Day 17 – Shopping & Friends.

Today I decided I wasn’t going to set an alarm and that I would wake up whenever my body wanted too. I woke up about 10.30, which isn’t too bad! After breakfast I wondered down to the tram stop to get on the free City Circle tram to Spencer Street. As I walked to the tram stop I realised I’m only a stones throw away from Victoria State Library and the shopping centre next door, it was funny to look at things and feel like I knew where I was because I recognised it from when Chrissy and I came here a few years ago.

I got off the tram and walked down Spencer Street because I knew there was an outlet mall right behind the station, what I didn’t realise was they had a Coles underneath which meant I could do clothes and food shopping at the same time! After looking in some shops and leaving some items I wasn’t sure about I found Supre! Supre is the Australian topshop/forever 21 and this being an outlet store made it so much cheaper. I spent $12 on 2 tops that I’ll probably wear as dresses and another top. That’s about £7, bargain!

Am I the only one who loves going around supermarkets in foreign countries? I just love exploring and seeing things that we don’t have and what UK food items they do have. I wanted to buy some things that would last a few days and I could mix and match if I wanted to. My main meal was going to consist of a bunch of stuff with rice mixed all together with some cream cheese as they don’t do Crème Fraiche over here. It ended up being pepper, carrot, mushroom, spinach, onion and some ham (which really wasn’t needed). It tasted delicious! 

That was after working out how to light the gas stove with the girl next to me… seriously it’s not as straightforward as it should be! We decided to sit together after we cooked and watch the tennis, quickly finding out she’s into it and also she comes from Winchester! After dinner I went back to my room and found a new girl had arrived, she had spent the whole day at the tennis so we already had something to talk about. She originally comes from Derby but went to uni in Bournemouth. So by the end of my first real day in Melbourne, I have 2 new friends, GO ME!