A Little Update

I've been putting off writing something for a while because there really isn't anything to write.  I've been working a lot of hours which is good.  Tuesday will be my first day off in 2 and a half weeks so I'm pretty exhausted.  It's good for my bank account though, but not so good for my social life.  It's been really difficult to feel like I'm enjoying myself while working so much.  I do love my job and everyone I work with so it makes it bearable, but I haven't really gotten to do anything.  The last few weeks I've had to work on Sunday mornings even so I haven't gotten to play football on the beach with my friends.  A few weeks ago I took a picture of some of the guys so that you can see them!

Left to Right: Johny (Canadian), Ed (English), Mark, Gibo and Trent (Aussies)

Also I know mom asked me to take some pictures of my shop and abouts where I work so I did that as well.

Kind of the main street.  Right through those trees is the beach

Other view, looking inland

Outside of my shop, you can see it in the background in that first picture as well

Doorway

Inside and to the left, There is Sam hard at work. lol

Inside to the right, you can see the stairs leading upstairs to the girls clothing

Me hard at work, obviously

The beach at Surfers, packed on a Saturday

Bunch of friends from the hostel all go together

Sam on the left and Matt on the right

Looking for a place to live has been a completely different story.  I feel as thought I'll never find a place.  It's difficult because I really do want to live near the beach, even if that means living outside Surfers.  Ideally I would live in Broadbeach or even on the south side of Broadbeach (you can google it, it's just south of Surfers) because it's out of the super big city, but there are still things around.  Everything is so expensive though it's been really difficult to find a place that is priced well, but still where I want to be.  I've found a few places and have looked at them, but they aren't by the beach and I figure if I'm going to be half way across the world then I might as well live where I want to live and not settle just because it's the first place I find.  A guy that I work with has a place in Burleigh which is WAY far away (about a 30 minute bus ride).  It's reasonably priced and he's a pretty cool guy so I'm hoping that it works out.  The only thing I'm nervous about is being so far away and feeling stranded because I don't know anyone.  I'll have to check it out and see how I feel about it.  At the same time I've been in surfers for a while now, I've done the whole go out thing and I'm really just not that into it.  Burleigh is gorgeous and it might be a nice change of pace, especially since I work in Surfers so I'm still there pretty much everyday.  It would be really expensive for a bus pass, like 60 bucks every two weeks or so.  So I'll have to figure out if it's worth it.  I wish there could just be someone who could just straight up tell me what to do.  I really don't like this whole 'haven't got a clue about what I'm doing with my life' thing.

Obviously it's still awesome here, the weather is starting to get really nice and it's hardly ever cloudy or rainy, except for today of course the one day that I didn't have to work until 5, go figure.  Schoolies is starting to come up which is basically like the equivalent of spring break for college kids, but for high schoolers.  All the high school kids get out for the summer and flock to the Gold Coast where they go crazy and run a muck.  Goodie.  haha We asked corporate if we could close down the store early to try to deter the kids from all the stealing that usually happens, I don't think we've heard back yet, but I hope they let us.

Other than that it's just been the same as always,  I'm going to a theme park on Tuesday for my first day off.  I'm really excited to go out and do something! I'm also going to start planning my traveling for after my time on the Gold Coast.  That's when the blogging really gets exciting!!!

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