Saturday!

This weekend is free weekend for Australia in the Global Economy students! Friday night we went to the biggest club in Sydney which was awesome! Saturday, Jen H., Nicole, Leah and I went to the Sydney Tower to get a great view of the entire harbor and city. We could see the Harbor Bridge, Opera house, Manly Beach, Sydney University and everything in between. The views were excellent thanks to the good weather.

We then decided to get on the train to go to Paddy’s Market. We passed through this really pretty park on the way there which seemed like a relaxing place to hang out on a nice day because of all the grass and shade from the trees. We finally got to Paddy’s Market where we quickly found that there was everything and more packed into one building. This was great because we have been having issues finding reasonably priced shopping centers and this gave us the opportunity to find things that we liked and not pay a ton for them. I got a couple souvenirs, a dress, Australia tee shirts, sandals, and other trinkets. We had a late lunch upstairs and then went back home to get ready for Festival First Night.

When we were finally ready, the group got the train to Martins Place where thousands of people lined the closed streets listening to music and hanging out with friends. We wove our way to get closer to the band but eventually the crowd was too closely packed to be able to have enough space to move. We enjoyed the music of Rusted Development and then, after the show ended, went in search of a bar. We were instructed that Oxford St. was the place to be so we started to walk there & ended up having a lot of fun.

Video of Festival First Night!