This is my very first blog post in australia! And I have chosen a delightful place to sit down for the next 30 minutes to write it... I'm at an internet cafe undernearth McDonalds filled with gamers playing WOW. It's all about the atmosphere.
Anyways, tomorrow will mark the end of our first week in Australia, which seems absolutely insane. It's been an amazing week and we've seen so much and met so many people.
Our first night in Sydney was a bit of a wash. We got in pretty late after our fleury of flights and shuttles, rolled up to our 10 man room, met our roommates and passed out. We woke up and pretty much hopped right on to a train headed for Wollongong. Wollongong is a university town a few hours out of Sydney, and the boys and I headed over there to catch up with Will and Lizzie and also to get amongst some of the O Week action. Lucky us, we've gotten to experience 2 O weeks on this trip... Does make me feel a bit old and creepy though. When we arrived our lovely buddies were there to escort us to Will's place on a free (wooohoo) bus. We rolled on to the campus where they had 1000000 booths set up, a magic act happening on the quad, and several creepy humans dressed as animals running around. I thought I loved the University of Otaga, but I think Wollongong was even cooler. Will lives in student housing called KB, which is basically a village of townhouses right beside the school. Luckily because it was O Week they were doing a bunch of free (woohoo) stuff and we scored a free brunch and a free dinner. Right away we met some pretty sweet people including Will's roomies, Pat, Sam and Jarred. They were a bunch of really cool guys who liked to party and liked meeting new people even more. The first night we hit up a house party that was absolutely massive and then headed to the bar... It was all a pretty big blur and Mike is telling me I was the worst wingwoman of all time so I don't know how successful of a night it was, but it was really fun. The next day me, lizzie and Amy and Shuana (two of the radest and nicest girls I've ever met) headed over to the gym to watch the boys play basketball. I have to tell you, dear Canadian friends, that Australians are not the best basketball players I've ever seen. In fact, they're amongst the worst. It was pretty painful to watch but thankfully was pretty brief. Afterwards we joined them for a game of on the rack where I sunk a half court shot granny style and won fame and admiration for a glorious 2 seconds before mike sank the exact same shot non-granny style right after me. Once again we hit the bar where it was retro night. As you can imagine, artists such as b44, aqua and blink all blarred all night long and it was totally awesome. This is also the night that I had the pleasure of meeting Cameron, a tall tree like basketball player (we actually met 3 guys who played for wollogong including him). He lost a bet to me, and to avoid paying up he elaborately managed to get himself kicked out. Quite impressive. Since we were having such a good time in Wollongong, we decided to extend our stay one more night. Willy, Lizzie, Shauna and Amy took us shopping and then Shauna and Amy took us home to make us the most amazing dinner I've had since I've been gone, including chicken parm from scratch, roasted potatos, sweet potato fries and salad, thus making them the best cooks I've had the pleasure of knowing. Sadly the weather was never that good while we were there (tons of rain), so we didn't get to see the beaches, but I've been told they're pretty great. We had a movie day post shopping... 10 things I hate about you and Anger Management. totally underrated and amazing movies. After dinner, we got a bit caught up in a Nitro Circus marathon courtesy of Amy and ended up watching the entire first season instead of being social. I do not regret this though, because I now know that I'm meant to marry Travis Pastrana. . After a long day, me and the boys had a sleepover with Amy and Shauna where the boys spent hours worrying about poisonous spiders attacking them in their sleep, woke up and shipped out back to Sydney.
We got back to base and found out we had been put in the sickest room ever, a 6 man ensuite that could easily fit 2-3 more bunk beds in it. My dream room. We met our new room mates, Kali and Elita (probably just butchered that spelling) from Taiwan, and Connor from Britain (obviously). Overall this was probably he most fun and united room we've had other than with the kiwi experience, but sadly all 3 of them have left or are leaving tomorrow :(
Anyways, our first day back in Sydney was also the last day of Mardi Gras, so the three of us and Connor got to go see the parade which was absolutely ridiculous but also absolutely amazing. After that we caught up with Kali and Elita and played slap the bag (so fun) then all headed out to club 333 to meet Annie, Laura, and some of their friends including Sam, the outback survivor man (refer to previous blog post). We had a great night and lots of dancing was done. We woke up in the morning a lot worse for wear and once again went shopping which i'm realizing is the boys' favorite activity. Mike contemplated buying some vans and settled on a stripped t, josh withheld and Connor slept on anything he could lean on. After that the boys and I headed to see the famous opera house and the harbor bridge which were kind of cool but also kind of meh. We finished up the day at nandos, which is basically the equivalent to a Swiss chalet but better, then once again had a room pre and headed down to scary canary, then off to a casino where Mikey won 50 dollars playing the slots.
Connor left this morning, and the Taiwanese girls are leaving tomorrow morning. We got a new dust roommate in the bunk above me named Haymish who talks too much ("never kiss a Dutch girl, they are bad kissers") and rolls around in his bed nonstop so not the best first impression, but he is British so maybe we should give him a chance. Today we hiked up to uSyd and grabbed a frisbee from one of the profs there courtesy of a hookup through Tushar. Lovely guy. I am very excited about being back in the frisbee business ! After that Annie and Laura came and picked us up and took us to Bondi beach. It felt so good to see a sand beach again, which we haven't had since Nelson. The waves were amazing and it was a very sunny day, which sadly is a first for our time here but I'm optimistic that the weather is changing for the better. Tonight we haven't done much, and will probably have an early night and get up tomorrow to hit up Manly beach. We have 3 more nights in sydney, ending it with a sleepover at Annie's house and then heading north up to Byron Bay.
Australia is actually crawling with beautiful girls, but the boys are all short and stocky which is a bit of a travesty. It is also frighteningly expensive here. In nz we were paying 20$/night for hostels, here we pay 40. Their dollar is also annoyingly strong so we're getting smacked every time we take money out, but its honesty pretty worth it. Sydney is such a cool city, so live and sooooooo busy even compared to Toronto. Hoping it only gets better from here!
That's all for now! Until next time my friends
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