Since I will be a pseudo Melbournian for the next year, I thought that I could best get involved with the community by taking a few classes in the city. I started taking an interior design short course in order to purse my artistic interests. Aside from learning the basic design principles, I also discovered that Australia’s interior design trends are half a year behind the US. (Great! So I may be living a half day ahead of the US East Coast, but my interior design style is half a year behind?) Maybe it was just a misconception I had about Australia being more advanced in all areas of design…. I was even further shocked to find out that they are just starting to import water based paints. That basically means that all the homes in Australia are painted in lead based paints! It isn’t a huge ordeal considering the fact that I will not be sanding the paint off the walls in my hotel any time soon, but a good thing to know for anyone with wall chewing tendencies.
I have also started taking a beginner’s funk/hip hop dance class in Southbank, a suburb approximately 2.5 km / 1.5 mi from my hotel. Just in case my career as a consultant fails AND I am terrible at interior design, I’ll have a third option – back up dancer! Watch out Kevin Federline!
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You can totally take on K-Fed. In a dance off, I'm sure you would kill him ;-)
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