We left at 4am for our plane and I was really anxious to get to Adelaide. I couldn’t sleep and got sucked into watching a documentary of Christian the Lion on the plane! Cutest story ever, just sayin. Anyways once we finally got into Adelaide some nice taxi driver man was holding a sign for us. He pretty much gave us a personal tour on our way in. We pull up to our place UniLodge, which to be honest they really exaggerate and photoshoped the pictures online a bit haha! But no worries this place will do for a couple months! We get to the front door and no one is at the front desk. Here’s me and Shar with all of our bags so close to being at our home away from home and locked out! Someone ends up letting us in. So now we’re in the lobby dumbfounded for about 5 minutes. Eventually some lady comes and gives us our key’s…gives us the run down and basically if we lose our key…it’s expensive (which I may or may not have a problem with losing things). That’s what I got out of that conversation cause I was focusing on the fact that I was in Australia!! She brings us to our apartment/dorm with a few more rules, it’s two little bedrooms, a desk, twin bed, a bathroom and a tiny kitchen. Basically right as the door closes behind the lady we put our suits on and head out the door to the beach!!
We’re not exactly sure how to get there but we know the tram picks us up right by our house (our taxi driver told us). So we go sprinting across traffic to catch this tram that we have no idea where it is going. Shar is yelling behind me “we can’t just get on moving things that we don’t know where they go?!!” Next thing we know we’re on this jam packed tram, bug eyed, trying to figure out which way we’re heading…to the beach or far far way? There are definitely some interesting people on this thing though, and the boys here have hair done that looks like the guy from dragon ball-z (basically spiked straight up and crazy with straight bangs). As these minutes pass we have mini debates about whether to get off and collect ourselves or just keep going and go with the flow—some nice girl ends up explaining to us that we’re going the right way. WOOHOO!! We eventually find ourselves standing next to this nice elderly couple who start chatting with us and offer us their seats once they get off…they were just giving us tips here and there..soo cute! The lady then asks for our names and said she would prey for us to have safe travels—I about lost it on the tram with tears haha! So 20 minutes later we end up on this beautiful white sand beach, with a billion shops and beautiful people. We’re for sure the whitest people there..ew. I’m going to have to work on that. It’s gorgeous and 90 with NO humidity! The water is this bright aqua blue that’s barely describable with words. We lasted about 45 minutes in the scorching sun haha it’s ridiculously strong and feels like it’s only beating down on you! We walk around a bit and hop back on the tram, 100% more confident and feel proud that we made it around our 1st day, scoping out everything and taking notes on our way home (dorky I know).
We soon realize it’s a lot harder to get internet around here and discovered that McDonalds has it for free. Everywhere else is like 2.00$ for 20 minutes!? One of my professors, Dr. Tornabene gave us a contact, her name is Lynda she lives here in Adelaide. The only way to get a hold of her is to check our email, which we haven’t since we left. We finally got a hold of her and she’s taking us around tomorrow to get some necessities.
Cheers,
Jayme
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