Above ^: The poster I bought that is now displayed in my room. I think it's fitting.Hey guys... wooo what a long week it has been! Still have Max's tragedy on my mind, but am reliving good memories of us, so that helps a bit.
Work's getting busier now... for example, today (monday) I got to work, opened my e-mail and had 26 messages of things waiting for action and requests from my co-workers for me to do something... geez. They weren't kidding when they said I was going to take someone's old job. Oh well, I like it because it makes the day go by faster. And when I accomplish things and actually do it right, they seem to really appreciate it.
So let's go back to last week. I had my first big assignment... a 1500 word paper for Australian Children's literature. I procrastinated the whole week and ended up staying up until 6:45 the day it was due to finish it. I then went to sleep for 2 and a half hours and got up at 9:30 to finish the reference page. But.. I got it done, and in my defense, I was a little distracted this week. But like they say, "No worries. She'll be right."
On wednesday when I got off work, my roommate informed me that it had been a crazy day back at our Parklands apartment. For a few days now, there has been a terrible odor in our apartment. We thought we needed to take the trash out more frequently... so we did. Then, Katie said that when she got home from class, she found mushrooms growing from our kitchen floor underneath the dishwasher. She had the cleaning people come right away. They found a leak under the sink coming from the pipes. They then called the plumber. The plumber said that our pipes were actually never connected and that there was water running down our walls our something like that. (I wasn't there). The plumber also went into the crawl space underneath our unit and found something like a foot of standing water. Hence the reason our floor was so warped.
Later on that evening after I got home from work and was eating dinner as the cleaning man came back. He ripped up the linoleum flooring and exposed a horrid sight and smell! Black mold between the ground and the flooring...everywhere! He mopped over it with something that made it smell even worse, put a fan on it, and told us not to roll the floor back down until it was completely dry.. ha, like it would ever dry!!! That's why it was so moldy in the first place!
The next morning, the housing director came to our apartment. They informed us that we were moving.. that we weren't allowed to live in conditions like that. The cleaning man exposed whatever mold particles there were into the air we breathe whenever he mopped it. Apparently that's unhealthy? News to me. They gave us keys to about 5 separate units all scattered within the Parklands Apartments and told us to start packing. It was early, a lot to handle and we didn't know what to do! We were all like, ok- so let me get this straight... we can't live here. we have to move out TODAY, and we can't live together anymore? Sweet.
Later on, the housing director came back and we talked about other options since we really didn't want to split up. We have all been here a month and a half and had the roommate situation down pat. The lady said that there was another option... there was a 3 bedroom apt that they could make into 4 up the street. Katie and Ashley checked it out while I went to class... they said it was amazing.
They told us that we had to stay there at least for the night and then we could make a decision if we wanted to live their permanently together, or split up and go back to the parklands.
The dilemma was that we were concerned for our health.. if our apt was like that, I'm sure other units were too or were heading that way... and we didn't want to split up. But, yes, this new apartment (which is actually a townhouse) is amazing and really nice, but it is SO far from the friends that we have all gotten pretty close to over this past month and a half. In the end, we chose as a group health over social life... figuring that we weren't anti-social and could make new friends too, ones that lived closer to us. Plus, we decided that there would be no waiting list to get back into the Parklands aka The Projects, so if we hated it in the new place (Palace) then we can demand to go back.. even if it meant splitting up.
SO here I am now... we live in a completely different town, opposite of Parklands and on the other side of campus. It's closer to the Rec center than our old apt was, so maybe that will motivate me to get to the gym more. And I have a sweet huge room with a full size bed instead of a twin, and the house itself has a ton of just breathing room in general.
And... there's a 24 hr. gas station/convenience store right across the street. Wish I never would have known that... but it's real hard to miss a bright yellow Shell sign glaring through your living room window when you have no food and you're considering eating your arm for sustinence. ;)
The commute time to and from work is less than ideal, for we have to take a bus to the train station, 2 more trains and then a 10 min. walk to work. Such is life.
Here is my new address....
3/94-116 Culloden Rd.
Marsfield, NSW 2122
AUS
Friday night was a much needed night out. We went to the beautiful darling harbour. In the midst of the evening I lost my cell phone... oops, could've been worse.
Saturday was fairly uneventful.. a day of recovery. However, Kelli and I did manage to plan an eventful upcoming weekend! We are going to the world famous Sydney Opera House this Friday for a ballet.. it's called Firebird and Other Legends. I'm quite excited actually.
On Saturday we are going to an Australian Football League (AFL) or footy game! We are seeing the Sydney Swans play the Hawthorn Hawks at ANZ Olympic Stadium! We have also planned to go to a wildlife sanctuary saturday so we can hold and feed Koalas and such! YAY!!!
So needless to say, this week needs to move quickly so we can get to our exciting weekend ahead!
But before I get too ahead of myself, I'll tell you about this past Sunday. We ventured to the northern coast of sydney to a beach called Palm Beach. It took about 2 and half hours to get there, but boy was it worth it! It wasn't crowded AT all and it was just so gorgeous! We climbed these awesome rocks/cliffs where the ocean waves splashed onto us at rapid force! I enjoyed sitting on the edge of some of the rocks, waiting with my camera for the next big wave to splash onto me so I could capture it! (dont worry, the cam's waterproof). But it was quite an adrenaline rush. Sunday was a nice closing to a week that was considered less than ideal. When I was sitting on the rocks I felt like there wasn't a care in the world...
Hope all of you are well. That's about all I've got for now... I'll try to upload some pics to go along with this.
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