6th May

Things been kinda shit lately. First me passport went missing. I've got the info from the consulate - it'll cost me $279 qand take 13 days - cvause needs to be sent off to Canberra and such. I've got the money luckily. Recetly, last week, I put on a bet for 8 football games, 3 of which were in the championship, I only put $10 but could win $520. Well all my predictions happened. The p[roblem was the ticket got a bit faded, god knows how! and the bar code and serial no. couldnt be read. I made a massive fuss and went round to TAB's (australias betting compnay)head office to complain - well basically the deal is this, I have to send off a form for lost and damaged tickets and then I should, hopefully get my money - the problem is this form costs another $10 and it takes a maximum of 21 days for them to reply and its at their discretion - but I won fair and they have records of all the bets made, so I think it will be worth it, especially for the money, so I'm gonna do it.

The next bout of badness and sadness that has hit me is a bad case of the flu, with headaches, gland swellings and all such the shits of a really bad cold.

But I'm completely gutted about asia which I was getting quite excited about, because if the bet had gone through ;ike it should and my passport hadnt been lost, then I could be there right now, with about $1500 to have fun with. But now I got to wait around for the above bulklshit. AS lovely as sydney is, I was very up for a change. I have money to get by now, but might still try and get a casual job to keep my funds up.

All in all, if, and more probably when, I do travellingm like this again I'll do longer than 6 months, because you need longer and most people do longer - but then again most people I've met are older - the average gap year age is prob 22-24.

Anyway, shit happens, thats life. I've put my flight back to 22nd may atmo, which is 2 weeks this friday, but hopefully my passport and the bet will come through before then. muchluvxx