i found it!

yep, i found my blog.
I think the excitement is clearly stretching over two days!
i unfortunately aren't allowed to move back into Queen's on the 23rd...what a bummer. So, i started making a list of places that were possibilities at work today (really, i did do some work!). alison seriously wrecked my day :(

on the upside, i was looking at www.visitvictoria.com.au and checking out the commonwealth games schedules and so forth. I was looking at the queen's baton relay, and i think i shall have to go see some of it, in perth as well as in melbourne:

Day 18 (11 Feb) Perth - Guildford, from King's Park - Crawley - Nedlands - Dalkeith - Claremont - Leederville - North Perth - West Perth - Perth - Northbridge - Perth - Midvale - Midland - Woodbridge - Guildford

Day 49 (14 March) Box Hill - Melbourne, from Box Hill - Mont Albert - North Doncaster - Lower Tempelstowe - Tempelstowe - Lower Tempelstowe - Heidelberg - Heidelberg Heights - Heidelberg West - Preston - Thornbury - Brunswick East - Brunswick - Parkville (Yay!!!) - North Melbourne - Fitzroy - East Melbourne - Richmond - Burnley - Hawthorn - Hawthorn East - Camberwell - Hawthron East - Kooyong - Malvern - Armadale - Prahan - South Yarra - Melbourne - Southbank - Melbourne

Day 50 (15 March) Melbourne - MCG (Here I got sick of copying all the locations...) although I noted that the 4th 'stop' is in Carlton.

So we should all definitely check it out! (Uni will be on, so we'll all be in melbourne anyway!)

As well, I found out that the Athlete's Village is in Parkville, adjacent to Royal Park. Yes, you know what this means. We will have to stake out the athletes, saunter over to Royal Park (maybe we should go there for our runs! Ditch Princess Park! :P ), keep a lookout in Carlton as we do Lygon St (as I'm sure we'll have no problems doing anyway...!). Oh, and also some lookouts from as far high up we can go in the Queen's Tower. Just in case that provides an unparalleled view.....bring your binoculars! :P

Also, Festival Melbourne 2006 is happening in March. There are lots of free events (boasted as the largest free cultural event of the year!)
Interesting events include:
* 9 free concerts at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl including South African diva Mirian Makeba & a 10-piece band, Scottish percussionist Evelyn Glennie with the MSO and 60 or so odd percussion students from around the country, and Top Brass, the Australian Defence Force Tri-Service Band
*The Big Top
*Alexandra Gardens (where is this guys...??) with roots and world music etc.
*the Urban Dream Capsule in Bourke St Mall at Myer, where four performance artists will be living in windows...for all to see! (hehe...we should go check that out!)
*The Arts Centre - many things!
*Exhibitions at ACMI, NGV, Melbourne Museum and the Ian Potter.

Ok, so I haven't been paid to advertise any of these, but I think i'm starting to feel the high vibe that melbourne is going to be on soon! So, if anybody is interested in going, let me know, because I'd really like to check out a few things!

Also, def. there will be summer clearance the look for a number of dresses! :) thanx wen :D

to my friends doing summer school: keep working hard!!! :)

ciao!