As most of you know, I moved to Sydney for work for at least a year, and Meredith will be joining me in 1 month. In the meantime, I am left fending for myself in a new land and thought I would keep y'all updated.
Day 1 (Sat Oct 6th)
I flew out of Boston Thurs Oct 4th to LA, and jumped on a plane to Sydney that got me in 6am Saturday morning. I'd like to give a shout-out to the man who sat next to me on the BOS-LAX leg with the worst body odor I've smelled probably ever. Glad we got to share those 6 hours together mere inches from one another. And an even bigger shout-out to the short fat Chinese man sitting next to me on the LAX-Sydney flight, who snored the ENTIRE flight. So, after 20 hrs of flying, and 6 movies, I finally landed in Sydney.
My corporate apartment is downtown in City Centre, just south of Sydney Harbor. It is a 10 minute walk to the harbor and my office. Reminds me of living in the Financial District in Boston - pretty quiet after work and on weekends. Especially since most stores/banks/everything are only open from about 9/10-5 except on Thursdays, when they are open until 9 or 10pm. And since nothing was open when I got in, I spent most of the morning in front of the Apple Store using their free wifi so I could communicate since I had no internet/phone. (Insert rant about how tech-reliant we are today).
Below are pictures of the apartment.
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The best part about moving to Sydney was that we would be leaving right before the Boston winter and into the Australian Summer. Well, I must have brought the sh*tty weather with me then, b/c it rained most of the day. I met up w/ my co-worker, grabbed some food and beers and walked around the harbor/Circular Quay area before crashing pretty hard at 6pm.
Below is a picture of the opera house on my 1st day:
I'll post about Day 2 later tonight or tomorrow
Cheers!
-Mark
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