Douglas In Aussie

Easter Vacation and what I did!

2010-04-05T21:34:00.001-07:00

Day 1: The car ride was about 3 hours and a little bit more as we took a wrong turn on the way, but otherwise it was fine. We arrived around 17:30ish and just unpacked the stuff from the car said hi to a family friend and had roasted chicken with vegies and stuff for dinner. Then we watched a movie and went to sleep.

Day 2: Woke up around 11:30ish and just had bread with some stuff for breakfast, then we just chilled around for a bit, not doing anything in particular. After a while we headed over to Lachys pops and nanny (his grandparents) who live next door. They were real nice and had that real Australian accent, which was pretty cool. They also owned a dog called Katie (if I remember correctly), nice small dog and very friendly.

Lachy also has two cats; however one is there but not there so it does not really listen to anybody. Then we decided to get lachys dads 250cc bike up and running. It worked real nice despite how old it was, but after about 15 minutes we lost control and crashed, hehe, it was nothing serious as we were not going very fast. Lachy who was driving got away unscratched, whilst I got a small scratch on the inside of my right leg. Nothing that won’t heal within a week or a couple of days.

Then we drove around the citrus orchard on the bike and it was pretty big. Then we decided to take a drive in the car down to the town, “Narrandra”, Lachy showed me where everything was. This included the outside swimming area, the tennis club, the “Mad Mile”, the city council and the two different ovals. The “Mad Mile” is just a road heading out of town, where the road is basically made of sand and everyone who drives on it drives really really fast, as if they were mad.

Afterwards we watched a movie again and then had dinner and then watched another movie.

Day 3: During this day we woke up again around 12:10ish. Decided not to do anything particular in the morning except to check out some movies, then around 14:00 we decided to go outside and just play some soccer. Then Lachy had to help out repairing some old machinery, so I and Perry (Lachys brother) took a swim in the pool. However we had to clean the pool out of frogs before we jumped in. When we got out there was another frog back in the pool again.

Perry also told me of when he accidentally picked up a snake with his hands, when he was reaching into the filter of the pool in order to get to a ball which had landed in the hole to the filter. So I have one good advice to everyone “Don’t put your hand where into a hole, which you aren’t completely sure of if it is free of snakes”.

Later on we went inside and watched another movie and a program on the TV, then we had dinner and just chilled out with some music for a while and eventually we decided to watch yet another movie again before heading off to bed around 1:20 in the morning.

Day 4: It is now Thursday and we woke up at 12:30ish and had breakfast. Then we headed off to the other closest town called Leeton. Here we visited Lachys cousins, Cassandra and Vanessa I believe their names were. They also had a small dog, which was very friendly. Later that night we went out to Leeton Hotel and had a couple of drinks and met up with Lachys friends. It was a nice night out, just chilling and having a couple of beers and just general jabbering.

Later on at around 01:00 the pub closed and so we had to leave. This is when a couple of fights broke out outside the pub; we had a look and then decided to head off. Most people were going to some after party somewhere nearby, but as the night progressed, cops started to show up here and there, so we decided to leg it back to Lachys cousins place where we slept for the night. This is now around 2:40ish.

Day 5: Woke up earlier than usual at 10:30 and had breakfast with Lachys cousins and their parents. Afterwards we said our goodbyes for the time being and headed back to Lachys place. After about 40 minutes Morris showed up and we headed out to fix some sprinklers out in the citrus orchard. I and Morris had to carry a very big ladder and it was full of really old smelly water, which we basically got drenched in. So we smelled like “shit”. (Morris is one of Lachys friends) When we were done we decided to go for a swim in the pool and just relax for a couple of hours as it was a quite hot day. Morris was playing some guitar and tried to avoid getting wet as he wasn’t swimming at first.

Lachy cleaned his car, whilst I just chilled in the kitchen waiting for dinner. We had salmon and some other white fish with potatoes and salad and some other fishy stuff. Then we had cheesecake for desert and eventually we just ended up in front of the computers again and Morris played some more guitar.

Day 6: We woke up late and decided to go out during the night. It was a real good night, had a couple of beers and drinks at some different bars in Narrandra. Plus we watched a bonfire outside Mitches house. (One of Lachys friend’s house) It was real nice and we had a BBQ at Mitches house as well, so it was a real nice night.

Day 7: Woke up very early to go back home from Mitches house as we slept over at his house. Driving home in the morning was not very nice as everyone was very tired from the party the night before, except for the guy driving as he had not been drinking at all.

We came back home to Lachys place and there we went back to bed as it was around 7 in the morning when we arrived. A couple of hours later we were woken up in order to go to a lunch with Lachys parents, brother, cousins and cousin’s family. After the lunch we just went back and slept and did nothing in particular, the next day we left in the car heading back to Canberra and right now I am sitting here typing this, which means that I am back in Canberra and Uni has started again.

Review Tests!

2010-03-25T00:47:00.000-07:00

Today I had economics and accounting for managers review tests. The accounting one is worth 30% of the overall grade in economics and the accounting for managers is worth 20% of the overall grade for the unit. I believe that the economics one and that the accounting for managers one went good. I think that I should not fall below 70%, however you never know as the review tests were multiple choice questions.

