Friends and Jobs!!!

So, things are going great! Sydney is a blast and I've started meeting some awesome people! Yesterday I met Adam from California and we went to our orientation thing together and have hung out a lot since - it's really nice to have a friend from the states - Surprisingly there doesn't seem to be a lot of people here from the states. 

Last night we had a social thing at a Sidebar - a really fun backpacked bar with live music and cheap aussie beer :) I met another gal from Atlanta named Claire, she's been here a month and lives close to the city - she's taking me out tomorrow night and I'm pretty pumped. Everyone at the social was fun and nice and it was great to be hanging out! 

Our orientation was a little long and filled with awesome information and scary stuff - there is so many neat things to do like go to jillaroo school (sort of like a cowgirl) or volunteer on an organic farm in exchange for accomadation. There are quite a few jobs but tax is ridiculous, .30 on each dollar! And if you have two jobs you get taxed .48 per dollar on the second job. So, that makes being an au pair all that much more appealing! 

So, I met with the director of the au pair jobs and she only has one position open right now and is trying to fill it ASAP. It's in Kaimi, a beautiful beachtown that is an hour by train away from Sydney. It sounds like an amazing suburb and the family seems neat - they go yachting and have family in Byron Bay and Watsons Bay so there would be traveling too. I'm just not sure how I feel about being that far from the city (it would be a $30 roundtrip each time I wanted to come in)...But, the city is expensive so maybe it would okay to be farther away from it! It is such a fun city though - Adam and I walked around the Botanical Gardens this morning and around the wharfs which was really great! There are so many people and everything is gorgeous (the flowers, the buildings, the weather)...

For right now I'm waiting to hear back if the family will wait a week and a half for me to start in which case I will take off for the reef and then work in Kaimi and see how it goes! Australia is huge and there is so much I want to see but time and budget just doesn't make it realistic to see everything. Most of the locals of Sydney haven't even been to places like the reef or Ayers rock. So, we'll see how much I can get to! Besides, I don't want to spend it all in one place - I still have New Zealand to go!! 

Sorry this is a long babbly post - I'm trying to make decisions and we all know I suck at that soooo I'm using my blog as a source of venting right now. haha, anyways - miss you all SO MUCH!