Sorry, I haven't written anything here for a while now. I've been around here in Sydney, but today it's raining so I can write something.
So what have I done? Well, Chris, one of my flatmates had his birthday. We celebrated by going to the Rocks for a nice dinner. Two German girls are living here in this house at the moment as well. They will go to Melbourne in the end of this week. Lots of germans surrounding me, whaaa! :D
Yesterday, me and Andrew, my other flatmate, went bowling. I lost the first game but won the two games after. It was so much fun! We should do that more often!
I've been to IKEA as well. Mmmm, lots of Swedish food. Bought salty liquorice and crispy bread. Yummie!
Andrew is complaining about me being such a girly girl. I'm always going "Whaaa!" for every cockroach or spider I see. You can hear Andrew saying "Now what?" after all the "whaaa, wheee, aaah, gaaah, iiiiih". I've also been hunting mosquitoes in my room at 4 am. Quite an interesting hunt: 1 - 0 to the mosquitoes... Damn mosquitoes!
Yesterday I was about to go to the beach when I realized they had a tsunami warning for all the beaches. It's becuase of the quake in Chile. A bit disappointed but I don't want to take any unnecessary risks.
Ehhh... So.... My summary of Australia so far is:
Australia is a beautiful country, but I have some problems with the people here. Don't get me wrong, they are really nice and friendly... But it feels like I've been thrown back in the 50's sometimes. Well, a modified 50's. I've met a couple of guys here and they all seem to be a bit.. how shall I put it? Well, they idea of a good living is that the woman should stay in the kitchen. Guys talk about how much beer they drink, which I probably did when I was 19 years old yeah... But these guys are around 30-35 years old. The girls in the city are dressed like 15 year olds, with short short skirt and try to show as much skin as possible. Apparently guys like that here, but for me it just looks desperate. Some people can menage to pull that style off, but most of them can't. They try to hard which makes it look too desperate. Andrew seems to aggree with me here: Most girls look terrible and guys just want doormats.
But despite of that I like it here! The weather is nice most of the time, so far... Cockroaches running around, mostly outdoors tho, is not the most pleasant thing but I have two guys who can pretend to be men for a while and chase them away.
Now I just got a mail from my mom to read so I'm off. Take care all friends! Miss you very much!
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