First impressions? ARGH IT'S SO DARN COLD
Lots of things are the same as at home though, so it doesn't seem too much like I'm in a different country. I haven't really met many English people a all yet. So far I've met: Miranda (a Dutchie who was walking around in a bath robe/towel), Tom (a german guy who's English isn't so good) and Steve (who was drunk and cause he has a broken foot was flying down the street on crutches trying to get to the next pub). So thats one English person out of the three that I've met.
Yesterday I arrived at 6:30am and met Esther at the airport, which was brilliant as I haven't seen her in 3 long months, so that was pretty darn exciting :) We caught the train back to where she lives and I had a bit of a rest for a few hours after the long flight (so bad, the airline food made me sick). At 1pmish, Esther took me out to look around Manchester. It's a very busy place, lots of double deck busses, trams which look more like trains, and people everywhere. Oh yeah, its also VERY rainy. Thanks to there being no rain in Sydney anymore, there were all these weird things on the ground that people call 'puddles' thats I had to deal with which were very strange.
While we were out we had a look at an exhibition about the Hacienda nightclub which I found very interesting. Esther was mostly into it because of design stuff (posters, art etc) but I was mostly into it because of music history etc. I was amazed at just how many items they had left from over the years. Lots of posters and flyers, lots of videos and recordings of bands that played there, and lots of photos too.
Last night I also did one of the few things I've been wanting to do for a very long time. What was that? Well, see one of my favourite bands, The Slackers, play! :O
IT WAS THE MOST FUN EVER. I had so much fun that even anti-dance man Owen danced the night away. It was the perfect setting to see them in too. It wasn't a massive club, but a nice small one with a very informal stage in the middle of the room and there weren't massive amounts of people there but instead were just a bunch of people who really liked the band and there was plenty of room to dance and just have a great time. I even got to talk to Dave their sax player (the guy who made me decide I wanted to learn the sax) after the show so that was brilliant. He said they're talking about coming down to Australia sometime, but I know that they've been "talking about it" for the past 8 years, so who knows. I got myself a shirt (no mum, its brown, NOT black) too which I'm going to wear with pride. Photos:
Today isn't going to have much going on, but tomorrow Esther and I are off to Middlesbrough to look at an exhibition with people from her uni course and because that shouldn't take too long, we'll walk around Middlesbrough for a while and check it out.
So yeah, apart from the freezing cold (I can't believe I've got 2.5 more months of this) I'm having a good time and getting to see Esther again is amazing :)
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