March 28

**Terrin and I are out at 'The Oxford Art Factory'. We didn't get home till 6 in the morning**
The Visit With Terrin & Gayle was GREAT! I just dropped them off at the train to go to the Airpost and then back home.
So they got here on Wendesday instead of Tuesday because their plane broke and they had to wait a full 24 hours to come on the next one.
We spent the first couple of days touring Sydney going to the beaches. We went for a going-away party for my roomie, Christian, at Coogee beach and played Rugby and Cricket in the sand.
We left for Melbourne on Monday morning. I love Melbourne! It's so trendy and young. Although, it made me want to buy everything I saw, so it's probably a good thing I'm not living there. We Took a tour of the Melbourne Gaol (jail ) and rode the tram around the city. We shopped (of course!) and saw as much of Melbourne as we possibly could. The Jack Johnson concert on Wednesday night was fantastic & we even got to see Jack up close. Actually, as we were getting to the concert, we were walking accross some random street and 2 guys jumped out of a van and started walking into the VIP area of the place. It was Jack and His friend!! how cool! If we were a little more brave we could have said hello, but Terrin espacially was totally speechless. Our flight back to Sydeny was a bit of a struggle since we went to the wrong airport and had to take a Million Dollar taxi to the other one to make it there on time. OOPS!! well, we made it. That's all that matters I suppose.
I was sad to see them leave this morning, but I'm sure it will only be a few months until I'm back in London causing havoc with Terrin again!!

March

I'm in Melbourne right now, with Terrin and Gayle. I don't have much time on this computer, so I'll make sure to write a better entry later. But, Melbourne is SO nice! very modern/old city. All the buildings are gorgrous. We went on a little adventure yesterday and saw a bunch of teeny penguins crawling up the beach to get home from the ocean at dusk. how CUTE!!! Tonight's Jack Johnson, we're SO excited to see him. More later...

March 16

**The first Picture is of Christian and I on the ferry. The second is the view of the city from the water. How nice!!**
Ok. Some good things that have come from being robbed. (It's taken me a while to think of something, but here goes..) I'll become more aware of what really matters in life rather than material things. What do you think? I'm just trying to make a positive out of a negative here. So this past week has been ok. I've just been working every day. I went out on Sunday night to do the 'night patrol' volunteer stuff which was good. I'm SO excited to see Terrin and Gayle on Tuesday!! I'm going to the airport at 6:50am to pick them up before I go to work. They're going to stay in a hostel around the corner from my house so it should be easy to get around the city from here. I'm hoping they're as excited as I am, they're going to have an amazing time. The weather here has been stellar lately. They picked a perfect time to come. No rain in sight! I went to Manly Beach on Suday afternoon with my friend Christian from the house. We had to take the ferry accross to the beach which was actually very nice. This Saturday, Christian, Laura and I all went to bondi. It've been a great few weekends!!

March 8

Arg!! worst week ever.
Well it didn't start off too bad. I went out with Laura on Friday night and went to Mark & Moniques on Saturday/Sunday. We had a great time.. Monique's aunt & uncle came over from Canada (I knew them from home) and Monique's sister Simone is also living with them now for Uni. So, we spent Saturday night playing Canadian Monopoly and watching movies. Very relaxing!
On Monday night I went to a thing called 'Theology on Tap' where basucally a bunch of Catholic Youth get together in a bar and listen to a talk from a Cardinal. The whole talk went straight over my head, but afterwords, I stayed around and met a ton of very cool people and actually ended up staying until midnight talking with my friends from the Cathedral Youth Group. One of the girls drove me home so that I didn't have to walk at night.
Tuesday was the words day of my life.
I got home from work, went to my room, went into Laura's room for 10 minutes to chat, went back to my room and my purse and computer were gone.
I called the police, filed a report, etc, but there's nothing else I can do about it. It's all gone, I only have my passport and my clothing left. That's all I'm going to say about it because it makes me sad thinking about it.
So the rest of the week was a little less than fantastic. I spent the whole time cancelling my credit cards and trying to figure out how I'm going to get all my identification back.
Some exciting news... Terrin & her mom are going to be here soon and we're in the full swing of getting their plans into motion. I think we're going to go to Melbourne for easter weekend and see a Jack Johnson concert! Plus, the two of them are going to Fraser Island for a few days. Other than that, I'm going to make sure they see all the fantastic Sydney sights. It's going to be amazing to see someone from home.
Last night I went to 'the Ivy' with Laura and the footie boys. We had a great time, as usual. Today, I'm spending the day downtown looking for a new purse and wallet, plus an address book because I don't have my computer for that anymore. I'm also going to go to all the pawn shops that I can find to see if my computer is anywhere to be found. Tomorrow night, I'm doing another night patrol adventure, feeding the homeless.