We caught a flight back from Harvey bay airport back to Sydney and spent our last night in the hostel in Kings Cross which would be my home for the next couple of months. We shared a room so Kate could get a good nights sleep and organise her things before the long flight back the following morning. We went for a drink with some of the residents of the hostel that night and got chatting to a couples of girls from the UK who invited me to move into there room when Kate left.

Dropping Kate off at the airport was a strange mix of emotions, it would be the first time i would be on my own in another country which left me feeling anxious and excited at the posibilities and the challenge of the next few months.  In reality i never really felt like i was alone during my stay in Sydney, their was always something going on in the hostel and as i spent the next two months there working i realised that there were many other people in the same position.

I got a job working as a recruitment coordinator for an Australian company called Spotless. I was asked to coordinate the recruitment for a goverment run training scheme that needed 15 people from all walks of life who were to be trained up over 3 years to become qualified Hospitality Managers. I loved it- i got to interview Aussies from so many different cultural backrounds, Greeks, New Zealanders, Indians and Aboriginals. As a backpacker this was a great opportunity for me and a really interesting project to take on!

During my time there i tried to do the touristic things at the weekends and managed to pack in the following:Went up the AMP tower with a great 360 view of the city; Wondered around the Botanic gardens and through Woolomoloo; took trips out to Bondi and Coogie beaches around the city; Walked across the Syndey Harbour Bridge and round the north side of the city (descovering some really beautiful houses en route and going on a couple of rides at Luna Park fairground); Visited the markets at 'the rocks' (this is one of the oldest parts of sydney by the harbour with cobbled streets and some oldy stylee pubs/restaurants etc.); Shopping in the arcades around the city center (window shopping mainly except for work clothes that were a nessesity); Visted some of the museums; Descovered how much i loved sushi and also tried an eating expierience called Yum Cha in the Paddys markets in the heart of China Town; went to watch a 3D underwater film in the Imax; Went to the Jazz festival in Darling Harbour and to the a bar made compeatly of ice (with ice sculptures and ice glasses etc.) Very cool!!

After all that unfortunatly i got a bit sick at the end of my stay and had to delay my trip to Melbourne by a couple of weeks. I began to feel a bit home sick at that point but met a fab girl from Brazil who was studying in Sydney she made me realise that life could be alot worse! :-/