After a busy week of orientation, hostels, jet lag, apartment searching, and a weekend w/o electricity, Jordan and I are finally settled in our new apartment. Now that I have the occasion to charge my computer and upload things, I've made a video out of some of the clips and pictures I've taken over the past week. It turned out a little sappier that I anticipated, but in any event here it is:
Tonight was also our first night eating in, since we now have a working fridge to keep groceries. Jordan made some wonderful stir fry with rice, zucchini, onions, garlic, red peppers (all gotten fresh today from the open-air Victoria market), and some Thai sweet chili sauce she's been wanting me to try for months. It was fantastic. The city is an expensive place when you have nothing to cook for yourself, so my wallet as well as my stomach is appreciative.
I thought today was going to be the beginning of my normal orientation (the pre-orientation international student activities were last week), but it has turned out to be the end of it. Besides a meeting here and there on Thursday and Friday, I'm done for the week. So, I sit here typing to you with an open schedule in a new apartment in a new country. Things could be worse. It also sounds like I can get all of the classes I want, and the people helping me in this regard have been very friendly; I hope the same holds true for the administrators of said courses (or subjects, as they call them here; when Australians say course, they mean degree).
All we need now is for summer to arrive, and the Australia I grew up envisioning should spring alive. Also, it looks like Tommy Emmanuel has a few tour dates at the beginning of December over here. Maybe I can convince Jordan to indulge me.
-Patrick
p.s. Kangaroo sausage isn't very good, crocodile is ok, but emu is pretty darn good
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