So after a 30hr journey I am in Australia… on the other side
of the planet… eek. The journey went smoothly and an easy transfer in Dubai,
which was 40degC at 2am in the morning and then arrived in Sydney which is
colder than England is at the mo. So I’ve moved into my halls of accommodation
at Kooloobong Village (what a name!) I have a ground floor room, sharing with 3
others, who are all at home at the moment. The have an open plan kitchen living
room with sofas and a decent sized tv! I’ll be hooking up my hard drive to that
later.
After getting a rather short night’s sleep, I went off to
Wollongong on the free shuttle bus :) and managed to find my way around the
centre, sorting out banks, mobiles and buying kitchen stuff. This evening I
have just been playing pool on the free pool tables which are massive compared
to UK ones, those who know me know how much I love playing pool J !
Quite a chilled out day to be honest, as the rest of the
week will be I suspect.
It’s still really weird hearing the Aussie accent, I’ll have
to get practising my accent. I haven’t heard too many odd phrases yet, just
some of the clichés… I’ll keep an ear out for them though.
So it’s been a few days since arriving now. I have found the
supermarkets, and had a tour round Wollongong from my replacement International
Buddy, which was really good! After that jet lag hit me and I fell asleep
watching the rugby at 8pm and woke up at midnight thinking it was morning. So I
watched a few movies til 6am :P. Today’s been another chiller day, playing
pool, met some nice aussi’s who have invited me for a meal out tonight, which
should be good.
My halls (which will no doubt be shortened to KB) are
beginning to get busier as more people are arriving everyday which is good. My
rooms starting to feel more homely now with all my stuff unpacked.
So it’s Sunday morning and I’ve been here for a week as of
tomorrow evening. In the past couple days it has begun to get busier around KB
and it’s great to start meeting new people already. I went to a flat warming
party last night which was really good, played a bit of Kings (aka ring of
fire). Other than that I have just been getting over jet lag and chilling
really. It makes a change to chill rather than being ridonculously busy. Ooo
the meal out the other night was lush! I had a steak burger… soooo good. The
week coming up is O-week, with loads of orientation events going on which I
think will be pretty hectic!
I’m hoping in a year’s time I will be better at writing
about myself…
Photos will be uploaded later :)