimate, it was two crepes with cream cheese in the middle and raspberry syrup with ice cream! Yum! After midnight, we walked over to the Sydney Opera House and took some photos to show that I spent part of my birthday at the Sydney Opera House!
Tuesday - BIRTHday - I woke up to Breakfast in bed with cinnamon buns that David and Juli had made for me the night before. They used my grandma's recipe that David had gotten from my mom. After that, Kanako came in and gave David a plastic bag. It was my birthday present from all the flat mates! It was a big purse that I had been eye-ing while with them last week. David went out to run a few "Errands" while Monica and I went out to get her uggs (in the pouring rain). Later on, in the evening, my flatmates and i went to a restaurant that was a surprise for me. My friends Vivian, Cat and Caz joined us. The food and service (for once) was awesome!!! After we were finished our meal the server brought out a Blueberry Swirl Cheesecake that David had taken over there earlier in the day. He bought it from the store on George St that I walk past every day and eye the cakes in the window with my mouth watering. Everyone sang happy birthday! Luckily there was only one other group in the restaurant so it wasn't as embarassing as it could have been. I was the last one to finish my cheesecake, I let everyone know I was savouring it because my cousin, Stephanie had taught me to do that. haha. We finished off the night with the movie Hangover. It was pretty funny.
Wednesday - I got together with Tami for lunch at Wagamama. We had a good time catching up since the last time I saw her was before her trip up the coast. After lunch with Tami I caught up with David and we walked over to Kanako's work and ate some Japanese noodle bowls with her when she finished her work. We then walked over to a Chocolate cafe called Max Brenner. They had the coooolest mugs ever and yummmmy chocolate. We had choco-banana pizza with a mocha and a cookie flavoured frappe. Don't worry, I took lots of pictures! haha.
Thursday - I had a few girl friends come over and we had a potluck. There was a ton of food. Jenny came over and made spaghetti bolagnse or however you spell it. I made Lazy Man Perogies! A huge hit but then they had never heard of perogies and wanted me to make those next time..haha. David made beef stroganoff (sp?), Juli made her yummy pineapple cake and Monica made a bean salad. The other girls brought a few other little things. Those were the main meals. It was a fun night and the girls and David learned what a potluck was..haha
Friday - My flatmates and I all went out to the Cruise Bar. It is a fancy little place that is right below the Overseas Passenger Terminal. It's the place where huge Cruise Ships come and drop off the passengers for a little while! It was right next to the water across the Harbour from the Opera House. We were joined by Dee, and a few friends from David's hostel. It was a blast. There was a saxophone player and while I was in the bathroom, taking pictures with Juli and Kanako (you will see why when I put pictures up) David asked him to play me Happy Birthday. So when I had just gotten back to my friends I heard Happy Birthday playing on the saxophone and turned to see him walking towards me. Juli got a video up of it! I will see if I can get it so you can all view it. I made friends with a group of Scottish ladies (and man) who were absolutely in love with me. They kept telling me I was so beautiful and that I should move to Scotland because everyone would love me there. We all had a blast dancing around to oldies music. The last ones standing were Monica, David and I. So around 2 in the morning we went over to Pancakes on the Rocks (yes again, it was close to the Cruise Bar) with saxophone man. This time I had the Mexicana! Soooo delicious...again! We chit chatted about all our different cultures (America, Wales, Australia and Canada) until about 5 in the morning. Sax man gave us a ride home and we hit the hay straight away.
Saturday - Dee took Monica, David and I back to her place in Winston Hills (about 40 minutes away from our house) and we watched the Dark Knight (which everyone will hate me but, I didn't really like it..haha). After that was over we made sandwiches and popcorn and headed off to the Drive-In Movie Theatre just a couple suburbs over in Blacktown! We took Dee's mom's SUV and opened up the "boot" and watched from the back. We watched the Proposal and The Boat that Rocked. David loved the second one as it was all British comedy and a small view of some typical British things. Dee dropped David and I off at the train and we headed back to home.
And that was my birthday week! Maybe boring to read but it was a wonderful, wonderful week! It was definitely sad not being close to friends and family but I will remember this birthday for the rest of my life! Not only was it good times with the people I have gotten to know really well here but it was in AUSTRALIA!!! Woooo!
I will be putting up pictures later on tonight and I will post them on here for you all...It will be an over load!!!
Holly!
Monday, June 15, 2009
I love my flat mates!
So it is my birthday today! Yay! But I want to blog about what has been happening here. It has been pretty fun over the last few weeks. David and I still do not have jobs. We have even started applying to K-Mart and a few electronics places. I have finished everything I need for teaching (hopefully all of it this time). So now we are just waiting. If nothing comes up in the next week or so I believe we will look for jobs elsewhere and get out of Sydney.
Besides having no job I have been having a great time getting to know my flat mates more and more every day! They are so wonderful. We totally feel like one big family. We go out together all the time and cook together in the kitchen. We sing Juli's Colombian cooking songs and we attack each other with batter. There are a couple fesitvals that just finished here in the city. One of them was called VIVID. It was a light tour around the Sydney Opera House, Circular Quay and The Rocks. It was a very cold night. I was wearing a toque and got a red nose. The sights were beautiful, though. The Opera house had different lights on it. It is hard to explain but I will be sure to put pictures up. In fact, why not give you a sneak peak right now...
