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Hey Georgie, I didnt' know you are doing community work. Good on you! I couldn't do anything like that, I'd get too upset. I'm shamefully squeamish about people who are ill or disabled. I admire you immensely.

I have been having deep thinks about starting a sensible job. I have also been thinking about getting back into the UK. And then Lizzie, who is the brains and the beauty of us (I think I might just be the arse) suggested teaching in the UK. It is perfect! I've been juggling several ideas about what I want to do for ages, and teaching was always there, just not at the forefront. Britain is crying out for teachers. I wonder if I could go to the UK to be trained as a teacher and work in the UK? Morag, do you know of any such thing? It would be great, because I could use all my skills, educate young folk and influence their lives in a meaningful way, and provide stability for Lizzie and I. We could have a little house and raise kidlets respectably. Ha ha! Is a brilliant plan! Now, how to go about it...might visit the government website and see.

The ghost is being excorcised today, but I don't think it will work. There's too much of a concentration of bad energy in Nikki's room, and Jacki ruins any harmony by being a giant wanker. If it's to come out, there will have to either be a concerted effort to have a calm house, or we'll have to develop a relationship with it, which Nikki is too scared to do, and Jacki is too off her face to comprehend. Oh well. It likes Lizzie and I. That's cause we're cool.

I miss everyone. I want to come home! I'm tired of Australia, it smells! I don't understand these people, I think they're a bit backward. I can't believe the rest of the world has been mistaking it for charm for so long.

Love everyone. I am going to play with Lizzie in the sunshine now, sadly. Maybe we'll go for a swim, dolefully. My it's hot. Might have an icy pole as well. Yum!

Ari.xxxxx

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Hello!

Firstly, Georgie - no you never told us you were doing volunteer work. Tell us more. It sounds amazing (though distressing etc). We are coming home in about 8 months. Which is a long time. I have to stop being homesick.


We knew we had a haunted stuff going on due to experience and recognising stuff, really quickly. The first day we moved in Nikki and Jacqui weren't there and we were all alone and we each at separate occasions saw quick shadows pass along the floor - almost like a mouse, but not. Then I saw someone's legs in the hallway when ari was in the kitchen and no-one else was in the house. When they got back we said 'did you knwo this place is haunted' and they said 'oh yeah, sorry about that, didn't mention it before.' Though they did mention the house at the top og the hill is the most hanuted in Queensland, or something, so not surprising there's at least residual stuff. Apparently the house was on the market for ages and the reason it's so damned cheap is because they couldn't get anyone else to take it. Also, apparently real estate agents are obliged to tell you iof there's a ghost in the house. This is being managed not by the local agent but one across town, maybe they don't knwo and so that isn't a problem. Nikki's room is worse by far though, it's very cold in there (mind we're in Queensland just coming up to summer. Our room is stifling) and just really eerie. People hear voices whispering and singing and things get moved etc. It's tough because alot of the people who come through the house are off their face on something and you're never quite sure what's poltergeist, and what's Crazy Junkie.


Jacqui is quite crazy. She plays loud music (5:30am, today) and always has crazy people in the house. This stuff gets to Ari far more than me, but then it all builds up and blah!! Nikki though a bit crazy is just young (they're both only 19) and otherwise lovely. Despite the moans the house is beautiful. Will post pictures within the week, promise. And tonight there's someone comign round to do an exorcism. Don't know how well that will work. If it doesn't, I want to try and persuade Nikki to get a cat. That will help with the energies etc. It's weird how everything in our room is fine and really it doesn't bother us (unless we're home alone and it's dark). It think it's because we're on to it and the very first day we just went 'listen mate, we know your sort, leave us alone' When it does play up , we tell it to stop that now and it does. It's like being a fairy!


House of Doom escape story I believe was requested. It's a story of evil and heroic defeat with me cast as the maiden in distress and Ari, my knight in shining armour. I can't remember what we have said, so to start at the beginning, we moved in. After the first night I was covered all over in massively painful bedbug bites. Columbian guy said yeah, there are bedbugs, there's a rat too. So Ari spoke to Niall, the guy in charge of the flat (and also a dealer, don;t know how we manage to get involved with these people) and he said maybe we should exterminate them ourselves ie pay for it ourselves and Ari said no, if there's a letting company (which he claimed there was) they are obliged to pay for it, and replace all the mattresses, so he said he'd talk to them. When I got home from work I told Ari I hurt so much all over, I didn't feel safe and I hated it and could we please please move out even if it meant us losing the deposit and me having to ask my Mum for money, who doesn't really have any. So we decided that's what we'd do and the next day we crept out of the house thankfully everyone was out and we went to live on a campsite in Humphrey. Which was lovely, Humphrey is loyal and beautiful although he is designed for use in Europe which makes him FUCKING hot in Australia. We got up dead early teh 2 nights we stayed there cos it got too hot. Anyway, we were living in Humphrey and while I was at work, Ari was stuck with the task of telling Niall we'd moved out and trying to get our money back. We were all practised, and if he wouldn't give it, then she's be very nice and go, ok, so want to just give me the name of the letting agent and we'll contact them direct, it is after all, their responsibility (knowing full well by now there is no bloody letting agent) Then if he didn't give us that, we were going to call the police beacause that's actually theft. So brave intrepid Ari went in to the House of Doom, all geared up and sat next to Niall on the sofa who apparently squirmed a bit and said 'oh well, um, the letting agents aren't too keen..' (I'm paraphrasing a secong hand quote, but the gist is right) and she said 'Me and Lizzie have moved out' to which he replied 'you'll wnat your rent and bond back then' She in fact left him with $40 for good karma on the basis we'd been there 2 nights. Next day we set out househunting and ended up responding to this dodgy looking ad in an internet cafe, got this guy called Richard who sounded faintly Indian, or something, who insisted the only way for us to see the place was him picking us up in his car. We somewhat reluctantly did this. HE turned out to be American and basically someone who has done a lot of travelling in his time and is paying back his dues. He took us to his house and it transpired that actually he had no room but no, it'll be fine, his friend Jacqui at the other end of town might but she's a bit flaky you know. We were becoming more trepidacious, and I hadn't long til I had to go to work, but then he took us to this place, we saw it was gorgeous, they said we could move in tomorrow and then Richard gave me a lift to work. That was the best day!


Ok, what else. Morag your coat sounds divine. Erin, haven't heard from you in ages, are you ok? Sian, you know as well as I do you have secrets. Fliss, it's not your fault you didn't understand the book of P&P and were so happy to have seen the shit film because now you can make polite conversation withing the literati. We don't judge you. (and on a more serious note, how's the whole SPS thing going?) Georgie, I miss you. Oh, but I miss everyone else too. Alex, hope you get sorted with job etc. It's tough. Ross, you're our friend (LJ wise) (and generally obviously) Are you still there too?

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Lizziexxx