P.S. I got a tattoo...
The coordinates of Manly on my wrist! :)
33 47 46 S
151 16 58 E
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Thursday, 17 May 2012
A month has flown by
Hey guys,
Sorry it's been ages since my last post. I forgot my password for a while and I have obviously been busy going out and working a lot.
Work
Moo is really good, I'm leaving in a few weeks because I am going up the coast to do regional work (fruit picking) in order to get my second year visa. I am going to miss Moo a lot, as I have been working there so long now. Elise, the other manager is also going, she is from the UK and is going back to finish her Uni course in Newcastle. She only came over to Aus for a year because she had an opportunity as part of her course to do a year out in another country! So she doesn't want to go back, but tells me she will come back to Aus and continue travelling, perhaps meet us somewhere, once she has finished her course in 2013. We have had a few leaving do's at work as two other girls are continuing / starting travelling, Lisa and Julia. They are lovely girls and am going to miss them a lot. So elise and I are doing our best to trial and hire girls to be our replacements which is obviously difficult because they need to be trained up and ready to go by the time we both leave in a few weeks. But we will do it, we have a few potentials :) I am still doing design work; I am currently making a few tshirt designs for our ''Deluxe Moo'' (a big burger) champions, those who eat it basically and want to buy a tshirt to mark the occasion! and also some promo tshirts to promote moo manly around the area. I'm also doing a video for Moo too, stringing together photos and video snippets and making a sort of advert. That's taking a bit of time and unsure whether it will get finished by the time I leave. I am hoping I get to do a bit of design work even though I am gone, that would be amazing. Not doing any online marketing work at the moment but did work at Malcolm's book launch event a few weeks ago. Mel and Adam helped out too and we got free alcohol, to drink and take home, as well as loads of yummy food to eat, and he gave us some ''boozing'' money haha and he paid us. i love Malcolm so much, I really hope to come back to Manly after my travels, settle down here and get sponsored by his company, that would be a dream situation, hope it works out, i will definitely keep in communication with all of the contacts i have made here.
Going Out and About
Now Adam has arrived, our other friend from Uni, we have been going out even more. We have now been appointed Entertainment Managers at the hostel which means Mel and I both get free rent! saving $162 each a week, and we organise loads of parties and dinners. So far, we have organised an Olympics night where we played loads of sports themed drinking games and everyone dressed as a country, that was our first and biggest event because there were loads of people. Then the week after we did a Full Moon Party, with body paint, glow sticks and we bought buckets to drink out of, like you do in Thailand :) everyone loved that and got really into it. Then we had a White Tshirt Party the week after that where everyone wore a white thsirt and everyone writes on your shirt, rude things and pictures mostly haha. Last night we had a traffic light jamaican party, where people wore red if they were taken, amber if they are a maybe and green if they are single! And I made loads of Jamaican delicacies for everyone, Mel said it was the best meal she has ever eaten which is so amazing :) everyone loved it, cooked for 12 people. Did a big roast dinner last week for everyone, 17 people!!! that was a big job but we did it and everyone loved it. So I have really got used to buying and cooking for loads of people now! which is good, seeing as I plan to open up by own bar, serving quick and tasty food, one day :) we have been out in the city a few times, and have been to loads of markets too. We went to Kings Cross to World Bar one night which was really good fun! really good music! And then we went to Cream fields festival at the end of April, about 15 of us went together, and we started drinking vodka at 11am, eugghhh, I'm hungover writing this so it's making me urge thinking about drinking. haha. We have been out to dinner a lot too, making the most of all of the nice restaurants, loads of nice steaks, and pasta dishes, thai and desserts, yum! and eating at Moo as well. We cook a lot at the hostel though too, so my cooking has got a lot better. It's freezing here though. Beautiful weather though, blue skies!
