Well... another week has gone by and it has been one of the longest however not mst eventful weeks!! ... I started the week working having taken two jobs, one at the gourmet burger place and the other at Sandrinos the Italian pizza bar and restaurant. The Burger place is great fun, everyone who works there are uni students and there are probably about 5 or 6 of us on at a time and it gets pretty busy, so time doesnt pass too slowly!! The owners are pretty young and they just open up and let us get on with our selves, a nice feeling of independence and trust is felt by them doing this, i get the feeling that the work ethic here is more of a family based in environment. I am doing this casually with a few shifts during the week, this week i have had 3 and it will probably go up to 5 when im running desperately out of money!! Sandrinos.... well as soon as i went there i had a bit of a dodgy feeling about the place, well more specifically the people... they werent very friendly and my boss was a little bit of a witch! Well i stuck it out with 4 shifts during the week. However they were all night shifts so i was leaving when everyon was coming back into the house at 4/5 and then coming in at about 10/11 at night... not very sociable... so to make a long story short, seeing as there were no day shifts availabe i have quit as of oday, and am back out looking more specifically for a mon-fri job 9-5 and i will then have some shifts at the burger plave too maybe 3 or 4 times a week! Even if the pay isnt as good as Sandrinos i wont be having to pay 7$ a night o parking which really meant i wasnt making that much money.
Im not sure about my status here - obviously i will be staying for now but i am not sure whether i will be coming back as late as i said, the life is great here - but i seem to be spending much more than i can afford to do - all in a days life of a student hey?!!?! But hopefully when i get this other job it will be fine. The boys im living with are pretty big party animals and i have realised that i just cant afford to go out as much of them, but i am still making sure that i get plent of play for the amount im working!! Perth really isnt that much of a "happening" place and like someone i know visited here said ... its a great place to come back to at 50 and retire but for students... not so great, so in one mind i am asking myself what is holding me here instead of going somewhere else or even back to the Uk, but i have kind of figured that if i can stick it out until november so another month maybe 2 then i will have made a bit more money and then i can come back... for now it would almost be a waste me leaving. As you may have noticed the homesickness started to really settle this week, especially as at the beginnign of the week i was ill and all you want to do when you are ill and bed ridden is to be at home where no one cares if you stay in your pyjamas all day... but i am better now and also feeling a little better - home sickness wise. I have made a deal with myself that i stay definately until October and we see how it goes from there.

My other 2nd cousin something removed is down from the north of the country this week so we are going out with him this weekend and then out for lunch on Sunday for his mum, phillipas birthday, so that is something to look forward to! ... At the moment i really am not doing much travelling so knowing what to write about is hard, if anything major has happened i try and jot it down as the week goes by but...well this is why im afraid the blog has not got amazing adventure stories just yet!!! if there is anything that you want to know about more then just leave a comment and i will do my best to let you know as much as i can!

The picture above is taken from a park in Perth looking over the city... just to give you an idea of where i am staying! I cant bput all my photos up buthave tried to choose a select few to sum up the weeks but hopefully wiht more exciting adventures due there will be more exciting photos to put up!!!

Anyway i miss everyone and hope all are well
lots of love rachel....xxxxx