Life on the flipside

I’ve moved into a flat now! We have no internet and it has been difficult to find a connection. Usually I go and use wifi at McDonald’s but it doesn’t seem to be working today so I am writing this blog in word and if I find internet somewhere this week  I’m going to post it.

It’s a public holiday here today. Melbourne cup day. Everyone is at the horse races, I can’t go because I’m broke. I spent all my money on one months rent plus bond.

My friends Helen, Kerry and Jen decided to look for a flat 2 weeks ago and no one told me they were looking. I had 24hours notice. They told me they wanted to find somewhere cheaper than the hostel then the next morning we were moving out. We have a two bedroom between four girls.
it’s been good. Jen and I spent our whole weekend on the couch watching tv because we have no money. We went to the market on Sunday to buy cheap meat and veggies and have been cooking.

In the long run this flat with save us $60 a week.. plus the money saved on food from cooking more and entertainment because we have our own tv.

Work is great. I started at Entertainment as a temp just helping with filing and data entry but they decided to keep me in a full-time position because they liked me. A girl in a production admin role left the company and they didn’t like anyone they interviewed so I am doing the job now and they’ve hired another temp to do the work I was originally meant to do.

I’m checking contracts with merchants and making amendments to them. My boss gave me one of the books yesterday which I was very very excited about. The entertainment book is a giant book of discount vouchers. So now I have coupons for everything which should save me a lot of money as well.

I told my boss that we have this flat until January 15^th and he said “ok, you can stay until then” but I’m sure If I decided to stay until March (when the book goes to print) he would let me.
I don’t want to do that though. I am thinking on January 16^th I’m going to fly to Perth and try to get harvest work for my 2^nd year visa.

I would have to do that until April which would leave me with one month of travelling around the country but that is probably more than I can afford anyways.

They don’t celebrate halloween here which was depressing. We had a little bit of a party at work. Everyone had a costume and we had snacks and wine for the last hour of the day on Friday.

Sunday I went to my friend Shane’s for dinner and a movie about vampires. That was it for my halloween in Melbourne.

It’s been raining here a lot but it is supposed to be 26 and sunny on Saturday so I should end up at the beach J

So it is now Wednesday and I am at the library.. Last night Shane came over  to see our flat for the first time and have dinner, and he bought us a DVD player!!!! yay! it's really cute and pink for the four girls.
Then today at work Jen randomly got three free dvds they were handing out to the staff (all Hugh Grant movies funny enough) so I know what we are doing this Saturday night! haha living it up in Melbourne

Hope everyone is well in Canada xoxoxoxoxox