Alright so for the last couple weeks I stopped writing because honestly there was nothing to write about. Truly. Nothing changed week to week and I was just working, sleeping and eating. Big whoop. Well, now as my time here in Melbourne in slowly ending, more exciting things have happened that are worth you knowing and even more importantly, worth even reading. I also have ran out of internet credit, so this was written about last weeks events.
To start, I have exactly ONE week left in Melbourne from today, Sunday, before I am in Cairns with Makenna getting ready for our road trip down the East coast. With a time frame set, it has inspired me to stop putting off all the things I had wanted to do while in this city. So, starting on Tuesday I went into the city. I met up with my first friend from Melbourne, Rob the English guy who I haven't seen since out TGIFridays dinner. We met in the city and found this crazy small hidden bar down an alleyway. Apparently Rob had heard of it as one of the hidden great places in Melbourne. It was a pretty cool place, very eclectic with lots of personality. We just had a couple drinks, caught up and called it a night. I wanted to make sure to see him before I leave and it looks like were planning something this week to. He actually just decided to book a flight back to the UK yesterday. So now he fly's out Thursday and I leave Sunday. Time for some real goodbyes.
Anyways, then came Wednesday and I finally was really social. Like actually for real social with more than one person! The only other American at Electric Ladyland left this week so we all got together to say a final goodbye. We went out to dinner at this place called Radio Mexico, which was um OKAY Mexican. I must say, here in Australia the Mexican food is pretty crap and really expensive. They had some good tacos that were like street taco size that you could get in the states for like 2 bucks, and you got two for $6.50. ouch. Lucky for us, our manager Tegan was out with us and she bought every ones dinner. Which was really quite sweet of her considering it was like 200 dollars. Anyways, after yummy Mexican, we went to this place called 29th Apartment on Fitzroy St in Saint Kilda (which is by the beach if you remember from a million posts ago). Anyways, got there and Wednesday nights are 90s pop music, $1 Pizza, and $5 Peroni beers. Great deal. So we got there pretty early but with 9 of us it was a good crowd. There were like 5 Americans in the group which was kinda fun considering I rarely find them around here. The music was like reliving my childhood. It was so much fun! Pretty much every song that the DJ played I said “omg I love this song” or “ I haven't heard this in ages!”. Quality spice girls. They also had a Foosball table that we all played on and overall just had a really good time. I only ended up buying two of beers thanks to gentlemanly friends and I had nearly FIVE! Which, if you’re reading this you know is a huge accomplishment for me. Oh- I forgot to mention- the DJ had all of his equipment and stuff set up in an old bathtub. it was pretty cool and kind of a funky place. Anyways, Matt showed up (the one I have been hanging out with) which just made the night even better and overall my first real night out was a super success.
The next day, I was totally beat. That's what drinking does to me. Luckily, I didn’t work. In an effort to cover my classes at Gymnastics, my boss gave my Thursday group to someone new so they could test them out. At first I was kinda bummed about that, but then the realization that I actually had a DAY off set in and it was actually super exciting. I spent most of the day wondering around the city trying to remember what the heck I had wanted to do while out and about. Again blaming drinking the night before I was pretty useless and eventually gave in, came home and got a quick nap in.
My nap was rudely interrupted by a very loud phone call from the campervan people we are trying to rent our van from. Makenna made a big mistake when she made the booking by choosing the wrong dates. She accidentally picked returning July 29th instead of June. We have been trying to get it sorted but basically the people are refusing to change the rate for the van to what it should be and its adding up to being nearly $800 more then we were planning to spend. The alternative at the moment is to loose our $250 deposit and rebook. another option we do not like. SO we are in the middle of trying to get that sorted before next week when we are meant to be picking up said rental.
Friday. When Friday rolled around I again had the whole day and wanted to make use of it. After talking about and wanting to try the indoor rock climbing place in the city center since the first week I got here, I finally got off my butt and went! I had so many people here telling me that they wanted to go with me and that it sounded so fun, but every time the plans fell through. So, I decided to just go by myself. I got grouped with two other guys who went through the training with me to learn how to use the equipment properly and then I was off doing my own thing. One of the guys was actually pretty cute and named Christian. The other guy was Asian and very uncoordinated.. he could not figure out how to properly belay. Which is super promising to his friend considering whoever is belaying you is keeping you safe lol. Luckily, this place had a special wall of auto belay for single climbers and that's where I spent the better part of an hour and half climbing. Finally, my arms got so exhausted I had to give in and call it a day. I was disappointed that I was so out of shape but I had a good time either way and am so happy I went. :) I left perfect timing though, got on the tram and was able to just miss the commuter rush home. I got to relax at home for a couple hours, watch some TV and then got ready and headed into work. The only real bummer about Friday was literally right after I got home, it started to rain. The light rain later turned into a full on down pouring storm. There was thunder and lightening and apparently a couple places flooded according to the news the next day. And I had to walk to work in this. I got there with feet that were soaked and feeling quite disheveled. It ended up being a crazy slow night which was not surprising considering the weather. Again some luck kicked in though and one of my coworkers who is pretty awesome, Rob, gave me a ride home after shift so I didn't have to walk back through it again.
Saturday was a bit uneventful in comparison to the rest of the week but work was good and busy and went by pretty fast. Really nice people this weekend. And that brings me to today where again I had all these great ideas of what I would do on Sunday until Sunday got here. It was a nice relaxing day on the couch and now I am heading to bed. This should be another busy week as I work on doing everything else I wanted to do before leaving Melbourne as well as start packing up my stuff and getting ready to move on. I have to tell all my gymnasts that its my last week and I think that is going to be hard, but I know they will be alright. As my mom told me, I should try and think of my time with them as a lucky gift and that I was like a good substitute who hopefully gave them a different perspective and brought some ideas and gymnastics they wouldnt have otherwise gotten. Maybe ten years from now one of them will remember me :) Anyways, its going to be a long week that I have a feeling is simultaneously going to be very short and from now on I should have more exciting things to write about. Stay tooned <3 span="">
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