Sydney update

It's monday morning and yet again I am heading off to the call centre...arrrghhh!!! It's especially awful as I really thought I would have a new job by the end of the weekend and as a result, told everyone I work with (not my boss, obviously; but my colleagues/friends) that I would not be coming back. Well, I had to because I had to explain why I needed everyone's phone numbers, right? So I left on friday, taking my mug with me, and now I have to crawl back, hiding my face in shame...the horror!!

I had a trial shift at a pub on saturday night, but sadly they haven't yet called to offer me a job...hence having to slink back to telesales. To be honest I feel like they won't call. It was tougher than I thought...they put me on the bar taking food orders, in the restaurant area (Sydney pubs are huge, and this one, which is really nice, has an outdoor courtyard, a main bar, a bistro, and about 3 other bars upstairs) and the till was pretty complicated...well, actually, I guess it was incredibly straightforward, but you know, being unfamiliar I managed to find it stressful and to make a few errors that the other bar staff had to sort out for me. Oops. So, hmm, not sure if I impressed anyone very much...serving in a pub turns out to be alot different from working for AYS at weddings!


However, despite all this, I had a cool weekend and feel more settled than ever...on friday night I went out with work (the only good thing about this job is the people) and ended up at a party on the 47th floor of the World Tower - right in central Sydney. It was a fantastic flat, and most of us spent much time marvelling that people we worked with could live in somewhere like that. Mind you, they do have 7 travellers crammed into a 2 bedroom flat, and they did have to pay $1000 deposit EACH...but still. It was fabulous.

Then yesterday my housemates and I decided to decorate the house for christmas. None of us have any money, so we went to the shopping centre and returned with a 4 foot artificial tree ($5) and 2 strings of fairy lights ($2:99 each). The house is, uh, transformed. Actually it looks pretty cute and Colin says once he's been paid he's going to splash out and improve on our efforts. We then enjoyed a roast dinner, cooked by my roommate, Claire, which we ate whilst sitting outside and enjoying the gorgeous 25 degree weather. Very Australian.