Friends
So many people have come and gone. The hostel is fun but a lot of my 'friends' have gone. The good thing about the hostel at the moment is that there are no cliques, everyone knows and hangs around with each other and all of the 'old' long term people are really open to meeting and talking to new people. Adam has made friends with a few lads who are staying here for a while, think he misses the lads at home a lot bless him :( and the football team in Perth. One of my friends, Martin left this morning, he is off to Bali to surf. then going home to Sweden then back in September possibly. Then Claudelle and Alex, two of our good friends have gone to Fiji for a few weeks but they are coming back in a few days now. Katie, my really good german friend who went to Perth in January, came back, as a surprise!!!! i couldn't believe it, she was flying out of Sydney so she popped to see me in Manly for a few days before she flew back home! we said we would meet again in another country. She is an amazing friend and will miss her a lot, but i know we will see each other again one day. Jo, Emma, Karin and Sandra, four girls, german, Norwegian and english, are heading up the coast in a van! haha! and Luke is going to Thailand. Tom is chilling in Manly and Adam is going to work here for a bit, he has a wedding in Bali then he is coming up to cairns to meet us to do regional work. Colin and Dave are staying here for a while i think. My friend
Plans
So Mel and I have tried to make a bit of a life plan over the last few weeks. We are moving out of the city in a few weeks, spending a few days there doing all the touristy stuff! Blue Mountains, Opera House, going out in Bondi, going to Newtown, etc! Cant wait until that week! Mel Adam and I are planning on going to the zoo this Sunday and we are going to the city, at The Rocks on Saturday night, which we are really looking forward to. We are going to Cairns on Sunday 9 June at 6am I think! haven't booked yet but that looks like the best price! :) then we are going to spend a week in Cairns, enjoying the sun and heat!!! then we will go to airlie beach to search for fruit picking work! Then after that we are planning on going to Indo, Thailand, Lao, etc Canada, SA, then come back to Aus when we are done travelling and find some work in Manly where we can get sponsored to stay! we <3 manly :)
Gosh there is so much to tell but not enough time, but I am still loving it in Manly and don't really want to leave :( but know I have to in order to come back.
Lots of love to all,
I'll try and update you a lot sooner next time,
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Sorry it's been ages since my last post. I forgot my password for a while and I have obviously been busy going out and working a lot.
Work
Moo is really good, I'm leaving in a few weeks because I am going up the coast to do regional work (fruit picking) in order to get my second year visa. I am going to miss Moo a lot, as I have been working there so long now. Elise, the other manager is also going, she is from the UK and is going back to finish her Uni course in Newcastle. She only came over to Aus for a year because she had an opportunity as part of her course to do a year out in another country! So she doesn't want to go back, but tells me she will come back to Aus and continue travelling, perhaps meet us somewhere, once she has finished her course in 2013. We have had a few leaving do's at work as two other girls are continuing / starting travelling, Lisa and Julia. They are lovely girls and am going to miss them a lot. So elise and I are doing our best to trial and hire girls to be our replacements which is obviously difficult because they need to be trained up and ready to go by the time we both leave in a few weeks. But we will do it, we have a few potentials :) I am still doing design work; I am currently making a few tshirt designs for our ''Deluxe Moo'' (a big burger) champions, those who eat it basically and want to buy a tshirt to mark the occasion! and also some promo tshirts to promote moo manly around the area. I'm also doing a video for Moo too, stringing together photos and video snippets and making a sort of advert. That's taking a bit of time and unsure whether it will get finished by the time I leave. I am hoping I get to do a bit of design work even though I am gone, that would be amazing. Not doing any online marketing work at the moment but did work at Malcolm's book launch event a few weeks ago. Mel and Adam helped out too and we got free alcohol, to drink and take home, as well as loads of yummy food to eat, and he gave us some ''boozing'' money haha and he paid us. i love Malcolm so much, I really hope to come back to Manly after my travels, settle down here and get sponsored by his company, that would be a dream situation, hope it works out, i will definitely keep in communication with all of the contacts i have made here.
