So I was in a place called Narre Warren, at a shopping centre called Casey Central. I was there cos I was working outside the Coles (like Pick n Pay). That day I got to work with a really awesome Aussie girl- Flick (Felicity) and it was going really really well!
Then we were witness to a proper bogan family fight. girls punching eachother so hard i honestly thought someone was going to die! there was blood everywhere, they were messing up the stands in the shops- was pretty intense! i was in total shock, it happened right next to us and Flick had been talking to the one chick just before she got decked in the face. was crazy! more of the family came in and joined in the fight- they were all swearing at eachother and the brother grapped the one ladies hair and started smashing her head into the ground. was so scary. this family was proper bogan- the one woman looked like a man, had siff teeth and a mullet.
yeah so that ended our day at work! we were both shaking afterwards! the police took statements from us and Flick will be a witness in court if the charges go through.
just another day in Melbourne!
Thursday, February 24, 2011
2 observations
1. a lot of Aussie guys have mullets or rat tails of some sort. it doesn't look great.
2. too many old men wear ridiculously short shorts. its gross.
2. too many old men wear ridiculously short shorts. its gross.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
this is where I live...
Moreland Road, Brunswick West, Melbourne.
This is where I live.
My flatties are Andy, Chris and Jay. They're awesome and if I come home with a Kiwi accent, its their fault.
This is where I live.
My flatties are Andy, Chris and Jay. They're awesome and if I come home with a Kiwi accent, its their fault.
Friday, February 18, 2011
Thursday, February 17, 2011
work...
Work was tough in the first week i'm not gunna lie...but i was always learning and getting tips from the others. The people at work are awesome- they're all super friendly and funny so its a good time. Travi (another aussie guy i spent a few days with at work) started call me Miss South Africa...its stuck, i won't complain haha. Ellie actually believed i was Miss SA for 3years running...so great.
We spent a few days out in Seymour- a town about 2hours drive from the city. this is an interesting place...full of bogans/nuffies/ferals (this is what other aussies call people like chavs in england...best way to describe them i guess).its in this town that i spoke to a girl that had 6 kids and was only 20 years old....clearly birth control is something they don't use too much here...
i also spoke to this guy that was super interested in South Africa and wanted to know if we still had black slaves...yeah, a lot of people seem to think apartheid is still happening.sigh.
Went out for drinks with some people from work on friday night. got all my drinks bought for me which was pretty sweet! went to this cool bar called the post office then a place called precinct (similar to neighbourhood in long street). was a good night! aussie boys (ok, the few i've met now) seem to be pretty confident and forward, and they seem to like the fact that they've "never kissed a south african girl before"...and that i've never kissed an aussie boy before- apparently, according to them, we can fix this "problem".good try boys... :P
We spent a few days out in Seymour- a town about 2hours drive from the city. this is an interesting place...full of bogans/nuffies/ferals (this is what other aussies call people like chavs in england...best way to describe them i guess).its in this town that i spoke to a girl that had 6 kids and was only 20 years old....clearly birth control is something they don't use too much here...
i also spoke to this guy that was super interested in South Africa and wanted to know if we still had black slaves...yeah, a lot of people seem to think apartheid is still happening.sigh.
Went out for drinks with some people from work on friday night. got all my drinks bought for me which was pretty sweet! went to this cool bar called the post office then a place called precinct (similar to neighbourhood in long street). was a good night! aussie boys (ok, the few i've met now) seem to be pretty confident and forward, and they seem to like the fact that they've "never kissed a south african girl before"...and that i've never kissed an aussie boy before- apparently, according to them, we can fix this "problem".good try boys... :P
getting life sorted!
8 Feb....
this day was a big one. my first day at work. had to wake up at 5:30 to catch an early train to the city to get to the office for work, which starts at 7:30 everyday. so i managed to get there bang on time. i was assigned a 'leader' for the day- Eamon: an aussie guy from the gold coast originally who looks about 25 (he's 19) and has intense eyes. off we go into "the field"- today its a suburb calld hawksburn- super nice area full of rich people. was a tough day-this whole topping people who don't want to be stopped and then getting them to sign up to give money to a charity every month thing is hard. I learnt a lot though and figure my days can't get any worse than this!
as i said- today was a big day as we found out we got the flat in brunswick! epic!
this day was a big one. my first day at work. had to wake up at 5:30 to catch an early train to the city to get to the office for work, which starts at 7:30 everyday. so i managed to get there bang on time. i was assigned a 'leader' for the day- Eamon: an aussie guy from the gold coast originally who looks about 25 (he's 19) and has intense eyes. off we go into "the field"- today its a suburb calld hawksburn- super nice area full of rich people. was a tough day-this whole topping people who don't want to be stopped and then getting them to sign up to give money to a charity every month thing is hard. I learnt a lot though and figure my days can't get any worse than this!
as i said- today was a big day as we found out we got the flat in brunswick! epic!
