Living in Perth

It's been a fair while since I updated this but that doesn't mean I haven't been busy!

I returned from Morawa on the 31st of January. Almost didn't make it to the airport as the rear left tyre on the landcruiser exploded on the way there. Had to make a frenzied tyre change 30 minutes before my plane left. Luckily we got it sorted and made it with time to spare.

I decided I wanted to rent a house in Perth so I looked for some places on gumtree and went into Perth on Wednesday to have a look at some places. The first flat I went to see was in Northbridge and was perfect. It is a share with two other people, a 20yo girl called Kiti and her boyfriend Alex. I haven't met Alex yet, he is away working on the east coast but Kiti is really nice, we got on well straight away and the flat is awesome (it also has a balcony - hello summer barbeques!) so I decided to just take it. Still gotta work on getting some furniture (got a bed at Ikea two days ago) but apart from that it's just a great place to live. Rent is $150pw which is stellar for the location so I am extremely happy with it.

I had the interview with Graeme for the better paying field work and that looks good to go next month. I am going away into the field with Pennington Scott again on Tuesday for another two weeks to really get some money down first though. Then after that I will chill for a while before starting work on the new field job, get myself settled into Perth and do some more Scuba and learn to Kite surf. I am also going out in Perth most nights at the moment with two awesome guys I met here who are on pretty much exactly the same wavelength as me so we have an absolute blast.

I followed up my application to Curtin Uni and it's going through ok, gotta wait a couple of weeks for confirmation. I will go in to see someone in person at some point to talk to someone about it and suss out the course a bit.

So yeah it's all turning out rather well at the moment :-D. Let's hope I continue to ride the wave and it carries on going as well as it has up to this point!

Laters.