drunken posts

i really shouldn't write posts after being out for a night on the town. i have had way too much to drink and i should be in bed but i'm biding the time till i can call pat and have a chat to him. we went to a new club tonight, very much like the australian clubs only there is a queue outside. normally in australia if there is a queue, people go elsewhere. the problem is that here, people want to see others and be seen, and i am not used to so much wealth being displayed. people here often use money as a belt, as a reason that you should be friends with them. i am used to people with debt, or not much money coming in, so coming in to a place that has a pool in their main foyer and a view to absolutely die for is a revelation to me. it was a pretty good night all round but still a little bit surreal for me who is a bit of a small town girl obviously. anyway i've got to go have a shower. i'll probably be sleeping off a hangover in the morning....

I think i'm in a bit of a weird mood.

Well, i think i'm in a bit of a wierdo mood today. I guess i think for the moment at least, i have gotten rid of most of the homesickness. Not all of it of course! I think i might always be a bit homesick especially whilst pat and i are apart and whilst mum and dad aren't coming to visit :D I think the sole reason for feeling this good is that i got sick of all of the walking i was doing to and from the train station with my 9lb (5kg) text book and various makeup crap, (my neck is so stiff!) so this morning i jumped on the first bus that arrived at the stop directly out the front of my door and thought 'stuff it! if i'm late to school because its headed to San Fransisco, i'll just call school and explain'. And the bloody bus dropped me off not even two blocks from the school less than half an hour later and i've dragged my crap for more than an hour each way, twice a day for a week because i was too scared to get on bus!!! I am a total loser!!! 

Also at school each day we have to pair up and one be the model and the other be the student, i was with a beautiful, super modelesque Chinese girl called Ting Ting today and she tweezed and trimmed the hell out of my eyebrows and they are the best they've ever looked! great confidence booster! also i tried to take a million photos of them cause they look so good and the photos are a little wierd but they are in the album anyway. Its my turn to have a go on her tomorrow and i'm really looking forward to it *evil grin*. Also i'm feeling a little safer now i know some tricks and am going to a place called Staples later in the week to buy my very first can of pepper spray!!! haha!! that is so American. but every girl in my class has a can and they keep it on them at all times, obviously just having it is a deterrent for crims.....they hold it in their hand when they are walking on their own at night. 

Anyway i'm off to the all-you-can-eat pizza night the hotel is having.....i can only eat maybe two slices (they are the size of your head) but people are eating a jillion pieces left, right and center so i don't think i should pay the whole $4 if people who eat more only have to pay $4.....i won't argue the point though. 

Love you and miss you all xoxoxoxoxox 

America Day Three

Ok so now that i've got this blog thing working i really don't have any excuses not to make it work do i? i have been to the academy and visited, it looks really good, there is also a little tiny dog that runs around in a sweater and it is so funny cause it doesn't walk anywhere it just runs and runs, really fast, it is quite cute! Tomorrow i am doing a tour of LA which starts at 9am our time and finishes at 6 pm or so so it'll be a big day. Today i went to Grauman's Chinese Theatre, the area on the Hollywood Walk of Fame where the hands and feet of the stars are in the pavement. also the start of the area that has the stars in the pavement too. there are so many!

Day One Finally works! YeeHa!

Day one

Made it. Just . The 20 minute trip from the airport actually took more than an hour and a half due to the shooting and killing of a person on the highway by the police. Scary! Good ol’ America lives up to its name within the first half hour of my stepping foot off the plane. Have photos of all the helicopters circling the highway.  Am desperate for a sim card to call home. You can’t even imagine how badly I want to contact home at the moment. I am a bit worried about the hotel. It’s a bit of a shithole. In fairness I haven’t looked inside yet but I am only going to pay for a week at a time because I really want to find somewhere else. Still have an hour and a half to go before I can check in and the minute I do I want to have a sleep and re-energise my chi. Whatever a chi is. The flight wasn’t so bad. I think I wanted to stay on the plane cause then I wouldn’t have to face all this stuff on my own. The plane is a lot more comfortable than dirty downtown hollywood. I have to say I got an exited feeling in my belly when I saw the hollywood sign. Everything is so smoggy though, like you’re looking through glass that has been smeared with Vaseline. I still haven’t gotten the hang of tipping. I tipped the shuttle bus driver and I must have given him a goodie cause his face lit up and he thanked me. Maybe because I was on the bus with other aussies and  I think only one or two of them tipped him. Also I have just bought a hot chocolate in Starbucks on Hollywood Boulevard and dropped a dollar in their tip jar. I really don’t know what I am doing!!! I am also sitting next to possibly the most hideous drag queen ever. She has red lipstick smeared up and out of her lip line, wearing unflattering pants and the dankest, bleach damaged hair ever. I think I am feeling a bit unsafe at the moment. I want to find somewhere that isn’t dirty, looks like the locks actually work and somewhere close to where I’m studying. If I just go to sleep today, which is possible after I get a sim card I might just go find the academy tomorrow. I’m not even going to unpack my bags. That’s how negative the place is looking to me at the moment. Hopefully the room will have linen. Have just realised something. Practically every single person who has served me today has been of latin decent. So many latin accents. I am feeling a little disillusioned with where I am at the moment. Give me beautiful Brisbane any day. 

Ok in hindsight i realise that yesterday i might just have been tired! It's actually quite nice, not clean by any stroke of the imagination but not as bad as my tired mind made it. The room is actually really comfy and the only problem i have is with the toilet. but that is fine it's just a bit dodgy. Anyway today i'll go and look for the academy and see where i'll be studying. there's lots of struggling actors and directors around here. i know it sounds dumb but i never really considered how this is the place 'to be discovered'! hopefully i'll make some good contacts cause you never know who's gonna be the next big thing!

well the blog is stuffing up and won't let me copy my post in here. i wrote nearly an essay on my first day and you'll all just have to imagine what it says because i can't figure out how to get it up here! the photos are of my first glimpse of the hollywood sign, my plane and a couple of the cop cars on the highway yesterday. there was a shooting. i can't get over that. i think i am just going to have to get used to it as it seems as though it is a regular occurance here. pat how do i fix this? i can't get it to work :(

love to all and hopefully you'll be able to see my post soon.