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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Fool's Gold

Bonjour tout le monde

I have recently acquired a french exchange student. Apart from the casual disagreements on the quality of Australian bands and cheese it has been pretty awesome if I do say so my self. In taking her to all our (meagre compared to France's) tourist sites I saw places in Melbourne I'd never been before.

Personally everyone has to do Sovereign Hill at least once. I did when i was about ten and surly. I was angry at having to walk/drive for so long and the stupid costumes were itchy and made me look like Julie (masterchef) on a bad day with no medication. By the way, Justine should have won. This time, the costumes still made me look like I needed an obesity intervention but I actually enjoyed looking like an angry barmaid with PMS. In all my time I had forgotten the awesomeness of Ballarat...well Sovereign Hill but who goes to Ballarat for anything else?

Honestly travelling back in time was pretty good. The only downside was that now that I'm not a child anymore the place seriously shed it's magic. Between the tour guide subtly revealing to me that they put all the gold in the river (I found some) and that there was never gold at Sovereign Hill, and telling me his life story his 1950's character was kind of screwed.

Ok, so the place looks kind of tacky from my teenage point of view and my french girl's enthusiasm was lukewarm. I still had fun and would defend Sovereign Hill against any adversary...well, you know what I mean.

glorified diary xx

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