Two weeks between posts?? I am seriously off my game! But this time, I am glad to say that it is not due to my compulsive laziness but rather the fact that I am too busy living to sit for a minute and write it all down. Which is a good thing, considering I won't be on this side of the planet again for some time, and I don't want all my memories of aussland to involve lengthy internet sessions. However, this does mean I am forced to recount 14 days worth of adventure and mayhem into one very scattered and brief memoir... but I am always up for a challenge. and to make it more timely and less boring, I shall highlight for your some of my favourite days in the last little while here on the coogee coast.
here goes.
Day 1 ~
The first attempted update was after an incredible night out in Sydney, but seeing as the night (er, morning) ended around 5am and my shift started at noon, I opted to hold off on the writing tangent until a later date. But ohhh what a night! The boys and I ventured dowtown for a post-celebration of adam's birthday to see the marvelous musical majesty known as Girls at Manning Bar in the University of Sydney. My first step on the campus and I thought I had time warped into Hogwarts, the buildings were so beautiful and old and giant and covered in vines, I wanted to stay forever. Walking through what looks like 19th century Europe, you forget you're on your way to a concert in a tiny university bar until you hear the loud accents and distorted guitar sound echo over the towering trees.here goes.
Day 1 ~It was a grand performance, and one that I was particularly stoked on considering I had only half-listened to them in the past. The show really brought their music alive for me, and they played a wildly entertaining set. We were even lucky enough to hang out with the band for a bit after the show, and after a late night/early morning walk through the streets and beaches and so on, we put a truly excellent night to rest.
Day 2 ~
Was a day of pleasant surprises. After a relatively normal day at the good old JayJays, I came home to very joyous and very loud christmas carols coming from the park beside our building. All night we were serenaded with a chorus of coogeeans belting christmas tunes to a live band outside in the summertime. A strange sight indeed for Canadian eyes... We were just about to go down and investigate the festivities when fireworks exploded in the sky over the park, just metres away from our house and directly infront of our balcony. It was a stop-the-world kind of moment, as we stood there for a solid ten minutes while these amazing designs ignited the sky ... It went on forever, and we couldn't have had a better view. Yet another very strange, but very lovely, christmas sight.
In the last minutes of the epic display, a terrified dog who looked like old man wishbone scampered onto our porch and would not leave. It was pretty adorable. He hung out with us for a bit until the owners finally answered their phones and came to pick him up. It was a very short and sweet friendship for all of us.
Day 3 ~
...was by every definition of the word; beautiful. Now that the christmas madness of retail is in full swing, I have been working more or less every day, which I really can't complain about at all because A) I love that store and B) I need money in my pocket. Butttt having an entire day off last monday was a glorious change of pace, and I wouldn't have picked any other way to spend the day. Adam was nice enough to lend me his beloved surfboard while he braved the waves on a smaller model, and the two of us spent all day between the shoreline and the surf. It was nothing less than magical. And... (drumroll please) I stood on a wave for the first time!! Of course by stand, I mean shakily rock back and forth in a lunge position while I wave my arms like a maniac before crashing into the sand... BUT STILL! It is something, and I hopped back onto the beach feeling incredibly accomplished and insanely euphoric. Ah, the magic of the ocean.
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Daytime adventures aside, I have been spending most of my time working at the lovely JayJays, living off mall food (particularly cheese sticks at pie face.. mmm) and taking naps on the comfy couches outside of JB Hi-Fi (they've been playing Inception through the front window for the last three weeks - lunchbreak win). Tonight I finally got a break from the extended christmas hours and dove into a full-fledged disney movie marathon. I must be off now, seeing as I am interuppting the 3rd (and maybe final?) animated feature of the memory lane marathon of madness; the long-neglected Sword and the Stone. Yay!
