Hi there

So right now I am in my room in my new sharehouse in Peckham. I don’t mind living here. The house is very orderly with a cleaning roster and no rowdy sex crazed housemates. I have a nice big room, very reasonable rent and a computer at my leisure,  and the girls who own the house are nice. Hmm but sometimes like now it is so quiet and I am so bored.

So where I’m living. Its not really the most exciting part of London but its not too far from London Bridge in the South-East part of London. There are heaps of buses that go into town all the time. Hmm so yeah lots of black people live around here. I haven’t seen any Aussies or hardly any white Brits. But the shops are heaps cheap for London. And you can get whatever you need – theres a huge supermarket, lots of those small Asian stores that sell cheap fruit and veg, and my housemate told me London’s cheapest cinema. To be honest at the moment thats great for me. I have hardly any money left so I can just stay here and watch tv and cook a cheap meal of spaghetti in the extremely clean kitchen.

But if I don’t find a job soon I may go insane (and be evicted as well)

I do have a few more interviews lined up so I really, really  hope besides the rent situation and for the sake of being able to afford to go out and have a few drinks at the pub and try to create some kind of social life when I do meet people, I hope I get it. I really want to do this Winter Tour in December and if I dont get some stable work it’s not going to happen. In fact if I don’t get work soon I think I will just head back to Australia before Christmas, which would be so disapointing. Have so been looking forward to my first white Christmas with the family. But the Aussie dollar is so bad. If I havent got work by next week I am going to consider it

We shall see….

And British radio is pretty shit. I have been fiddling with the dial trying to pick up a decent station. BBC1 is pretty good but it doesn’t have very good reception here at all. It keeps changing over to this annoying reggae station. All the other stations I have found have been golden oldies and some station where all they played is power ballads. I am serious…

But to finish on a happy note. I have discovered: wait for it…(Luke this will excite you)

Home and Away on Channel 5! And because my housemates are always in their rooms 99 per cent of the time nobody seems to care that I go downstairs and watch it at 6.00pm each night (it is also on at 2.30pm I have recently discovered) and they are right up to the episodes that were on just before I left Australia.The Olympic Cliffhanger Luke!!  That might sound really sad that I am here and just watching Home and Away but it costs nothing and I appreciate it even more than at home if thats possible.  A little of piece of home…

Well this stupid radio station is starting to drive me nuts. I am especially not in the mood for Vanilla Ice tonight.

I am going to flick it off and go downstairs. Shame it is Saturday so no Home and Away on tonight

Wishing you all the best and as much as I miss you all really hoping I get to stay in Europe a bit longer

Love Vanessa

xxxx