Settling down

I have been putting off writing the blog for a while. Its because i wanted to wait until I was in Melbourne and sorted out with a job and a routine. Unfortunately its taken me rather a while to achieve this. I live with a friend I went to high school with in Scotland but who is originally from Melbourne called Ashley. He has a 3 bedroom house so it was perfect for me and richard mail to move into. My room is at the back of the house and gets really cold at night, although I've been told it will be much worse in summer when my room will reach temperatures which exceed that of the sun.

I have been searching for a job since I got here without much success. I started looking for jobs in places where i would like to work. Cinemas, video shops and generally other easy jobs which dont involve too much thinking or enthusiasm. I got a call one day at 10:30am which woke me up. The person asked me to come in for an interview the following day. Being half asleep i forgot to ask which job it was in refrence too. So i got into a bit of a panick and needed to find some smart clothes for this interview. I asked a guy i know called Cal if i could borrow some plain black trousers. He said sure he would get them later. Eventually he did. The trousers he handed over were neither black nor plain. The were blue pinstripe with a huge hole down the side and back. On the upside though, they were the correct size. So I had to go to the interview wearing these trousers where, despite my best effort with safety pins, you could still see my bum. The job (which i got) was harassing businesses asking them for money for a charity. It didnt pay very well and wasnt what i was looking for. So I had to start again. About a week ago I got a job in a call centre making outbound calls. It had got to the point where i had to take anything that was offered to me.

Meanwhile, a guy i had met who ran a restaurant said he may be able to get me work as a chef. Which I would love. You get to cook, eat, chat, swear (if what I see on tv is right) and dont have to smile and be polite to customers. After getting the call centre job I called him and he said he would give me a job which starts in a couple of weeks. So I quit after my first full day at the call centre. I wasnt prepared to get abuse down the phone for the next 6 months. Funnily enough, 3 out of the 4 people that started that day quit. Seems like people think they are desparate, until they start working there.

So in a couple of weeks i should be fairly settled, with a house and a job. Its just coming into summer so im looking forward to trips to the beach and whatever else people do in sunny countries. I should be staying here for about 6 months, then another month travelling around the east coast of australia and then a final month in New Zealand and Fiji.

My new address is:

273 Bambra Rd, Caulfield South, Melbourne, 3162 Australia