Waking Up in Oz

Tonight’s our last night in this shitty hostel. I’m kind of sad to be leaving it. Between the Dutch hookers fighting outside at 4 am, a helicopter circling over us in the middle of the night, and the monkey I’m convinced lives in a tree outside our window, it’s kind of grown on me here. [...]

Girl at KFC: Would you like a serviette?
Mandi: Sure, I’ll have barbeque sauce.
Serviette means napkin. Oops. Lesson learned.

Holy hell, apartment hunting in Sydney is a nightmare! The horror stories are true. I can’t get over just how different it is here than in the states when it comes to that.
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Here’s how it works. Each property has an inspection time. This is a 15 minute window when EVERYONE interested in that property comes [...]

So much has happened in the past week and a half, I don’t even know where to begin! We’re still staying at my friends’ house and I’ve been using their computer so I want to wait until I get settled in my own place to start putting up pictures and updating on the regular.
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Here’s a [...]