At last I'm going out! I've been here seven weeks and all I've seen of LA is the inside of the gym and this tiny apartment. It makes the flat I lived in with Jared and Megan look positively huge. Move Makers owns several apartments in this building and there are four of us from work who live here. Karen was one: she was my boss in England and she actually won the competition but couldn't hack it here so she's gone home.

I'm in my bedroom, which is a rather dull cream with an even duller cream wardrobe, bu...