After three weeks of non-stop searching, I finally got a job of sorts! It is only part-time, 23hours/week over three evening shifts, but the pay is ok.. I will still look for extra work for the daytimes when I am not at the uni, because I would really like to break even with money, after rent, and not sure 23hours is enough for that! The job, though: funnily enough, it was not a pub that I gave my CV into at first, but they had a 'staff wanted' sign up so I gave...

Two-and-a-half weeks gone now, another week and I will be halfway through my time in Sydney! The uni stuff is great, on Thursday I went out on a boat in Sydney Harbour with one of the researchers to collect data from experiments she is running at nine different sites in the harbour, so awesome to see the Opera House from the 'other' side, and Harbour Bridge from underneath! Then on monday I spent most of the day with my eyes glued to a microscope, counting oys...

Have been here in Sydney for over a week now, and it seems like SO much longer than that! In a good way, though, I think simply because I have been so busy and have done so much and every day has been so long and filled. I get home in the evening and I am shattered! ('Home' is now applied to any place where I have been staying for more than about two nights, funny how quickly you slip into that). Spent several days CV-updating and job seeking online, and a who...

Activity category should include about a MILLION things, I have been SO busy the last couple of days! Tuesday morning, had an orientation session at the Work and Travel Company offices, at which we were informed and advised about hundreds of things to do with job seeking, accomodation etc. After the session, had so many forms to fill out and things to register for. I registered on their online site, uploaded resume details and stuff like that. Boring forms to do...

Have made it to Sydney after the journey-from-hell (overexaggeration, but I'm tired and exhausted and it FELT like that at the time!). Left the wildlife rescue centre at 11am, for a 3-4hour taxi ride to Bangkok Airport. Had the 'sleazy' driver, who asked if I had a boyfriend, kept scratching his hairy belly and spent the entire journey talking on the phone, checking his phone, texting, and at a couple of points, talking on TWO phones at once, whilst driving in t...