The Last Evening of Melbourne

Appendix of Journey in Melbourne

When I went to Dandenong in Melbourne, I took a train on the way to there. While I was waiting for next train on a platform, I asked some Ms. for the number of the train. She was old and appeared an average class woman.

When we got the train to pass through Dandenong, we sat on the same seat. After getting apart from her, I had noticed these vacancy places we sat on were for the physical-challenged. The place where disabled people ought to sit on preferentially was shown under part of the room.

The place where disabled people ought to sit preferentially is shown under part of the room.

Anyway, during treavling by the train, I was available to look at the outskirt of Melbourne city and talked with her enough. When we got away from the city, Melbourne was also similar to one of the small rural in Korea. But almost houses' exterior views were still followed the European and American antique. They were like Europe's second-floor houses in the western country in America.

I asked her for something several. How much would you get a pension? Does the government would give out it for the retirement? Where are you going to now? And she gave me a tip about some Korea restaurants while we were passing the place where was famous for them. But I answered that Korea restaurants in Australia are too much expensive. And their taste doesn't like the same with Korea's original one as well. I advised her that it is a little simmilar to Koean traditional food. I didn't know that it had been proved by some expert precisely. I just had read about it from some book.

When I arrived at my destination, I could go to the spot where I want to be consulted for the goal what I want to make it in Australia. It was my first experience that I got used to taking train in the station in Melbourne. And before I go to Melbourne Turmaline airport, I took it one more.

At the moment, my luggage was in a lounge service center in a station square. So I could ask center's guide for a number of a train I want to arrive. I stepped down at platform #6 at first. After a while, some old Asian couple approached me to realize which platform would be right to reach their destination. I didn't remember even my destination being bounded by a train.

But I could not say just "I don’t know, neither." On behalf of it, I told them "I have been waiting since I was depending on the map guided this train network. Could you find the station name on the map?" And I asked some native to help them. The native who looked an office worker or just a mother with her small son, let them go to the other platform.

Though ten minutes had passed, the train which I was going to get on did not come yet.

The woman who has helped Asian couple approached me and told like that. "The speaker announced that the platform is changing now due to the train network system. So your train would be not arrived at this platform. I need to go up and recheck the number of platforms."  


So I stepped up and asked a lounge worker which number of platform would match up my destination. But she had answered that it stays the same without grancing at me. I said the platform locations are switched, so it has been changed! She stared at me, and spoke out "The platform has never been changing throughout the train history." I did not lose against her stance. I said, "The speaker announced that the number is swapped out!"

She has come out from the lounge center, and checked a guide screen, and made me go to another platform #11. I waited for a while in there. I saw some Asian student who tolled her bicycle. I checked my number on the train again to go to Turmaline airport by her. I could be told a guideline to get on the train on the map in detail through her kind explanation. And I asked her for something as Melbourne train platform would change sometimes? She said that it happens often. What the hell of lounge worker's words.

After about 20 minutes, I could take the train via a bus stop to go to the airport. Before I got on the train, I had heard crisp sound of music behind the platform. There were many people talking each other right up on a pub street by Yarra river.  Looking at them and hearing their enjoyable mood, there is no reason to crash on Melbourne's last evening without the excellent sightseeing.