SUNSHINE.ALL.THE.WAY.

Since the lack of blogposts lately, I’ll try to make it up to you all today. So, what have I been up to the last two weeks?

- Strolling around the city, going to Victoria Market and soaking in the sun with C., my cute German friend, and also partying with her, friends and random Aussie people (so much fun!)

- Trying to find a job, finally getting 3 offers, only to turn them all down because I "don’t feel ready yet" to work in the city. Sounds lame, but it’s the truth. Luckily for me the trials get paid too. I’ll start looking again when I’m finally settled down.

- I learned that the settling down part is not that obvious. Me and M., a super sweet Finnish girl, decided to both stay in the Student Village (remember me hesitating so much about it? Well, the hesitation was completely justifiable). As soon as we moved in (luckily we took the short term contract) we knew that it was impossible to keep on living here. Not only is everything very dated (I could live with that), but it’s also extremely far away from the city, and the connection with the city is not that good (read: bus + train, can take up to 50 minutes).
I honestly do think they misplaced us, because when I went for a run in Marybirnong (the suburb where the SV is), I discovered that there are loads of beautiful mansions. I think we accidently ended up here

but should have ended up here...

-So moving to the student Village wasn’t the easiest thing, and of course we had our little 'rookie mistakes', like setting off the fire alarm while toasting bread and trying to fix the hot & cold watertap so the water would be mixed properly (the bottle trick does work, thanks A.!)

- Thanks to A.’s amazing van, we’ve been cruising through Melbourne, which gave us an instant road trip feeling, with the XX on the background...

- Since all the exchange students are slowly entering Melbourne, we’ve had lots of meet-ups, parties, and other activities at the university, the perfect excuse to meet lots of new people, exchange phone numbers and get ready for an amazing semester!

- Since M. and me don’t really want to stay in the SV, we started house hunting, and we are keeping our fingers crossed, because we might just get our dreamhouse in a few weeks, if the landlord decides we are the perfect tenants...

- Now I’ll leave you with some more pictures, watch, enjoy, and see for yourself why I’m falling in love with this city, everyday a little bit more...