Hello everybody!
The thought of finding a job kind of haunts me: it’s harder than I thought. Unfortunately, I didn’t get the job at the espresso bar in North Perth, they called me saying that they had hired another girl! 
And some of my relatives are not very supportive! Yesterday I skyped my grandmothers and the very 1st thing one of them asked me was if I had found a job and, when I answered that I was still looking for it, she replied: “You still haven’t found a job?!?! Why don’t you come back, then?” 
Anyway, since I’ve almost explored every angle of Perth city (apart from the area South of the Swan River) and I’ve left my resume in every shop/store with a ‘offering job’ sign, I decided to move to the suburbs. So this morning I took the train and I went to Fremantle and Subiaco.
Fremantle (aka Freo) is approximately half an hour far from Perth and it’s a nice little town on the beach. It’s probably the most famous town near Perth and, during the weekends, many young people gather there to have fun. That’s why there are so many café and shops, and that’s why I went there, this morning. I walked along the town leaving resumes and, around midday, I went to the beach, since I wanted to see the ocean! Even if the beach I went to was not the most famous there, the water was amazing! So clear that you could see the floor! I entered the water but I stayed very close to the shore because the water gets deep faster and I was very afraid of ‘meeting’ a shark!!!
Fremantle -- Bathers Beach
In the afternoon, I went to the Fremantle Prison, which was built in the 1850s and closed in 1991, and it’s probably the most famous building of the town. I didn’t take a tour, but I visited a free exhibit regarding the prison itself and it’s history (the riots, the breakouts, the punishments and so on). On one of the walls of the exhibition room there was a painting with a quote by one of the prisoners, which reads: ”The noises were great. The clanking of the keys in the locks, the closing of the gates and the doors. People walking up and down the granite stone. You could hear a screw coming for miles along the wooden platform outside your cell. At night you would hear the usual chatters of crims…”. This message, along with other things I read there, led me thinking that the prison was not worth visiting – ‘why going in such a sad, desperate and spooky place when outside the sun is shining?’ – I asked myself. And I left.
Fremantle Prison
Subiaco (aka Subi) is another little town just two train stops away from Perth. Even in Subi there are many shops and bars and I left a few resumes. I think the most famous building of Subiaco, the only one listed on the free guide I had with me, is the Subiaco Hotel. So I didn’t stop there for a long time.
Tomorrow I’m planning of visiting a few more little towns around Perth, like Mount Lawley and Leederville.
Finally, a brief update on my roommates… I’m sharing the apartment with 12 people (actually 11 now, since one of them left this morning): 8 from Taiwan, 2 from Mexico, 1 from Japan and 1 from France. We’re such a huge group but since everyone but me has got a job, you don’t have the feeling of leaving with so many people, so it’s fine. Two days ago we did a goodbye party for the guy who has jus left in the BBQ area around the pool. We cooked yummy Taiwanese and Japanese food (don’t ask me the names of the food because I have no idea… we used combinations of meat, vegetables, tofu, soy and a lot of dressings) and we ate it together. It was a nice evening. The funniest part came when I told them (we were talking about music) that Anastacia is my favourite singer and they stared at me with a very confused expression since they had no clue of who she is. We listened to one of her hits, “Sick and Tired”, but their expression didn’t change. Then we googled her name, but neither a photo of her helped, so I gave up!!!
Bye everyone,
Laura
), but they made me thinking of Jack!!!
