30th July 2009 On Monday Francesca that I met in Sydney back in my first week came to Brisbane to stay for a couple of days. It was really good to see her again and I can’t believe we’ve been in Oz for over 4 months now! Last night (Wednesday) we flew up to Cairns, the shuttle bus to the airport just had us two on it: the driver was really chatty and he decided to take the back roads. When we were about half way there he pulled up onto a driveway and went...

29th June 2009 Today I’m celebrating the fourth anniversary of my 21st birthday!!!! The weekend was really good, even though the plans for it ended up being really last minute. Friday evening was work’s End of Financial Year Cocktail Function, sounds really fancy but jeans sufficed, and since there was free drink and food there was no way I was going to miss it! We were handed a raffle ticket as we went it for a draw later on, and if we won we could choos...

5th June 2009 This week I……. ….saw lots of minis, yay :) (see last blog re Cootha Classic) ….went to work in my own clothes and came home in someone else's ….got wet, again (Queensland = Sunshine State, my arse!!!) - for all those people that will smile knowing that England has nicer weather than Oz! ….got to meet a lovely new Irish lass called Tara that Catherine (my roommate) brought back from Ireland with her on her return last weekend. She is...

23/05/2009 Ok, so I'm officially crap at this! Can't believe it's already been a month since the last one. Just so's you know I'm still alive and still loving Australia, it's going to be really hard to move on from Brisbane when I finish working here at the end of Sept, I've made some really good friends here. I went down the coast to Surfers Paradise last weekend, on Sunday, after two good nights trying out some bars in the city on Friday and Saturday. Everyon...

Sorry it's been so long since the last one! I had spent a few weeks job hunting at all hours of the day so there wasn't much to report back on. apart from going to Australia Zoo on Easter Monday which was a great day apart from it peeing it down all day - I've tried so hard to get my feet clean after wearing flip-flops all the time but by the end of that day they were sparkling and looked like I had spent 10 hours in the bath! I got to hug a koala (yay!) see s...