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LOOK RIGHT BEFORE TURNING LEFT!! OR WAS IT LEFT BEFORE TURNING RIGHT?
G’Day friends and family,
Elizabeth has officially started work!! She loves her colleagues and the work atmosphere. She did say that her office is completely open along with all of her other colleagues. Not much privacy, but that apparently isn’t an issue for the Aussies. There is a dishwasher in the lounge, along with cartons of milk for all to use (breakfast anyone?). Upon receiving information about her work car, Liz found out that she can use the company gas card for every fill up during our stint here, literally. So that means weekend trips, no gas expense to us—gas is pricey here mates!! She received her car on Monday but was a little reluctant to drive home because of the “backward” driving here. All of her coworkers were asking her if she was going to drive. Apparently it was quite the buzz at work. She left it in her space and trained home.
While her first day of work was spent getting acquainted with Quintiles Australia, mine was spent setting up our cell phone, looking into banking, and sending out a few dozen resumes. After hours on the computer I made my way by train to Chris’ pad in an area called Surry Hills (downtown, we are on the other side of the harbour bridge called North Sydney). We biked (he happens to have an extra road bike, we ended up not bringing ours) to Bondi where our new friends have quite a quiver of surf boards and went for a surf. It is pretty awesome just putting on your shorts and carrying your board down through the little village, past all the shops, barefoot and shirtless to the beach which is just a 7 minute walk. The surf was big but there wasn’t much form, took a lot of spills.
Elizabeth and I met back home around 6:45ish. She stopped by a killer Asian market in the adjacent building next to her office (quite convenient) so we cooked up a great meal we call Thai Bowl (a version of Dougal’s Recipe) with bamboo shoots, water chestnuts, baby bok choy, baby corn, cashews, fresh bean sprouts, tofu, tempeh, all over a bead of rice noodles and topped with a hearty dose of peanut sauce. We will be eating a lot of Asian food while we are here. Cheap and healthy.
Yesterday I met Elizabeth at work (after researching about 250 places to rent, 60 places to work, and watching the Aussie Open—great coverage). It was time to drive the Astra home. That is right, an Astra—10 bucks to anyone who has heard of one before. A silver, 4 door Astra with 400 Kilometers on the odometer. Brand spankin’ new. It is our equivalent to a Ford Focus (remember those hip commercials about 5 years ago, with the retro post college groupies?). Liz drove and did a great job. It was odd LOOKING LEFT BEFORE TURNING RIGHT OR RIGHT BEFORE TURNING LEFT? It is an automatic so having the shift on the left wasn’t too hard for her.
We found our way easily to an area called Kirribilli. We met with an agent to look at a 1958 apt. space that overlooked the Sydney Opera house. Good price but apt. was a little dusty and ‘80s if you know what I mean. The building was one of two buildings in Sydney that was constructed with an open air common area in the middle of the complex. A better description would be of those hotels that when you walk out the door you are out side, looking down to the 1st floor or up into the sky. Astro turf carpet on the balconies, the works. However, the area was very nice.
We headed home, went for a nice run through an area we hope to live in called Crows Nest. It has the most restaurants per block than any other area in Sydney.
Elizabeth has her first work trip on Thursday to Melbourne--Bummer that she couldn’t roll over the weekend as we aren’t headed to see the Aussie Open this year—too much to handle. Did I mention great coverage??? I think I did. She did find out her days off and we are going to have a 4 day weekend in April.
So, here we are, waiting by the phone to see if anyone dare call us in Sydney Australia. Remember, when it is 12 PM here on say Wednesday it is 5 PM PST or 8 PM EST there on Tuesday.
