The following week.....

here's what i can recall about 2nd week

Basically we spent the next week or 2 getting very panicky about

finding a place to live. we stayed at various hostels... the Bondi Beach house YHA, which

seemed rubbish compared to the luxury of Sydney Central YHA, then tried 'NOAH'S BACKPACKERS' which seemed kinda cool from the outside - it's on the top of a hill overlooking

the Bondi Beachfront... but it was slightly grotty and dirty. more than one cock-a-roach (which is the fun way we say it, so it sounds slightly spanish and less creepy).

We shared the room with 3 israeli guys which were very friendly and chatty.

The bunkbeds were literally piled on top of each other, so not much room to manouvere.

the first day when i was coming down from the top of the bunkbed, the locker door decided to open. Which i did see...but as i was already on the way down, gravity prevailed and the corner of the door ripped my jeans... calvins... and arse cheek. (i'll refrain from adding the photo that i just HAD to take of it).

During this time Gemma was visiting Sydney with her work, so we met her at the beachouse and then later had a cheap but nice meal in Coogee which was at the end of *the walk* that we insisted Gemma had to do also. We also went out the next day to a social event that a friend was throwing. - check out the Bondi Back-drop:)

During the next few days we all went to the botanic gardens where we saw the worlds largest fruit bats (actually) and various crazy birds lol.

It was around this time that my Camera decided to die on me :( But with all this bad fortune (arse and camera) we miraculously found an excellent apartment on the 51st floor of the 'WORLD TOWER'. We were initially quite scared of this prospect as it does sound scarily similar to world trade tower.

Here are some gorgeous landscapes I've taken from the balcony :)

Next up it was the turn of Michelle Harris to come visiting. We met her and her friend

Laura in a bar near the Central YHA

And then the next day arranged to meet at Taronga Zoo, where we saw a great amount of Kangeroos, Koalas, Giraffes etc etc i'll just put a few pics here.

Next post will be a more general update and thoughts of Sydney life etc etc.