u wouldnt know i was in australia i tell ya now! the weather for the past 4 days or so has been awful. somehow last saturday we thought it was going to be the hottest day yet - 35 degrees, so we got all excited and packed up to get to bondi as early as possible.... and it was miserable! luckily it didnt rain (or hail) like last time, but it was really overcast and windy. we attempted to sunbathe for a couple of hours still but ended up having to redress and i went to warm myself up with a cuppa!

since then it has just been raining and overcast constantly!!! on sunday i went to soundwave festival http://www.soundwavefestival.com with jamie for a bit of MOSHING or otherwise, and we had to buy these stupid plastic poncho things or we would have got soaked it was pretty crazy. deftones were headlining and they were incredible, we were literally RIGHT at the front cuz the festival was actually pretty small and the stage they were playing on was pretty tiny really. i was wearing flipflops tho so i was pretty anxious bout my toes as theyr always constantly battered from walking so much (and also cuz last week when we were out i was stupidly wearing flipflops again and got my little toe trodden on TWICE and the skin ripped off it. mmm) but i managed to keep my toes in tact throughout the set which was cool. did however lose them briefly [my flip flops, not my toes] when we were running madly up a hill to try and chase the only guy selling ponchos tho. we also saw mxpx, unwritten law, parkway drive, hatebreed, +44, thrice, juliette & the licks and flyleaf so it was a bit of a blast from the past! ace day tho.

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im just at work at the moment at yet another job. this ones alright though, just boring office stuff... i dont seem to actually have anything to do at all, iv been on the internet all morning. im allowed to listen to music as well and we get free biscuits so its pretty cushy. the sales job was just rubbish. to be honest though i think if i had more patience and time it could still be a really cool thing to do, but i dont have enough time at the moment to waste a couple of weeks trying to get good at something and in the meantime earning absaloutely no money. last wed we went 'out in the field' to a market at penrith to try and sell this eftpos machine thing, and it was actually really fun and i made a sale straight away. so i thought wow this is ace this job is just for me. but, markets are incredibly different to proper shops as i found out on thursday! shopkeepers just dont want to talk to door to door sales people!! and i didnt realise how depressing it would be to get no after no after no all morning and having to keep walking into the next store with a happy smile and giving a really positive and enthusiastic impression about this bloody pin machine which i really dont care about. it just wore me down and i made zero sales = zero dollars. so i quit. im glad i tried it tho.

the job im doing at the moment is meant to just be admin but theres nothing really going on. its for a solicitors called Native Title Services who basically fight for aboriginals to keep their land, which is cool, wont ever get a job like this back in england. iv just had a chat to one of ladies here and she wants me to interview this anthropologist guy and then write an article about him for their monthly newspaper.

theres so many things iv forgotten to tell people about, and i havent updated my photos and stuff for absaloutely ages! promise i will do as soon as i can. oh, last night something a bit crappy happened. basically, someone walked in our front door and stole a girl called tanvi's speakers, phone, mp3 player and camera (including the chargers! what a cheek) so we all had a bit of a panic. because its so hot our front door just gets left open to cool the place down otherwise its an absaloute sauna, so although there were people in the house at the time in the tv room and in the kitchen, whoever it was just walked in straight into tanvis room cuz hers is the first u get to on the ground floor. we were down at the local scottish pub at the time but we were only there for about an hour cuz it was rubbish, so we were pretty shocked to return to that! the police came round a bit later when id gone to bed and apparantly they are going to do fingerprints and stuff but its not very likely that thats gonna do much. i keep my ipod, phone and camera on me at all time, and our room is upstairs pretty far away from the front door anyway, but even still its been a bit of a kick in the teeth especially for tanvi! wer gonna make sure the door is locked at all times now! which means that the house is gonna be unbearabley hot.