Hey, all, hows it dingkom mate... ow wow, oz is amazing and treating me so well, even thought its exspensive and mean that i may ahve to cum home early and hav to see u all even sooner... bumber i know... but ur just have to deal with it! anyway, as u may have guessed, im in sydney now and its awsome, but leaving melbourne was so sad, having to say good bye to some quite truely amazing people, i stayed at phil and micks house for about 2.5 weeks in all, it was so cool, i won poker the other night round thr house, we watched the afl (ozzy rules) their football basically and had beers and nibbles, then after we had a bbq as u do, and then all 13 of us played a $30 play inn for poker, and i won 1st place which was $200 so that was amazing, i had a whole pile off chippys, and it was such a cool day, i wish we did it more like that in england... but hey ho. so yeah we had a leaving party b4 we went nd every1 either called to say good bye or they came out with us, i made so many close friends their its untrue... u wud all love them thats for sure, but ur get 2 meet them 1 day as thr be cuming over... now to break the news... yep i have news... im thinking next january, im going to leave england to get a 1 year work visa in OZ!!!! dont be angry... but i think i really want to do it and see my 2nd family in melbourne... anyway its quite a way off and wr talkk about it when i return. sydney, i arrived yesterday after a 12 hour bus journey, ow my god it was so funny, we wr saying our good byes in melbourne and got on the bus, and any of u that have seen the truman show will know what i mean when i say, it was a sceen out of that, u know when truman gets on the bus and the bus driver doesnt know how to drive the bus as hes an actor.. well it was so that, the bus driver stalled the bus, yes stalled a bus not once, not twice, but 3 bloody times!!!! we rolled back, we rolled forward, he was grinbding the gears like his wife had just cheated on him and he put her through the gear box for good mesure... gees, this guy then nearly fell asleep along the way... unbeleivable but v funny anyway. yeah so i go 2.5 hours sleep on the bus, yeah i think the driver got more than me on the 12 hour bus journey!!! so i arricved knackered, but as per usal, i arrived and i just had to look around again, so i went and sough mum in the westin hotel which is so nice, but not many backpckers thr though! and we chilled for a bit then i met up with them last night for dinner and drinks with the sydney hill mcglynn team... that was cool, but then i came back to the hostel that im at which is amazing by the way, its so nice and clean, but i went down to the club which they have down stairs, i had 2 beers and i wasnt really meeting any1, but then the 6 irish girls which r in my room, flag me over to chat, so i go and chat, and b4 i know it wr all out with a load of other irish and 1 amaericn down at the three monkeys, i called it the 3 cheeky monkeys.. but anyway we then moved on from thr to scruffy murphys till 6 in the morning, i didnt get to bed till around 7sih after scoffing our faces with schnisals and chips with load and loads of katchup... yeah went a bit crazy with the red sauce... so then today i said goodbye to mum and steve'o and then came back to the hostel where i met the 2 english girls, as kate is staying with relitaves with sophie, so they popped over to say hi, which was nice and i think thr staying in the same hostel 2moro... but i do luv irt hr at the hostel its just fun... well im starving as its 8.30 at night and i havnt even eaten a dog 2day so im going to have to go and check sum more food joints out.. keep in touch u lot, hope u r all as well as me... and i love u all, definately keep the msgs up and ill keep the journal going, hows that 4 a deal. nouy i luv u so much, ur msg was very cute, i luved it. i miss u loads too, if only u knew.. xx soz the journals slowed down, but me typing about a party that i went to every night isnt that exciting really.... and doesnt make a great read!!!! miss u all. me xx