Came back to Melbourne to escape the Christchurch chaos of the earthquake. Its nice to be somewhere where everyone isn't always on edge but at the same time I feel for my friends who are still in town and having to face the repercussions (like Fionn being made redundant this morning via text message (brutal!!)).
Uni looks like its going to be off for a few weeks still so I'm going to try and enjoy myself here while I can.
Currently staying in Joff's apartment in the QV right in the centre of the CBD. Lovely view of the public library from here which I plan to visit today- really reret not going there more when I lived here.
Last night Shak picked me up from the airport and we went to go on an adventure with his friend Marc but that turned out to be a bit of a failure with no one else being awake.
His mum made me a delicious salad which I plan to review on foodblog later on. It had candied pecans and pumpkin and goats feta and beetroot and this amazing mustard dressing. SO GOOOOD. Big ups to Mrs Shachter for making me a takeaway dinner!
After dropping my stuff at Joffs we went to find something to do and just as we left QV ran into a couple of french exchange students who were looking for a bar. We tagged along and ended up at Cookie which isn't a very good bar but IS open until 3am on a Tuesday. After one cider I realised that with the time difference it was about 3.30 am an I was pooped after a long day of flying in crappy budget airlines. The French guys were a little annoying too. We were talking about music festivals and one guy was telling us about how he saw Muse and Lenny Kravitz at this big French festival and that was our queue to wrap things up and go home.
After a night sleeping on a cramped couch trying not to wake up Fran who has made the other couch her temporary home I'm feeling not a lively but definitely ken to get out there (which I will do as soon as this is posted)
Now I plan to wander around town, hit my favourite cafes etc today and get that out of the way so I don't have to spend too much time in the CBD. Will try post on here most days with what adventures I get up to.
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