Weekend Ahoy!!!

9th October-11th October

Friday. David was up again at the 4.45 am, crack of dawn, to face his subway challange. While I had the evening shift to look forward to as it starts at 6 pm. When David came back from work he felt like having a beer or two even though he probably shouldn't have as he got his last Hepatitis B vaccine. But sure how can you stop the Friday feeling. He got his six pack of Grolsh of all things and enjoyed them with the company of housemates, as at the weekend this house turns into a party house. As I finished working my first day there were some free drinks being offered to all the staff, and what better way to get to know them than with a drink and some chat. So that was fun, and instead of one comlimentary glass of wine I ended up having three and feeling a bit tipsy. When I got back home David had already gone to bed, he did however finish his six pack of beer, and even got some southern comfort that was left over from Malaysia. He was out for the count, but I was in a good mood and decided to join my fellow house mates downstairs for some more fun. We ended up playing the Roxanne drinking game and staying up til 4.30 am.That was only me going to bed though, the rest were up to their usual and drinking until 7 or 8 am.

Saturday came too fast, with not enough sleep and hangover for me. I swear to you my ability to handle a hangover is not the same as in the younger days. But all in all I had work to look forward too and so did David. We watched a lot of "Friends" episodes and did what we had to do which was work work work. At least working weekends we don't spend money and will keep it for seeing Australia later.

Angela & David

Work and No More Play

7th Oct-9th Oct

David started his job, all 6 am morning shifts. Getting up at 5 am to start the prep work. Those salads need to be chopped alright. But its good to have work after 4 months of travelling, plus this is when the bank account will hopefully start to grow again. Plus to add, he met some strange people at that hour of the morning. Let me explain: While he was sitting outside the subway store in Southbank, an old man comes out from the restaurant next door with a leaf blower in his hands. The man turns it on and starts running around chasing leaves away from the restaurant. Then he blows away the leaves from outside Subway and at that time he runs over to David, starts touching him on the head and shoulders while saying "oh, I'm 77 years old and still can do this every morning....ha ha ha". Then he runs back and starts to blow leaves again. Lucky the manager came to open the store, otherwise who knows what would have happened with that leaf blower.

As for me, well I just did some house work and enjoyed my days off leading up to the Friday when I begin my new working experience. We also went to the cinema to watch Mao's Last Dancer this afternoon, and it was a nice film. I even cried at the end, just a little though.

Angela & David

Life is so typical!!!

5th October-6th October

Monday. This day belongs to David and his job interviews are all lined up. Three in total. So the first one was "Subway", the sandwich shop, and dressed in his newly bought shirt and pants he went. Interview went reasonable, and the competition was huge around 50 people to get through. So off he went to the second interview for the sales and marketing. It went great, and he got a training day for Tuesday. So all good there. The third was back closer to home in "The Valley". More sales and marketing only door to door this time promoting energy and giving people discounts. Sounds great, but all the sales jobs are commission based and not a constant flow of cash. So hard to know what to do.....

Anyways, the good news is that "Subway" rang back and gave the job to David. He was pleased, then another bloke rang and invited David for training for the door to door sales role. So successful day with 2 and a half jobs offered. He accepted them all, and it was time to make some decisions.

But first a training day on Tuesday. He basically went to a shopping centre and had to grab people and get them to sign up with their credit card details....so not exactly a fun job. Lots of lies, and dishonesty in this job, so it was the first one to be urned down. Then the other sales and marketing job was turned dow. So the winner is "Subway", he loves that place, and making sanwiches is an honest way to make a living, feeding people gives a great satisfaction indeed. Plus I'm sure he will get some discounts on the subs ha ha ha ha.

So we are all set now, job, house, bank account and now its time to have some fun.

Angela & David

Hello New Farm, our home for the next six months!

