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murty said on May 16th, 2008

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hi fans of murtys blog!
it has been like more than a week! you must be so deprived and like a parched river-bed! but fear no more, i will fill your streams with the flowing life of murty.

well a great deal has happened since my last blog, lots and loadfuls! i will recap you on the eventful last couple of days.
actually last week, hayley and teela (the 2 girls who are going to america with me) had their visa interviews over in melbourne and got their visa back within 2 days, which is fantastic! this gave me a stack of hope because my interview was so close to when i had to leave.
so this tuesday i headed on over to melbourne!

adam and i left at 5am and headed to the adelaide airport, checked in and waited for our plane. we were flying with tiger airlines, which is the cheapest airline available at this stage in australia. ($80 return ticked to melbourne. quantas is $220 return ticket.) but considering they were so cheap, i was really impressed with how good they were. granted you don’t get any food on the way over, except if you buy some, its a small price to pay. so we arrived in melbourne and caught a shuttle bus into the city. it was such an easy process and very good for people new to the city.
as soon as we hit southern cross station, adam and i turned into massive tourists. we donned our camera’s and started snapping anything that moved. of course adam being the professional, was very fancy and taking complicated photos. then there was me, ooh a tree ’snap’; ooh a car ’snap’. oh well, someone has to be the amateur. so we started walking towards the cbd where we needed to catch a tram down to the embassy. of course being new to the city, we had little idea about where to go and what to do, but i was so impressed with the service melbourne offered.
there were little information booths all around the place and people with red jackets that could help you find your way, it was great! so after wandering around for a while, we got a tram ticket and headed down to st kilda road to snipe out the us embassy. as soon as we got there, i started taking pictures of the embassy sign and flag for memento purposes, but was quickly stopped by a security guard. apparently they don’t like people taking pictures. so i politely deleted them off my camera and apologised profusely, after all i didn’t want to get on the bad side of the us already!
we munched down lunch at a cafe next to the embassy and went for a walk around the area to check it out. before we left, we could see the waiting room, and there was 1 girl waiting in there. 20 minutes later when we got back, there was around 40 other young adults all waiting there! so we all lined up and got let in slowly through security and put on the lift up to the top floor. we had another security check and sat in another waiting room. it was like a process line, because we all had a ticket and got called up by a machine and told to go to a booth.
the internet made it sound like such a complex and tough process, but it was so easy and simple. just as long as you have all the required paper work, its a relatively smooth process. and it was great chatting to some of the other young adults there and seeing where they are heading off to.

so after all that shamozzle, adam and i decided we would go see if we could visit hamish and andy, as their studio (fox radio) wasn’t too far away from the embassy, so we trammed down there and nervously asked the intercom if we could meet them. no luck though. awww! so back we trammed to the city and bummed around in the stores for a while before heading back to southern cross station to catch the shuttle bus to the airport. then we sat in the airport for a while and piled onto the plane. we arrived back home home (as in barossa valley) at around 10pm. so all in all a pretty jammed pack day when you think about it.

i was hoping to get my visa in the mail on wednesday and it didn’t. so i was hoping to get it today, and it didn’t! consequently hayley (who i am flying over with) has already had to book her ticket and we are going to see if we can still sit together on the same flight… we’ll see what happens.
i am hoping and praying that i will get it in the mail tomorrow, if not, i am going to have to fly over later in the week, which sucks! all of this is causing me stress, and i am continually questioning god and wondering what he is trying to teach or tell me.

i also finished my job today at reliable systems and am officially ‘jobless’. the government doesn’t like my type. i had to travel most of today, so it was a rushed end of the job. i will definitely miss the people i have worked with over the last couple years and i really enjoyed my job so i will miss that as well. i will also miss the security of having a full-time job with my father as my boss. but this is definitely a new direction in my life and i am incredibly excited about where god is going to take me and use me.

well i know i have rushed the last half of this blog, but it is getting really late and i’m tired. i will blog hopefully once, if not twice before i leave to america and will keep you up to date with everything.
please keep me in your prayers as i have emotions flying all over the place and thoughts going crazy. give me peace and joy in knowing that you have it all under control lord!

i have put a heap of photos on my flickr of my trip to melbourne
thanks for reading guys

love murty!

i took this video just after we tried to meet hamish and andy in melbourne