I'm currently in my third week of nannying, one more to go. The work is long and sometimes tiring but I enjoy it. I'm actually sad it's ending and I don't know what I'm gonna do for the week before uni starts. I guess I'll have to take care of uni stuff but uch.
Since I returned to Melbourne from Sydney I've gone out a number of times. I went out to Brunswick St one Sat night (while my American friends were still down under). Brunswick St is this cool grungy bar strip. An Australian friend from seminary took us out there (not Naomi!). We went to two bars. The first one was very grungy - there was techno music and the ppl were all "dancing." I was observing the scene near the wall with the speakers blasting in my ears. I had the pleasure to experience a bit of the bar vibe as someone spilt a beer on me (and simply blamed some girl for bumping him) and I somehow cut my ankle - it was bleeding like mad. Overall I'm glad we visited that bar though! Then we moved onto a second bar which I liked way better. It had a live band playing decent music and there was room to breathe. (A few ppl hit on us, as well, which is always entertaining but there were no mishaps unlike the first bar.)
I also went to the Melbourne aquarium - it only took me an hour and half to go through thoroughly - which is quite pathetic. There were pictures of Hammerhead sharks everywhere but the aquarium only had two and you could hardly see them - my friend was excited when she spotted a hammerhead shadow. I went to a maritime museum is Sydney - that was free - which had a much better section on sharks - even tho everything was dead. Back to the (pricey) aquarium: there was also a penguin display that was so sad - there was poop everywhere. BUT there were some really cool fish to see!
One night I went out to the movies. I saw The King's Speech. Uber exciting! The movie was good!
I also went swimming at one of Naomi's friend's house. (and I went swimming with Caleb- the toddler I nanny - in my next post I'll write about nannying).
And I walked to Coles the supermarket - it took me two days to find - literally - i looked for it one day - couldnt find it and went out a second time - i bought myself a chocolate as a reward for finding it the second time. It's a good thing I found it on the second outing too cuz it poured that day and I got soaked. It looked like I jumped in a pool with my clothing on - including a jean skirt and booties - it took days for my shoes to fully dry.
I'm sure I've had more (mis)adventures - I just can't remember them.
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