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Three: Thursday 14/07/2005

Sunday, 24 July, 2005

We almost miss college breakfast. I cannot find the milk so have yoghurt on my cereal instead (turns out the milk is in a dispenser near the cereal ... duh me). Anita picks us up at 10 and we drive out to the Dandenongs. Because of the temperature outside, she has to keep the heat on otherwise the windows fog up. I feel sleepy.

When we park, there are all these rosellas pecking the ground. We go for a walk in the Sherbrooke rainforest—apparently one of the only temperate rainforests in the world (who told me that??) It's been raining so the ground is all muddy and squelchy—perfect for gum boots. I've borrowed my mum's 4.0 megapixel camera for this trip which means I can take perfect photos on macro like this:

It would be kind of cool if it were actually called “Sherwood” Forest, not “Sherbrooke” Forest. We find a tree with a hollow big enough to hold a person.

As we're walking around, we get a bit lost and eventually reach the road again. We're not exacty sure about our sense of direction and traverse the same turf several times before finding the car again.

We drive on to Sassafras to have lunch at Miss Marple's Tea Room.

The inside is decorated with teapots and Christmas in July decorations. There's a fire going in the hearth. The place is packed! I order a salmon open sandwich (which has too much dressing for my liking) and Ben has Welsh rarebit fingers. We finish off the meal with scones which have the most delicious jam I've ever tasted (and I'm not a jam afficionado). We buy some jam to take back as a present.

After lunch, we explore the rest of Sassafrass. Next door is Tea Leaves (which of course makes me think instantly of Deb). I have never seen so many teapots in my life.

There's a shop that's closing down where I buy some blank cards, a Chinese bag for $1 and some rather beautiful blue star flower pins. At Geppetto's Workshop we find puppets of all shapes and sizes and a black mask with silver lining which I buy for the Maskobalo. At the lolly shop we get gummi worms. The rest of the shops are all full of pretty useless expensive things and so we leave, look out over the Dandenongs and the mist rising off the trees (“Perfect weather,” says Anita) and then drive back to Melbourne.

Anita has to run some errands so she drops us off. I spend my time practising my reading for Continuum 3. I don't have any post-it notes with me so I use hairpins to mark my places.

Anita comes back to pick us up and we drive to Ridley College where she is a tutor. She shows us around. I find The Briefing in the Leon Morris library. The library is so much more spacious than the Moore College library—it makes me quite envious.

Ridley isn't just a theological college. It is also a residential college for students at the University of Melbourne, RMIT and other places. Anita takes us to her cosy little apartment in the staff quarters where she cooks, I keep going with my bookmark and Ben reads The Melbourne Anglican. We eat a lovely meal consisting of the yummiest food with some of Anita's friends from college and church who are all lovely people and don't mind me expressing my frank opinions of Raymond E. Feist and Terry Pratchett. The ones who study theology are shocked at the number of subjects we do at Moore and it seems a little strange that they will graduate with MDivs while we and our contemporaries (well, not me) will only get Bachelors.

One by one they all have to leave. Anita refuses to let me wash up but she does let us watch Law and Order: Trial by Jury while she does the dishes. She drops us home, fending off our feeble claims that “We can walk!” and I promise to call her about church on Sunday.

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