We had an extremely early morning, we were woken at 5.00am to the sound of the fire alarm. We all had to troop outside in our pjs and gather on the grass freezing. We were let back in before too long to sit in the dining room while the firemen were outside. No one has a clue whether this is real, a practice or a accident. We were told we could go back to bed, it took a little while as we had extremely grumpy faces now but we eventually got to sleep. When we check...

We woke up and got ourselves ready as we're going to Sydney zoo today. Ahmed and Raheela are picking us up at 11.00am so we were ready and had been to grab a sandwich for breakfast and waited. Ahmed had tried to call to say they'd be late because they were having to pick up a new blow up bed as the one with the hole had gone down at 5.30am. They picked us up at midday ish and then had to drive to pick the bed up which was from a house not far from our hostel. We ...

We were up early ish today and packing our bags as we are staying in a hostel for the next two nights. Ahmed's friends are moving to Israel and had asked if they could stay with Ahmed a while ago. We got our things together for the day, we'll pick our big bags up later and got the bus into the city. We walked round part of the city called The Rocks. Ahmed had told us to find two pubs while we were there. One had a roof terrace where you could sit so we had a beer...

Ahmed and Raheela both left for work by 7.30am, Raheela had showed me yesterday how to use their washing machine and the dryer so we got a couple of loads done. We got showers then headed into the city around 11.00am. We got the bus into the city and got there just before midday. Ahmed had said if we were around the front of his building to let him know and he'd try to come for coffee. He came and met us, we sat outside the opera house having coffee and got a few...

Raheela naughtily threw a sickie to get today off work. It's not easy getting any time off during term time if you're a teacher. Yet again we were slow to get going out of bed. When we did get going though we got out in the car and saw some more sights of the city we haven't seen yet. It's great having someone to show us around, you really get to see all the best bits. We had some late breakfast/lunch at an Israeli place where the food was amazing but we all ate ...