It’s all come to life

Jan 10

After months of staring at this town on google earth, planning running routes, looking for places to live, checking out the general lay-out of the campus and city itself and simply marvelling at the beauty of this area, it’s come to life! We got here yesterday morning, pretty burnt, but pretty excited. We dropped our stuff off at the place we were intending on staying for the night and made our way to Tim Bartlett’s office (or what SHOULD have been his office) to meet up with the rest of the folks who were taking the tour of the apartments. I met a couple gals (Kym and Michelle) through facebook and learned that they were also looking to live with some other people, so we got to chatting with them and sort of started looking together as a group. As soon as we walked into this place, we were all in love. It’s a sweet 3 bedroom place, pretty much a townhouse/condo type thing. The three bedrooms upstairs can sleep 5, so far we’ve got 4. Rent here is $500 a week, so right now we’re paying $125 each (or $250 for Julia and I, which is $1000 per month, or about $880/month Canadian right now. When we find that 5th person (which shouldn’t be tough) our rent will go down to $800AUD or about $700CAD per month. Not too bad considering this place is big, beautiful, super close to the beach and fully furnished. We’ll also save some cash by sharing other bills 5 ways (electricity / water / cable / internet) and we may even be able to share internet with a house next door, whenever people move in, as it’s another property typically taken up by Canadians. Last night we got all of our stuff over here and got sort of unpacked, then I showered and passed RIGHT OUT.

So today the plan is to get the banking done, get some OSAP forms filled out at school, find internet to post this and email the rents to let ‘em know we’re still alive and search for jobs/print off resumés. I want to get a ton of resumés out there to find a job ASAP, so that I can put my mind to rest about the financial situation.
PS – It’s GORGEOUS here.