30.03.2004

Hello beautiful people

Right now let me think what i have been up to......Thursday went exploring round the Rocks and walked under sydney bridge, ate ice-cream (yum ), got sunburnt and returned home feeling knackered!!!

Friday - went to Manly beach for the day which was really nice, watched Alex attempting to Body board and met up with a mate of Alex's from uni and his girlfriend - was nice to actually talk to a girl for a change!!!!

Saturday spent the morning wandering around town (think i roughly know my way around the centre now which is very scary considering i have absolutely no sense of direction whatsoever!) then got the jet cat over to manly to soak up a few rays in the arvo. Still havent been brave enough to go in the sea yet despite Alex trying to reassure me there are no fish (yeah like......whatever!).

Had a great day on Sunday, went down to darling harbour and walked around all the lovely cafes and such like which i shall never beable to afford to eat in! Went on the monorail which was fun, felt like a kid again only with no parent to buy me an ice-cream which was a bit disappointing!! Then wandered round to the Maritime museum but decided that in order for me to think that looking at lots of boats was even a little bit exciting i would need some encouragement so decided to leave it till i am no longer a billy no mates!!!

Then went to the Outback Centre where they do a presentation on the didjeridoo, was brilliant i really loved it. Alex was not impressed as everytime he plays now i keep saying it is pants as i have heard it properly! Then wandered around some gardens as there was a music festival on. All in all a good day.

Applied for a job yesterday and have just had a trial for an hour (was absoulte rocket science .......making sandwiches) and i have a feeling i am not even going to get the bloody job, to be honest though not sure if i want it as would mean getting up at 4:45 yes that is no typo its a 4....something not right about that...oh yeah thats it, its the middle of the chuffing night!!!!!!!! Anyway shall wait and see what happens, if any of you happen to win the lottery soon...remember me please!!!!

Number of occassions i have nearly died since i have been here=2

1) Got out of bed and being the good little girl that i am decided to make my bed straight away, pulled back the sheet to find a spider in (yes that's IN) my bed, was all camped out as if it had had a nice cosy sleep, luckily it hadnt woken up yet so i managed to splat it with my shoe before it had opened it's eyes properly - little bugger. Thought i had treated the whole situation with a great deal of maturity .....till that is when i went to go to bed in the evening. Managed to convince myself that the bugger had mistaken my room for Noah's Ark and therefore there had to be another one somewhere, after pulling everything off my bed (including mattress) discovered that he too was a billy no mates so all was well. until.......

2) Led on bed watching tv when Alex puts his hand over his mouth and starts saying "oh my god CJ you are not going to like this, really not going to like this" thought he was just winding me up, till i looked on the ceiling and saw the mother of all cockroaches. Started panicking and for some mental reason Alex decided to play his didjeridoo at it. Obviously (as he is not very good) this beast of an animal decided to fly at my face (why has nobody ever told me that they fly, i SO didnt know that!). It was incredibly reassuring when i screamed so loud that i nearly broke the window to know that no-one from our bloody house came to see if i was alright - cracking!! Eventually managed to kill the little shit and went for a fag to recover. Only to discover 2 of the buggers outside.....see they do think it's Noah's Ark - bloody bastards!!!!!

Last night we dedcided it was time for some nice food so went out for dinner with Alex, Joe and Thomas (blokes from our house) which was nice, especially as i had a white wine and soda..first one for two weeks..was like heaven..hmmmm wine!!

Anyway enough of my rambling, thanks to everyone for my emails keep em coming.

Loads of Love from sunny sydney and the beautiful bronzed (or is that just red and freckles we see?) Ceej xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx