Category: Finding Myself – Adelaide

On the third day, I decided to go to uni to get myself enrolled and to figure out stuffs before heading out to explore the city. I didn’t check the map and just simply walked ;p I knew it’s at the other side but not sure of the correct road that led to it. Asked a few people along the way and saw many buildings of the uni around the area but I didn’t get any of them correct ;p

Anyway, after multiple attempts I finally reached there! Hahaha… It’s so near to the place I’m staying but I walked one big round, I think I almost covered the quarter of the west side of the city on foot;p

Right in front of the uni, free tram service within the city. However, it also leads to the suburbs and beach but it’s not free. I’m still trying to figure out the ticketing system so that I can go the beach and also visit another shopping centre.

After spending almost the whole afternoon at the uni, I decided to hop on the free city loop bus to see the overview of the city since it stops right in front of the uni.

From it, I found Chinatown! Great!

Buildings around the city. There’s many places that I had discovered riding on the bus.

I just took some photos as the bus moved.

I’m taking the anti-clockwise free bus.

Left: Railyway Station where you can find quite a number of attractions around it. The casino, the park, and so on.

Right: Adelaide Convention Centre.

Basically just to share the city views of Adelaide with you.

It was funny that I didn’t know where I should get off to go back to where I’m staying ;p I got off after the bus passed two stops (if I recall correctly). If I didn’t get down, I’ll be going back to the uni. That’s how I found out the lane leading to my place was between the two stops hehehe…

It was a tiring day but quite fruitful as I found quite a number of landmarks for me to discover the next few days.

Nothing much on the second day, I went to Rundle Mall just to see see look look and buy some groceries. Wind was so strong and raining on and off. The sun only came out later in the evening -.-”

Didn’t take much photos of Rundle Mall, too busy looking around and be aware of my surrounding because once I started to take photo, I could get all carried away.

Left: Woolworth(the place I do most my groceries) and Harris Scarfe(bought my bedding, plate and mug. They were having moving sales, gosh… The crowd was crazy, everyday long queue. On the last day, the place was practically empty).

Right: The stage for the upcoming fashion show on Friday(25th March).

Finally… Touched down ar Adelaide International Airport. The airport isn’t as grand as what we have in Kuching or KL.

A taxi driver hired by the uni was waiting holding the paper with my name. When I walked out of the airport, it’s not cold at all. I was feeling hot so I took off my windbreaker. In fact, my body was heating up and aching. I thought I might fall sick soon. Even in the plane, it wasn’t cold at all, I only felt inside of my body heating up.

Left: On the way to where I’m going to stay for at least a year.

Right: TADA! Here you go. A friend had moved in earlier, so everything was kind of complete except stuffs for my room.

It’s a two-bedroom apartment. It’s furnished except kitchen utensils and beddings.

My room, still empty. Will show you again in other post which is no longer empty ;p

Since I was feeling not so well, after I covered the mattress with the bedsheet I brought from home, took a shower, I went to sleep. Good thing I had a fleece blanket that I brought along from home too. My body was heated up, head was so heavy and feeling dizzy, I didn’t feel cold so use it as my pillow. Managed to sleep for about 1 hour plus.

My housemate prepare lunch for me. Then I headed out to hunt for pillow. Luckily there’s a shop having closing down sale and I managed to get a pillow(AUD12), a quilt(AUD30), a plate(AUD1), and a mug(AUD1) with very cheap price. (Well… I found out IKEA is selling plate for 50 cents yesterday!) So, really saved a lot. I almost couldn’t get a pillow as I couldn’t find it anywhere, they also told me no more stock. Luckily I didn’t give up, I saw one uncle holding a pillow, I asked him where he found it, he said somewhere. *LOL* I looked hard enough and found it under a pile of throw pillows! I tried looking for another one but no more… Phew… Else gonna buy expensive pillows. Good thing I bought a quilt too, really need it,the fleece blanket isn’t enough. Wonder how about winter. I’m now sleeping with the fleece blanket and the quilt to keep warm.

The apartment building is locating in Adelaide’s red light district *LOL* Rows of nightspots including some strip clubs! It’s sure very happening at night ;p I’m gonna stay in my apartment at night for sure. Don’t dare to go out unless have bodyguard *LOL*

Gonna blog about the dinner in the next post.