This week I continued my quest to find a real vanilla iced coffee...kind of. More like I went to the same place in Perth and asked them for a vanilla iced coffee in a different way. This time, I asked for iced coffee with a shot of vanilla (no ice cream). Needless to say, it didn't work. Instead it was coffee flavored milk with, from what I could tell, no vanilla. So sad. Probably the biggest "culture shock" moment I've had since I've been here. Driving on the other side of the road? No big deal. Funny accents? Eh. No vanilla iced coffee? ...HELP. Oh Holy Grounds, how I miss you.
Also, the fact that people are putting up facebook status' every second of the day that say "heading back to Nova!" or "can't wait to get back to Nova!" and things similar to that are making me miss Villanova a littleee bit. Although what I'd really like to do is transport the people (aka my friends) from Villanova to Perth. Because, really, Perth is about 157x better than Philadelphia (sorry, guys).
Since I last wrote not too much has happened. Tuesday I had my internship again and this time I actually started researching the different development proposals. There's about 10 or so in the Local History Library that Brad wants me to look through and then a couple of others that I need to get from other people throughout Freo. I spent the majority of the day on Tuesday looking through files on the Woolstores, which is a giant warehouse in Freo that has been left untouched for about the past 60-70 years. It has had probably 5 or so proposals presented to the town for development, but none of them have gone through. The most recent taking 10 years until the project manager decided to give up because Freo wouldn't give her permission to do anything. Her plan was to tear it down and build a hotel/apartment/shopping complex (the plans actually looked really nice) but Freo is determined to "renovate" the building and not tear it down because it is a heritage site. Hopefully that gives you a little bit of an idea on how difficult it is to build anything in Freo - which makes the project I'm working on all the more controversial and shows that it is definitely a political move made by Brad (seeing as he is pro-development). Just the Woolstores files took me the entire day to go through (with no lunch break) so, clearly, I'll be spending a lot of time in the library in the next month or so.
This is what the Woolstores looks like now. It's not horrible, but it's the first thing you see when you come to Freo from the water, so it's not very welcoming. I find it strange that such a beautifully kept city is opposed to tearing down something as old and decrepit as this building.
Wednesday was full of class and then the bar for the night. Thursday was class, minus the bar and Friday was similar to Wednesday. Saturday was an absolutely gorgeous day so Caroline and I sat outside and did homework for a while. We were originally going to go to the beach, but I had too much work to do so we stayed on campus. Saturday night the CIEE group went into Freo and had dinner at this place called "Jus' Burgers" which was reallyyy good. Nothing fancy, just burgers and fries (they even had kangaroo burgers haha!). After that we walked around Freo for a little bit and then headed back to campus. I don't know what everyone else did, but I did some homework and then went to bed. Today was another day of shopping in Perth (with a failed coffee adventure) and since we got back all I've been doing is homework (bah). So I should probably continue to do that until I skype with my parents.
Write later.
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