New house!! + some Fiji photos

I moved into my new house yesterday and it's really nice...I'm so pleased, it's a great change from hostels and dorms. My housemates are really friendly, next door keep popping round and there's a party tonight at number 25 - it really feels like student accommodation, basically. We have sofas, we have a dvd player, it's great.

I'm living with an Irish guy, who's really nice - yesterday when I moved in he showed me to the supermarket (Aldi, yes - my bank account is happy), a Scottish girl who is my actual roommate, who seems really cool, a couple from Manchester and a guy from York. Mind you, most of them are going to be moving out over the next couple of weeks so then I'll have new housemates to deal with, but hopefully that will work out well.

We have a local called the Vic, which is great as it means I can pretend to be in Eastenders PLUS it's a welcome reminder of Vic, my much-missed ex-travelling companion. It's really nice, we had a drink there yesterday. Pubs in Sydney generally are nicer than back home: in London especially, they tend to be way too polarised between grubby, dark and full of old men versus posh, overpriced and full of people pretending they're in Sex and the City...whereas here you get a happy medium.

The other night I went out with some girls I met in Fiji. We'd originally planned to watch the Christmas tree lights get switched on in Martin's Place, but that plan fell through after they brought on some ridiculously crappy children's entertainer who started singing about pineapples...seriously...so we went to the pub. Many hours later, we actually ended up getting a tour of Kings Cross fire station at 1am...very, um, interesting.
Fiji

My birthday