As I looked through the aeroplane window, I caught a mauve and pink sunset view of Perth city and the Swan River. It faded as a drizzly storm cloud moved across, cloaking the city.
A few days before, walking around my university and then taking the bus home, filled me with a bit of nostalgia. But you get nostalgic for the past, it doesn't mean you want to revisit it.
Melbourne isn't home yet - it will take a long time for that to happen - but I love that I don't know my way around, and that I can get lost. Melbourne is full of textures, fascinating hidden gems, and people - people people people - that I don't know and who don't know me.
For now that's rather blissful. I'm sure I'll be yearning for company soon enough. I'm not meant to be alone forever. But one step at a time is all I have to think about now. So good bye Perth - Watch Out Melbourne.
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Northeastern US and Canada Moustache Trip
My plan had been so blog while I was travelling in North America but technology turned against me and so it was not to be.
Initially, I felt crushed and my creativity hindered. My urge to blog and show off is strong - which is a good thing because it means I was inspired.
This trip took me out of my comfort zone in an entirely mild way - but it helped me to understand that people are different to me. I know that sounds ridiculously basic - liberal thinking 101 - but it's true - I might still not agree, but I can at least begin to understand. This does not apply more aptly to any situation as it does to me and American Culture.
I travelled from New York City, to Niagara Falls, Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City, Bar Harbor Maine, Boston. It was a long roadtrip - the sort I love - a group of wonderful people - and innumerable one off experiences that I never would've tried if I had been travelling by myself.
In any case, I thought I would share a few highlights -
Meeting up with my friend Jin who I haven't seen in years, and talking like we saw each other the day before (true friendship)
Seeing the Statue of Liberty (for free on the Staten Island Ferry) - bucket list moment!
Getting drenched at Niagara Falls
Walking out onto the glassfloor of the CN Tower (more than 500ms up in the air) in Toronto - had to close my eyes and throw my heart over. Terrifying, but I'm game to tackle the Eureka Tower now ;)
Meeting a Mountie in Ottowa
Eating in pitch black served by my vision impaired waitor Matthieu with a fantastic sense of humour and cute accent, at O'Noir in Montreal - best experience of my life (and thought-provoking as well)
Quebec's free public Art (Image Mill, Cirque du Soleil under a highway bridge) speaks to a city which values the cultural education of it's residents but the highlight for me in Quebec City was the maple syrup icecream - Hands. Down.
Eating my weight in lobster in Bar Harbor
Initially, I felt crushed and my creativity hindered. My urge to blog and show off is strong - which is a good thing because it means I was inspired.
This trip took me out of my comfort zone in an entirely mild way - but it helped me to understand that people are different to me. I know that sounds ridiculously basic - liberal thinking 101 - but it's true - I might still not agree, but I can at least begin to understand. This does not apply more aptly to any situation as it does to me and American Culture.
I travelled from New York City, to Niagara Falls, Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City, Bar Harbor Maine, Boston. It was a long roadtrip - the sort I love - a group of wonderful people - and innumerable one off experiences that I never would've tried if I had been travelling by myself.
In any case, I thought I would share a few highlights -
Meeting up with my friend Jin who I haven't seen in years, and talking like we saw each other the day before (true friendship)
Seeing the Statue of Liberty (for free on the Staten Island Ferry) - bucket list moment!
Getting drenched at Niagara Falls
Walking out onto the glassfloor of the CN Tower (more than 500ms up in the air) in Toronto - had to close my eyes and throw my heart over. Terrifying, but I'm game to tackle the Eureka Tower now ;)
Meeting a Mountie in Ottowa
Quebec's free public Art (Image Mill, Cirque du Soleil under a highway bridge) speaks to a city which values the cultural education of it's residents but the highlight for me in Quebec City was the maple syrup icecream - Hands. Down.
Eating my weight in lobster in Bar Harbor
And shopping and acting the Harvard student in Boston
My Cons and I have traversed many many miles - but as always the further I walk, the more I realise I still have to explore...
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| Taken near Mont Royal Montreal |
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