International food

I haven´t updated this blog for a while. Let me try to remember all the exciting things I´ve done during the past week... I got 2 free vaccinations - one against meningococcal c (provided by the NSW government) and one against cervical cancer (by the Australian government). It´s funny how excited students get about everything that´s free, even though if it was just vaccinations. I´ve also been working, actually attending all of my lectures and tutorials, and going to the gym.

On Tuesday last week a bunch of us went to Harrys Cafe for lunch. It´s a small kiosk near Kings Cross selling mostly hot dogs and pies. It´s been there since the 50s and for some reason all these celebrities have eaten there. One wall of the kiosk is full of newspaper articles about them visiting the kiosk. I doupt the reason behind its popularity is the food, though - I had a veggie pie with smashed potatoes and to be honest, I can cook better food myself. I guess I had to taste one pie, though, since it´s kind of known as a thing Australians eat. It was a sunny day and we enjoyed eating outside looking at the sea. From the kiosk we walked towards Circular Quay, and walked to the Macquarie Chair, which we think is this formation of white rock shaped as steps and a bench. Since most of us are new in Sydney we stopped a lot to take pictures of the Opera House, Harbour Bridge etc... There were so many people running in the park! They must´ve been training for City2Surf. It´s a big running event from the city to Bondi Beach (14km) taking place this Sunday. It´s going to be thousands of people running/walking/taking part in the event. It´s been widely advertised, and UTS has its own team, too. I really wish I could participate, but we booked our tickets to go to Gold Coast before we knew the date of City2Surf. So instead of running I´ll be enjoying theme parks and (hopefully) warm weather, with Tim, his brother and mother. Not a bad alternative :) Oh, from Circular Quay we walked to the Rocks Cafe for cappucinos before everyone pretty much spread around to do their own thing.


Maryse, Inga, Sharon, Camilla, Zain, Ed and me in front of Harrys Cafe


Finger Wharf

On Wednesday after work I asked Mel to go out to dinner with me. Since both us had seen this interesting looking African restaurant in Newtown we decided to try it. Neither of us remembered its exact location, though, so we ended up walking past it all the way to the train station, before turning back and finally finding it. The walk was worth it: The food was different and delicious! We shared a side dish of thin bread/pancakes and 2 delicious sauces with broccolli and other veggies. For main dish we had African style rice (yellow), marinated lamb, cuscus, sauce, more veggies... The food was cheap and so good. I´m definately going there again! Kwan joined us a bit later and we went to this ice cream place for dessert. Italians really know how to make ice cream that just melts in your mouth :P And Mel liked their tables and chairs made of plastic in different colours, that matched our spoons :) From the ice cream place Mel joined Kwan to go to hang out in his place. I was too tired so I just took the bus home and went straight to bed.

Aww... I don´t feel like writing anymore. I´ll just go to bed and read a chapter of my financing course book. I´ll miss a lecture because of our Gold Coast trip and don´t wanna fall behind. I´ll add some pictures later.