After a 5 am wake up (which is an improvement from the 2am wake ups over the first 3 days), Pri scrambled around to get together paperwork for our first rental application while I blew the fuse on our only international adapter trying to get my hair dryer from Canada working! We got our things together and headed into the North CBD early to find a photocopier and a place that sells adapters so we can use the many electronic devices we brought from back home.
We took a 10 min bus ride from Neutral Bay to North Sydney and we were pleasantly surprised when we found a local photo copy place open at 8am (and willing to print our stuff for $5), a store similar to best buy that sold international adapters and that there was a bank branch directly across from his office.
I potted about the rest of the day: submitting rental applications, seeing properties and walking twice from neutral bay into North Sydney for house viewing thats were just not worth the 30 min one-way walk.
Our evening ended with some hot soup and toasted rolls after Pri used up 2 of his bus tickets unneccessarily as we tried to figure out how we were getting to our last house viewing at 7pm. Safe to say - this place was a dive... and we rode the bus home together laughing about our 1st real life day together in Sydney.
Key Take Aways:
- Small Wins - No matter how small can make your day
- Those international travel adapters (big oval type) are not Aussie outlet friendly so you are safer buying one when you get here.
- Buy more than 1 adapter :)
- Do not trust gumtree for rental ads :)
- Jaime
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