Lucy starts The Conlan College at 8.30am this morning! I thought getting Lucy up and running was going to be interesting at best, but she surprised me and managed to be ready in reasonable time. I had built a bit of wiggle room into the morning schedule for the ‘just in case’ and that proved necessary – I got us lost on the way there having walked 10 min in the wrong direction (cue the eye roll emoji). Once that was sorted we arrived (already hot and bothered) with enough time to do the introductions.
Conlan is really flash. It is set up in a two-story office building, and incorporates the entire top floor. Everything has been converted into an appropriate and modern dance studio and the owners/principals Susan and Paul warmly welcomed us. We were both given the royal tour and you can tell they are proud of their college.
After leaving Lucy to do her warmup and morning session (in this first week the schedule is 8.30am to 12.30pm) I was able to slip away. I walked to St Ives Shopping Centre to sort out my Au bank account and phone. St Ives is 4km away through leafy suburbs which reminded very much of Highgate and Roslyn.
The Iranian woman at the ANZ was awesome and we were able to complete the banking process very smoothly, I wish I could speak as positively about the Telstra process – talk about chalk and cheese experiences. Finally I organised two Opal travel cards which are necessary for bus, train and ferry travel before heading back to Conlan.
Lucy seems to have had an ok first day but I’m not going to ask too many questions…
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