Free fun in Sydney: My first week in Australia

Hello Internet people,

I am back again to inform you all of my first week in Sydney. Currently, I am sitting in bed and eating yogurt and cereal for lunch because I can't afford to eat out today, and there is no lunch food in my house. I just got out of my first class (Media in Contemporary Society), even though I am not officially enrolled in anything, since I just transferred to the University of Sydney.

I am going to try my best to tell you what happened last week, but it's all kind of a blur. After we left the jet boat ride, Victoria, myself, Jenny, Michael and Melony went for a walk around town. We walked to China town and exchanged our money for the colorful dollars and heavy coins of Australia. The money is so pretty, that it was like a party in my wallet. Anyway, from the harbour, China town is about a fifteen minute walk. In china town, we didn't do much. We saw a magic act on the street (street performances were popular that day), stopped for ice-cream at what I believe was Hagen-Daaz under a different name, tried to find a cell phone, and went into Paddy's market for about 10 minutes before it closed. Most places close at five in Sydney, which is a little hard to get used to.

Later on that night, I believe that we got something to eat at an orientation event for the villages at Sydney. Since at the time I didn't live at the villages, I had to sneak some burgers form people that did live here. The theme was Hawaiian, and it was pretty fun. The line for food was ridiculous, but we did get to have goon spiked punch and see some people dance with fire. If you don't know what goon is, it's a cheap boxed wine that will get you wasted and may contain fish parts. Doesn't that sound delicious? Later on that night we went to side bar with some people and that was pretty fun. I was exhausted after a couple of hours though.

The next day we met up with Michael at UNSW and went to the beach. First we went to Cogee. That was decent, but only because I didn't pack a bathing suit in my over night bag, and just ended up watching them swim and climb rocks in the freezing cold water. This is what Cogee looks like:

We had burgers and gelato for lunch and caught the bus to Bondi (bond-eye). I actually bought a swimsuit while there and we played in the water for a bit, and then I took a nap because I was so relaxed. I had to leave that same day because I had orientation at Macquarie early the next morning, so this is where I left. Noting exciting happened, and the next day I was back in Sydney. A bunch of really boring things happened, like watching movies and TV, simply because it was raining and not nice weather to do anything. We did eat out a lot of places, and Mad pizza in Newtown is the place to go Mon-Fri, 5-6 because that's when they have their 10$ large pizza special.

The next time I post a blog, I will finish what I did in Sydney with what I did over the next weekend. I promise that one will be more exciting because I did some pretty cool things that weekend.

Some more picture:

Bondi beach

I think this is a view from Cogee, but I'm not entirely sure

Thanks for reading,

Until next time!