I´ve got a job!!

I´ve been looking for a job for almost the whole time I´ve been in Sydney. I gotta admit I haven´t been really active in my search, though. Anyways, on Thursday when I was coming back from the the gym I walked past this new cafe and saw a sign saying they´re looking for new staff. I stopped just to read the sign more carefully, when this guy started talking to me. It turned out he works as a bartender at the cafe, and he promised to mention me to his boss. So on Friday, when they were having a promotion day (free coffee and cake) I went there with my resume and talked to the boss for maybe 5min. He was very busy talking to his cell phone all the time, and just told me to come to a staff meeting on Sunday morning. So that´s what I did today - I couldn´t sleep last night because I was so excited about getting to know if I actually got the job - to find out I´m now employed :D I met the rest of the people working there, who all seem really nice. We were told about some practices, but since it´s a brand new cafe there´re still many things that need to be worked out. We wrote down our days and hours of availability and were supposed to receive a call about our work shifts today, but no one has called me yet. Maybe I´ll stop by there tomorrow to ask. Anyways, I´m really happy and excited about starting my new job :)

Today the housing service offered us a free lunch in the courtyard to celebrate the end of construction. Geegal has been under some major construction since I arrived, and we residents have been bothered by noise starting early in the mornings, not being able to hang out at the courtyard for over a month and most importantly not having our balconies until last week! But now the construction is finally finished, and we got our lunch: various dishes of Chinese, sushi and Indian, plus fruit for desert. It was delicious :P Followed by some ice cream that Carla, Joyce (her Dutch friend who´s visiting here this weekend) and I had in Darling Harbour. I´ve been eating like a pig lately (both real food and treats) but haven´t gained any weight, which is weird. I´m enjoying it as long as I can, though, since I love eating :P


At the finished courtyard (first picture taken with my new camera)

Getting a job came just in time considering I´ve been shopping quite a lot lately... A week ago I went to Market City intending just to buy some vegetables from Paddys Market, but decided to collect my student discout card from the info desk, too. I saw that Events outlet store was having massive sales and ended up spending almost an hour there trying on different dresses. I bought 3 dresses and a top for $106. If I had paid full prices they had would´ve been over $650 together! One of the dresses is a strapless full lenght evening gown made of dark brown satin, and I´m planning on wearing it at the next acadimic ball, which I guess will be Kaplaaki´s Anniversary Ball. Then on Thursday I was surfing online looking for discout digital cameras. I had lost my crappy HP-camera at the harbour cruise, and didn´t really care since I had been planning on buying a better one anyways. I found this good Casio camera on sale, and Carla joined me to pick it up from an outlet in Caterbury (after having coffee and pastries at Breadtop Cafe). It was about to close at 5pm and we were still in the train at 4:53, but once we got out of the train we sprinted to the store and made it just in time! So now I´ve got a brand new cool camera. It has a bunch of different settings (like sunny day, motion, snow, dark, close-up etc.) and it´s smart enough to choose the best setting automaticly. I´ll be having a good time taking pictures in Tasmania!