Wednesday March 19, 2014 was the last day of school for the week. How ironic on my last day of school for the week I made a new friend! His name is Andrew but we call him Andres because we are in Spanish class together. Since I've taken 3 years of Spanish I translate everything the teacher says for him, he's not good at Spanish (shh lets not tell him I said that). Having a four day weekend might be the best thing I have ever done. After school I came home and ate dinner like usual. We had planned our weekend a couple days before so tonight called for us to go to Cargo Bar and Scary Canary. Cargo was getting closed down early because of the UTS people who held a party there that night. They all drank a little too much that the bouncers and bartenders closed the bar at midnight instead of 3 am. Since we had to leave Cargo, Alli, Drey, Kelley and I decided to walk to Scary Canary, a back packer bar up the street. When we arrived the line was long so we knew it had to be a good time inside. We waited in line for 22 minutes, the only reason we know the exact time is because the bouncer (our friend) told us we'd only have to be in line for 10-15 minutes so we kept track. Guess he lied. Once we got inside, there were so many people! After an hour or so Kelley and I decided to head home. Once we got home, I curled up in bed and went to sleep.
Thursday March 20, 2014 I tanned on the balcony until Nicole and I had to run a couple errands down the street in Myer. Myer is similar to a Bloomingdales/Nordstroms. Luckily enough for me its the end of summer here and I managed to get brand name bikinis on sale! It was an additional 75% off already marked down bathing suits. I just couldn't resist. I bought 3 new bathing suit bottoms and a new dress for less than $40! I love my bathing suits so much. That night the girls, this time including Nicole, and I headed out for night on the town again. Our first stop was Cliff Dive which was on Oxford Street in Surry Hills. This place is not marked outside and is in a basement. We've googled it so we knew where it was and what it was like. When first walking in you are greeted by a huge tiki head type of statue. The vibe of the bar is very beach-y and Caribbean like. Their specialty is a drink called a Monkey Hat which is served in an actually ceramic monkey hat. A couple of the people we met there had one. Unfortunately, Thursday nights are not Cliff Dive's best nights so we left. We walked five minutes down the road to Soda Factory. Yet again, Soda Factory was hidden. You have to walk through a secret door of a Hotdog restaurant/stand (heard they are the best hotdogs in Sydney) to enter into Soda Factory. Once we entered we knew this is where we were going to stay all night. It was 50s night at Soda Factory so they had a live band playing great songs. We all were singing and dancing and having a great time! There was a group of 15 or so of us that went from Cliff Dive to Soda Factory. We plan on going back to Soda Factory next week too, we had that much fun!
Friday March 21, 2014 took a turn for the worst. Nicole and I dedicated sight-seeings wanted to wake up early and catch the 10 o'clock ferry to go to Watson's Bay. Hearing great things about Watson's Bay we left the house at 9:20 am and power walked our way to Circular Quay to catch the ferry. We've walked to Circular Quay several time but we have never timed it, who knew it would take 40 minutes to walk to the ferry wharfs? We almost missed our ferry and we sprinted at times. Must've been all those business people clogging the streets and taking their sweet time walking to work. Once we got on the ferry we were relieved but very sweaty. The ferry was only 25 minutes long. Once we got off at Watson's Bay we looked around and looked at each other and questioned where we were. There was NOTHING literally nothing but a cliff to look at. We walked and walked and walked. The most exciting thing that happened to us was seeing a spider almost as big as our hand, wouldn't call that exciting more like terrifying. After dripping sweat and not being able to find what we wanted to see we hopped on the 11:35 ferry back home. I have never been so happy to sit down in my life. Being lazy and knowing it'd take at least 40 more minutes to get home walking, we hopped on a train from Circular Quay to Central. Once we were home, I was able to take a much needed nap cause yet again I was going out that night. Although tonight I was going out, I didn't not have to put my heels on and do my hair and makeup because I was attending Sydney vs Melbourne Rugby Union game with my Australian culture class. Our teacher, Steve, sent us an email telling us that Chris Evans would be there to hand out our tickets. After finding several kids in our class and not one person knowing what Chris Evans looked like or who he was we stood there like lost puppies asking everyone if they were him. Eventually, Bill (our classmate who goes to IU with Kelley), saved us all and found him because he was one of Bill's teachers. After getting our tickets we entered the gates and had a great night! The game was interesting. I have never watched a rugby game but watching this one was fun! All the kids from the class had seats near each other and we all bonded while watching the game and laughing. The walk to the stadium is a little less than 2 miles but didn't seem to take longer than 30 minutes. The walk home seemed to take a lot shorter of a time. When we got home Rachel and Justin got home shortly after. We decided to make Wedges and Sweet Chili sauce. They are so good. After that we all just went to sleep!
Saturday March 22, 2014 was the day we all knew we were getting kicked out of our apartment for an open house. I woke up in the morning put my bathing suit on and tanned. Shortly after I got on the balcony the cleaners came and cleaned our apartment head to toe including steam cleaning our carpet. A short while later I knew I had to leave because of these dumb house tours that are given every other week. Investors come to our apartment and walk through for 2 hours deciding if they want to invest in the property. The fact that the girls and I have to leave our apartment every other week is ridiculous because we did not agree to this. It was just sprung upon us a couple days after moving in. During that time, I went upstairs to hang out with Sami and Samm to pass the time. At one point I did not care if there were still people in our apartment I wanted to go home so I did. Thankfully, no one was there but Nicole. For her hike that she had to do on Sunday, she was instructed to make Banana muffins so we made them from scratch together. While they were cooking in the oven she had good news for me. She downloaded Dreamgirls, I FINALLY FOUND SOMEONE WHO LOVES THE MOVIE JUST AS MUCH AS ME! The alarm went off and it was time to take the muffins out of the oven, we should just be called Betty Crocker. They were amazing. We finished the movie and made dinner. Well on the plus side we know our newly installed smoke detectors work, thanks to me. I popped my chicken in the toaster and next thing I know the smoke alarms are whistling and making crazy noises even though it wasn't smokey! It was funny. After dinner we decided to play the movie again on the speakers as we got ready for our night out. This night we decided to head into Darling Harbour and go to Cargo Bar yet again because apparently Friday and Saturday are it's best nights. We somehow managed to get into the VIP line and not have to pay cover, I'd say thats a good night. After being there for a little bit and meeting some people we decided to leave and go home. Kelley, Nicole and I walked back home and went to bed.
Sunday March 23, 2014 was a relaxing day for me. I was the only one home because Kelley is with her mom who got here yesterday, Rachel was in Newcastle and Nicole is on her death of a hike. Typical me, I got my bathing suit on and tanned. After tanning I made a salad for lunch and decided to do some homework. Nothing too exciting happened today but the fact that its Miss Jane Ann's birthday! I can't text you but I just wanted to say Happy Birthday! I am not excited to start school tomorrow but at least I had a nice relaxing last day to the weekend.
From Down Under
Em
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