Australia - The first few days
On Wednesday I got to the airport to get on a plane for Melbourne. The previous weeks had dragged by slowly with seemingly endless farewells and I was quite ready to get on a plane and go, however the last day was quite emotional as I said the last goodbyes. It had finally sunk into my thick skin that I was really going. After 4 hours of sitting around OR Tambo I was quite ready to go again. I had got there early to get a good choice of seat so that they didn't need to fold me in half to get in, and I'm glad I did. The emergency exit row is your friend as there's about 2 metres of space in front.
Without the usual delay of the stairs or the luggage door breaking etc, we actually took off on time. Soon after that they served dinner and I stretched out to have a kip when my stomach lurched into my elbow and then back down to my knees. Turbulence sucks. The guy sitting next to me looked like he was going to ralph everywhere. 8 or 9 hours of bouncing through the skies later we landed in Sydney and it felt quite strange to not be swaying from side to side. The flight from Sydney to Melbourne wasn't much better and landing with low clouds is no fun either: descend....descend...I still can't see anything...there must be ground coming soon. 16 hours after leaving South Africa, I've had enough flying for this year thank you very much. Slept for 12 hours until someone dragged me out of bed, probably would have slept longer. The joys of jet-lag sleep for 12 hours, next night sleep for 4.
Unfortunately I don't have any photos of anything yet because I have forgotten the cable to copy them from the camera, along with a bunch of other "argh $#!%" moments of things I forgot to pack. I'll save the descriptions of all the new and strange things for when I can post some photos too. So far I've just done a little bit of window shopping for a fridge and a GPS. I'll have to make up my mind soon because this month is sale month because of the financial year end, plenty bargains to be had. Clothes are expensive, even on sale.
I've checked in with work and will be starting tomorrow. I've got a long list of applications ahead of me : drivers license, tax number, medicare, banking. It would seem that Yes, I was born yesterday.
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