A French couple – Coraline and Alex. Alex can speak pretty good English but Coraline is still learning so we have to pronounce our words more clearly and try not talk to her with our quick Aussie speak.
A Swedish girl – Katarina
A Kiwi girl – Jen
A South African couple – Elodie and Richard
An Aussie girl – Mel
An English guy – Toby who comes in handy and we can ask him all our English questions. We have called him the cultural Oracle. But it gets annoying when he continues to call us convicts…… we just mention the cricket!
They are all fairly cool and we have all been out together and had lots of fun, whish is great.
What has happened so far?
We have settled into going and buying food and a routine where I cook all the meals heheh, its fun and I like it and I’m sure Kieran does too. We have 3 big supermarkets within walking distance from our house so we take 2 backpacks to carry all our food home in (they are day packs not the ones we brought our clothes in). Food is costing around the same as it does at home. As we thought meat is more expensive but some other items are cheaper so we can even it out and eat like normal people. I think we eat the most meat out of everyone in the house. ( But the good meat like steak costs a fortune and the cheap meat here is Pork so that Ok but id die for a lamb roast mmmmm, Kieran.)
We have booked a holiday to Turkey for Anzac day and then after that we are onto Egypt for another 9 days we have around 2 weeks off and our Kiwi flat mate Jen is also coming. I have to find out if my new job is cool with me taking the time off. I hope so. We both have to get visas for Turkey and Egypt but they cost around 15 pounds so not that much. I have also found out I need to get a video camera permit to use my camera in Egypt I will have to get one of those if any of you know how or where please let me know. I want to get some video so I can show you all.
It has snowed in London, the first time we had seen it here. I cam down to have breakfast and then lookout the door to the back yard and saw all the snow. I raced up the stair woke Kieran with a startled she said “whats going on” we both looked out our window and saw all the snow. It was excellent. There wasn’t much of it but it is more than we normally see. Check out the video (filesize: 8MB)Australia day has come and gone. We tried to get into the Walkabout at
temple but the line was massive, we ended up going to another bar around the corner which was empty but sold beer and had an offer going, if you buy 4 Tooheys New you get an Aussie flag cape. Of course I had to drink four of them. A good thing was the American guy serving us, asked the questions on the bottle cap and if you got it right then you didn’t have to pay for the beer. Out of 4 beers I think I only got 1 correct. Who knew that Mt Kosciusko wasn’t the highest peak in Aus? (that’s what Tooheys says neways)That night we had an Australia day party which was a good time. Didn’t have any of our friends come around well the ones in London neways. The party was filled up with all of Mels friends and some of the other housemates friends. You didn’t have to be Australian to get in though so we had around 20-30 people here. Ended up having a BBQ and a
lot of beer. Kieran and I had steaks on the BBQ yummo they were worth every penny (6 pound for 2) they were big thick 
and juicy Irish steaks cooked to perfection I must say. I did all the cooking, wasn’t going to let neone else do it on Australia day dammit. It was pretty cool having 20-30 people belting out the Australian anthem at about 1am in the morning…. Doubt it would happen at home. But everyone was in fine form and more than happy to sing their hearts out. Here is a video of the night. Most talking has been removed to hard to edit swearing (6.7MB).The night ended into the late hours, I went to bed pretty early I was wasted.
I have started work, yes that’s right people after almost 3 months of not working I now have a job, only have to hold out till the end of next month before I get paid dammit. It’s good to have a job again and feel like I am doing something. From now on the routine settles in and we start to settle down, or are we just starting we will have money now and time to party. BRING IT ON! I am working in a place called Bracknell its about and hour out of London and takes me about 2hrs to get there from door to door. I wont be working out of the office the whole time. Most times I can work from home or other worksites.
Kieran is still waiting for her registration to come through so she can do nursing but they keep making her jump through more and more hoops, which is really annoying.
Stay cool I know we will, it is England after all.
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