Melbourne!!!!

Hi folks,

Wow! The time here in Melbourne has really flown by so far! I'm living in one of the cooler neighborhoods - St. Kilda - on the safer side (which is good). Our studio came fully furnished. It's small but really cozy. Currently, I'm teaching Elementary-level English as a Second Language to international students from South Korea and Colombia at Menzies Institute of Technology downtown. It's really fun and the students are fantastic. I'm also editing the English translation of a German book about Human Resources - so there's plenty of work to do!

So, if you have been wondering why it took me so long to get some pictures up on the blog, let a full-time+ work load and having far too much fun exploring a new city be my excuses :) I hope you like the following images. They begin with a little tour of my living quarters, then expand to some night shots of the local haunts (Windsor, Prahran, Balaclava). Finally we'll wind up at St. Kilda pier, which is only about a 15 minute walk from my apartment!

The view from our 3rd story apartment in St Kilda

The hallway in our building

Our apartment at 28 38 Charnwood Rd. in St. Kilda, VIC

One of Melbourne's old fashioned electric trams

Prahran district

Check out the gorilla ravishing some poor mannequin on the top story

The Eye! I swear it moves - looks direc you sometimes, or looks suspiciously to one side or another.

Let's take a walk to St. Kilda Beach!

 

That's right, there are penguins living in the rocks!!

In the evening light

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."
- Albert Einstein