(RING RING)... Baaaaaa!
In spite of my legendary organisation skills things are slowly starting to settle here in Auckland. My day in Sydney was nice, I didn't really do anything except read a book in a bookshop without buying it, but from the general atmosphere I definitely want to go back to Australia before the end of the adventure, and I found that there's plenty of opportunities for cash in hand work in Sydney so if I get bored here I can get a flight back to Oz, work and travel, then come back here and carry on working.
However, that sounds too much like a plan so who knows what I'll end up doing. My week in Auckland has been okay, I'm starting to get to know the local places to socialise which is great as the Backpacker's scene was starting to wear thin. The hostel I'm staying in is brand new and has been designed by Backpackers so it features a nightclub, sauna, spa, and TV screens in the Washrooms. It's strange being in Auckland with no money, as there are plenty of fantastic things to do around the area, such as dolphin swimming and Bungy Jumping, but my main activity has been mastering the art of inactivity, lying on Beanbags and watching terrible daytime TV, waiting for the Simpsons. So I've pretty much resumed my UK lifestyle, but with beanbags. Come to think of it, I did a lot of staring at screens in India and Thailand too, but that somehow seemed like an adventure in itself.
Anyway, things will start coming together soon, I start a job tommorrow in a call centre, which seems to be my destiny in this life. This time it's a helpdesk for sheep farmers, or something like that, so I'm sure there'll be plenty of sheep related stories in trhe next few blogs, and these ones I can talk about as they won't involve me.
But apart from the new job and a lot of drunken socialising there's not much to report. Things have mainly been about readapting to the western world. I still keep saying thank you in Thai, so alot of people think I'm a non-english speaker and speak very slowly and clearly to me. This is quite useful at night during happy hour, but sooner or later I'm sure I'll get used to things again. The main problem is remembering that things aren't dirt cheap anymore, though I struggled with that notion before I started travelling. Anyway, to conclude, things are fairly normal at the moment, Auckland is a good place for work and saving money, but from a travelling point of view it's not too great. It's a very straight and modern city, with no strange little areas that I'm usually drawn to. To begin with I found it annoying for no reason, which bugged me untill I found out that a lot of people think this. It'll do for now though, and luckily I am still thrilled by small dull things in life, such as the flush 'options' on the toilets, but I'll save that fascinating anecdote for next time.
However, that sounds too much like a plan so who knows what I'll end up doing. My week in Auckland has been okay, I'm starting to get to know the local places to socialise which is great as the Backpacker's scene was starting to wear thin. The hostel I'm staying in is brand new and has been designed by Backpackers so it features a nightclub, sauna, spa, and TV screens in the Washrooms. It's strange being in Auckland with no money, as there are plenty of fantastic things to do around the area, such as dolphin swimming and Bungy Jumping, but my main activity has been mastering the art of inactivity, lying on Beanbags and watching terrible daytime TV, waiting for the Simpsons. So I've pretty much resumed my UK lifestyle, but with beanbags. Come to think of it, I did a lot of staring at screens in India and Thailand too, but that somehow seemed like an adventure in itself.
Anyway, things will start coming together soon, I start a job tommorrow in a call centre, which seems to be my destiny in this life. This time it's a helpdesk for sheep farmers, or something like that, so I'm sure there'll be plenty of sheep related stories in trhe next few blogs, and these ones I can talk about as they won't involve me.
But apart from the new job and a lot of drunken socialising there's not much to report. Things have mainly been about readapting to the western world. I still keep saying thank you in Thai, so alot of people think I'm a non-english speaker and speak very slowly and clearly to me. This is quite useful at night during happy hour, but sooner or later I'm sure I'll get used to things again. The main problem is remembering that things aren't dirt cheap anymore, though I struggled with that notion before I started travelling. Anyway, to conclude, things are fairly normal at the moment, Auckland is a good place for work and saving money, but from a travelling point of view it's not too great. It's a very straight and modern city, with no strange little areas that I'm usually drawn to. To begin with I found it annoying for no reason, which bugged me untill I found out that a lot of people think this. It'll do for now though, and luckily I am still thrilled by small dull things in life, such as the flush 'options' on the toilets, but I'll save that fascinating anecdote for next time.
posted by Martin O'Neill at 5:30 PM
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