3rd October - 4th October

We moved in to our bright, spacious double room in New Farm. Fantastic room when compared with what we lived in Dublin, and costs less, but that comes at a price. We did have a rough night sleep for the first night as we got to know our house mates and their weekend habits. These habits include drinking all night, making noise all night, and basically staying up all night. To add there are birds singing their lungs out at 4.30 am right outside the window. We were a little bit tired to say the least the next day and it didn't help as I had a job interview to go to. But we struggled on as best we could, I went for the interview. I came out smiling as the manager was very nice, and he agreed to give me a trial day tomorrow. I was on a high and very excited. To celebrate we just went to sleep early that saturday and try an get the energy back for the trial day. Our new flatmates were still in the party mood and decided to do another all night session, this time they did keep the noise down and showed a bit of respect for their fellow flatmates. (We would normally join them for that sort of a party aswell, but just when we get a job and have something to celebrate).

Sunday, the nerves, the butterflies in the stomach, it was all there. I started my trial with a bang. A broken glass and broken plates all within the first hour. I was not feeling very confident about getting the job. So I got called in to the office by the manager, he smiled and gave me the job. Yipee, I got a job now. Well that was easy, but don't start until next Friday though, so another week of rest for me. Yipee to that too, I sure need it as the crocs that I bought gave me the biggest blisters imaginable, damn you crocs, you were suppose to be comfortable.

Angela & David

Fugitive on the run, must be caught. its name is JOB!!!!

28th September - 2nd October

Monday to Friday sure felt like a working week, as we were still on the search for that job. Every job website was visited and many jobs applied for aswell, but still nobody was ringing for interviews. So what shall we do we thought, should we give up the search ???? Should we just not bother with work and just travel Australia and South America and come back home early and without any money in our banks???? These were all the questions going through our minds. Plus we had to change the round the world tickets and that costs money too. Pressure, pressure and lots of coffee was the answer for this week.

Me, i'm going to try barwork again.

As for David, well he got a call from a sales and marketing company for a job interview for Monday 5th. Then another call came for him and he had two interviews on Monday, both for sales and marketing. Things were looking up. I then got a call for a restaurant/bar job in the same district were we actually live. We were on a high, and ready to move into the new house that Friday. Things were happening fast, and looking like we were staying for a while.

Angela & David

A life in Australia

Yes, a few new blogs are coming tomorrow!!
We haven't had any internet for a few weeks so haven't been able to do good updates. But hopefully they are coming tomorrow.

LOVE Angela & David

Relax its the weekend!!!

26th - 27th September

We had enough of city life for this week, so its time to stay in the house and enjoy good food, good tv and a bit of poker too. All day things were taking at a leisurely pace, another sand storm was brewing outside, so it was a good night to chill out and play some cards. Poker is fun, and when its for money then it becomes even more fun. We were both playing well, and were left in the last three. However, David had to go and take al my chips from me, so I was gone. Two players left to fight it out for the poker champion of Ashgrove. David did not win I'm afraid, but it did come down to the last card for Johnny to take the championship. Luckily for David they struck up a deal before hand so he ended up winning some money anyway, and a bottle opener. Even though all bottles of beer in Australia seem to be twist cap.....Then the Liverpool match followed, and wow it was 6-1 victory. A bloody good day.

Sunday..............you can imagine what happened. Yes, correct. Absolutely nothing, apart from some house work, some tasty homemade burger meal with a fresh boiled sweet corn on the cob. And "The Dark Night" followed. We are slowly getting into the routine life once again.

Angela & David

27 years + 1 day Celebrations

25th September

WOW! It is no longer anybodies birthday but the headache suggests otherwise. However we had a super time, with super friends and thats all that matters. So now it is time to get on that yellow bus and go back into the city to meet Mikaela and Par again, just for coffees this time though. While in the city we get some very tasty sushi, which is a very popular food group here, we have a very nice sober chat. Then we say our goodbyes and arrive back at Colin's, and guess what they are doing?????????.........drinking beer of course, as it is Friday night. David could not resist the pressure, so he takes one, then two and then its another night of drinks for him. While I just chilled out in front of the tv and that was even better fun. The birthday continued for him all through the night.

 
Angela & David