Wow I have not wrote in my blog in a long time! Guess I've just been super busy. The first few weeks I was really sick but finally I'm healthy!! Our group went on a day trip to Mount Tamborine where we went to a Glow Worm Cave, hiking, and wine tasting. The Glow Worm cave tour was about half an hour long and it was manmade cave but it looked really cool and the glow worms just looked like stars in the night sky! I knew it was going to be cold so this time I brought TWO sweaters with me and I was right, it did get pretty cold at times but the weather was bipolar. Hiking was fun, I got exhausted towards the end though. At one point we had to cross a river by balancing on rocks and I was holding things for a bunch of people while they helped one of the girls cross and I ended up slipping at the end and got my shoes wet :/ but I made it out with no leeches! There was an awesome waterfall and we went into the restricted area and went under the waterfall and took some really cool pictures! There was also waterhole where people in our group went swimming but I was still a little sick and it was cold so I refrained. There was a rock "slide" too which looked like fun and some people were jumping off the side of a cliff and our leader, Mazz, was really frustrated with one guy who just kept climbing higher and higher to jump. After that adventure we went Wine Tasting and I don't think I'm a wine person. We had white wine first then transitioned into red wine and one of them was disgusting and I was the brave soul that walked up and poured out my drink because I couldn't handle it. There was only one wine I liked but I don't remember what it was called. I had a terrible headache that night... perhaps from the wine. This was me when we got home:
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I also went to the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary. I FINALLY got to hold a koala and a got a picture! They smell disgusting and all I could think of was my medmicro class where I learned 70% of koalas have chlamydia. There were heaps and heaps of kangaroos! Not going to lie, I was a tad scared they would attack me so I approached them from behind since they cant jump backwards! We also saw crocodiles, tasmanian devils, tree kangaroos, and wombats. There was an aboriginal dance show too!
Last Saturday I went to Brisbane for the Riverside Festival. We went on the ferris wheel and had an amazing view from the top! We then walked around the city for a bit, witnessed guys dealing drugs out in the open. There was an air show and there were military jets flying super fast and spinning. I don't really know how to describe what I saw and I just asked my roommate, Sarah, and she doesn't know either. We ate at a Vietnamese restaurant and I got an Iced Chocolate which is like a milkshake and it is delicious! I had ice cream earlier that day too, it was the most delicious mango ice cream I have ever had in my life! FINALLY it was time for the firework show! We got there literally like 5 minutes before the show started and I used my Assyrian skills of pushing through a crowd and managed to get us on top of this concrete step thing and we had a perfect view :) The show was SPECTACULAR! I recorded it on my phone and camera. The fireworks were in sync with music and they played all kinds of music, I got really excited when Calvin Harris - Let's Go came on! This show beat every 4th of July firework show I've been to.
Theres heaps and heaps of other things that have happened but I'm getting sleepy and want to sleep so briefly: beach day with crazy wind getting sand all up everywhere, Res wars, writing notes to housekeeping, awkward/embarrassing encounters that make great stories, teaching my roommate Assyrian, teaching her how to do a roundoff, teaching her how to swallow a pill, doing laundry for the first time, dying need of water bottles, Love/Sex/Relationships class presentation, teaching my roommate my secret strategies and sharing life stories, reminiscing in my french and spanish and arabic and persian music, Tim Tam addiction, not being able to sleep till 4am, guys betting on me, hauling my suitcases on top of my desk shelf, hanging clothes around the room to dry, dealing with my long showers and no fan in the bathroom, meditation in Buddhist Philosophy, figuring out bus schedules, fishing (don't know if I wrote about that yet?), ride to pharmacy, thats all I can think of at the moment.
GOODNIGHT <3
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