Beautiful.. The Harbour Bridge was beautifully lit up too! :)
Another festival that just finished was the Sydney Film Festival. I didn't know much about it except that it was going on and they had random films playing. My friend Jenny, took me to a movie at the State. It is a theatre in the city that is probably an original building to Sydney. I am bad at eras but I would like to say it has the style of like 1940s or something like that. It is like Darke Hall but more beautiful. The ladie's bathroom was called the Butterfly Room and had a beautiful waiting area...haha. Jenny also took David and I out to the Hill's Campus for Hillsong. Stephanie, feel lucky that you went to the City one. The Hill's is nice and big but the City one is just better....hahaha. The people also rotate from church to church so its not like you missed out on the "more famous" one. haha.
Because I am away from home and cannot celebrate my birthday with friends and family I have made myself a birthday week here. Making sure that I do something special with people everyday. My flat mates get a kick out of it. I will post about the week in a later blog! :):)
Love you all!!!
Besides having no job I have been having a great time getting to know my flat mates more and more every day! They are so wonderful. We totally feel like one big family. We go out together all the time and cook together in the kitchen. We sing Juli's Colombian cooking songs and we attack each other with batter. There are a couple fesitvals that just finished here in the city. One of them was called VIVID. It was a light tour around the Sydney Opera House, Circular Quay and The Rocks. It was a very cold night. I was wearing a toque and got a red nose. The sights were beautiful, though. The Opera house had different lights on it. It is hard to explain but I will be sure to put pictures up. In fact, why not give you a sneak peak right now...
Beautiful.. The Harbour Bridge was beautifully lit up too! :)
Another festival that just finished was the Sydney Film Festival. I didn't know much about it except that it was going on and they had random films playing. My friend Jenny, took me to a movie at the State. It is a theatre in the city that is probably an original building to Sydney. I am bad at eras but I would like to say it has the style of like 1940s or something like that. It is like Darke Hall but more beautiful. The ladie's bathroom was called the Butterfly Room and had a beautiful waiting area...haha. Jenny also took David and I out to the Hill's Campus for Hillsong. Stephanie, feel lucky that you went to the City one. The Hill's is nice and big but the City one is just better....hahaha. The people also rotate from church to church so its not like you missed out on the "more famous" one. haha.
Because I am away from home and cannot celebrate my birthday with friends and family I have made myself a birthday week here. Making sure that I do something special with people everyday. My flat mates get a kick out of it. I will post about the week in a later blog! :):)
Love you all!!!
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Sunny Days, Sweeping the Clouds away...
Well, it has been rainy for the past two weeks and today we had a day of sunshine finally. I went and used my brochure for my hair cut! It looks pretty good. I did have explain to him my fringe (aka bangs.) For those who do not know last time I got them cut was from me being impatient and trying to cut them myself. It resulted in Treena cutting them into a full bang and letting everyone know why cutting your own bangs is bad. haha. Once I am all caught up on other pictures you will see pictures of the new hair. Nothing to radical, don't worry mom, my hair is still blonde.
In the middle of last week David got laid off from his job at the hostel so him and I have been off together trying to find jobs. We had a job interview on Friday but it was exactly like my other job so we left the interview along with half of the 24 that were in there. Only 4 people were going to be getting the job. I also quit my other job. It was costing me more money than I was making. I couldn't afford that. I am just waiting on Kristin to mail me back my character reference from her and then I will have all the teaching stuff sorted. Hopefully.
Last week at Hillsong, David and I met a girl named Jenny. Her and I have hung out a few times since then. She is good to me. She even made me Chicken Pie and dropped it off when she was picking us up the other night. Just randomly. She is a pretty random girl. I like it. She also took me to a movie night with a bunch of other girls. It was good to have a girls night.
I added lots more pictures!!!! Check them out!
Hillsong and Colour Conference
Updated: Central Coast and Pacific Palms
Birthdays Galore in Australia
In the middle of last week David got laid off from his job at the hostel so him and I have been off together trying to find jobs. We had a job interview on Friday but it was exactly like my other job so we left the interview along with half of the 24 that were in there. Only 4 people were going to be getting the job. I also quit my other job. It was costing me more money than I was making. I couldn't afford that. I am just waiting on Kristin to mail me back my character reference from her and then I will have all the teaching stuff sorted. Hopefully.
Last week at Hillsong, David and I met a girl named Jenny. Her and I have hung out a few times since then. She is good to me. She even made me Chicken Pie and dropped it off when she was picking us up the other night. Just randomly. She is a pretty random girl. I like it. She also took me to a movie night with a bunch of other girls. It was good to have a girls night.
I added lots more pictures!!!! Check them out!
Hillsong and Colour Conference
Updated: Central Coast and Pacific Palms
Birthdays Galore in Australia
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