To answer a query in a comment on the previous post; I drive barefoot. Not a highheel wearer generally so I am not so dedicated as to forgoe road safety for fashion!
Today I went into the Travellex and got some local currency sorted out. Can you believe the exchange rates?? When I was in high school (Ok, that is actually getting to be quite a while ago now, but still) the rate was so good that earning money in Japan and then bringing it home meant a 30% increase on your savings for free! Nowadays I am LOSING money. All the money I saved in Japan is actually worth LESS here now. The rate she offered me originally was 111 yen to the $. That is shit. I said as much and she took pity on me and said since I was exchanging such a lot of money she could do me a "deal". I perked up a bit, and after a bit of keyboard tapping she came up with 108yen/$. Eek, that's quite high still, I clearly looked quite miserable about it (you would too if you were about to lose a large chunk of the money you saved dancing around to the Hello Song 1473 times), so she said "Ok, what would you say is a fair number?". I wasn't expecting to haggle, indeed I never thought that my sighing and reluctant demeanour would get me a discount at all - I really was just grumpy about the whole great Aussie Economic Situation in general! I said that my friend had exchanged some money 2 months earlier at about 1:1. She said that's impossible but offered me the "final deal" of 106! I took it of course because the dollar doesn't look like weakening much before I am going to need this money. How bizarre that they can actaully give you a discount on such things, if they can do it for me, why can't they do it for everyone?? Anyway, now I have Aussie dollars in my bank account rather than Japanese yen stored under my mattress and I feel a bit more financially secure:)
Today I headed out for my first touch footy run about since arriving home. It was beginners training and for some reason I decided to stick myself in the beginners group. I have been away for a year after all... but I haven't forgotten that much so I reckon next week I'll muck around with the rest of the crowd. It is nice to get back out there though. It is a slice of normalcy for my very unstructured life at the moment. Ha, speaking of which; I tried to get a mobile phone contract on the weekend but wasn't allowed to since I am unemployed!! How hilarious. Well, actually, all I need is an income, the bloke told me even if I was on the dole he could have approved me. Might check that out then... Bit ridiculous though since I can very well afford the pissing amount of money a phone is going to cost me per month. But hey, they have just saved me money I guess so i should thank them. And actually, no one can contact me when I am not actually at home and that is kind of nice!
It is still hot and sunny. Tomorrow I am going to play squash :)
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