Katie

I posted a photo of the CBD a couple of days ago, so here comes a photo from Richmond, where I live. Most of Melbourne, outside of the CBD, looks pretty much this way with two- or possibly three-story houses. This particularly is Bridge Road, just round the corner from my current home at Hoddle Street.



I haven't gotten the day-rythm right yet by the way, but it's at least moving in the right direction :)

I thought I had the timezone-change done pretty well, I left Stockholm at 14:30 (swedish time) to reach Bangkok at 00:50 (swedish time), so I didn't even make an effort to sleep at that flight. The flight to Melbourne was between 03:10 and 12:00 (swedish time), by wich time I was crazy tired and managed to get 4-5 hours of sleep between meals. Enough to make it of the plane at 20:00 (australian time) without falling asleep, but little enough to go to sleep once I had gotten to my new room and unpacked the most essential stuff. so I got up at 09:30 yestarday, and it seemed like I had aquired an accepteble day-rythm.. so far, so good.

Yesterday I didn't go to sleep until 4 am since I got stuck with facbook, skype, and wasn't all that tired, wich would have been fine if I hade slept the normal 8-9 hours. Imagine how shocked I was to see the clock turn 7 pm when I i awoke!

So, no pictures from today, it was pitch black once I got out. The darkness in fact will take me some time to get used to. As soon as you get out of the 10 or so CBD blocks where offices in high-rise buildings leave their lights on at night, everything is dark. There's blinds over every window, even on stories way to high for anyone to be able to peek in, only the biggest roads have lighs, and then only from the middle of the road, nothing on the pavewalks, even the strip-clubs you find on each and every corner don't have neon signs or any other kind of lighting. The only places actually well lit up are some of the many inner-city parks, wich is not a bad choise I guess.

Once I did wake up, I barely made it to a Trivia-night (wich is the same as a quiz-night) I was invited to earlier. That was pretty fun, while the questions on australian athletes and music were way out of my league, there were quite a few european questions that were easy enough for some australians to know, thus perfect for me. And not suprisingly enough the was also a question about the twilight-series :)    

Well, as anyone who checks my blog once in a while knows, I have not been updating it on any kind of regular basis since like....forever? And although I doubt that will change, I will however try to capture some of the things I do during me semester here as some sort of picture diary, and I thought I'd write in english for the time being, juste ´cuse I feel like it :)

First some pictures from my going away barbecue last friday (that unfortunatly left me with 53 moosquito stings, wich meens two things; 1. Lasse isn't such a mosquito magnet as we thought on midsummer :( and 2. There is actually one reason to why it's good that I have left the bikini-weather for australian winter), in any case, it was a really nice evening, thank you all for comming!















I came here late last night after two unadventureus 10-hour flights through Bangkok, mabie I am getting used to flying.. Anyway, her comes some pictures from today; 


I have not seen a single snake or spider so far :) actually, I have not seen any sort of bug or animal accept birds, among them two black swans and those beautiful lori-parrots, a flock of whose almost flew straight into me :S The picture doesn't make them justice at all.. I'll try to get a closeup without backlight later..

   
There's also a lot of parrot-plants (direct translation from swedish), I really love those and tried to grow one in a pot once, unsucsessfully... I see why...


The CBD - Central Buisness District of Melbourne


Riverwalk in the evening