Finding a Home Muditha's story... Part 2

In the first half of 2008 Muditha began the Masters of Teaching (LMTC), a two year PG coursework degree. She is planning to teach SOSE and English. Here are some of her early impressions of moving to and studying in Adelaide.

The main problem was finding a room. The motel was very expensive. Because we came during the Fringe Festival it was hard to find accommodation: it took one week to find us a room in a shared house.

We got addresses from the website then we had to catch the bus to go to look at places. One bus driver was very kind. We were setting out late to look at a house. He said he could drop us off nearby but there’d be no buses after 7pm and it was not a nice area. He called other drivers from his bus and confirmed there were no other busses. He arranged for another driver to collect us to drive us back to the main road. This showed us if you ask for help you meet good people. People will not try to cheat you or mislead you. We have found bus drivers here very helpful.

After a week we found a furnished house close to the campus and we share this with other students from the UK, India and China. We like sharing with different nationalities: it’s interesting. We help each other and we all speak in English. This is good for our English. The Indian guy in the house said he’d help find a job for my husband. This was good as we had to pay a deposit for our room and the rent was always high: $170 per week. The landlord wasn’t nice. But it was ok and good to be with students. To be continued...

Muditha