As I get busier with living here and the blog posts seem to get further and further apart, I probably end up leaving out a lot of things. Some of the things I don't believe I have mentioned in the past few weeks include:
- Making homemade pizza and watching Love Actually with Sophie and Cathleen and some other great people. Roast pumpkin is apparently a relatively common pizza topping here!
- Going to the Esplanade Crafts Market in St. Kilda with Alysha and wandering around the area and eating some fish and chips for lunch.
- Wine tasting at the Queen Victoria Market with Alysha. I bought my first bottle of wine - a rosé from South Eastern Australia. If you return the empty bottle to the same stall at the market, you get three dollars back!
- Playing in the Melbourne Scottish Fiddle Club concert. It was so much fun! There were about 600-800 in the audience, maybe even more, and about 50 people up on stage. There is a lot of power with an ensemble that large and you could just feel everyone's energy all joining together.
- Eating lunch at a realy neat cafe near campus called Seven Seeds with Jamie when we were both to busy with school work to have a real Tuesday Adventure.
- Having some great baroque violin lessons with Rachael Beesley and rediscovering La Folia.
- Playing in Baroque Performance Class (masterclass) for Cynthia O'Brien.
- Making Indian style dahl with lentils, sweet potato, carrots, and spices with Jamie.
- Going shopping for pretty dresses with Alicia and Jamie as a "stress reliever."
- Finally getting to bake! I made two kinds of cookies with Cathleen at her house on Friday. Regular chocolate chip and oatmeal chocolate chip with currents and some walnuts added to half of both the recipies. Yum!
- Going to some great Irish sessions at the Dan O'Connell Hotel and The Drunken Poet with Cameron.
- Writing an essay for Music and Health class discussing my top 15 songs and what they do for my health.
- Working with musicians in conducting class! We take turns playing and conducting. I am working on conducting and arrangement of That Smile that Clayton Moser wrote last year for a 24 hr composition competition.
- Going to the National Gallary of Victoria with Alysha. We pretty much saw the entire museum except for the touring exhibit.
Here are some pictures from the Esplanade Market adventure:
The beginning of the market. I got so distracted by the items for sale that I forgot to take any more pictures!
The enterance to Luna Park - an amusement park in St. Kilda that first opened in 1912.
The Palais Theatre - the largest theatre in Australia. It first opened in 1914.
Kite surfers!
Walking out on the St. Kilda pier
Look at all those pretty sail boats!
Look how huge those palm trees are!
Mmmm. Fish and Chips.
Jamie with coffee at Seven Seeds.
I had a blood orange soda.
Sorry for keeping things so short this time! If you would like to hear more about anything, just let me know and I'd be happy to tell you more. I am heading off for two weeks of Spring Break adventures tomorrow morning at 4:50 am - first to Alice Springs and the outback and then down to Tasmania where I will see Logan and Ian!!
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