Ben and I got an apartment today! Its in kind of the same neighbourhood as we’ve been staying in. 3-31 Birriga Rd is the address. Its in a mainly jewish residental neighbourhood that has really neat looking houses, and has lots of families walking around. We met the people living there now, it is a 40-50 year old jewish lady who lives in the apartment room and rents it out to people our age that are traveling. Right now she has a guy from Ireland named Kenneth that is staying there. We met him today too. He’s been living there for 4 months already and seemed really nice, and maybe a couple years older than us. Kenneth is going to be living there for approximately 4 weeks, maybe shorter, maybe longer. And the lady that actually lives there, Ann, is traveling to Israel for her daughter’s wedding for 5 weeks. So we will be there in her place for those 5 weeks for sure. If Kenneth moves out after that, then we can stay for the entire time that we’re in Sydney!
Its a really small apartment with a functional kitchen, a living room with a nice tv, one bathroom and 2 bedrooms. Ben and I will be sharing a bedroom. We also will have free access to the internet there, and the newspaper is delivered for free there as well.
Both Ann and Kenneth seemed so nice and easy to get along with. Ann seemed very motherly and wanted to make sure that everything will be okay for us, and Kenneth is apparently on the shy side, but a good guy.
The place is really cheap too. Cheaper than we’ve been paying for hostels. We’re going to be paying $115 per week for each of us, for 5 weeks. Plus today we paid a 2 week bond that we will get back when we leave if everything is okay.
We move in on Oct. 5, and if we have to leave after the 5 weeks, our final day there will be Nov. 16.
Ben and I also got a cell phone today, for the two of us to share. It will mainly be used to find jobs/places to stay and to keep in touch with people that we meet out here. But incase of an emergency, our phone number is 04 3181 1550.
