so again, let me apologize! i'm the worst at putting up blogs. but i would also like to say in my defense that school is getting harder because it is getting closer to the end, we have about 5 weeks left and that means that the teachers are giving us the research and 2000 word essays. it's going to be a hard end of the semester here.
anyway, spring break was amazing. they actually call it easter break or recess, because technically they are going into autumn/winter, so it's not really spring.
for those of you who didn't know or haven't heard, neille and i went to melbourne, which is south to us and is at the tip of the southern part of the country. it is known for being pretty artsy, think like san fran or kinda like l.a.
so neille and i left saturday night and arrived late that night. we stayed in our new friend's apartment. she was in northern australia for the break with her roommate, so we got a free bed for the week. we got there and basically went to sleep and we slept in sunday and planned out our week in melbourne.
monday was the day that we actually got out and explored the city. we went to breakfast at this really cheap diner type place and it was nice to have cheap food. we tried a "milk shake" which to them is milk with flavor. if you want like a u.s. milk shake, you have to actually say ice cream shake, it's pretty funny. after we had our lunch we went around this market that reminded us of farmer's market. they have all these tourist things for super cheap (and yes this is where i got all the gifts). we decided to go there to get gifts and such another day, cause they closed when we got there. we explored the city a little more and had fun just walking around and seeing a different city than newcastle. it's more city like then newcastle is. it was a awesome different experience. that night we went back and booked tickets for the great ocean road tour and the afl (aussie football league) later that week-more details will follow soon.
tuesday us going to different streets and such looking at churches and different museums. it was fun to see art and different churches. we went to the melbourne museum and saw different fashion art and section on a famous horse during the great depression. the churches were beautifully built and we had another fun day of looking around different parts of the city. we explored other parts of the city that we didn't get to in the first day. we walked everywhere, cause the tram cost money and we wanted to save as money as we could.
wednesday was more of the same. we walked to "china town" and were disappointed cause we were so used to seeing san fran's china town-which is SO much better. that night we decided to have a real girl's night and went to see 17 again, a teenish movie with zac efron in it. we had a lot of fun just being silly and the movie was actually a pretty good movie.
thursday we went to back to the farmer's market and got gifts for our friends and family. this was the end of my spending money on extra things. i got enough gifts for others and a couple more things for me and i am now happy and waiting for new zealand.
(part 2 is on it's way)
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