My Sob Story, "The Fire"

On the 28th February...My first week of uni and the day my bf Beaux was supposed to start work, we were woken up at 2.30am by a cracking popping a sizzling sound...
In our flat in Tolland, we were sleeping on mattresses under the air conditioner, which was in the main kitchen/dining/lounge area....Because we're too poor and unorganised to have offorded a bed at the time, and it was much cooler being under the air conditioner..as u would expect.(this was while it was hot lol)

So...the cracking, popping and sizzling sounds were coming from outside...we both woke up and saw a red glow through the blinds... at first i associated this with aliens....you know- the stereotypical glow behind the blinds, there must be an alien there!... so in a half asleep daze i said "What the? a UFO!!"... But to my suprise,... it was not a UFO at all... it was our neighbours car, in its allocated spot...which happened to be just outside our kitchen window...Yes.. the car was on fire.
So Beaux grabbed the telephone, called the fire brigade... Our kitchen window then exploded inwards at us.. and the blinds all melted- it looked soo cool. We were soo out of there despite how cool it looked....but first, we must grab something... growing up- your always taught to get something important and take it with you. Beaux grabbed his PSP, and i grabbed my two teddies, Snuff and Frederick... lol so sentimental I am... Beaux grabbed his psp, because its a hacked one and you cant get them that good anymore... lol, at least he had some logic.
25 mins later, the car was almost completely out- thanks to the Mount Austin Fire Brigade!
Apparently the petrol tank on the car was expanding, if the fire brigade were slow like most other places we would have had a bigger problem on our hands.

If you can imagine all the smoke from a flaming car, all the melted plastics, burning oil, rubber etc.... and imagine it all in one spot... you'd be imagining our flat... Yup... it was covered in thick black stinky toxic smoke.
It was declared a crime scene by the Wagga Wagga Police, and nobody was allowed back into the flat. Well, Beaux and i were, just to grab some clothing and our phones...speaking of which, I was using my phone to help me find my way around the flat to get my clothes and things for uni...and i accidently called Val... which i didnt realise. Val had been woken up by this call, and was going to ignore it but had a bad feeling in her stomache...so she called me back...so i told her what was going on...and blah...

Thankfully, two fluke-ish things happened....

1. My car wasn't parked next to his where it was meant to be. Infact I kept reversing into the fence when trying to get out of my parking spot.. Though you can't really blame it on bad driving... You try and reverse out of that driveway! its hard!!!! So i learnt my lesson and didn't much like reversing into the fence, so i learnt to park my car around the other side of the flat...which is where it was when the car caught alight.

2. Insurance. Yes, I paid for our contents insurance cover note the day before the fire.... So all fire damaged things, which is mostly everything except my tv and stereo cabinets... are getting replaced...including anything up to the value of $25,000...


But... other than the fire... Uni has been awesome.
My university course involves a lot of animation watching.. which is good because anyone who knows me knows that i love watching tv... mainly movies and various other things...
Kiah, my uni buddy has been soo awesome... she has lent me her portable dvd player, some socks and a can opener, not to mention some dvd's! Thanks Kiah! :-D

It has been over 2 months since the fire, and we still have seen no sign of insurance money, or anything besides a fridge and microwave(that we had to beg to get) Although- because my computer was destroyed in the fire, I'll be getting a new one! a laptop to be precise... a rather good one. Toshiba A200/400 which is quite an upgrade from my previous desktop comp. the only thing is i have to pay a whole $83 extra to get it. wow. $83 for a laptop... lol cheerin!

As you can tell i had a great first week of uni.
I will post some pics from flickr of the results from the fire.