Its a beautiful day here in Melbourne, Australia and I thought I would carve sometime out of my day to catch everybody up on my new life! I have officially been here a whole week and it has been quite an experience already! The family I am working for and living with has treated me very well so far and make me feel as though I have always been here! The routine of each day was hard to figure out but now that I've got it, each day gets easier and easier! The boys keep me busy and so do dishes and the adorable baby! I love being around the kids though because they have such a unique perspective on life...and the baby is doing new things every day! Its amazing how they change from day to day!
I get weekends completely off which is wonderful! Since starting here I have been going to sleep every single night before 9:30!! Its amazing how kids can wear you out! So my weekends I get to catch up on sleep and sightsee! This being my first weekend in Melbourne, I decided to use my time to figure out the tram and train system and check out the streets around where I live now! I am technically outside of Melbourne in a suburb called Mont Albert North and there are hundreds of suburbs that all kind-of blend together! There is a tram and bus system that can get you anywhere in the city and I have been fortunate enough to live right by both stops! I spent yesterday figuring out that if I take the tram two stops away from the city, it leads directly to the train station which will get me into the city faster than the 50 stops on the tram! I didn't take the train in but I walked around the train station which is also a shopping area! This area's suburb is called Box Hill and it turns out that it is one of Melbourne's Chinatowns! I walked around for about an hour or two (bought an outlet adaptor) and just people watched! It felt just like Chinatown in NYC (shout out to my bestie Mandy who is currently an au pair in NYC too!) I was too busy checkin' out the sites to take many pictures but here are a few..
Only passenger on the tram!
After my walk around Chinatown/Box Hill, I headed back towards my home but got highly distracted by the flowers around the neighborhood! As you guys may have guessed, I love flowers and trees and just nature in general! So I made a side trip to a park right by my house and took pictures of the flowers and trees! Check them out!
If this is what winter looks like in Melbourne, I can't wait for spring!!! I'm so excited to continue to explore this beautiful city and keep you up to date with my adventures!!
Mackenzy
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