Showing posts with label Melbourne. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Melbourne. Show all posts

31 August, 2009

St. Kilda Graffiti

Here's a panoramic photo image that I took (in parts) and then generated to give y'all the whole feel of the incredible street art that I saw as soon as I stepped off the number 67 tram down St. Kilda Road, the day I went to the Jewish Museum.


Sorry if it's hard to see, but it's kind of a large file, so you may want to click on the image for the full effect. Yeah. Enjoy!

14 July, 2009

I MADE IT!!

Sorry it's been a few days, but I finally made it to Melbourne!  YAY!  And it's amazing.  And the people are so cool.  And I love it here already.  But vegemite is awful (sorry, Aussies).


The flights:
5 hours from JFK to LAX
14 hours from LAX to Auckland International Airport.
5 hour wait in Auckland (New Zealand is beautiful from the sky!)
4 hours from Auckland to Melbourne's Tullamarine Airport
20 minutes from Tullamarine to Uni.

I watched four movies (Sunshine Cleaning, Atonement, Australia, The Royal Tenenbaums) and read one book (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime).  And now I'm here.

Today is the start of the Melbourne Welcome Program, though it's only going to be introductions and icebreakers, but tomorrow the real fun begins and we get to start exploring the city and see the Melbourne zoo and all that, and that is when I will get to take the really good photos.

I miss you all at home!  Don't think I don't, because I do :)

Melbourne Uni (that's what they call it here) is lovely, and huge, and I still have yet to explore the whole place.  But last night I went with two new study abroad friends to get pizza on Lygon street.  It looks like a very typical college town there, only cooler 'cos it's down undah.

I'll update again soon; internet is from the library right now, and I don't want to abuse it.

Cheers!