Both of the tests were a total of 40 different questions each. There was a couple of ambiguous questions as always, when there are multiple choice questions. For some of the questions the answer could have been either of two choices, depending on how the question was approached. So for some of them I was not completely sure about what the correct answer was.

We haven't gone out for a couple of nights now as most people have had to study, but on saturday I believe that me, ash, lachlan, kev, alistair, james and company are going out, because next week is a lecture free week and thus we do not have Uni stuff going on. During this one week off I'm going back to lachlan's place to checkout the country-side a bit. However sadly ash is going back to Sydney, so we won't see each other for a whole week (OMG right?). Anyways I've been going to the gym everyday and fallen asleep a couple of times afterwards.

Well that's all for this time... :)

News News News ! ! !

2010-03-21T07:21:00.000-07:00

Yea thats right, it's been a long time since last time. But I'm back here again. There has been a slight re-arrangement here at UC. Between me and Ashlee that is. Yeapp it's what you think it is. I've finally got myself a girlfriend. Her name is Ashlee and yes it is the girl that lives in the same apartement as me and the other guys and girls.

Ash never gets angry and is almost always happy unless something sad/bad has happened. So I basically come home after Uni to the apartement and what do I find??? Ashlee :)

Thats the major changes here around campus, otherwise I got 45/50 on my IT assignment for programming and the Java programming which I am handing in today is as I believe it...going to be good aswell, so now I have an average of 91.2% in IT :)

Update It ! ! !

2010-03-05T05:28:00.000-08:00

Yea that's right, it's been a while since my last update. However now I have something to talk about. Daniel is here in Australia. We went out last night (thursday night) and we had heaps of fun. We first went bar hopping because we were very early out and then we decided to play pool for an hour and then we hit up the clubs around civic in Canberra.

During thursday, me and daniel went and bought a basketball and a ball pump. Then we and Kevin, this dude from Sydney went and played some B-ball. As we were playing I was reaching for the ball and at the same time Daniel slipped and kinda kneed my hand so that my wrist got completely pushed together, so now it hurts. Today I went and got a elastic bandage sorta thing to keep it stabilized, however it still hurts when I type on a keyboard and stuff which is really annoying.

Well today manny people have left to go back home during the weekend, so ash, alistair amongst others have gone home for the weekend. But that's perfect cause this means we have enough beds here for Daniel too, so we are all sleeping in real beds instead of sleeping on the floor.

Hmm what else is there... Oooh yea, done with my economics presentation which if I'm not wrong is the only economics presentation that I have to do during this unit for economics. However for the presentation I and one other girl had done the same question, so I was only allowed to expand on her discussion of the first question and I basically only needed to present one question, which was very easy.
I even have to correct the tutors definition sometimes, which sorta buggs me a little bit, but it's alright.

Well now we have started learning the Java programming language and soon we will have to create a Graphical User Interface for something. So IT is getting a bit more fun, however making the website was quite fun as well, since I've never done a real website before. Interestingly enough I think I did good on the assignment. FYI (For Your Information) I ony have one single Accounting for Managers assignment for the whole unit, which is really interesting, so that assignment is about 30% of our total grade for the unit.

Right now it's 00:25 and I am soon off to go to bed and tomorrow I would like to play some basketball again if my arm allows me to do it. The weather has to allow for that possibility aswell, because today it has been raining the whole time and it's been a very boring weather.

Lastly is that I think I will get my braces off really soon which is gonna be ... Wait For It ... AWESOME!!!

The 24th...

2010-02-24T00:40:00.000-08:00

Went to the gym today again and I am going tomorrow aswell as I´ve gotta get Lachy starting on the gym. Right now the girls are getting ready to go out for a night at the lighthouse, however to everyones suprise I am not going out tonight. Have to do some studying and recap some subjects that I should have done last week, nothiing major though, just small stuff. Today I´ve finished my Economics assignment and one of my ISO assignments. Both which were quite easy. Now I´ve gotta start on my IT assignment. This is gonna be a little trickier but still nothing majorly hard.

Otherwise whats happened this week? Well Sunday and Monday I felt really bad, probably had some kinda small sickness, because I couldn´t study or concentrate on anything for a long time without getting a headache. But that´s all good now. The units I am doing feels very easy, but I am not sure that they should feel very easy and therefore I think I have to study some more in order to see if they are easy or only portrayed as being easy.

The chapters in the books are extremely long however... Sooo much text in each chapter hahaha :)

My Day Off...

2010-02-16T21:52:00.000-08:00

I wish it was, today I have been learning HTML and I still have Econ assignment and my resumé to type up. The future is looking dark for me. No fun today work work work. But I suppose the Doriotos Nacho Cheese Chips make up for the bad parts and so do the chocolate chip cookies and the lemonade. However I am infact in pain. Working out two days in a row for the first time in ages does give you a very high dose of muscle pain. It even hurts when I laugh, so as I said before no fun today.

Overall the lectures are quite boring. The stuff they talk about is interesting but the way they talk is way to slow and there is not very much interaction going on between lecturer and students. The tutorials however are fun, because there´s lots of stuff happening and we are actually doing something instead of just listening to someone talk.

