Umamiblog

I’m writing at the moment somewhere over the Tasman Sea. We took off, I guess, about an hour and bit ago. Last night was a fairly useless night of sleep. I was torn between staying up with Richie, getting to bed early as I needed to get up at 5:20am and then having to deal with drunk roommates coming home at all hours of the morning.

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Yesterday I bought some cool new shoes from a store called Sole in Melbourne. The store was quite funky, most of the shoes were right out of my financial grasp except for this one pair that I really liked for $100.

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Oh my goodness it was hot today. We knew it was going to be a scorcher because they had forecast 35′C the day before. But even still nothing really prepares you for the heat which I swear is multiplied by all the tarmac and concrete in the city. Its the kind of hot that sucks everything from your body, your fluid, your energy, your will to live and yet people were continuing on, business as usual.

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Hi folks, and it was off to Melbourne today. Early to bed last night, like most people in the hostel, only early to rise for me as I had to catch a shuttle to the airport at 7am. Have just got back to Russell’s cousins place and it is now 11pm. Sorry again for the late entry.

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I’m never drinking again, ever. And this time I mean it.As you can probably tell, today’s exciting installment comes at a slightly later time than usual. My cellphone tells me it is a quarter past 7pm here, I’ve only been up for a couple of hours. That’s how good the night was…

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Hi folks, yet another warm day here, fantastic. Have already drunk my body weight in water today and have made it to the beach for a swim. I think I’ll head back again later. I’m quite envious of Australians if this is what their summers are like. Mind you, I don’t think I’ve seen any since I’ve been here…

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I woke up this morning, 11am, not a bad wee sleep-in I think to myself. Being rather parched from a few beers the night before and sleeping in the 25′C+ heat meant I was rather thirsty. I popped to the store next door to get a bottle of water where the guy behind the counter commented that I was up early… Oh yeah, its actually 9am here…

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Leaving Dunedin, and the flight in general was fairly boring… There were a couple of things to note. Firstly, I’d heard of how close the seats are packed together on Freedom Air but it didn’t quite imagine *how* close they were going to be.

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Today, after only just a week back at work in 2005, I’m off to Australia for a week. I can’t wait. One of the things I’m most looking forward to is some summer, seeing as we’ve haven’t had one at all here in NZ. I’m not telling lies either: see here.

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