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
A weekend with Ally my Pally!
We just chilled out on Friday night and watched some series...woke up late on Saturday and made our way to Chadstone- the biggest shopping mall in the southern hemisphere! Sooo many shops! and too much I wanted to buy...sigh. They even had really larny shops like Jimmy Choo, Gucci, Louis Vuitton and stuff- you have to stand in a queue to get in and there's a bouncer at the door!
Alex and I then went to the 'bottle shop' to buy some Passion Pop- its like a really cheap sparkling wine, its super sweet and bubbly! We got all dressed up (once again I borrowed a dress from Al!) and hung out with some of Jenna's friends before we went out to Cruze. There I met some of Ally's friends- Emma, Daniel and Amy then later I met Courtney. Was fun night!
Sunday was chilled- watched some TV and a movie then went out for Indian food with Ally's girlfriends :) yum.
week 1 in Melbourne!!!
MONDAY:
Today I learnt how to use public transport! woohoo go me! I caught the train from Frankston into inte city (hour long train trip) and met the kiwi boys (Andy and Chris) at Flinders Street station. We walked around the city a bit and found an internet cafe where we spent the next couple of hours checking out flats/apartments/houses to rent.
We walked around a bit looking like tourists but trying to act cool until we finally gave in and asked an info guy where we could find a supermarket. Had a good time walking around their version of Woolworths deciding on the cheapest lunch...eventually decided on some rolls and ham. This was hilarious as you have to get a ticket with a number on it if u want to be served, then they call out the number and u go up to the counter and order. We didn't realise that...for quite a while...so we stood around like idiots wondering why everyone else was just standing around! finally we clicked and tried pulling out a ticket each, in my case that meant somehow pulling like 10 tickets out at once.fail. so yeah that was amusing. While we were in the shops i got a phonecall from this sales and marketing company asking me to come in for an interview!! I honestly couldn't remember which one out of the 500million job ads this one was related to but luckily the lady e-mailed me and i realised it was from the ad for a promo's job. I was stoked with life :)
The boys and i had lunch and took turns calling estate agents. We had a look at some amazing apartments in these massive buildings over in the Southbank area of the city and got all excited imagining ourselves living there...although we all knew they were waaay to expensive.
TUESDAY:
I got ready for my job interview in Richmond (like one station out of the main city loop), tried to look as business-like and professional as I could and pretended like I knew what I was doing! Found the office ok and got the fright of my life when I saw how smart everyone looked- this was not a normal promo job like the ones we do in Cape Town...the interview went super well (the guy who interview me was suuuper hot too, it helped!) and I was told to come back the next day for round two! yay!
Met the boys in the city again and hung out at their hostel- the Melbourne Connection- and looked for more apartments. We then had to find our way to Kew East, a suburb on the outskirts of the city, to check out a townhouse. After aimlessly wondering around the big train station we agreed that once again we should stop pretending to be locals and ask for directions. So we hopped on a tram and after a long and extremely hot (it was like 40 degrees!) ride we met Tony the agent and a very average townhouse. Managed to catch a bus back to the city where I hopped off and made the long trek home.
I stayed at Alex's flat where we made stir-fry and possibly the worst rice I have ever eaten.
WEDNESDAY:
I woke up at 5:30am to catch an early train to Richmond for my second interview! Got there in time for the group interview which was so chilled. Then had an individual one with the owner of the company and got offerred a job! Woohoo! Had to be back there for the afternoon training session but some hours to kill so met the boys in town again to fill out a million application forms for flats.
The job: this company uses face-to-face marketing to raise money for charities. We stand in the streets or outside shops or at events and convince people to sign up for monthly donations.
Training was cool- was mostly Aussies then a girl from Liverpool (Ellie) and an Irish girl and me :)
THURSDAY:
Second afternoon of training. Only three of the nine were asked to come back! So it was Ellie, Lily (a local) and I.
Finished training round 4ish so got the boys to meet me so we could get to Brunswick to check out another house. Took us forever to get there, mainly cos we had no idea what we were doing!Turns out we took the longest way possible and in fact we could've caught the train literally to the road the house is in! sigh. Anyway, this place is awesome!