Here is our mini glossary of NEW terms
Cheers
Mini Glossary of Terms
Arvo=Afternoon
Hire=Rent
Lift=Elevator
Zed=Letter Z
Filter Coffee=Drip Coffee
Cheers=Bye, Hello
Too Easy=convenient (i.e. that is too easy, referring to a meeting place and time)
Sepo=Derogatory, short for septic tank, referring to Americans
Ring=Call
G’Day friends and family,
Elizabeth has officially started work!! She loves her colleagues and the work atmosphere. She did say that her office is completely open along with all of her other colleagues. Not much privacy, but that apparently isn’t an issue for the Aussies. There is a dishwasher in the lounge, along with cartons of milk for all to use (breakfast anyone?). Upon receiving information about her work car, Liz found out that she can use the company gas card for every fill up during our stint here, literally. So that means weekend trips, no gas expense to us—gas is pricey here mates!! She received her car on Monday but was a little reluctant to drive home because of the “backward” driving here. All of her coworkers were asking her if she was going to drive. Apparently it was quite the buzz at work. She left it in her space and trained home.
While her first day of work was spent getting acquainted with Quintiles Australia, mine was spent setting up our cell phone, looking into banking, and sending out a few dozen resumes. After hours on the computer I made my way by train to Chris’ pad in an area called Surry Hills (downtown, we are on the other side of the harbour bridge called North Sydney). We biked (he happens to have an extra road bike, we ended up not bringing ours) to Bondi where our new friends have quite a quiver of surf boards and went for a surf. It is pretty awesome just putting on your shorts and carrying your board down through the little village, past all the shops, barefoot and shirtless to the beach which is just a 7 minute walk. The surf was big but there wasn’t much form, took a lot of spills.
Elizabeth and I met back home around 6:45ish. She stopped by a killer Asian market in the adjacent building next to her office (quite convenient) so we cooked up a great meal we call Thai Bowl (a version of Dougal’s Recipe) with bamboo shoots, water chestnuts, baby bok choy, baby corn, cashews, fresh bean sprouts, tofu, tempeh, all over a bead of rice noodles and topped with a hearty dose of peanut sauce. We will be eating a lot of Asian food while we are here. Cheap and healthy.
Yesterday I met Elizabeth at work (after researching about 250 places to rent, 60 places to work, and watching the Aussie Open—great coverage). It was time to drive the Astra home. That is right, an Astra—10 bucks to anyone who has heard of one before. A silver, 4 door Astra with 400 Kilometers on the odometer. Brand spankin’ new. It is our equivalent to a Ford Focus (remember those hip commercials about 5 years ago, with the retro post college groupies?). Liz drove and did a great job. It was odd LOOKING LEFT BEFORE TURNING RIGHT OR RIGHT BEFORE TURNING LEFT? It is an automatic so having the shift on the left wasn’t too hard for her.
We found our way easily to an area called Kirribilli. We met with an agent to look at a 1958 apt. space that overlooked the Sydney Opera house. Good price but apt. was a little dusty and ‘80s if you know what I mean. The building was one of two buildings in Sydney that was constructed with an open air common area in the middle of the complex. A better description would be of those hotels that when you walk out the door you are out side, looking down to the 1st floor or up into the sky. Astro turf carpet on the balconies, the works. However, the area was very nice.
We headed home, went for a nice run through an area we hope to live in called Crows Nest. It has the most restaurants per block than any other area in Sydney.
Elizabeth has her first work trip on Thursday to Melbourne--Bummer that she couldn’t roll over the weekend as we aren’t headed to see the Aussie Open this year—too much to handle. Did I mention great coverage??? I think I did. She did find out her days off and we are going to have a 4 day weekend in April.
So, here we are, waiting by the phone to see if anyone dare call us in Sydney Australia. Remember, when it is 12 PM here on say Wednesday it is 5 PM PST or 8 PM EST there on Tuesday.
Here is our mini glossary of NEW terms
Cheers
Mini Glossary of Terms
Arvo=Afternoon
Hire=Rent
Lift=Elevator
Zed=Letter Z
Filter Coffee=Drip Coffee
Cheers=Bye, Hello
Too Easy=convenient (i.e. that is too easy, referring to a meeting place and time)
Sepo=Derogatory, short for septic tank, referring to Americans
Ring=Call
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