The Primary School Crew
Why hello there lovely people,
Today I caught up with these random beings I call ‘friends’- Caitlin & Phoebe. After many a banter on imessage about primary school nostalgia, we thought it was about time our grade 5 trio would reunite. And after weeks of finding a day we were free, it finally happened…
Me being the typical Melbourne vegan, it was pretty much mandatory for us catch up at Brunswick St. As we’re an indecisive bunch, whose lack of road crossing skills is concerning, it took as quite some time to find a place to eat. Our stomachs were growling like there was no tomorrow and hangry Andrea was on the verge of committing an act of violence.
And FINALLY, we found a place to eat - it was a Vietnamese restaurant. I had a veggie stir fry with rice and satay sauce.
Today I caught up with these random beings I call ‘friends’- Caitlin & Phoebe. After many a banter on imessage about primary school nostalgia, we thought it was about time our grade 5 trio would reunite. And after weeks of finding a day we were free, it finally happened…
Me being the typical Melbourne vegan, it was pretty much mandatory for us catch up at Brunswick St. As we’re an indecisive bunch, whose lack of road crossing skills is concerning, it took as quite some time to find a place to eat. Our stomachs were growling like there was no tomorrow and hangry Andrea was on the verge of committing an act of violence.
And FINALLY, we found a place to eat - it was a Vietnamese restaurant. I had a veggie stir fry with rice and satay sauce.
Lunch was filled with hysterical laughing about how our lives used to be - hiding a nutella sandwich behind the classroom shelf just for lols for a YEAR, the many a times we got into trouble for playing chasey in class, how seriously our class took sport (those running positions form the lads will forever haunt me), copious prayers and religious sing-a-longs (“father Abraham has many sons”) but most importantly, the atrocious sunglasses which is bound to cause turmoil to this day…
We then walked around for a bit, reminiscing and pissing ourselves laughing so much, even my non-existent stomach muscles were beginning to hurt. During our journey, we came across rather unique people - there was a lad getting into a heated, vulgar argument at a payphone, another (much older) lad who said we had lovely smiles and a certain one of us underwent extreme eye contact by another much, much older lad (double takes were involved). Ah, classic Brunswick St…
The weather was surprisingly warm for summer (are you finally agreeing to conform to societal expectations Melbourne?) so we decided to get some ice cream at my fave place - Messina. I got two scoops - coffee & hazelnut praline and raspberry. Both vegan of course and delish! We ate ice cream outside and even though we’d caught up for hours, there were still more hilarious stories to tell. By that time, the hot day turned into a windy, rainy one and Melbourne became its usual self - the unpredictable bipolar wreck. Ah, classic Melbourne…
The weather was surprisingly warm for summer (are you finally agreeing to conform to societal expectations Melbourne?) so we decided to get some ice cream at my fave place - Messina. I got two scoops - coffee & hazelnut praline and raspberry. Both vegan of course and delish! We ate ice cream outside and even though we’d caught up for hours, there were still more hilarious stories to tell. By that time, the hot day turned into a windy, rainy one and Melbourne became its usual self - the unpredictable bipolar wreck. Ah, classic Melbourne…
To end the fun day, we decided to take a photo. For a normal bunch of people, this experience would have been fine. But I kid you not, we spent an implausible amount of time getting a good shot. It was either ‘too pagenty’, ‘too serial killery’ or ‘too unaesthetically pleasing-y’. Fortunately, Phoebe mustered up the courage to ‘put herself out there’ and asked another person on the street to take our photo. She got rejected. And that random person power walked the hell away from us. I’m sorry Phoebe. But the legend herself we back on that high horse and asked another. After a confused look and a moment of silence from her, we got our photo…
Even though our trio hadn’t been together for years, it felt like nothing had changed and we were in grade 5 laughing together with father Abraham and the old lady who swallowed a fly...
Appreciate yo friends, because they are all legendary and remarkable.
Oh and Melbourne, get yo crap together, my outfit was on point until your rain ruined my groove.
- Andrea x
Appreciate yo friends, because they are all legendary and remarkable.
Oh and Melbourne, get yo crap together, my outfit was on point until your rain ruined my groove.
- Andrea x
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