So we were in good spirits and the lads convinced me to stay in town and hang out with them. This involved buying 2 bottles each of this $3 wine they'd found and getting $5 pizzas. We hung out at the hostel with this Swiss guy Sean (he's massive, was in the army for two years) and his Russian friend Olla (they met on gumtree....ya, i know). So we played all these drinking games, me trying to keep up with two kiwi boys fresh out of dunedin and this huge swiss dude....yeah. Fun night! Stayed at the hostel with the guys. Woke up the next day feeling..um..fantastic! So we just chilled out and watched some skiing videos...until I managed to get up and go home.
Alex, Jenna (Ally's sister) and I hung out in the evening and watched a movie. It honestly felt like the cyclone had hit us it was so stormy outside!
Today I learnt how to use public transport! woohoo go me! I caught the train from Frankston into inte city (hour long train trip) and met the kiwi boys (Andy and Chris) at Flinders Street station. We walked around the city a bit and found an internet cafe where we spent the next couple of hours checking out flats/apartments/houses to rent.
We walked around a bit looking like tourists but trying to act cool until we finally gave in and asked an info guy where we could find a supermarket. Had a good time walking around their version of Woolworths deciding on the cheapest lunch...eventually decided on some rolls and ham. This was hilarious as you have to get a ticket with a number on it if u want to be served, then they call out the number and u go up to the counter and order. We didn't realise that...for quite a while...so we stood around like idiots wondering why everyone else was just standing around! finally we clicked and tried pulling out a ticket each, in my case that meant somehow pulling like 10 tickets out at once.fail. so yeah that was amusing. While we were in the shops i got a phonecall from this sales and marketing company asking me to come in for an interview!! I honestly couldn't remember which one out of the 500million job ads this one was related to but luckily the lady e-mailed me and i realised it was from the ad for a promo's job. I was stoked with life :)
The boys and i had lunch and took turns calling estate agents. We had a look at some amazing apartments in these massive buildings over in the Southbank area of the city and got all excited imagining ourselves living there...although we all knew they were waaay to expensive.
TUESDAY:
I got ready for my job interview in Richmond (like one station out of the main city loop), tried to look as business-like and professional as I could and pretended like I knew what I was doing! Found the office ok and got the fright of my life when I saw how smart everyone looked- this was not a normal promo job like the ones we do in Cape Town...the interview went super well (the guy who interview me was suuuper hot too, it helped!) and I was told to come back the next day for round two! yay!
Met the boys in the city again and hung out at their hostel- the Melbourne Connection- and looked for more apartments. We then had to find our way to Kew East, a suburb on the outskirts of the city, to check out a townhouse. After aimlessly wondering around the big train station we agreed that once again we should stop pretending to be locals and ask for directions. So we hopped on a tram and after a long and extremely hot (it was like 40 degrees!) ride we met Tony the agent and a very average townhouse. Managed to catch a bus back to the city where I hopped off and made the long trek home.
I stayed at Alex's flat where we made stir-fry and possibly the worst rice I have ever eaten.
WEDNESDAY:
I woke up at 5:30am to catch an early train to Richmond for my second interview! Got there in time for the group interview which was so chilled. Then had an individual one with the owner of the company and got offerred a job! Woohoo! Had to be back there for the afternoon training session but some hours to kill so met the boys in town again to fill out a million application forms for flats.
The job: this company uses face-to-face marketing to raise money for charities. We stand in the streets or outside shops or at events and convince people to sign up for monthly donations.
Training was cool- was mostly Aussies then a girl from Liverpool (Ellie) and an Irish girl and me :)
THURSDAY:
Second afternoon of training. Only three of the nine were asked to come back! So it was Ellie, Lily (a local) and I.
Finished training round 4ish so got the boys to meet me so we could get to Brunswick to check out another house. Took us forever to get there, mainly cos we had no idea what we were doing!Turns out we took the longest way possible and in fact we could've caught the train literally to the road the house is in! sigh. Anyway, this place is awesome!
So we were in good spirits and the lads convinced me to stay in town and hang out with them. This involved buying 2 bottles each of this $3 wine they'd found and getting $5 pizzas. We hung out at the hostel with this Swiss guy Sean (he's massive, was in the army for two years) and his Russian friend Olla (they met on gumtree....ya, i know). So we played all these drinking games, me trying to keep up with two kiwi boys fresh out of dunedin and this huge swiss dude....yeah. Fun night! Stayed at the hostel with the guys. Woke up the next day feeling..um..fantastic! So we just chilled out and watched some skiing videos...until I managed to get up and go home.
Alex, Jenna (Ally's sister) and I hung out in the evening and watched a movie. It honestly felt like the cyclone had hit us it was so stormy outside!
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