Tuesday started with Jenny and Grahame serving us breakfast. It consisted of yoghurt with muesli and toasties. Jenny prepared pieces of toasties with vegemite for us. If you don’t know what Vegemite is, then I can tell you it’s an Australian bread spread made from leftover brewer’s yeast extract. It tastes salty and a bit bitter. It’s not bad tasting, but you should only have a very thin layer of it.
After breakfast, we went to our second house inspection. This one was in Warabrook, which is located northeast of the Callaghan campus in Newcastle where we’ll be going to class. We met the owner at the house, but the room we were interested in had apparently been taken. So Linnea and I decided to walk to Uni instead to have a look.
Uni was almost completely abandoned apart from some personnel. Walking on the campus almost felt a bit like walking through a jungle with strange animal sounds everywhere.
After walking around the campus for a bit more than an hour, we took the bus into the city. At the city, we walked along the shops, and I bought an Australian SIM card for my phone.
For lunch, we found a restaurant called Three Bears close to the wharf. We had a toastie each and I ordered chips with mine. The restaurant looked like a remodelled rundown farmers shop, but the look had all been made for the restaurant.
After lunch, we went just across the street to the Queen’s Wharf and up the tower located there. It was really windy, or may be rather wild and woolly. We struggled climbing the stairs, but we arrived at the top only to be joined by a gang of punk kids riding their kick bikes and rocking the tower back and forth. We took a few pictures but decided to go back down again shortly after arriving at the top.
Walking along the wharf, we arrived at the Maritime Museum where we went in to look at the tourist information. We picked up a couple of maps and brochures, but we didn’t look at the exhibition at this time because of the entrance fee. Instead, we walked to the Newcastle Museum, which is free. We looked at their steel and coal exhibition, which focus on BHP and the industry in Newcastle over the years.
We walked back to the apartment and had dinner. After dinner, we went to the grocery store to buy more breakfast material, but we also bought Tim Tams. Delicious!
/ Gustav