Going Out and About
Now Adam has arrived, our other friend from Uni, we have been going out even more. We have now been appointed Entertainment Managers at the hostel which means Mel and I both get free rent! saving $162 each a week, and we organise loads of parties and dinners. So far, we have organised an Olympics night where we played loads of sports themed drinking games and everyone dressed as a country, that was our first and biggest event because there were loads of people. Then the week after we did a Full Moon Party, with body paint, glow sticks and we bought buckets to drink out of, like you do in Thailand :) everyone loved that and got really into it. Then we had a White Tshirt Party the week after that where everyone wore a white thsirt and everyone writes on your shirt, rude things and pictures mostly haha. Last night we had a traffic light jamaican party, where people wore red if they were taken, amber if they are a maybe and green if they are single! And I made loads of Jamaican delicacies for everyone, Mel said it was the best meal she has ever eaten which is so amazing :) everyone loved it, cooked for 12 people. Did a big roast dinner last week for everyone, 17 people!!! that was a big job but we did it and everyone loved it. So I have really got used to buying and cooking for loads of people now! which is good, seeing as I plan to open up by own bar, serving quick and tasty food, one day :) we have been out in the city a few times, and have been to loads of markets too. We went to Kings Cross to World Bar one night which was really good fun! really good music! And then we went to Cream fields festival at the end of April, about 15 of us went together, and we started drinking vodka at 11am, eugghhh, I'm hungover writing this so it's making me urge thinking about drinking. haha. We have been out to dinner a lot too, making the most of all of the nice restaurants, loads of nice steaks, and pasta dishes, thai and desserts, yum! and eating at Moo as well. We cook a lot at the hostel though too, so my cooking has got a lot better. It's freezing here though. Beautiful weather though, blue skies!
Friends
So many people have come and gone. The hostel is fun but a lot of my 'friends' have gone. The good thing about the hostel at the moment is that there are no cliques, everyone knows and hangs around with each other and all of the 'old' long term people are really open to meeting and talking to new people. Adam has made friends with a few lads who are staying here for a while, think he misses the lads at home a lot bless him :( and the football team in Perth. One of my friends, Martin left this morning, he is off to Bali to surf. then going home to Sweden then back in September possibly. Then Claudelle and Alex, two of our good friends have gone to Fiji for a few weeks but they are coming back in a few days now. Katie, my really good german friend who went to Perth in January, came back, as a surprise!!!! i couldn't believe it, she was flying out of Sydney so she popped to see me in Manly for a few days before she flew back home! we said we would meet again in another country. She is an amazing friend and will miss her a lot, but i know we will see each other again one day. Jo, Emma, Karin and Sandra, four girls, german, Norwegian and english, are heading up the coast in a van! haha! and Luke is going to Thailand. Tom is chilling in Manly and Adam is going to work here for a bit, he has a wedding in Bali then he is coming up to cairns to meet us to do regional work. Colin and Dave are staying here for a while i think. My friend
Plans
So Mel and I have tried to make a bit of a life plan over the last few weeks. We are moving out of the city in a few weeks, spending a few days there doing all the touristy stuff! Blue Mountains, Opera House, going out in Bondi, going to Newtown, etc! Cant wait until that week! Mel Adam and I are planning on going to the zoo this Sunday and we are going to the city, at The Rocks on Saturday night, which we are really looking forward to. We are going to Cairns on Sunday 9 June at 6am I think! haven't booked yet but that looks like the best price! :) then we are going to spend a week in Cairns, enjoying the sun and heat!!! then we will go to airlie beach to search for fruit picking work! Then after that we are planning on going to Indo, Thailand, Lao, etc Canada, SA, then come back to Aus when we are done travelling and find some work in Manly where we can get sponsored to stay! we <3 manly :)
Gosh there is so much to tell but not enough time, but I am still loving it in Manly and don't really want to leave :( but know I have to in order to come back.
Lots of love to all,
I'll try and update you a lot sooner next time,
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