Housemate success!

Just a quite little update but I met my new house-mate-to-be, Marie. Marii nor Maree just in case you were wondering. She gets called Maree all the time. Ahh dear. Anyway, we're going to get a place in North Melbourne soon and will hopefully have a third person to join us. It's going to be great! She's really nice and does photograph at RMIT. I'm sure we'll get along great. She's nice and cruisy. I'm really looking forward to being able to unpack and start decorating my own room. The houses in North Melbourne look really sweet too. Perfect! More on this later. Off to the first meeting of the Deakin Enviro Club. Met up with Zain this morning too and got some nice shoes in town. Right. must get a tram now. I'll be late. Eek.

Day 2 O-Week

I'm on the computers in the library at Deakin! It's funny how little things like this make me smile. I have been so tired all day as I had to get up at 6am. I had a hot chocolate and a V but I'm still a bit funny. I need to catch up on all the good nights sleep I missed while at the YHA. Arrrg to that. I kept missing the trams this morning but the next ones weren't that far away so it's all okay, it was just a little annoying but funny at the same. I arrived at 845 like Zain and I had agreed but she was late on her bus with our new friend Shereena from Malaysia. Zain is from Sri Lanka. We missed the lecture, well welcome from the arts and education faculties, but there was a repeat put on at 12 so Shereena and I went to that. It's been a long day. I have quite a lot of pamphlets and goodies and am waiting until 430pm to go to my postgraduate afternoon tea. I did a library tour at 3-320pm and that was interesting. At 5 I'll get the tram and go see this house in Hawthorn. Hopefully I love it and can grab it. I'm not desperate but it's one of the only prospects. Sad. That's about it for now.

Sleepy after a long day

I am officially staying at Kirsten's. It's good to be in a home especially after Courtney left the back packer's, but I'm yearning to find my own place. There is one to look at tomorrow but it's right in the middle of one of the only things I need to attend at Uni. It's an afternoon tea for Arts and Education postgraduate students that goes from 430-6 and the house viewing is from 530-545. I'll check it out anyway as long as I don't need to stay at Uni. I think it's a one bedroom place and it's in Hawthorn, which is one of the two places I am thinking about as it took me 50 minutes to get to Deakin this morning from the city. I need to cut that time down.

So my first day of O-Week was good. I made a friend. She's 19 and doing Education so we won't see each other all that much but it's nice to know someone. I got my ID card and it's funny. I'm all shiny on my forehead and two spots on either side of my nose. Oh dear. Zain, my new friend, is a self-proclaimed 'curry' and although she had lovely brown skin, it's not as dark as it looks in her picture. Something's wrong with the photographs. Haha. We had a walk around together, waited a while for me to get my ID, had some chips, and I joined the Anime society! Tomorrow we have to be there for 9 so I'll have to get up at 6ish to make sure I leave the house for a 7ish tram to get to town at 730ish for an 830/845 arrival at Deakin. It's all a bit early but it's only one day.

On Wednesday, Nicole [Sarah's flat mate] is coming over, maybe for the night, and we'll meet up for lunch or coffee. She said to me via Twitter that she's thinking of coming over to Melbourne earlier so I'll check up on that and maybe we can get a place together. I just want to find somewhere soon. It's bugging me.

Friday night is Kirsten's house's party for several birthdays. I think it'll be a big one. I need to get champagne. This afternoon, after dragging my luggage from the YHA to the Bourke St tram and then here, Kirsten and I went for a bike ride to the shops. We both bought a few things from K-Mart and from Coles. I have a few food supplies.

I am really tired. This morning the YHA room smelt like bad breath. It was gross. So glad to be out of there because it was always noisy [at night it was the trams, in the mornings it was the other girls slamming the door and being annoying] so I'm looking forward to a better sleep tonight. I'm considering going to sleep now, but Kirsten said she might be back but to use her bed originally. I'm not sure what to do. Maybe I'll just jump in bed anyway. I have to get up at 6am after all.