Well my days with Drew are coming to an end, Todd went home safe and sound and I'm hoping he hasn't regretted that decision! I have been bugging Drew to change his flights but my tactful persuasion doesn't seem to have much of an effect! I'm living out in Manly beach at the mo at a disgusting hostel with bugs and dirt everywhere for WAY to much money, I'm going to check out tomorow... yuch!

Bad news from home, my dog Beta got cancer and was put down last Saterday :( I am so heartbroken, she is such a part of the family it's going to feel a bit empty when I get home, without her constant yelling at everyone for whatever things. 

In like 11 days I'm off to NZ, then I'm back in Sydney from Apirl 1-7, then on the 7th I am off to HK and I am there for a few days, then perhaps Vancouver if my mom wants to meet me there, then home!!! My trip is going to end about a month and a half earlier than originally planned but at this point I'm simply working to get by and don't have the funds to do much more than go for ice cream, and my homesickness for my nephew and familly just seems more important! I can't wait to come see the fam!
SO i should be home in a month or so!!!!

Thats all for now
Take Care
Chel

Hey everyone, sorry it has been so long since my last update. Blogging is a bit of a bore, not going to lie!
Anyways, here in Sydney I have made some really amazing friends, my housemates are wicked, Rachel and I are getting on famously and we have accumulated a bit of a posse aswell! There is Binny, Ben, Jamie and his housemates, me, Litz, Rache, and then sometimes a few others join! They are all super amazing and have been extremely accomodating aswell to todd and drew!
My jon at Platypus is really good, I already have been givin the keys to two Platypus locations which is bizarre but cool aswell. It's super relaxed and very easy. 
And Drew and Todd came! Seeing Drew has been so good, I am so happy to finally be with him again. Todd on the other hand is not so happy to be here. He decided he is going home because he doesn't like travelling? Crazy, I know. But I understand, travelling is very hard and certainly is not for everyone, and it's even harder when you are in love with someone back home, as Todd is!
Tomorow me and the boys are heading out to Manly Beach to stay in hostels there. Its such a beautiful place, on the complete opposite side of Sydney than Bondi!. 
Drew is staying here in Australia with me for a while, not sure for how long but I sure am happy to have him around. After NZ me and Drew are heading up to Surfers Paradise where I am pretty sure I have a reception job at a hostel secured!!! wahoop! ALSO Stu from Paihia is coming here to Sydney, and coming to NZ with me!!!!! I am so so so excited to see him finally, we talked on the phone a few days before I left Canada and I haven't spoken with him much since then! 
Allllllso Harvey from HK is coming here beginning of April so I am excited to catch up with him again! We had so much fun in HK together and we will have lots of fun here or in surfers aswell! 
On the otherside, travelling this time around has been extremely hard for me, emotionally. It seems I'm quite homesick, much more than last time I went travelling. Don't get me wrong I love being here but I am very very excited to come home aswell. I miss my family an incredible amount, and I am torn about missing out on my Nephew growing up. He is getting so so so so so big!!!!!!!

OH. LAST NIGHT I ATE MEAT. IM NOT A VEGETARIAN ANYMORE. BIG NEWS. WOW. It was so amazing too hahahaha. I had sphaghetti Bolonaise and also a bite of Drew's steak. So yummy. My body has been asking for it for months now and It feels very good!!!!!!!!!!!

And thats all for now!!!!
Ciao Lovers... e-mail me!

Chel

Hey all, I know its been a while since I Have last updated, so I will do my best to remember everything thats been going on!
Im not in HK anymore, in Sydney now and I atcually really miss HK!
I made some amazing friends there and did some amazing things

My last few days were particularily special. Me and this guy Adam from England went to Disneyland!!!! SO MUCH FUN. It was like being a little girl over again, I cried like a thousand times hahaha. When we saw the lion king, when we watched a micky mouse rock show, the fireworks from the castle at night... gah it was sooo good!
That night Harvey came back (Harvey is a good friend I made in HK) from Tokyo and we went out to soho and Lan Kwai Fong ...always a fun time with him! The next day we went to this chinese new years festival where there was shop after shop after shop of balloons, kumkwats and flowers! Harvey bought me this balloon that had a balloon fish inside of it, but I got sick of carrying it around so we gave it to a little girl on the street. She was so happy.

