Sunday,
May 20, 2012
Today was pretty easy day with
little to do. My main goal was to get up
and take a trial run out to my internship in North Bondi. I got up and went down to the café and caught
up on my emails and daily things. Unfortunately
the weather today isn’t ideal. Most of
the day was chilly with scattered showers, luckily I got an umbrella before I came
so I was already prepared for today’s rain.
I had spent much time trying to figure out how I will be getting out to
my internship. There is a helpful
website, www.131500.com.au that you just
plug in start and end destinations however not having a printer meant I had to
try and picture the map in my head.
Today’s trip was a success, I got
there no problem besides the unset feeling of did I miss my bus, was that my
stop, or what street is this in my stomach.
I walk half a mile to bus 355 which takes me to Bondi Junction. There I get on bus 389 that takes me about
two blocks away from the school. Sounds
easy enough right? It took me an hour to get to Wairoa. Yet I don’t think it will take that long come
weekdays because the buses run every 10 minutes compared to them running every
30 today. I’m sure come Tuesday when my
interview is I’ll leave in plenty of time.
While I was waiting for a bus to
head back I was sitting at the stop and just saw a bunch of boys walk by
wearing a wet suit carrying their surf boards heading to the beach. Then at Bondi Junction I stopped and explored
the area. It is very similar to
Watertower and Michigan Avenue in Chicago.
It is a large shopping area with some familiar stores I recognize, Quicksilver
and Nike, mostly workout stores. I
wanted to go shopping so badly and buy clothes to help me fit into the
city. Everyone tells me I stick out as
American because of how I dress. Yet I don’t
know how to get around that. Right now
all I would love to be able to do is to fit in and not scream American. I thought shopping might do the trick but I didn’t
end up gettinh anything.
I got back on the train for the
second half of my trip home and walked back to my apartment in the rain. I made scrambled eggs with onions, peppers,
and turkey. I put them in a tortilla for
dinner. Which I stole the idea from Jeremy since breakfast is his thing and he’s
made this for me so many times in the past.
His are much better; mine had a little too much olive oil let from sauté
the veggies
Tomorrow I go back to ACU for
orientation on my internship at 8:00am. That’s about it, I’m going to end my
day with some ice cream, head over to the café to post this, and then pick up
some eggs from the store on the way home.
Bondi Beach
Facts
-the city is
full or turnabouts, no four way stops
-no one tips
so…
-at a café or
restaurant it is cheaper to get food to go because if you sit and eat it there
they add usually 3-5 dollars more to the price of everything.
-they have
socialized health care so they don’t paying for it
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