Well, it's the first week of school and I am extremely overwhelmed!! The most important thing I've learned about Perth, is how fitting it's nickname is.... since Perth is in Western Australia ie- "W.A " to the locals....they all call it "Wait Awhile".....aint that the truth!!!
I'm having a hard time dealing with how sloooowwww and behind the times everything here it....here are a few examples:
all grocery stores close at 5:00 pm, and stay open "late " on Thursdays until 6:00pm
all stores close at 5:00 pm and busses reduce the frequency of their routes at that time also
they still use dialup!!!!! not everywhere, but it is still offered by most internet providers. I went to find out about getting Internet set up at my place, and they offer broadband, and the price is ridiculous!!!!! $350 just to set up.....$69/month and they have a limit on how much you use the net and how much you download. no such thing as unlimited high speed here
ummmm.....now onto how expensive everything is: regular coffee :$2.70 , bottle of water $2.50, ......you get the idea. the reason for this is their high minimum wage- $15/hr and that's for the people working in McDonalds!
ok....so it's hard to get used to the laid back slow attitude here, but other than that, everything is grrrrrrrrreat!
I have a house!!!!!! me and my friend, who is a Norwegian nursing student moved in on Saturday and the place is fantastic! During the past 3 weeks we became really good friends with the guy that runs the housing office at the university and his son. They knew how desperate we were to find a place and had a call from a guy with a house to rent....so he kept the place a secret from the rest of the students and we got to go see it!!!
The house is beautiful!!! It's owned by 4 young doctors who are hoping to turn the house in to their private podiatry practice next year. Instead of leaving the house empty until they fix it up, they decided to rent the place to us!!! They gave us a fantastic deal on rent because there will be guys fixing up the garden every now and then. they pay rent by the week here, and all my friends are paying about $130 PW....but not us!!!! only $80!!! We are sooo sooo excited and having a big housewarming party on saturday!
I'm going to attach a few pics, and there will be more to come and more updates too....I'm just really swamped with school right now....
xoxoxo! sarah
my house:
our street:
sunset at our house:
1 comment:
good to hear you're still doin' well.. and that you now have a house over your head! yaaay!! ^^
how can they be THAT behind?... i mean their min wage is 15/hour!! come on.. you know the min wage here is 8/h.. and less if you're working in the service (not THAT kind of service..) industry.
yaaaay! i continue to live vicariously through you--don't disappoint me ;P
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