Goodbyes Part 2 & Giordano fashion

It turned out I don´t have a fixed work schedule, which is cool. I like alternating working morning and evening shifts, and next week I´m even going to work in another store on George Street. So I had Monday off. I spent the early afternoon taking care of some things: sorting out my enrollment for next semester subjects (had to go to the business faculty and language center), printing and putting up announcements about selling my old books, paying next semesters rent (gotta pay it with different credit cards on several days because of withdrawing limits), going to the bank etc... Later in the late afternoon I went to the gym to try out their new yoga/dance fusion class. It was mostly some simple ballet moves, plies and such, and lots of streching. The teacher was good and I enjoyed it :) Last week I had promised Keiji to go to this Korean restaurant with him on Monday evening, before knowing that people were going to Hurricanes for Shinae´s farewell dinner. Fortunately Keiji was happy to change the plans so we all went to Hurricanes together instead. It was 9 of us taking the train and bus to Bondi. Since Hurricanes is a popular restaurant we had to wait for a while before getting a table. It was worth it, though, because the ribs and chips were delicious :P I don´t remember the last time I ate anything that unhealthy, but it tasted so good lol. Bondi beach looked a lot different now that it´s winter. It was dark, cold and windy and everyone was freezing while waiting for the bus. I had thought I wouldn´t really need my new long winter coat until back in Finland but it was so good to have that evening! After coming back home we sat in the lounge room for a while. Since Shinae left early on Tuesday morning we had to say goodbye to her. She had made everyone so cool cards with pictures of the person and her on them :) Our picture was taken when we had just arrived in Sydney, on a ferry coming back from Manly. Tim and Cameron stayed up all night with Shinae and took her to the airport in the morning. I had to go to bed quite early because I worked on Tuesday morning. It´s weird not having Shinae around anymore :/


Martin, Carla, Keiji, Cameron, Carlos, Tim, I, Nign Nign and Shinae

On Tuesday at work Mel (our assistant manager) told me about our Giordano Fashion Show that was held that night in Darling Harbour. I had already made plans with Carla and Martin, but fortunately they understood I wanted to attend the show, so we agreed on postponing "Pancakes in Geegal 2" till Sunday. So after work and going to the gym I met Mel, Kwang and Steven (our new workers) and Craig (our boss) to walk to the show together. It was held upstairs of this club and the view over Darling Harbour was beautiful! The room was reserved for us, and we were given free drinks and some proper snacks (meat, fish, calamari...) I ended up walking from tray to tray, pretending like I was talking to people, but really just eating lol. There were workers from all Giordano stores and everyone seemed nice. The fashion show was about to introduce us the new spring clothes: lots of tunics and long shirts with tights, some cool bags, hoodies... I already have a feeling our new monthly 50%-off coupons will come to good use for me :) I left pretty early to walk home and my mother called me while I was walking so I didn´t even get bored on my way.