the day we got to melbourne, one of my family's old friends stopped by to say hi. when we got into the subject of working in melbourne she suggested that i might be able to use any café experience in her son's coffee shop. a few phone calls later, i had a trial lined up.
however, on friday, being house-searching day, we were wandering around the city when a yorkshire lad randomly asked if we were looking for work in melbourne. we asked some questions, he asked some questions, and it turned out he works for a chugging company raising money for a couple of very deserving NGOs - sweet! this melbourne gig is working out pretty nicely, if i may say. (photo: trams in melbourne CBD)a few hours of roaming the streets writing down shop-window ads and ringing people with spare rooms later, we collapse into an internet café to search out online ads. the first ad we see on gumtree is only 10 minutes old so we rattle off a quick call to the number and line up our first viewing in a matter of minutes. the friendly german guy on the other end is called toby and he tells us to come round tomorrow morning.
it felt good to be able to go back to a house full of cynical chinese women and tell them we had made some progress. better still to wake up in the morning feeling full of promise and possibilities.
we had some trouble finding the house on account of my complete innumeracy but we got there. (photo: 38 council street)and we stayed there so long we were invited for breakfast with the neighbours - peter, fumiko and taka... who turned out to be local musicians (well, taka not quite yet) and invited us to join them and their friends for the AFL grand final that arvo. having spent the entire morning with toby and anita, it didn't feel so strange tagging along with their neighbours.
i'll leave justin to post about that day's events but, suffice to say we were offered the room in toby and anita's house. or should i say, our house?
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