we are, after all, locomotives: week-long overloadddd

Okay, so I thought this might happen. A week has gone by and I have made a dozen eventful excursions, and now I have to recount them as best I can.

Here goes.

Wednesday afternoon, which was the day of my last update, brought around the Obama-mania inauguration party at a local bar called Manning Bar, which is situated on the Sydney Uni campus. Watching the inauguration with so many non-Americans was a great feeling--truly, Obama is going to be the world's president!

Manning Bar

Obama on the Big Screen

Me and Obama, chilling out in Sydney.

Later that night after a grueling three hours of class, we went to trivia night at the Australian Youth Hotel Bar just down the street from UniLodge, and after two hours of drunken trivia answering (and my intense back-to-back duel/standoff with someone from another team), we managed to win 3rd place and $10.

Thursday night we ended up going to Newtown, which is this neighborhood near Sydney Uni to the east of Ultimo and Glebe where we live. Newtown is AMAZING; the entire street is dotted with cafés, restaurants (I think I counted over 10 Thai places in the span of 3 blocks), bars, shops, and cinemas. It is just the venue that BU needs, but unfortunately all we've got is a Noodle Street. LAME!

Friday was such a long and eventful day, and it didn't help that I had slept approx. 5 hours the night before. I should preface this by saying I don't have any class on Fridays, so the weekend begins early and lasts through Monday at 3PM. Friday during the daytime my friends and I traveled to the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Sydney Opera House to see the two icons up close and personal. We walked the whole span of the bridge and back, and climbed up all the stairs to the Opera House. The views of the harbour were SPECTACULAR. Here's my poor attempt to share them with you: