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Hi Everyone!
Sorry that it has been a while since I last updated my website, we've just been busy having lots of fun! Happy New Year and Merry Christmas to everyone as well, sorry its a bit late. Helen and I have had a great New Year and Christmas here in Sydney.
We've both been working over here now for a couple of months, and have had the chance to have a good explore! Helen has had work with a company in the city now for over a month as a PA, and I've done quite a few different things! I've worked at the Airport, the Prison, in the Blue Mountains, and in the city as an EA, a mail stuffer and also packing expensive Max Mara clothes into boxes! Its been quite hectic, but has let me see quite a bit of the city, which is great!
Christmas over here is very different, and defiantly not as good as back home! They don't seem to go all out over here with the decorations, lights and music at all. Also when its so hot, it really doesn't feel like Christmas. We bought a couple of lobsters and some prawns for Christmas and Boxing day to try to celebrate it how they do, and even went down to the beach for a swim (it was packed!). We both really liked the lobster, but probably won't be trying it again any time soon!
A couple of days after Christmas a few of my Geography friends from Uni (Emma and Rachael for those who might know them) came over to Sydney ready for the New Year celebrations! We met up with them for a day on the beach, were I got to try out my new surf board! I'm really enjoying learning to surf, although at the moment I seem to be spending far too much time in the water rather than on the actual board! Hopefully in a couple of weeks I'll be standing up on the board most of the time! Nevertheless its still really good fun and I've been doing it nearly every day since I got it!
A couple more friends from Uni (Phil and Jen) came up to Sydney on the 30th and we all met up on the 31st to get in a good spot to watch the fireworks! We ended up queuing from 10.30 in the morning to get to a place called Maquaries Point, which has without a doubt the best view of the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge (have a look at the photos!). Despite waiting for nearly 14 hours to see the fireworks we had a really great day! Time seemed to fly by having all our mates from Uni there and there were also a few stalls set up selling food from around the world, and of course some bubbly (not that we could afford much of that!). Anyway it was a great day, they had fireworks at 9opm for the kids which were really impressive and then the had the most spectacular display of fireworks I've ever seen at midnight! Unfortunately the photos don't do it justice!
Helen and I went back to work the following week, and then last weekend we went on a trip with our Uni mates to the Blue Mountains. They're about 1 hour west of Sydney and were pretty spectacular. Firstly we went to see some Kangaroo's living in the wild, which was great fun and the first time that Helen and I had ever seen them. Then we went to see a famous site called the ''Three Sisters'. Its a rocky outcrop which the Aborigines believe contain the spirit of three sisters who were transformed into the three rocks to protect them from a neighbouring tribe, and the witch doctor who had converted them was killed, so their spirits remain alive within the rocks. They are pretty spectacular! We then went on a walk down into the valley past some impressive waterfalls (the whole place looks like its from Crocodile Dundee) to then get the worlds steepest railway back up to the top again. We managed to get backward facing seats right at the back of the train for one of the most terrifying rides I have ever been on! The Australia health and safety in the bush isn't quite up to scratch! The railway was ridiculously steep and it would have been quite easy to simply roll of the back of the train if you weren't holding on for dear life! It was good fun though and defiantly worth doing if you ever go there!
On Sunday Helen and I went to visit our friends Phil and Jen who were staying about an hour south of Sydney in a place called Cronolla. It had some of the most impressive barreling waves that I have ever seen. When I'm a bit better on the surf board I think I'll have to go back there and give them a go! Cronalla was a nice place to visit and apparently its very typically Australian (don't know what that means, but it is...).
I've also finally put some more photos on the website if you want to have a look. Helen's website has more photos on it too if you want to look there as well (www.statraveljournals.com/helsie1212/). Thank you to everyone who has been in contact with me, I really appreciate it and I'm sorry that I'm so slow in replying, its just sometimes hard to get a few hours in an Internet cafe to do all this, but I'm going to try harder! I hope that your all well and look forward to hearing form you soon!
Love
Nick
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