Last week was the Melbourne International Jazz Festival, where I volunteered. While I missed the opening concert on sunday for a gorgeous Martin Martini Gig, monday was my first day as volunteer. Unfortunately, autumn showed its ugly face with wind, rain and chilly 7 degrees and which kept the masses of Federation Square where I together with some other 10 volunteers was supposed to distribute programms. For three and a half hours in the garstly weather, I got to see the Actis Dato Quartett from Italy, which played a very entertaining show.
On tuesday I was on office duty and got meet all the wonderful organisers. 3 of the 5 girls working as organisers had studied in Italy and spoke quite good Italian. Since there was not much to do for us volunteers, we spent the afternoon drinking coffee and chatting. The evening saw the first concert of Charlie Haden, the artist in residence. After helping out at the ticketing desk, I got a very good seat in the newly built Recital Centre.
Wednesday had me going out to the airport to pick up an artist whose name I unfortunately forgot.
Thursday afternoon was spent with more chats and coffee, while friday I had to work for my payed job at the Royal Exhibition Building. Friday night was Jiyeons turn in the "dinner chain" and she and her housemates dished up a fantastic Korean dinner at their place near the Victoria Markets, which we enjoyed with the sufficient amounts of wine and sangria. On our walk back home late at night, we encountered real possums in Carlton Gardens, which proved to have a strong affection for leather shoes.
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