So once again I’ve gone and left a large gap in time without reporting on anything. I would try to play the card of ‘well I’ve just been busy’ but it seems such a tired and empty excuse that I’ll just cut to the chase and admit laziness. Can you really blame me though? I’ve been in a tropical paradise for the past 5 days! I’ll write more on that later; I have a lot of ground to cover before I can speak to these past 5 days.
Right so where did I leave off . . . oh right, Melbourne! What a city! I have to say, and I think the rest of the students will support this feeling, the architecture is a bit . . . well . . . striking at first. Post-modernism hit hard here and still seems to be lingering around, but I suppose that’s part of the culture of Melbourne. There’s a bit of a competition between Sydney and Melbourne to be regarded as the best city in Oz. Sydney’s got the views and the icons, Melbourne has the well developed cultural and art scene ingrained in it’s very essence.
Busing to our hostel from the airport one of the first views I was addressed with was a blinding golden cap atop the tallest building in Melbourne, Eureka Tower. Fun little fact about that: the gold cap I speak of is actually pure gold worked into the windows of the premium penthouse apartments that sell at a price higher than I will allow myself to utter. So I should have premeditated the series of bold architectural moves that lay in wait for me. The competition with Sydney may have been the cause for some of this flashy stuff since Melbourne has been attempting to create an iconic building of its own to rival the Sydney Opera House for a while now. Anyways, that should set the scene for the next couple entries to follow.
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