No matter where I go, a child's excitment and happiness is such a universally heart-warming feeling. Thats something Harvey and I talked about, the things in life that are universal. We were able to open up to eachother an incredible amount, it's insane how quickly you can grow to know and trust someone when time is not a luxery.
Anyway, at the end of the day Harvey and I went to this amazing amazing amazing ritzy fancy resteraunt in the Interconitnental Hotel overlooking the HK island skyline... WOW. There was a string quartet in the background, champagne, tastey food, lychee martinis, good conversation (as per usual)... everything was just so beautiful.
After we joined up on team Adam to get him out experiencing the gay district of Hong Kong, that was an interesting way to spend my last night in HK but adam got to go out and see whats what with the comfort of having friends present, so it was good!
http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/ic/1/en/hotel/HKGHB/at-a-glance (the hotel)

I was very sad to leave HK... honestly, I miss it. I think I miss the backpacking life. Victoria had an amazing suggestion that I should get a job in a hostel!!!! SUCH a good idea and there are hostels around my place that are really nice!

Sooo now I'm in Sydney living with my housemates Rachel (from saskatoon, an old old friend of mine!) and Alitta from here in Oz, she's called Litz though. My girls are amazing, I'm so lucky to have landed in a flat in such an amazing location with two outstanding girls!!!


I worked for one day at an organic resteraunt called Brave but I quit immediatly because my boss is kindove a dick head and also happens to be in love with Litz and yeah, since thats not going so well I though it would be best to leave that situation as soon as possible. I had a trial at a shoe store yesterday. It was boring, but good. I think it was boring because it was absolutely nothing new at all!! The one nice thing is that its right on the beach!!! AND if I stay there its like 20 bucks an hour... and on the weekends I get paid cash in hand so theres no tax deductions!!!!

Me and my housemates booked our flights to NZ yesterday, we are flying out March 27 and coming home on the 1st of April... we are SO excited and to raise money we are having a car wash and bbq.. 5 bucks for a wash and 5 for a sausage and canned drink! If we promote it enough over the next three weeks, and have 50 people come.. THATS 500 BUCKS! and we are going to give 5 or 10% of the proceeds to world wild life organization to save the Maui Dolphins in NZ cause there are only 111 left in the WHOLE WORLD.

Everything is very exciting but at the same time, kinda slow right now. I'm just waiting for things to start picking up... hrmmm
Me and Litz might be joining a fitness program 3 days a week thats kayaking, boxing and yoga... fun fun!

Im gaining weight already, HK did me in and all I do in Sydney is eat eat eat and drink fattening coffees... so this morning Litz and I woke up early to go for a run but the second I stepped out the door it started pissing rain, sooo that didnt go over so well. Wow this entry is getting amazingly long, but I suppose that is the result of neglecting my blog for such a rediculously long time (sorry everyone!)

Drew is in NZ now but I haven't heard from yet... hopefully I do soon (ahem, drew, thats you!!!) Im so so so so excited that we are so close to eachother now and that in 3 weeks we will be seeing eachother cause he is coming here for a music festival!! The Future Music festival is March 8, which is also the day my housemates and I are re-celebrating Christmas as a new family! Proper with stockings and cookies and everything!

OH. WRITE LOVE ON YOUR ARMS.
http://usask.facebook.com/event.php?eid=7693997482

Anyways everyone, I hope you are all happy and healthy and once again keep me posted!!!! I may suck at writing in my blog, but i DONT suck at returning e-mails i SWEAR!
Have a beautiful day.
Love and Miss you all
CHel

Just a few random things

1. ive been having a hard time being vegetarian over here. I have been really craving meat... hmmm...

2. Hong Kong is not wheelchair accesible

3. It is not rude to burp, belch, or hork loudly without saying excuse me or covering your mouth here. There is also no sense of personal space.

