The Life and Times of Paulina Lis: Half way room swap

To all my fans and active blog readers, I’m sorry for not posting much new news lately. Must say nothing entirely interesting has been happening, or maybe it’s just that I’m too used to life here that everything seems normal. I spent a lot of down time writing papers the last couple of weeks. Ok who am I kidding, me and Kristina attempted to write papers but then you know the sun was shining so we went and enjoyed a day on the beach then when the wind picked up we headed to one of our fav spots the vineyard to sit on the patio and enjoy amazing cider. We are obsessed with this new cider, its Swedish and nothing like the sweet sugary hangover prone growers back home.

http://www.rekorderligcider.com/

They are quite large so needless to say after going through two pints of it, after being sun drained Kristina was giddy and I had to walk her home, then go to work. After our unproductive ‘essay writing day’ we decided we finally needed to crack down and spent the next two days cooped up writing. The essay factory produced 4 essays , two mine, two kristinas. I was pretty happy about my work and productivity in crunch time until I reminded myself that there were 2 more due a week and a half later.

my paper writing process

Anyhow, enough school talk, we took Thursday night to celebrate being done assignments and went to a local hostel for ladies night. In preparation we made about 3 L of home-made sangria with cheap Australian box wine called ‘goon’, it really is gross, and then we headed to ladies night. Apparently ladies night doesn’t mean you get free cover, free/cheap drinks; it merely means that ladies get to participate in a wet t-shirt contest to have the chance to win $500. I’m so broke that I considered it…joking. We hung back from the stage and just enjoyed the good music and relatively cheap drinks, and didn’t hang around too long because we had to stop by Maccers (McDonalds) on the way home (conveniently it was not out of the way…at all, dangerous). My chicken nuggets were standard, but the fries were very disappointing to say the least. At least I got my 1 McDonalds encounter over with.

Two nights ago Kristina and I also underwent the big mid-way room swap. When we initially moved in we thought it would make sense that half way through our time in Melbourne we would swap rooms since one is significantly larger. This way when the boys come to visit and there will be two people living in my room instead of one it’ll be more comfortable and accommodating. I feel like I’m in luxury. This room allows me to be organized with all the closet space (for my massive wardrobe, a bit ridiculous I know). Although, now that the room swap is done…it means our time in St. Kilda is half way over. Crazy how time flies…on the plus side, it means my other half will be joining me in no time! And I suppose it also means that my birthday is soon. Will definitely be weird not being with all my closest family and friends on this big birthday, but I will be scheduling Skype appointments in, 15 minute time slots to fit you all in since obviously everyone will want to Skype me on my birthday.

my wonderful closet space

big built in wardrobe=organization

Also, since we haven’t been to the city for a while and we’ve become too comfortable in our laid back nook of St Kilda we decided to make a trip into the city for the Taste of Melbourne wine festival. Kristina, Ellen and I were so amused, it really was like a carnival for grown-ups (except for those misguided parents who decided to bring their children and let them act like it was an actual carnival). The venue was beautiful and so so huge, as much food and alcohol as you can think of was available to test and sample, it really was a night made for me! So many good wines, fudge, organic cheeses, macaroons, coffee and liqueurs that we walked around for nearly 4 hours looking at all the displays, sampling wine, doing shots and moving from one food booth to the next and then strategically coming back for seconds after a few waves of other people passed by to make us seem less suspect. Most interesting drink of the night was AGWA, and even though it is pronounced like agua (meaning water) it was anything but. Made from Coca leaves somewhere in the deep dark central rainforest it was very strong with a huge bite, and let’s be honest the sample size was probably equivalent to a double shot. The best food I had were the caramel salted macaroons, simply amazing, so much so that I paid to sample them. Also, best of all….our favourite cider company was there! I tried the apple black current rekorderlig cider, so yum. Such an awesome Thursday night out and well worth the money we spent.

Now on to the next adventures….