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Moving countries is not an easy job to do, especially when the great Air China only allows their passengers in economic class to take the maximum of 20kg luggage. So basically I got rid of a lot of stuff in Beijing and posted books and files here to Sydney, which is also prohibitively expensive. The thing is that you never know what you will need when you go to another country no matter what other migrants tell you. But here we go, I pulled it off and landed in oz two weeks ago.

The weather was a bit disappointing when I landed in sydney airport and saw the rain outside. Oh come on, that’s not what I come here for. However, it’s getting better and better. Friendly people, fresh air, clean streets, I felt all refreshing. Oh btw, big thanks to Karen Deng, a girl that I got to know a few years ago in chongqing, who helped me a lot with settlling down.

Living in hostel can be fun if you live with the right roommates, and Elliott is one of them, who is a new migrant from Britain and tries to get a music teaching job here in oz. He is a very talented jazz guitar player, and we even jammed a little bit for fun with me singing some standard jazz songs. Our daily routine is going to a place called “incafe” for its free wifi service because hostel charges you 7 dollars for using 3-hour wifi, and then head to either pepper lunch or hungry jack’s for food. In the afternoon, we went to inspectthe room that we intended to rent.

We saw some of the worst accommodations ever and I couldn’t imagine the accomodation here can be that bad. In one instance, it is only a mattress behind sofa with a curtain drawing over and seperating the space in a big living room and the landlord claims it as a self-contained space, while the another one is just like a temporary shed without any foundation built in a backyard. It takes me almost two weeks to find this apartment and Elliott is still searching. Good luck!

Funny people are everywhere, arent they. Crazy Lauren, a girl who tried to accost my roommate on the train and gave him her number when we were about to get off, “Ursulla”, a friend of Crazy Lauren who looks just like Ursulla in “Little Mermaid” and whom my roommate and I dislike, the aussie guy, who snores like thunderstorm back in our hostel and who even woke himself up by his own snoring.

Bla bla bla…. but important thing is “hey, I am in oz now!”