Our flat rules!

Friday was the long waited cleaning day! Our flat had been, honestly saying, really dirty. Especially the kitchen needed some serious cleaning. Our newest resident, Carla from Holland, provided us cleaning stuff and the rest of us spent over 4 hours just cleaning the place! We threw out many big bags of unused and broken stuff, including an old television. It took quite long to go through all the stuff and decide what we wanted to keep. But all the work was definately worth it - our flat looks so much better now :) I´ll take and post some pictures one of these days (before it gets messy here again...)

We thought we deserved to do something fun after all that cleaning so we decided to head to the Chinatown for a dinner at a food court and to watch the Launch of Chinese New Year at Belware Park. Unfortunately we missed most of the performances because it took so long to get our food. We saw a music performance and the official launch that included fire crackers and a burning pig face. It´s the year of the pig so you can see pig decorations everywhere. Sydney is one of the main places where Chinese New Year is celebrated and the festival lasts for almost a month with different kinds of events, food, museums etc...

A music performance

Moy, Shinae, I and Tim with Chinese New Year decorations

From Belware Park we walked to Darling Harbour. On our way there we stopped to watch a street performance. It was this guy doing all kinds of tricks, like swallowing objects. In his final trick he pulled his BMX-bike to the top of a pole, jumped up with assistance of this big man, stood on his bike and did some jonglooring (spelling?) with a torch, a sword and an apple that he kept eating. The show was good but he could´ve cut the speaking parts a bit shorter.

A street performer doing his final trick

We had a few drinks at a really nice place with a beautiful view over the see, skyscrapers and lights. I really like Darling Harbour, both during the day and night! Besides the cleaning, I also celebrated getting such good grades on the exams I had done in January. Later we tried to get in to a club called Bungalow 8 to meet Carlos and some other people but I guess it was too many of us so they didn´t let us in. We went to this another place instead and sat outside at a nice patio enjoying the warm night. Then we walked to yet another place on George Street to have some cheap drinks and play pool. Tim and I ended up having some 10 drinks altogether :P

A view of Darling Harbour at night

P.S. To make it official, Tim and I have this bet about getting better grades this semester. The loser has to buy the winner a nice dinner at the restaurant on top of Sydney Tower. I´m already looking forward to having a free dinner at such a posh place ;)