seaharmonica: under the sea

I'm listening to streetlight, and it feels so nice. It's beautiful outside, again. But the internet is down, although temperatily up yesterday. I should have loaded my aquarium pictures then! Oh well.Wednesday, I walked around town with Michael ( he's from Vancouver ) and UK ( Lance ). We went into this super cool shop that had dinosaur eggs, human skeletons ( real ones ), and a lot of stuffed animals ( real ), but neat stuff. Science stuff. And you could buy all these things - for a price. I discovered a new favorite bar of mine, called e;fifty five. It's this underground bar, with a whole bunch of vintage couches and tables. Red walls. Local, beautiful and modern art. Bartender with a sweet afro supplying a variety of beer. And, free internet!Thursday. Valentines day, THE DAY OF LOVE. No I'm kidding with you, I'm actually quite anti-valentines day. Mostly everyone here knows that but i was being sarcastic/mockingly happy about the day saying things like 'but its the big looovee day' - and of course trying to get free shit. Also, there was the 'Valentines Pub Love Crawl' going on at night. Usually there is only about 20 people that sign up, this time there was probably 50. I've made lots of friends here. But not someone that i could actually tolerate for very long, but I've made friends with this girl Kristin from Misouri ( yes...im spelling it like that ). And we've been hanging out a lot, she's real and cool to hang with. There are sooo many Canadians here though, it's almost like I'm still at home. I'm going to come back with such a strange accent ( also, a lot of my friends are from he UK ).Anyways - at the first bar the guys were suppose to draw names out of a hat,find her, and date her. No one came up to both me and Kristin. So sad. Apparently all the names were drawn too. Second bar was much better. I drank two glasses of wine quite quickly determined to make the second one better. I got a guy named Damien, and went and chatted with him and his friends who were here on a vacation from being Accountants in Sydney ( they were real party animals, haha- that was the joke we had...apparently everyone gets this look of boredom on their face when they tell them their jobs). I hung out with them for a bit, met some of their lady friends from NZ. We parted and I went to hang out with my usual group of people these days; Kristin, Ben, Lance, Adrian, Chris,Luke and usually Brenden( but not this time).The last pub was alright, I was sober and dancing exausted me. I talked to one of the guys from Reception for a bit, he was really cool and we talked about music ( he really likes the slackers). Went home and talked to my mom on the computer, who was just getting to work ...yesterday - that's so weird. haha.So yesterday! Kristin Me and Brenden made plans to go to the Melbourne Aquarium. We wandered cafe's to decide where to eat lunch, finally picking a cute place. [This city is amazing, they use their space so effectively. During mid day the alley ways open up to crowded cafe's and tiny stores, and pack up at 3 like they never existed]. We walked over to the aquarium and got 10 dollars off because we're ' students'. It was really awesome, but it made me think of Mat the entire time. Like ' ou i have to get this picture for mat', haha. We watched the shark feeding, but they didnt eat all that much - the turtles were eating like crazy - - - they were sooo adorable. There were so many cute kids in the audience, and the scuba divers feeding the sharks were exchanging waves with the kids. It was sweet.I held a live ( key word ) sea star and had it slooowlllyy wiggle off my hand.Afterwards, we met up with their friend Charlie ( girl ) from England ( another one, i know ) for coffee. Then I came here and counted down the time until I had to clean the kitchen, and finished it in 1 hour! Went up on the roof and had a few beers, met Lance's life long friend Danny ( girl, too ) who is obsessed with Lost too..and i immediantly felt a strong connection to her. But, she has seen the second episode of season 4...we started talking lost talk and everyone around us was looking at us like some nerdy star wars geeks. They're the losers.I went to bed fairly early out of boredom. I have this couple in my room from Guelph...so weird. They left this morning and took like 2 hours to pack up all their shit at SIX THIRTY in the morning...making sooo much noise I wanted to rip out my hair.Today I'm not totally sure what I'm doing. I think I'm going to St. Kilda ( with that group i said before), apparently theres this 'world's biggest twister' game going on... and some volleyball championship. I just want to go to the beach! And yes... I'm going to wear sun screen.