Wednesday, September 15, 2010

The essentials

Well time has definitely flown by and I feel like I just arrived yesterday! A lot has happened since my last blog and unfortunately, no video blogs at the moment. I am thinking of doing one here in the next day or so, to the style that they did it in Avatar. I've sort of been keeping a personal journal (or diary have you), of my experiences here so far. It seems weird at first, but from time to time, I look back on my journal from 2007 and it brings back good memories. So I hope to do the same with this one and be able to reflect off of it come a year, 5 years, even 10 or 20 years (I don't plan to live past 44).

Anyways, officially have a Australian bank account set up with the Australian and New Zealand Bank (ANZ) as well as attempted to get an 18+ card only to realise my old one from 2007 is still valid! The picture is a bit old, but not much of a change eh? The card pretty much allows you to purchase alcohol, tobacco and get into casinos and night clubs. Kind of like a state ID. You don't really need the 18+ card but then you have to resort to using your passport all the time. And I don't want to carry that around with me everywhere.


Housing is still on the prowl. Nothing official yet and still at Surf n' Sun hostel. It's actually really nice as everyone is friendly and very talkative (idea for another blog! more on that later). They go out every night, but from class, walking around everywhere and searching for housing, by the end of the day I'm exhausted.

Classes are going along smoothly. Nothing really to brag about, after the first week is finished, I'll give you a basic run down of my thoughts and all later on. That's it for now!

Cheers.

-H

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