Things are Looking Up!!

Apartments: 1 (yes!!)
Nights left in hostel: 1 !!!!!
Follow-up Interviews had as South American Waitress: 0 (consultant seems a bit wishy-washy)

Tonight is our last night in the hostel!!! We ended up deciding to live in a 3 bedroom PENTHOUSE in Marrickville. It doesn't seem to be the nicest of neighborhoods but its close to the train station and we have a pretty wicked view. It was pretty much a toss-up between this one and another place in the Lower North Shore.
We found the Lower North Shore ad about a week ago and I spoke several times with Calvin, the guy who leased the place that we would be living with. He offered for us to come see it at 9pm last night, and even offered to drive us there. Now, this probably wasn't the best idea - to get into a car with a complete stranger to take us to his "so-called" apartment at nighttime in a foreign country, but we are idiots and we went along with it. We had planned to bring some mase but lost track of time and never were able to buy some so weren't armed with anything other than our good sense. Well Calvin and his girlfriend (whom he neglected to mention would also be living there) were perfectly nice. We got to their place and it was just gorgeous...wood floors, all brand new stainless steel appliances, gas stove, air conditioning (a novelty here) and it was nestled in this beautiful, leafy park in a quiet, safe neighborhood. It was perfect aside from the fact that they had setup the two rooms that we would be leasing to make it seem like we were children. Plus they wanted to make sure we were aware of the ground rules: no shoes in the house, no parties, clean-up after yourself, and the upstairs is THEIR office. All the rules are fine and dandy except about the office. To be perfectly honest, if we're paying $260 a week, A PIECE, I think we should be able to use the office. Or at the very least, give us a filing cabinet. I can understand if they don't want us to bring our own xerox machine but I think that a compromise couldn've been made.
So in the end we chose Marackville...we're pretty excited!