Sydney
Sydney is definitely amazing. I've been there 6 days now and I haven't even seen 30% of everything there is to see.
One week ago, another au pair has arrived in Sydney, Dagmar. We're both from Travel Active, we know each other from the day we had the workshop. Dagmar is now doing a Cambridge course at the University of Sydney and after that, in December, she's also going to start as an au pair. She'll be even longer in Sydney than I will, so I'm glad to have a friend here who will be here the same time as me. We met up last Sunday and we got on really well, so yesterday we met up again and we'll probably meet up every weekend. We already know some things we want to do: go to Melbourne in a weekend, go to Bondi Junction, Bondi Beach, go to the cinema to see the last part of Twilight and before that Dagmar has to see the 2nd and 3rd part of the movie. Yep, we have enough plans to keep us busy for 6 months!
I got my first wage on Friday, 350 dollars, per week! Of course I'll have to save money for the backpacking, so I can't spend all of it, but it's a nice idea to know that I don't really have to worry about money, which some people I've met here do, because they are backpacking and haven't found a job yet.
Yesterday, Dagmar and I had a shopping day in Sydney. We bought the same necklace, which we both wanted for a long time. With 50 dollars, it's probably the most expensive necklace I've ever bought, but it's really nice. And of course we couldn't just buy a necklace, we wanted an outfit for it. So we bought one! There's sale everywhere and we both got an outfit for 20 dollars (see the picture in 'Photographs'), I like!
The Rocks is another amazing part of Sydney. It's the oldest part I believe and it's not even that big, but it definitely is beautiful. An old man offered to take a picture of us (see photographs again) in a little street, with yellow houses and palm trees. It nearly looked like a scene decoration, but it was real! The man turned out to be an experienced traveler and he spoke quite some languages, including a bit Dutch. And Russian. And German. And French. And probably even more.
Right now I'm suffering from a cold, which I could have expected, seen the circumstances (jetlag, tiredness, weaker immune system because of some antibiotics I had in Holland, spending 24 hours on a plane with -50 degrees outside etc..), so today I'm just going to relax. Maybe I'll walk to the sea, a walk of 5 minutes from the house. There is no beach, but something even more beautiful than a beach. I'm going to take pictures of it, because describing won't suffice, you have to see it yourself. Of course it would be even better to see it in real life, but I cannot really ask you to come take a look at something 16000 km away, can I?