My First 2 days in Syd

THE FIRST DAY OF MY INTERSTATE EXPERIENCE:

The day didn't quite turn out excellent... When I got to the airport, the queue was extremely long and I was so close to missing my flight. Fortunately my flight got delayed. But when it got delayed, it was about half an hour of a delay and my poor friend had to wait for me at the airport for that long - there was no way I could contact him either. Because when I went to the gate, it looked like it was going to depart on time. We only got the news that our flight will be delayed because of traffic on the tarmac. I got out ok and my friend took me to this Krispy Kreme factory place where they made Krispy Kreme donuts from scratch and it showed the process. The lady at the counter also gave away free and fresh Krispy Kreme glazed donuts. It was sooo yum. This was near the airport, so everyone who is in Sydney visiting, if you have the time, do go.

After snacking, I went to check in at my temporary accommodation. It's actually a private hostel for uni students at Uni of Sydney, but it offers casual rooms for conferences as well.

Thank goodness I was still quite alert because the housing mistress didn't give me the right set of keys and forgot to issue me a carpark pass. She also forgot to put in a rollaway bed for TY who was coming later on in the day. But she was really nice about it and amended everything quite immediately.

The place is really nice. The room is cosy and spacious... The only facility that was a necessity that the room didn't have was a fan, and I knew TY wouldn't put through that heat so my friend and I asked if they had a spare fan, and a good thing they did. The location around this temp accommodation is rather quiet and it seems like there's a bit of a walk to the train station and to shopping centres, but the city is close. The only downfall about the place is the stale smell of the lift, but that's the only thing - you can still walk up the flight of stairs. The building is 3 storeys high anyway.

After checking in, my friend and I tried to gain excess to the Internet. This was when we encountered some problems with surfing websites. It only went to Sydney University sites and no other site. So I had to go to the technical services just to fix the problem - good thing they were just next door. =)

When that was solved, Christina and I went to see this apartment. It was the first apartment I had ever been to and kept an open mind. But when I stepped into it, I had an immediate eyesore. The apartment was like a turquiose colour - blue/green, but just really bright. The walls and floors were the same colour. One room was pink though. The apartment was liveable, I just think the colour was a bit much. It was too tough to look at. Really!


DAY 2 OF MY INTERSTATE EXPERIENCE:

Today we did house hunting from 9am in the morn and am actually quite stressed at the moment. The housing market is really really competitive up here. Every house you go to, there's about 20 to 30 people around you looking at the same property. Today is my 2nd day in Sydney and yesterday we managed to look at one, but today, we managed to look at about 10. But out of everything we looked at, I personally only liked two of them, but we submitted 4 applications to increase our chances. On Mon, I will have started uni classes, but my future housemate will continue looking at apartments and I will most likely join her after my class. Class for me starts at 9am and ends at 3pm every Mon to Wed... I really hope to get an apartment by Wed at least. Thursday, if all goes well and I have an address by then, I'll be going to the RTA to change my rego and get new plates. Hope I have a good numberplate - one that is easy to remember.

During all that house hunting, TY was the navigator, Christina was the organiser and I was the driver... We had one break and TY was so sweet. He bought me a GPS, which is good. It works really well and it's so simple to use - just what I need. And it's a good thing too cause he will be leaving tomorrow night and won't be around to guide me to places anymore. I just have to figure out how to update the system online, but I'll have a look at the manual tomorrow.

At night, a few friends took us out to Chatswood for dinner. It's really quite a nice place, but probably beyond our budget. If only I earned that much...

Tomorrow is Sunday and will be too busy really checking out map directions to uni, getting around places near my area, getting my uni books and getting a few essentials. And for Mon - looking forward to my first class of the day.

I think for the first month, it'd be tiring but hopefully it will all come together quite nicely before my bday. See, I have vaccination papers and criminal check papers due on the 18th of Jan. Vacinnation papers because I will be working in hospitals... In fact my health booklet is in Melb right now, either in one of the boxes packed, in the plastic bags with my photos in it or in my cupboard in a plastic bag... hmmm... I'm getting TY to post them up to me by express so I get it quite fast. Then my car rego is due on 16th Jan, my bday... and there's apparently an inspection thingy. So yes, hopefully I can get everything done by then.