Hello !I'm writing to you from Landing Pads Brunswick, a hostel in the north Melbourne suburb Brunswick. The weather this week has been mostly overcast and cool, a nice break from the 40s of weeks past. We've just hit 50 subscribers! As a reward, you all get a special gift... This email! Yay. After I wrote to you last week, I finished the day with a walk to the beach @ St Kilda for the sunset, how pretty.  On Thursday I finally got to move out of the smelly party hostel in St Kilda. I woke up for a morning run around the Melbourne F1 circuit before heading to the YHA. As part of the move, I decided to loose my sunglasses, which I wasnt too upset about cause I didnt like them anyways.   My new sunnies I took a ride on the tourist tram which uses the original Melbourne trams, built from 1923-1956. They're very noisy and bumpy, but retro so its allowed  Friday and Saturday were quite quiet. I forgot to take pictures so words will have to do. I met up with an old friend from uni, Liam, for pints and a Parmi. I met his girlfriend & 14 week old Dachshund puppy, Moose! Moose was incredibly cute, quite timid at first until I gave him some treats. After that we were best friends. After the pub, I went out for more beers with people from the hostel. I then spent Saturday in bed with a hangover. Sunday saw me rise early, still feeling groggy cause I went out again (sans-alcohol) on Saturday eve, to move hostel again, to where I am now. Brunswick is more of an up and coming neighbourhood, with plenty of cool cafes & bars. With a banging headache I dragged myself around a museum about film and saw a march against the Iranian government.  Something cool at the film museum. Idk what was going on  The Iranian government have been censoring & killing their own people. So the Iranians here are not happy about it. Now... I have to talk about something. The whole time in Melbourne I've been getting followed by a strange man... I didn't want to say anything to start but its been too long now.  In this picture at the Botanical Gardens you can see him hiding in the bushes  When I was at the Shrine of Remembrance, there he was just waving at me.  If you look closely, he's on this bridge, just staring at me On Monday morning, safe in my new hostel, there he was, eating breakfast right in front of me. He kept giving me side eye.  I quickly finished my brekkie and ran off to my room. But he followed me! He claimed we have been friends for 8 years! That we lived together for a year in uni and we'd organised a 3 week trip together in Australia. I have no clue who this man is. He seemed harmless and a little lonely so I took him under my wing. His name (apparently) is Dec Kelly.  He made me take this picture to prove his identity  He followed me to this lovely Japanese bakery  Once i let him be my friend, he wouldn't stop getting in the way of my photos  He did take me to get a lovely meal at an Italian restaurant. Maybe he's not all bad  But he did force me to take a picture of him with this sign because "it would look like a hat"  He also liked playing with the bins. Eww  I can't say for sure, but I think this is him playing with pigeons outside the central library With Dec on my team, we tried to go to museums on two separate days and made it to a grand total of two due to large amounts of dilly dallying :( Hopefully next week is more successful. Bye for now! P.S. P.P.S |
