michanna

Melbourne is a beautiful city; at least the parts of it that I saw. It’s very quaint and full of small shops and twisting alleys. Some of the roads are passable by cars. The ones that aren’t are filled with graffitti art and provide hidden entrances to bars and shops. They have a big building in their main square (Federation Square) that when I first saw it, I thought ‘it looks just like the Jewish War Memorial in Berlin’. Turns out it actually was modelled off of that. While the building is an amazing design, I don’t know how I feel about them using a building specifically designed as a war memorial for their main square building.

I had fun riding the tram and the tourist bus around, taking in the Victoria markets, climbing The Shrine (Melbourne’s war memorial to the first world war) and just generally hanging out. I didn’t really do much that was exciting in Melbourne, but I had a good time just wandering and taking things in including the hail storm that turned the streets into rivers and collapsed parts of the main railway station.

I met so many cool people that I am going to need to make a cheat sheet of who they all were for future reference. Staying with Rae (and her cat) was lovely and I left her with way too many cookies given that she was following me out the door on a month long trip to NZ and North American two days after I left.

For those of you following this, I went to see a doctor about the bite but the doctor’s offices were all closed due to a public holdiay and now the bite is just a red circle on my skin, so I’m probably not going to worry about it further.

Now I’m back in Christchurch, enjoying some time staying with a woman I met the last time I was in town. On Saturday C, R and R are coming to join me and we’re going to drive south and take in some of the sights of the south island for a couple days.

I had an interview with an environmental engineering firm here, and they were really nice but said they didn’t have much. I also almost had a job doing water sampling but at the last minute, the company lost the contract.

I was considering going to work at one or two places where you work for accomodation and food, but then yesterday I got a call from a vegetable picking place in Ashburton that has some work for me, so I’ll head down there. It’s going to be hard work, but I think I can manage.

I feel like I might be making the wrong decision since the work for accomodation places might be a little better for meeting people and seeing the countryside, but there’s always July for that.

In early May, I will head to Dunedin for the anime convention down there. After that, I’m hoping to fly to Taiwan for a few weeks, then return in early June. Lori’s hoping to come visit then and I’d like to take her to some places in New Zealand that I haven’t been yet.

So, that’s me updated. Any questions?

Originally published at Teri's NZ Adventures.
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