All the way to the other side of the world
Perth
04.11.2010 - 10.11.2010
I'm actually in Australia!!! All the excitement has clearly addled my brain as I realised I'd booked myself into a hostel for the night I was on a plane for rather than the night I arrived in Perth but i've ended up somewhere very central. There are loads of people there and it's all very sociable - though there are so many people who've been there for months and are working / drinking / saving money i'm not tending to meet people who are up for joining me on jaunts around the place. But that's all good - turns out i'm getting on better with myself than I thought I would.
So far i've just been pottering around Perth - faffing about booking various tours and getting over the jet lag. I patted a kangaroo yesterday which to my mind means i've truly arrived :-)
Today the first of my day trips out of the city began with a visit to my cousin Nick's wife Cherette's sister Alex's (you followed that, right?) and her two little boys - Cooper and Hudson - which has been fab! Seeing a friendly face and having a cup of tea on a sofa has been great and it's been really lovely to meet a very (very) distant relative and play lego with the boys. I've even had a picture drawn for me so i feel very lucky!
I feel as though the adventure is really getting going and am loving it. My main mistake so far has been trying to cook dinner for myself in the hostel's kitchen... so far i've had a pan that fitted about 4 pieces of pasta in it, a pan that would feed 40 and 2 pans without handles. Pasta, tuna and tomatoes was going ok as a uni-nostalgia meal until last night when i realised that i'd left my pasta and tomatoes in the kitchen the night before so they'd been thrown away. To add insult to injury, my pepper had frozen in the fridge so i was left with a tin of peas and a tin of tuna. Yum. The whole thing was cheered right up though as i'd been given a chocolate brownie earlier in the day by a waiter as a 'welcome to Oz' present!! He gave it to me on the wrong side of a litre's worth of chocolate milkshake so for once in my life I managed to save it and it very much helped sooth the pain of my pea and tuna disaster.
Right on que, Alex has just come in to ask if i'm ok with fish in thai curry sauce. Yes, i very much am...
Ok, so this is getting more stream of consciousness than anecdotes of interest so i'll leave it there - i'm very excited about the trips i've got planned for the next few weeks so next time i might actually have something to say!
Love to everyone! xx
Posted by Hoodfish 10.11.2010 01:23 Archived in Australia
