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Our second post about Melbourne is going to describe our last weeks in the city.

First of all, I´m going to talk a little about our Uni, it was good but not what we were expecting. We thought we were studying with Aussies (from another careers) but Hawthorn is only the language center from University of Melbourne. They were people from all over the world except from Australia, neither my teachers where from Australia, one of them was from Chile and the other one from Scotland. Things for some reason happened and what in the beginning was not what we expected turned to the best things that the Uni gave us, our classmates. We made very good friends specially people from Colombia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Taiwan, Chile, Thailand and China. We also feel much comfortable with our English and it is always good study for 5 hours Monday thru Friday for 5 weeks.

One of the weekends we wanted to go to Phillip island but because people in Australia is over punctual and we are still a little unpunctual we lost our bus…. however we decided to rent bikes and go to St Kilda one of the famous beaches in Melba. The weekend after we went earlier to the bus station and in a raining day we went to the Island. It was beautiful but we didn´t see the little famous penguins.

With some students we organized an international soccer game but because it was raining we decided to play it indoor, but after one hour we had to stop it because was not allow.

One of the Saturdays we wake up little early and we went to the footie grand final. Debbie invited us and we still own her a wishky (sorry Debbie). The Grand Final is like the super bowl in United States or the final of the libertadores in Argentina, also the both most well known teams were playing, St Kilda and Gellong! as we predicted couple posts before. St Kilda was wining during all the game but 5 minutes before the game finished Gellong made it and the stadium burned it. It was a great experience and it is possible be in a same place more than 100.000 people, from different teams enjoying a wonderful spectacular.

Finally we left to Great Ocean Road and to Tasmania with classmates, but both super deserve new posts. After them we returned to Melbourne for 30 hours, where we talked and smoked chicha with Saad, we had lunch with Paula and we had our last Australian bbq (for a while) with Edward´s family. Then we flew to New Zealand.

Australia is a beautiful country and the people who we have met there was amazing, thanks to all of them that we have crossed and we hope our ways cross again somewhere, someday!

We selected the best 50 pictures (from more than 400) of Melbourne and we uploaded them to be the final Melbourne photo gallery, enjoy it!