Today is my fifth day in Australia and time is just flying by. Before I came out here I was under the assumption that arriving would be extremely stressful and disorienting. I thought that I might have trouble figuring out how to set up a bank account, get a cell phone, tax ID etc...but everything has been quite seamless. So far the most complicated and frustrating thing I have had to deal with has been transferring money out of my Wells Fargo account and into my Australian account (go figure)...THANKS MOM!
In these last five days, I feel like I have done virtually everything Brisbane has to offer: I have walked through the CBD, Fortitude Valley, Chinatown, Kangaroo Point, the Botanical Gardens, and two different Queensland University campuses. I have taken the ferry for transportation (which is so cool!) and gone to high tea.
After all of this, so far my favorite part of Brisbane is my hostel and the people I have met here, oh and winning $15 at Pub Quiz (the Australian name for Trivia Night)...the first question was: "What is the Jewish place of worship?"...I was the only one who knew the answer haha.
Anyway, at this point, I think that I will need to stay at the hostel for another week to wait for my debit card and tax ID number to come in, plus the hostel is only $130 per week so why not? After that, however, I plan to move on...haha, this sounds simple but I have been hearing so many cool stories about different places that I have no idea where to head next. I have been told that Sydney is a great place to find a job so I might head in that direction, but my waitress at tea said that Sydney was "too normal" and that I should go somewhere else...hmm..."too normal"... anyway the British girl who sleeps in the bed next to me gave me her copy of Lonely Planet Australia. The book added about two inches to my growing stack of travel books...in all it is pushing about a foot high. Anyway, I am in the process of finding direction (ha, story of my life.)
But I can say this...after only five days in Australia: I do feel quite at home :)
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