Hong Kong - Airport
Finally I received my students card and got access to the computer rooms at RMIT, so here are the first photographs from our trip to Melbourne. This one I took after about 15 hours by train and plane at the airport in Hong Kong where we had to wait another 15 hours for our flight to Melbourne.
By the way, I updated nugob.org for my semester abroad so I can attach unlimited pictures to each article. There will be more pictures and text whenever an article ends with: "Read the Full Post"
»Preferably Female« ...
... my favourite sentence in a shared accomodation offer. And always in the most promising ones. The picture above I took in Victoria Hotel, our first temporary accomodation. Yesss, we wanted to get out of here. But should it become better?
Déjà Vu
That´s my new Villa now. A nine students shared accomodation. Not all rooms are filled by now, but the semester just started and soon there should arrive some more people. All are quite nice here, so I really already feel at home. The only problem: there is not a heating here either: »Nachts ist es kälter als draußen« has a meaning here indeed.
Melbourne
Just a few first impressions about Melbourne. It's a nice and refreshing young city, i.e. there are a lot of young people on the streets. This is hardly surprising as RMIT alone got about 67000 students and it's only one of three big universities. Nevertheless studying at Creative Media is only in small groups. My department is in the city campus.
Time Out
That´s the »Lounge« which is located quite central in the city. Prices are moderate, maybe that´s the reason why it is a well-visited students location. It´s not a secret hot tip, that´s for sure, but a nice bar/club/restaurant to go to.
Genesis
And this is the story how everything began, my way to Melbourne. I wrote this for the animation and animation workshop class of Mr. Felix. I am sure that it is not what he expected (or wanted?) me to write, but - to be honest - for me it was the attempt to tell a boring story in a more exciting way. So I just took him at his word: »There is no right or wrong, there is only interesting or uninteresting.« I wonder if he reads this now (Hello Felix!).
The reason for this biblical headline maybe comes from a few animation short films about the ten commandments by Phil Mulloy which I saw on the Melbourne International Film Festival yesterday. Dark British humor, but the characters in the Austrian movie »Hundstage« (dog days) by Ulrich Seidl were much worse.
Villa, Australien
Having arrived in Melbourne last Thursday after a journey of 4 hours train, 22 hours flight plus about 15 hours waiting at the airport in Hong Kong we finally arrived here.
Alles hat seine Grenzen: Airport Hong Kong
just a few words about my flight to Melbourne, Australia:
railway Munich - Frankfurt: 4 1/2 hours
flight Frankfurt - Hong Kong: 11 hours (that's where I am now)
trespassing stay in Hong Kong: 15 hours
flight Hong Kong - Melbourne: 10 hours (in about 2 hours, the local time is ca 8 pm)
We were not in Hong Kong today because we didn't sleep for more than 24 hours now (but we will come back here in about half a year for one week). Sky: cloudy and grey, but 30 degrees and a horrible humidity (is this "Luftfeuchtigkeit"? I can't look this up right now). Waiting, waiting, waiting (not funny). English-Chinese keyboards which I am not used to: I write this on a free internet access in the airport of Hong Kong, that's why I can't post any pictures right now. But actually everything just runs fine. The next article will come from Melbourne. Bye.
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