Thursday, April 3, 2008
A Tiring Day
We happily slept in today not knowing that my time was 1 hour behind the actual time. I had woken up this morning around 9.30 not knowing that it was actually 10.30 till I had gone down to say hey to everyone who was still at home at the time. I did not realize that our lessons with Julie today was at 12 and I had assumed that the studio was in the city somewhere but like I was so wrong. It turned out that I had to go to a far our place as far as Epping to get to the studio Crazy I tell you!
Anyway, it was the first time for John Rey to take a train in Melbourne and I figured it would have been a good experience for him since it is obviously the fastest and most convenient way for him to travel. So what we did we set of on foot to the Kooyong train station and waited a bit for the train that would have to take us to the City. It took us let's say 10 minutes or so to get to the train station although my cousin said it would only take us 5 or so minutes to get down there from his house. I guess we just did not walk fast enough.
When the train came we noticed whilst sitting down in one of the carriages that there was this really cute red-headed girl with her parents who were absolutely adorable. She was sitting directly opposite John Rey and was playing around with her father's mobile phone. She was I think only 5-6 years old and totally cute. She had caught John Rey's attention and was like giving him cute little winks and such in his direction which he totally loved although he definitely would not admit it.
So we finally made it into the city after 30 minutes train ride and like when we got there to Flinders Street station there were a lot of young drug like people which was not a pretty thing to see unfortunately and John Rey I would have to say I am sure he is not used to see this sort of thing not like in Manila or Bohol where he is from. I would think it is a eye opener for him.
We rushed to meet my Aunt in Collins Street because I had to print out the map that Julie had sent me on the directions of how to get to the Studio. I had asked one of the guys in the shop called Ian on how to get there and he said that it would have take about 30 minutes to travel to where I had needed and wanted to get to. So he said to go back to Flinders Street Station and go on the Epping line which was not that hard to find. He said that it would take another 30 minutes to get there. So I quickly dashed out of the store and gave Julie a call to let her know that we would be late. Before rushing to the studio we dropped by vodafone on Collins street and registered for a pre-paid sim for the both of us and finally we then proceeded to make our way to the Studio.
We got to Thornbury almost 2pm which was just intime for class. We had a bit of trouble finding the studio unfortunately. We like walked out of the train station and then towards the main road. We were not to sure whether or not to go right or left to get towards the studio. So I gave Julie a call to ask for directions but funny enough she was not to sure herself which way we should be walking towards so she had to ask Andrew on directions for us to be able to make our way to the studio. We finally walked down the main road and saw Andrew and then walked even further and saw Julie standing on the side of the road waiting for us. So we met up with her and started our lesson.
She had drilled us on our paso doble routine which I still feel a bit funny and akward about because I am not used to the hand movements and such. When I do it like if i do a stupid hand movement it just makes me feel odd and funny and to make issues worse is that John Rey laughs at me and if I get it wrong he would just squeeze my hand and that way I would know if he is upset or angry with me. So we worked on that for the first hour and a half and I think it was fairly productive in a way in such that she had fine tuned some our movements and steps especially on my part because John Rey knew how to do his well enough he didn't need much help.
We had a break inbetween so what we did we went and grabbed some lunch. Or should I say he went to grab some lunch a few doors down from the studio. We went into this little outlet run by a indian guy and he had some rice and chicken which apparently was very good but that was just because he was hungry. However, I was put of by the smell of the restaurant. He took his own sweet time eating as he does but that was only because I think he was tired at the same time yea. After he had eaten his food we went to the nearest grocery store because we were in search of some universal plugs so that we could use our phones and charge them. We found safeway and picked up some donuts and such for John Rey because one thing is for sure he would get hungry in the middle of the night and search for food but unlike last night he had rumaged through my suitcase for the biscuits that I had bought for Auntie Helen. But tonight if he got hungry he would just have to look for the bottle of water and donuts that we got so it would not be so bad.
Our next lesson was at 4pm so we headed back to the studio and John had crashed at the couch in the corner. So when Andrew showed up at the studio he had asked me where John Rey was and i didn't realize he had fallen asleep so we both walked towards the couch of where he laid and Andrew woke him up by feeling his arm. Whilst that was happening John Rey had a big smile appear on his face which was rather amusing. So we just sat there in the corner and started to talk about the couples that were going to be coming to Australia next week. We then started to talk about Bangkok because Andrew & Julie were going to be going there tomorrow for competiton and Andrew was asking John Rey about things that they could do and see whilst they were there. So John was telling him about the places he should check out if he had time. Some of the things that John had said was rather amusing to be honest. Then Julie had come to join us speaking about the comp and the categories as well.
We finally got down to our 1 hour and 30 minutes worth of practice. We worked on our Samba because little did we know our 4 dance was samba not Paso and I know that I am not good at it however like we've been working on Paso even when Julie was in Singapore thinking that Paso would have been our fourth dance. Terrible I know but what can we do. We just got to work and fine tune it as much as we possibly can before the comp and just do our best if and when we can. I just hope and pray that before this competition at least we do our bests and not worry about the results however I do hope we get slightly better than the last competition.
Finally, we had finished our lesson for the day and we sat down with Julie to schedule the rest of the lessons for the rest of the time we are here and we set it so that we would have lessons pretty much every day from the time she comes back till the following weekend and with all the practice and everything else I have been doing it should go well and smoothly. All I can do basically is just pray and hope it all goes well and of course practice hard. When our lesson was over we made our way back into Flinders and rushed towards David Jones to go and grab some universal adaptors which was finally found so we were totally happy about that. John Rey was over the moon because ever since we arrived in Melbourne he has been asking me for it and I did not know what to say or do to be able to shut him up but finally now I have been able to so I am pretty happy about that.
After getting the adaptors we were walking along the main road somewhere near Chinatown and we had passed some restaurants so I decided why not have dinner in one of the places we had just walked pass. John Rey had seen a Thai restaurant so we went on in. But for that moment when I sat down I got really tired and was not in the mood to eat any food unfortunately. So John Rey had ordered his dinner and I just sat there and watched him gobble up all his food. Amazing yea, he's so darn skinny but eats like super quick. I wonder if he ever gets indigestion??
Soon after we walked back to Flinders and hoped on a train back home. And now we're just chilling out. Actually John Rey's passed out in bed so I'm going to go...
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