Ciao for now, New Zealand

I'm actually writing this blog post in my notebook ready to transcribe later.  Man, I miss writing on paper; it's ace.  Anyway...

So today I am finally going back to Sydney.  Actually I'm sitting in departures looking at all the planes taking off and loading and things.  I'm such a geek; I don't think I'll ever get bored of watching them because planes are amazing.  FACT.  This kid's just walked past with one of the little model planes they give to children.  I want one.  Maybe I'll mug him for it.*

I think I'm a jinx to weather - it's warm and sunny and lovely in Auckland today and I bet it'll be pouring with rain when I get to Sydney!  I slept really badly last night: I don't think I'm taking too well to being on my own again after being with such cool people and having a little family these last weeks.  I'll also admit I've been waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too lazy but as it's now job time it's not huge problem.  As long as I don't do it all the time, obviously.  Being at YHA in Auckland with such a big group of people has been amazing.  Although loads of people have come and gone, we've had a really cool if ever changing crew.  It's weird because at home I'm so much more comfortable in small groups ad here I've been sitting around a table for dinner with sometimes 12 or 13 of us after a big cooking session.

Actually this guy Ollie turned up the other night and we were doing dinner for 10 and we always take up loads of the kitchen, so we're using sometimes 3 hobs and the whole bench on one side.  We whack my iPod on and drink beer whilst we all chop, cook and taste (lots of, 'I just want to see that it's seasoned!')  Anyway, this Ollie guy was standing there repeating how awesome the camaraderie and atmosphere was.  It was only then that I realised actually how brilliant it was even when I wasn't cooking and therefore had to be DishBitch.

As a result of all this, I do feel a very tangible sense of loneliness again.  I'm sure it won;t last long but it's still not the greatest thing in the world.  My hostel in Sydney is fully booked so I currently have nowhere to sleep tonight.  Ah well!  Tomorrow is going to be laborious; I have to get my TFN and sort a bank account before I go and get me some gainful employment so that I can get somewhere to live that doesn't  involve me living out of a rucksack for the next four months or whatever.

Hm, I think that's enough rambling now.  OH!  Except for one thing - I had quite possibly the most cheesy thought ever the other day.  I think (I hope) it's because of the song I'll Be Seeing You by Billie Holliday.  It occurred to me that when I look at the moon or when the sun is shining, it's the same moon and sun that everyone back home sees.  Anyway, since then I keep looking at the moon to remind me of people from home.  I know, it's so sappy but actually I don't care.

On the plane now (which, bizarrely, has an all male crew) so over and out from New Zealand.

*To be clear, I neither attempted to nor seriously contemplated this.