HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE BACK HOME OR WHEREVER YOU ARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! bondi beach for christmas, well what can i say, its most definately different! for starters its very strange to be away from my family mates and pets, who i miss a lot! great that i can call home or chat whenever i like though, makes it easier. also i have great great friends, from all over the world, and will for sure have an amazing xmas!!!! sweden celebrates crimbo on the 24th, and so were making a huge picnic and going up onto the rocks to pig out at lunch time with a view over bondi beach. will be really nice, then i have to work til midnight xmas eve, then smas day we (bout 15 of us) will have a BIG BARB ON THE BEACH!! going shopping today for the meat and of course SHRIMP ON THE BARBIE haha, gona go all out and get some awesome food. BY THE WAY! something so os sosososososso so cool, and apt, my name (mat) in swedish actually means FOOD!!!! how perfectly perfect is that. so when i arrived with MAT all over my butter and tuna and pasta etc, the swedes saw it in the fridge and burst out laughing, its like writing FOOD on all your food lol........anyway. moving on. so anyway xmas should be awesome, and then im working everyday til new years day, which should smack me out a good 800bucks to play with and save. thinking of staying here with the guys til bout april then with all our savings, take a 2 month holiday up the coast and around australia. see how it goes. few days ago me chris and johannes were in a new tv advert, so cool, got 50bucks for few hours work. coz i had longish hair, i was in the front row near the presenter, face in the camera LOAAAAAAAADS and coz johannes is a model he was near me, and chris coz hes a big muscley stud, he was near the front too. and near me (in the audience- it was for a game show-we had to clap and laugh etc and get filmed doing it)- near me were few chinese, old ladies and a little kid, so its all nice and random and not just young backpackers. hopefully will be doing more extra work soon, johannes has just had a load of photos done and is on the books of an agency, so he'll get more work and we'll try and blag along. this one i just found in a paper advert and called up. most random thing ever, think of the most random country ever....ok? well..................vanuatu. yeah, thats where johannes and sebastian are off to today for christmas, seb has rich family and they own some of it.. as u do, and jo got asked along..nice. but i cant wait for xmas on bondi, will be fun. managed to get hold of surfboard at last, and went yesterday but the waves were mega and i got smacked in the face with my board, very uncool, but today the waves are even and small so will go and practise some more today... which is where im going now b4 xmas shopping.... so gota go, hope everyone has a fantastic xmas! will speak to as many people as i can on xmas day! lots of love mat(food)