My Internet has been down and today I find myself in an Internet cafe with a really bad Sunday Morning pony tail in a terrible mismatched outfit...oh well I'm sure everyone is too hungover to care. To be honest I don't really care either.....I just thought I'd mention it to give you the essence of the day.
Our Internet is down due to the renovations, and the wire snapped in half. It's kinda funny because the guys that work on our apartment are all Scottish. When I would wake up in the morning all I would here is AHHH FUCKK....!!! and bang bang bang bang...bad tempers...One of them is Irish though and he speaks like an angel....very unpersonal and aloof but I could just sit there and listen to him speak...*I get so red in the face* I'm beginning to understand the Scotts more, and not having to say pardon every two seconds anymore. My one roomates Peter said that Canadians are the only people that have trouble understanding them. I don't think that's the case, everyone I know has trouble understanding the Scotties.
Anyways enough about that...lets see what is new?
Starbucks is alright I suppose, it's pretty much the same as in Canada. I was hoping that I would be able to work with people that would want to do stuff after work, and have fun. It's not really like that so much. 99% of all the employees are real straight shooting Asians, who don't really have much a sense of humour. It's strange, because I've very used to razzing people (in a good way) and having them razz me. I was joking around with this one guy because when he marks cups it looks like a huge piece of crap, and all scribbly, (I didn't say it like that of course)but he took it sooooo seriously and was all trying to explain himself and stuff. It was funny, I was talking to him in the backroom and he was telling me about how he's going to school for accounting. I said that was cool, and then he mentioned it's because he doesn't like talking to people. He would rather see numbers all day, and do paperwork...(haha)...that's completely cool of course, everyone is different and that's what makes the world a beautiful place...I just thought it was funny he choose a job in the meantime that is 100% dealing with people. He doesn't really smile, or do anything, just just says--->Hi, and does his job for the most part.
Maybe that doesn't paint too clear of a picture of the types I work with, but I'm sure you can use your imagination, and it's safe to say that everyone plays very much by the rules, and not really the laughable types. I'm a huge people person too. I Love chit chatting with people when it's not too busy and being nice and trying to spread the good cheer. I honestly have more fun talking with other travelling custeomers, and Aussies then the partners. A lot of people ask where I'm from, and are friendly. One really exceptional nice thing that happened was, this dude that came up to me on Friday. He ordered and then after came back after eating his sandwich and told me......
"That I have an exceptionally nice way of communicating with people, and that I will go far in life, and should consider management. He said he noticed how I made people feel comfortable, and was personable with the people. He also said I grace in the way that I carry myself" (Because Starbucks sucks and is very pretentious. I don't like to feed into that, people just want a medium coffee and that's what I"ll give them)aweeee how nice I thought....p.s. I don't mean that in a conceited way....(
That's basically what he said summed up in a nutshell. I thought it was very thoughtful of him to go out of his way to say that. I lit up like a glowworm, and was inspired to keep doing what I'm doing, even if my co-workers see everything as numbers and don't really smile. It's such small things in life that make us all glow, and I think if everyone could just do one thing like that a day (only if it's sincere) then the world could be so much better off.
Work @ Peter Pans is dreadful, when I work there I want to put a bullet in my head. The lady is pretty neurotic, and quite the clean freak. She gives very unclear directions, and is obsessed with dirt. Everything in her mind is dirty, and must be cleaned immediately. I should be the least to complain too, as she has taken somewhat of a liking to me. When she's all busy and hectic she's pretty crazy. However at the end of the day she sucks up to me, and asks me to come back and work as much as I can. I feel badly for my co-workers because she gives me nice treatment compared to them. The ones I have met have all been really sweet German/Finland girls etc. They speak English well and all, but she makes them flier downstairs all day, while I get to work upstairs and do other stupid jobs. I've done both and flyering all day is by FAR way worse. I don't know how they do it, at the end of the day they look like they could drop dead and fall down the stairs on the way out. It makes me feel a little awkward too, because they know that she kinda favours me. I figure if I can just make it ONCE a week doing that then by the time I leave I wont have to pay for too much of my travels. Lets see how I do....euhh
So I was told that Sydney is the SECOND most expensive city in the world. The top three are
- New York
- Sydney
- Tokyo
hmmm? Why I am here I don't know. I'm not going to go on too much of a rant about how stoked I am for February, but I really can't wait. I figure NY will be good, along with Xmas....But Sydney really is the least Aussie place in the country. I feel like I'm selling myself a little bit cheap because I"m really not experiencing anything new, and am doing the same as back home only in a new country. I don't mean this in a complaining way, or a rant. I am happy here and all....But I think my visa time is very precious, and I should have put myself in an element that I have not really done yet (work etc). I could still do waitressing with a Temp agency, but since I'm planning on spending the majority of the year in Queensland I figure I'll invest in that up there. I got offered a job @ a Bar in Kings Cross...I'm going to talk to the guy again and I just have to take my RSA (the same thing as a Smart Serve)...and I should do it if that's the case. That's all I"m going to write about that though, I don't want to come off as a brat....I'm just excited to be more in nature and, living somewhere less like Toronto.
Anyways what else????
The past few days I've mainly been working. I figure if I can work 38 hours of Bux a week and one shift a week @ PP's, then I"ll just break even to where I'm at now. Because I've gotten most of the tourist things out of my system, I find myself settling into more of a normal routine as of two weeks ago. Sydney can be a lot of fun, and there are lots of crazy things going on all the time. However if I live like that for the majority of my time here I'll be in debt and dipping into emergency savings which I definitely wont let myself do. I'm way to "Virgo" and careful to do things like that. Tonight I think I may go to drag queen karaoke....something different and fun.
I went to see cockroach racing last week which was equally gross as it was cool. I wanted to race a cockroach but I showed up late, leaving myself unable to. I'm actually quite glad I didn't have to though. It was a guy that holds up this container of spazzy roaches, trying to escape. Anyways you have to reach in and hold it to put it in this little holding cell, until they are all ready to race. All the girls reacted the same way that I would have, I shuddered watching them pick up these vile devilish creatures. Yet was intrigued, and thought it would be kinda fun to force myself to do something that really grosses me out like that.
This morning all my roommates were sleeping and I went in my room to grab something when I saw something move. I've gotten good with not screaming anymore when I see them. The roach was very smart and pretended it was dead, thinking I wouldn't kill it. I killed the smart little fucker anyways. As some of you may know I especially don't like killing bugs that crunch (I usually try to throw them out the window, but couldn't this morning because of all the sleeping people). So to soften the impact of the crunch I threw newspaper on it and jumped on it. I left it there and will get it when I get home, I felt a little violated and tramatised and didn't want to make any noise. I wouldn't be surprised if the fucker comes back from the dead lays it's eggs in something precious and dear of mine...oh the pain. I've gotten a lot less spazzy with them though, compared to the first roach I saw....I'll have lots of fun up North in Queensland...OMG..hahah spiders the size of my face OMG....
Anyways I think I have written enough
I really hate reading things off of a computer screen, and maybe some of you may feel the same way.
So everyone have yourselves a great day.............................*mwah*
I will upload some pictures soon of random things....Bye...
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