Rock Aerobics

Right down the street from where I will be living is a club called Yah Yahs. And at Yah Yahs every Thursday night they host rock aerobics. Its an hour long class full of air guitar and high kicks. The last months theme was 70's...thus the get up. And this months will be the 80's. It's being filmed for a tv show this week so with any luck I'll be a star here soon.

Food

The food here is pretty amazing. There are sushi stands on every corner. Like for real every corner. And its super cheap. One roll here is like the size of 4 at home and it's $2.50 Australian for one roll. There are tons of other Japanese too. I had this amazing sweet potato dumpling the other day. I've had Indonesian. And, Ive had meat pie. There are also lots of good curry houses which I missed so much while I was in Ohio.

Random Things That Happen Away From Home...

This is what I love about not being in Ohio. Because, never in Ohio have I just been walking through the city and happen upon a crowd of like 100 people where in the middle Franz Ferdinand is just hanging out. I come up to Federation Square, the sort of meeting place of Melbourne where Mary, her friend Anna and I are meeting for a wine tasting and Franz Ferdinand are doing a radio interview. Amazing.

HOME!!

I have a place to live. Woot. After many, many rejections someone finally decided to take me. $800 a month in East Melbourne with 4 others who all seem super nice. But, I had already set up a meeting with another place a little bit closer to where I wanted to live. And, that place is only $400 a month. So, without knowing whether or not the second place would take me--and as at least 6 other places(seriously) had rejected me, so it was a strong possibility-- I still turned down the first offer.
But, as you can see from the title of the post, they took me! Hooray! So I'm only paying $400 a month to live in what I reckon is the best part of town. I'm living with 2 boys: one 33(an interior design student) and the other 27 (photographer) above a pub on Smith street. $400! I move in late next week.

Giant Fire Balls

OK, so Melbourne is gorgeous at night. Like, really really stunning. And they do this amazing thing every hour on the hour at night. Along the river they light these huge pillars with giant balls of fire. It's amazing. So, I took a video.

Lambs go Baaar

OK, in Australian, when I heard where we were going I thought Llamas go bar. But, yes, lambs go baaar makes more sense. It's the only place here yet that I have had good beer. Cute, well lit and pretty nice world beer collection.

Don't Kill Live Music

Do to some new laws, I guess a lot of live music venues have been closing in Melbourne. And, to me, this city seems similar to Nashville in the amount of bars that have live music. So, the masses got together and had a rally. Marched from the library to Parliament. There was an ac/dc float leading the way. And, lots of local bands got up and spoke and played on the parliament steps. It was my first protest. I was probably a little too happy to be there.