Public Transportation & Sanger Banger's

2/24/2012

Today we took our first bus ride!

Breaden was a peach and walked us to the bus stop to show us where we needed to get on and what bus we were looking for and made sure we knew where we had to get off.

We got on the bus and a few stops later a couple other girls from our program got on the bus. I had the little book of maps so I followed the route as we went. We even got off at the right stop and everything!

So we got to orientation and had a mini worship session in one of the classrooms. The day was pretty much the same as the previous. Session, Morning Tea, Session, Lunch. 

Lunch was interesting. It was a very thin sausage that you put on a piece of bread. Apparently it’s called a 'Sanger Banger' and it’s a thing. I would call it a 'Hot Dog and I Ran Out of Buns'. Also, we had 'Iceblocks' which is Australian for 'popsicle'.

After lunch we found out about our service placement.  Everyone is in a different service placement in some sort of organization around Sydney. I was placed with 4 other people at a church that hosts a lunch every 3^rd Sunday of the month. But the woman who came to talk to us wasn’t really in charge so it was all very vague information, which wasn’t good because we were supposed to start on Sunday. Dumb.

After that we all met up again and there was a “raffle” of various things that the director had. It included some blow dryers, hair straighters, curling irons and cell phones. Our homestay “won” a straighter! Yaye for looking presentable!

 After that we took a bus back home. But we had to wait at the bus stop for about 45 minutes  before it actually showed up. I can already tell public transportation is going to be awesome.

We went to the mall and found that the mobile phone store that we wanted to go to had closed at 5 so we were too late.

So we went home, rested for a bit, ate dinner with Michelle and Braedon. After that we watched a cricket game with Michelle. It was a “one day game” but it still dragged on forever! I can’t imagine watching a 5 day long game.

It took a while to figure out the rules but Michelle was very nice in explaining them to us and answering our questions as we had them. After a while I actually started understanding it…kind of. I felt bad but by 10 o’clock I was beat and had to go to bed.

The next day we planned to go to Manly Beach!