Goodbyes Part 1

Looks like I haven´t updated my blog for the past week, meaning I´ve got a lot of writing to do now... Luckily I´ve got a couple of hours before leaving for the gym.

On Thursday last week Shinae asked me to join her to go to the NSW Art Gallery. I had already been there with Carla and Moy in February, but because of having the flu I hadn´t been fully able to enjoy all the artwork. So I had a good time going there again with Shinae. She knows quite a lot about art so she explained me some interesting things, especially about the Asian pieces. My favorite sections were the Chinese&Japanese art and paintings from the 1800th century. After spending a couple of hours at the gallery I took the train to Newtown to meet Carla and Martin for lunch. Martin picked a nice restaurant with delicious lunch specials. After lunch they headed to Bondi Beach and I decided to walk home and take a look at Newtown on my way. It´s basically a quite long street full of restaurants, cafes and shops (lots of second hand book shops). I bought a newspaper and stopped at a nice looking cafe to read it with a cup of cappucino. Later that day I went to Landsdown Hotel with Carla and Martin to meet Madeline and her boyfriend, who was visiting here from Holland. It was their last day in Sydney. It wasn´t time to say goodbye to Madeline yet, though, since after spending a month in Kuala Lumpur with her parents she´s coming back to Sydney for a day. After having a few drinks at Landsdown we decided to move to Broadway Hotel because there was a band playing pretty loudly at Landstown. I left to go home after midnight to go to bed in time.

NSW Art Gallery

A Chinese painting I liked

I, Carla and Martin in Newtown

Since Denise left to go on a cruise with her grandma on Sunday, and to fly to Texas straight from there, we had a farewell party for her on Saturday. Nign Nign had planned to host the party in the common room but everyone ended up staying at our flat after eating sausages that Tim griller for everyone (delicious with smashed potatoes). It was a typical Geegal party: lots of people and alcohol... We played kings, which seems to be our number one choice as a drinking game. Carlos was the unfortunate one to pick the fourth king this time and had to drink a disgusting mix of different alcohols. He ended up being fairly drunk and so funny, taking pictures of Adrian´s big belly, for scientific evidence he said lol. He wasn´t the only drunk person, though, as he, Tim and Cameron finished 4 bottles of vodka and gin. I didn´t feel like drinking so I had just one Baileys coffee, and drank Coke for the rest of the night. Later that night Adrian got really wasted and started misbehaving; stealing other people´s alcohol, throwing up on the floor and wanting to punch other guys. I haven´t written anything about him earlier, but living with him has been quite unpleasant. He´s messy (doesn´t do his dishes and leaves stuff laying around), smells really bad and just doesn´t take other people into consideration. Fortunately he´s moving out next week :D

Our Geegal group

Carlos and scientific evidence lol

I did nothing special during the weekend. Worked both days. On Saturday there was the Chinese Dance and Martial Art Festival at Market City. I went there a couple of hours before work to watch the performances. They looked cool with Chinese decorations, drums, dragons and dancers. Unfortunately I missed most of them because I had to work. It also was time to say goodbye to Denise on Saturday, which was weird. She and Andrew came to hang out with us for a while in the evening. On Sunday we watched Ugly Betty, as usually. Carla and I have had our TV days for the whole semester :) Our set schedule: Mondays Desperate Housewives and Brothers&Sisters, Wednesdays House and Medium and Sundays Ugly Betty. Laying on the couch, eating dinner, drinking tea and snacking TimTams, licorice or fruit salad. Anyways, last Sunday Renee (a new Dutch girl from Carla´s uni in Tilburg, who´s going to live in flat 2 this upcoming semester) joined us to watch the movie The Holiday. It was a cute romantic chick movie with a happy ending :)

Chinese performance