Little Taste of Home

With nothing to wake up early for we took it upon ourselves to sleep in for the first time since we arrived in Sydney. With that being said I think our bodies thank us. Both of our feet were killing us last night from being tortured all day with walking to do several inspections. Not to mention it was a few too many miles in a pair of flip flops. Without hesitation we pulled on our tennis shoes and headed to our first inspection of the day. Like Lee, Stella the tenant was a little slow on responding, but she had a nice place to offer. We waited outside what seemed to be a well secured apartment complex right across from Central Station. We had a little feeling of home since it was conveniently located right above McDonalds and KFC. We also had a small flicker of excitement and homeliness whenever we walked into a clean, modern apartment with a big bathroom and living room, and not to mention a balcony that wrapped around the whole living room. Unfortunately, that balcony had bars to ensure safety which reminded Stella of jail bars. But a balcony provides a city view that we have never had so we didn't mind. More disappointing news is that two Germans were living in the supposedly available space and the tenant didn't know if they were for sure leaving yet. So basically we inspected a place that may not even be available, great! Knowing we still quite a few blog posts to catch up on we headed to the University of Sydney library that always has reliable internet. There we spent multiple hours working on blog, facebooking, and catching up on American life. Time well spent we must say! Although orientation week had started Riley was too scared to step back into the sun since he’s convinced its targeted just for him and bypasses sunblock. That sad pale boy ;) Once we did step back outside the sun was so blinding! We soon found out that orientation events were all over with, but luckily we were able to scope out the booths that we want to stop at tomorrow: Bush-walking and Long-boarding Society, St. Peters Catholic Church, and Photography Society. Since no one was at the booths to hand out information we headed back into another computer lab to seriously get to work on more housing options. We soon came to a conclusion that we were too tired and hungry to even think about inspecting tonight although we did set up one for the way home. Wanting to finally make dinner again we headed to the nearest shopping center to stop by the supermarket called Coles. We ended up going to Kmart for the never ending Tupperware search which sadly ended in no Tupperware again since it is so expensive here. Once in Coles we ended up with all the ingredients for unstuffed peppers with no intentions of originally having that for dinner. With groceries and Starburst gummy worms (that are unlike any gummy worm in the US, way chewier and at least 5 inches long!) we headed to our last inspection. Again they were four people packed in every room with no Americans or even English speaking people in sight. It is becoming a very common occurrence here. With night approaching we stepped it into high gear and arrived back at the hostel in no time to start cooking our dinner. We enjoyed the dinner on the rooftop for once, getting a good view of the Sydney skyline.