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Day 1/2 15(16)/11/07 - Ok here goes, back to the start. Well the start of my years adventure began with being woken up at the unearthly hour of five in the morning, not cool not cool! A very nervous hour car journey later and i was at heathrow terminal four, got all my stuff out of the car and walked in. I was nowhere near as nervous as i thought i would be which surprised me and when I met the first of the other real gappers, Rob, i started to feel a bit more relaxed, gradualy more and more realgappers started to appear and we all checked in together. A slightly teary goodbye to the rents later, we all went through customs and straight to weatherspoons (a sign of things to come.) The flight was a lot better than i expected it to be, i think the simpsons movie, transformers and 1408 helped me through, (i didn't even start the book i'd purposely brought for it) and before i knew it we were in singapore (thats one more country off the list.) When we finaly made it to Sydney my back was feeling like it was about to snap in half, im definatly getting more leg room on the way back, we all went and picked up our luggage and met a few other real gappers who hadn't met us at spoons, one girl, emma, lost her luggage and we still don't know if she ever got it back. After making it through customs, chewing gum still in hand, we were "greeted" by our work and travel representitive, who seemed more concerned about getting to the pub than making sure everyone was on the bus, and were taken to the Sydney central YHA. I was sharing a room with david who was also a real gapper and after sorting out our stuff we went out for a few drinks in scruffy murphys, a legendary irish themed pub/club.
Day3 17/11/07 - My first morning in sydney began by discovering that we'd missed going out with the bulk of the group, who had all gone to the absolutely legendary 3 monkeys pub (there'll be lots more mentions of this later), who had all arranged to meet at at breakfast and go to bondi, so i joined them and we all went to bondi together which was very strange considering it was the middle of november! Bondi was qualtiy white sand great waves and sunshine! Which i hadn't seen for months. Another big night out followed, its a bit hazy now so just look at the pics.
Day 4 18/11/07 - Unfortunatly today i overslept so i missed out on going to the opera house with everyone, but it was ok i chilled out for a bit went for a swim and thought about what i was going to do for the next year of my life.
Day 5 19/11/07 - Today we finaly had our work and travel induction which was no where near as good as i'd thought first off the guide taking us to the induction refused to wait for everyone so it was only because a small number of people had already been to the office that we managed to get there. Even when we got there the bank account that was supposed to be set up for me hadn't so i've got to go into a branch anyway now and sort that out and the free bbq that was promised turned out to be just a meal and you had to pay for it! I hate real gap! We decided to go down to darling harbour to forget about real gap but cause it was a monday night it was preety dead so we ended up at scruffys again, but it was preety funny some classic dance moves from Phil what a legend (tune goes up tune comes down!)
Day 6 20/11/07 - Went over to manly beach to day ( you have to be realy manly to go there, uh oh well bad joke there) its so nice well better than bondi and the ferry ride is quality such good views, ive got some good photos of it in the album. Everyones getting a bit worried about where there gonna stay cause most people have to be out by wed, luckly ive got till friday but i don't want to leave it too late so hopefully we'll find somewhere soon.
Day 7 21/11/07 - Went to look at some accomadation up in randwick the house was preety nice but they want 500 dollars up front so we were like, urr no. Ren, Jay, Vicky and Worthy moved into a new flat/hostel, the rest of us had a look at it too probably will move in there on friday. went to side bar in the evening, quality bar gutted we didnt stay at wake up (the hostel attached to it) so much nicer than the YHA.
Day 8 22/11/07 - Been in Sydney for a week now woop woop! Went to Syndney aquarium today that was preety fun lots of fish and stuff and platapi ( i think thats the plural for platapus) i actualy love them there so cool n they were swimming like crazy in there little tank. Went on the monorail afterward i'd been saying we shoud go on it for ages but what an anti climax, crammed into a small carriage with a bunch of americans, we couldnt see anything boo hiss boo!
Day 9 23/11/07 - Did my RSA today, what a lot of bulls*** that was, 70 bucks to learn that you shouldn't sell alcohol to drunks or kids but oh well have to do it if i want to get a job in a bar or restaurant. Moved in to the new flat its a lil bit shabby but it'll do. Played scrabble in the evening with vicky martin and david what a night that was!
Day 10-26 24/11/07 - Lost track a bit now so i going to give a quick summary of these 2 weeks. Basically i got a job at the barn cafe, did one days work at the races and went to the beach a lot. Also went to wildlife world and brought some sunnies (see pictures for details). Also went to the imax to see beowolf on 3D, what an absolute shocker of a film fell asleep during it and this is imax, its not easy to fall asleep in an imax!.
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