Okay, Time for an update. Work didn't work out, which made last week pretty difficult all round. But today Maggie (who i met in sydney and has also been attempting to find work in Melbourne's stagnant puddle of a job-market), and I, got a job Fruit picking, grapes to be precise. So we've quizzed the people about it, made sure with lots of checking that it's no where near any bushfires, and bought ourselves some tickets. Tomorrow we head to Mildura, which is quite...

Hello everyone, I wish there was a function to give the blog a title, because this one would be called 'HEATWAVEEE!!!!'. Yeah, unfortunately it's been above 42degrees for the last 4 days, and hit a maximum of 45.1 yesterday, a day in which i went outside.Now i know its probably sounding pretty good to you right now, what with the cold, snow, rain etc ive been hearing reports of... but trust me, its BAD. So thankfully the cool breeze has blown in today along with ...

I thought it might have been a while since an update, so here goes. I've pretty much done nothing of note in Melbourne yet, i took the free tram around the city centre, saw some old buildings (one was even 1860!) and walked kinda near the tennis place. Otherwise i've been spending my day as follows; get up aat 8am for free breakfast at the hostel, go to park and use museums wireless to check emails and ook for jobs, apply for jobs. Return to hostel, watch tennis ...

Hi all, Well no luck on the job front, but i have to go and see some people about a room in a shared house later today. Hopefully that wil go well, i'm taking cookies as a bribe. I've just uploaded some pictures of Sydney and Hunter Valley, Blue mountains etc. There arent too many this time, i got bored of looking like a tourist rather quickly as my main acitivty in Oz is working and living rather than taking a million photos of everything, still i hope there are...

Okay, so i've made it to Melbourne. And the plan now is to look for a job and a room in a shared house. so far, after almost 36hours of trying,, im not getting very far. You might say to yourself... thats not a very long time, give it a week. Well considering i was up at 6am yesterday, spent all day looking online, around the area, on noticeboards, making phone calls and sending my CV to many people...it's not great that i havent yet received ONE phone call about...