It's been a long time

I was waiting for something really great to happen so my blog won't be boring, but nothing extraordinary has happened yet. We are settling in nicely at our hostel, Base X Embassy, although there are some undesireable things. Like:
1. I found a cockroach in the kitchen cupboard.
2. Somebody stole my orange juice.
3. Julia got bed bugs from the TV room.

Obviously, they are ranked in horrifying-ness in that order. But those are tiny, inconsequential problems when we think about the hellhole we were in. Plus there are a lot of good things, like:
1. Our roommate Colin, who is the dorkiest dentist we've ever lived in an Australian hostel with. He's asked Julia to show him some dance moves for the clubs, "not too showy but enough to impress people." And he likes to play pick-up soccer with Shana, but sometimes he thinks it's rugby and just bumbles around the field knocking people over. Finally, everyone in the hostel knows him as "the milk guy", because when we're drinking alcohol, he's swigging milk.
2. Everybody is really nice to us, and we have about 100 new friends. It's nice to hang out with people other than each other.
3. We're right in the middle of the city, so we have ready access to a lot of restaurants, stores, and clubs....not that we can afford to actually go to any of them. Shana and I went to a delicious place called the Pancake Manor in a fit of hangover hunger, and it was worth every penny.

Much of the week has been dedicated to finding a job, which has proved to be a more formidable task than we though. We started out brimming with confidence, but soon realized that nobody really wants to hire a person who will only be around for a few months at most. Shana and I are on our way to go apply at the local grocery store, and the horrifying part is there is a very real chance that we may not get the job. Julia had a test run at Guess, which was an unmitigated disaster.

We've also been going out a lot, because we don't have any place to lay on the couch and watch TV (at least, a place without bed bugs), and also we're tight with some of the bartenders and get get tons of free drinks. Nothing much to say about that except that it's weird to have things stay open past 2am, and we regularly get home around 4-5.

Julia's working on getting pictures on her computer, which means that soon we'll put some on here. Keep checking back!