I've been to the boat race every year since I moved to London, and every year I'm met with the most awesome view: the back of some guy's dandruffy scalp. This year would be different, this year I would strive to actually see the river.

It's kinda like going to the races, you've got the refined wearing their suites and straw hats sipping moët and then you've got us commoners. We're the ones kicking it in our jeans, knocking back ciders, we make drunken banter that in our minds is surely articulate and witty yet to outsiders is undoubtedly slurred and obnoxious.

If you're an expat having just moved to London then you'll want to hit up events like this (Wimbledon, Notting hill carnival etc), and with up 250 thousand people lining the banks of the Thames you're sure to find a laugh somewhere amongst the boisterous atmosphere.

On a bestjob side-note, I met a fresh off the boat expat from Brisbane who happened to work in a pharmacy not so long ago. Low and behold the first thing she talked of as soon as our mutual friend announced that I was a candidate was that she'd served fellow candidate & television presenter David Whitehill. It's amazing how prolific this campaign has been, I must say it's definitely given me plenty of backyard conversational material for the past two months.

Australian beer marketing has always been ingenious, perhaps it's just because I'm an Australian or even more probable that I'm their key demographic but take a look at some of the fantastic commercials we've come up with in the past to sell our precious amber-ly fluids.

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Glenn Bourke, CEO of Hamilton Island hit the south bank of the Thames today to meet and greet the UK candidates. In his wake followed us candidates, the Tourism Queensland London personnel, The ever so lovely Tori (Hamilton Island's International Sales manager), and of course the BBC documentary crew that have been covering the story since it broke roughly three weeks ago.

Glenn was a warm, down to earth character that has really made this entire experience tangible, personalised and grounding, along with Torri both are recently returned expats, having worked in the UK they shared some fantastic insights on returning to their respective families and integrating back to Aussie ideals and our way of life.

Apologies for the incredibly short post on todays events, having just finished my interviews with the BBC I'm a little more than pooped. I'll definitely follow this up with some more insightful information in the days to come.

This job application is surreal. I'm living in a strange and foreign place that has only just opened up to me! Who would of thought that I would be a part of a BBC documentary to be aired on BBC1 sometime later this year, or that I would receive a glowing recommendation from Vaughan Bullivant, one of Australia's wealthiest men & owner of Daydream Island resort & spa.

Just meeting so many like minded individuals in the shortest space of time has blown my mind. We're all vying for the same illusive opportunity, to represent one of the most stunning places on earth, to learn, to travel, to document and then to share it all with the world.

We're all competing, and yet many of them feel like friends I've known for a lifetime, a strange familiarity sweeps over me when I speak with them, like twins separated from birth or something equally as corny.

In two months I've become proficient at video editing, I'm getting better at interviews, I'm thinking about ways to uniquely publicise myself that are both interesting for me and the consumer. I now value the roles of publicists and PR agencies as I don't have either of them and would desperately love for someone to tell me how media & press releases work.

I've had the most overwhelming support from long lost friends and family I never knew existed, to new found friends who love what I have been and am currently creating. This process has been incredible, an amazing experience that I could only have dreamed of and at the same time so grateful that it is indeed reality. Hopefully this rabbit hole still has some depth left to explore.

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