Opera House

Day 17: 2/17

I got up early today so that I could run to campus and sign up for some “sessions” for Orientation Week. These “sessions” are basically informational meetings intended to teach us about whatever it is we sign up for. Some sessions included a library tour, advanced excel tutorial, and IT systems tutorial. I signed up for these plus a couple more but ended up attending none of them anyways. When I got back, Chuck had arisen and we got in another workout before a BBQ at the UTS Tower building (considered an eye sore, because it’s just a large stained tower in the middle of our suburb of Ultimo – one of the largest educational building in the world I believe) as part of O-week. The food wasn’t too great and consisted of sandwich bread, butter, sausages, and some small pieces of chicken. We decided to take a walk this afternoon to the Sydney Opera House to buy tickets for an upcoming showing of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” and journeyed through the Sydney Botanical Gardens along the way. It was a good little trip and was topped off with some snacking at the ice cream and gelato stands along the wharf. We all voyaged back to campus and got ready for the evening’s events. Tonight we went to a pub called Scruffy Murphy’s. It was a cool place, but not what I had expected. It was more of a club-like atmosphere again with live music upstairs and a DJ and dancing below. I wore a hoodie and a hat expecting a more relaxed and subdued venue. They kept making me take my hat off and told me I would be kicked out if I didn’t obey, but I basically just kept putting it on and getting warned all night. I danced in the sauna downstairs most of the time and left with Chuck at around 2:30am, stopped off at McDonald’s for a late night snack and went home.