4. I just finished a great bender with Harvey and various other individuals. We took over Soho and Lan Kwai Fong for 3 nights straight (the party district) and Iv'e fallen in love with a Lychee martini! Esther you'd be proud of me and my adventures haha.
http://images.google.com.hk/imgres?imgurl=http://cyberfair.fixip.net/pic/soho1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://cyberfair.fixip.net/gourmet_soho.htm&h=262&w=419&sz=47&hl=en&start=5&um=1&tbnid=9S-PP_7QKmyvrM:&tbnh=78&tbnw=125&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsoho%2Bhong%2Bkong%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26complete%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN

5. I finally watched Ratatoulli.. so cute!!!

6. One week until Sydney.. its so soon! Im excited to go, and I'm sad to be leaving HK... funny though, all my mates here are going to be winding up in Australia here at the same time in just about 2 months!!! reunion!

7. Going on a Museum-Crawl today. On Wednesdays admission is free so me and a girl Pippa from australia are doing them all!

8. Tomorow of to Maccau with Pippa.. yay! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macau

I can't get enough of this place
Im excited to come back, and actually cross the border into China someday. And see Singapore and Malaysia. And Japan. I wish I had been able to go to Japan with harvey but I just couldn't hack up 500 bucks that easily.

Anyways, keep in touch Im loving the comments and feel free to e-mail me!!!
Much Love
Chel

Im becoming like a breathing cliche...
"Distance makes the heart grow fonder"

I would have never expected I'd feel this way about a boy. We found out we will be together on our one year. This is amazing.

Going to the botanical gardens once drunk Harvy gets up... haha

I miss my family and my friends and my Drew.
I wish you could all be here with me!

Chel

Alright first off it has come to my attention youguys cant post commentsto my blog! I have changed this, so comment away dear friends, comment away!

Anyways, couple nights ago me and an australian girl, Sasha, who has many cool stores totell as she's about 9 months through an around the world ticket, and girl from London, Kerrie, who is chinese/irish and is moving here on residency to do chinese ceramics went for proper congee.

Congee is traditionally a brekfast, but we have a 24 hour congee wonderland right beside our hostel! Yum yum...

Next morning we all got up and had more congee then went out adventuring for the day. Me and Sasha looked high and low for shoes but there was just no luck. Kerrie as a friend who lives here so we met up with him at about 6 and then the fun really began. He took us frombar to bar to bar showing us what HK is really like.

Started off at a reguar brew pub, then went to an ice bar, then to this amazing little bar with trees and music and little lights and happy hour that is supposedly one of hk's best kept secret, le gardene i think. Thenn off to numerous more, all ranging in class and price but fortunately the tabs were on him :)

This morning I slept (somewhat) later than I have since being here but it was still pretty interrupted. Its hard in a dorm when peoples alarms are going off starting very early in the morning.

Today will be a lazy day as it's cold and I dont have proper shoes. Oh well.
Perhaps more congee is in store.

take care all, excited to hear from everyone!!

-chel

Alright so I have finally started having a wonderful trip.
I am in Hong Kong and loving it.

these are the things I have done so far
-got to know how to usethe metro and ferries
-been on the longest escalator in the world http://www.12hk.com/area/Central/MidLevelEscalators.html
-been to hong kong's oldest night market
-went to avenue of stars
http://www.avenueofstars.com.hk/eng/home.asp
-went to the mainland and went shopping nd saw "sneaker street"
-went to the oeak in victoria park and saw all of hong kong from the top of a hill (beautiful)
-went out for wonderful food

sorry about the lack of personality to this entry but this computer sucks. I am here for a long time and trying to spread it out. 16 more days.. hrmmm...

Me and Drew have decided to stay together, and are toying with the idea of moving away to school with eachother. Like i said, just toying with it at the time being but It would be wonderful if that worked out.

Being away made me realize even more how much I love him.

I have a place in Sydney now!! Wahoo!! Apperently it is super nice, 5 mins from Bondi beach (main beach in sydney)

Today is a lazy day

Chel

Well, I am currently in the Bangkok airport waiting for my flight to Hong Kong.
I have had the worst time and have decided to leave since I cant get accomodation down south!
On my first day I wound up in the hospital with heat stroke and severe dehydration. I just cant stand it here. The pvoerty is too much and too scary and I would have done much better with a travel partner.

SO im spending the next two and some weeks on Hong Kong, right before the chinese new year awaiting my plane to Sydney!!!

Im safe, and.. well, will almost be happy (once im out of this damn place)!!!

Chelsea