In terms of how hard the subjects are gonna be, I believe that Econ will be the easiest, then Information Systems in Organisations, Accounting for Managers and the hardest will be the Information Technology one, as 50% of the course basically is programming. While the other 50% is the theory behind programming languages and how programs are designed etc.

Soon I think I´m gonna take a pain killer cause it is hard to concentrate when moving your arm hurts all the time... :) that is all for this time...

Broken Ancle, scratched knees and glass cuts...

2010-02-12T00:47:00.000-08:00

Well it can´t get any better than this, that is sure. Steph broke her ancle last night when she fell, because she was wearing very high heels. At first it didn´t seem as if anything was wrong, just like a twisted ancle I was told today. Later however she was unable to walk at all and then today when the girls went to the hospital with her, the X-ray showed that she had broken it badly. She might have to have surgery... tomorrow we will get to know if the surgery is necessary or not. At the same time as when she fell, she cut her hand a little bit on some broken glass. But it was still a good night out...

Running through the bushes to catch the bus from the Uni bus-stop Annika fell and scratched her leg, which now has become infected. So it was a hell of a night last night.

However I remain unscratched, un-hurt and perfectly fine. The night out was a lot of fun even though we had our times of damage. Tomorrow I think we might be headed for the coast if it is sunny and that will be a lot of fun and nice to get out there again.

Today we went to the Belconnen Mall and I got myself a haircut, the regular short cuts I always get. The hairdresser who was cutting my hair on the other hand was very unusual. She just couldn´t stand still and kept shaking her hands without stopping. She was also jumping around, so it was quite interesting to watch her. Finally we have a toaster now, instead of having to do the toasts in a hot frying pan. Now the only thing left to do is to check out what we are going to have for dinner...

That´s about everything that has happened today and yesterday night...

Week 1 of Uni...

2010-02-10T03:35:00.000-08:00

So this has been the first real week of Uni. It is nice, however we are no learning anything in the lectures yet, as most lectures have been about what we are going to do and what the subjects themselves are about. For example in IT lectures we have "The Chocolate Question". This is just any random question that our lecturer asks at the end of each lecture and the question is about the lecture itself and the first to answer this question gets a bar of chocolate. I believe he asks these questions at the end of the lectures because it will keep people coming to the lectures rather than skipping them and watching them online on the Moodle site.

However it has been a very very hectic week. Lots of work, for example watching Gossip Girl (A TV serie) has been very exhausting. The watching of Supernatural (another TV serie) has also made our brains go into shutdown mode. This is the girls fault...because they love watching TV shows. But now I believe it is time to start studying and having a look at what I am actually doing. Fortunately enough for me, I have already done one of the units before and therefore I should have a very easy time in this subject. The unit that I have done before is the Introduction to Economics. Since I did this in the IB it should be easy. I am have also started looking for a job a Belconnen Mall, anything is good and I will be handing out resumé´s on Friday.

Today it is wednesday, there was supposed to be a pool party, but as not enough people were going this did not happen. It would have been fun though to have a pool party, perhaps there will be another one next week. Next week it is O-week for ANU and that ofcourse means more parties for the universities of Canberra. As the UC people still have to study I hope that the partying will be kept to a limited on the campus area as it´s hard to sleep if there´s people everywhere.

A quite funny thing happened the other day. Ash (a roomate) was washing the dishes and her hair kept falling down, so she asked me to get her a headband. As I could not find a headband I had no choice but the keep her hair up myself. However while doing so the rest of the people walked into our apartement. I was told that "I was already in Ash´s spell". Whatever that means... anyway all the people here with me are cool :) and we are having a blast prettey much all the time.

Since we are heading out tomorrow night again. I shall bring with me my new camera and take as many pictures as possible, to show everyone what goes down in Canberra City during the night :)

That´s all and keep the parties coming...

Uni-Pub Tonight

2010-02-04T20:28:00.000-08:00

Tonight everyone is heading down to Uni-Pub, its a 4 floor Pub with different music on each floor if I´m not mistaken. Photos.... since my small camera is broken I cannot take any photos. Carrying the big camera around at night is impossible and when doing activities around the campus. So I will have to get a new small camera in order to take photos.

What else can I say, I have several fun roomies and more people above my head aswell. On monday the lectures start and that is gonna be interesting.

O-Week ! ! !

2010-02-04T03:26:00.000-08:00

Orientation week at UC is just amazing. Lots of parties and a lot of fun and friendly people. Got some cool apartement roomies. 3girls and 1 guy are living with me in the UC campus apartement. A nice bunch of people. Our schedule is quite free during the day, however at night there are always a party or two or more that is going down somewhere on or around the campus.

Outside BBQ´s and a cold beer, thats the Aussie way to go. Met lots of second and third year students, everyones talkative and having fun. The best thing is that most people dont know each other so you can strike up a convo with anyone heheh :)

Aight im off to party...

Dj Tiesto - Kaleidoscope ! ! !

2010-01-30T21:52:00.000-08:00

Huge, awesome and just hot! That´s how Dj Tiestos last tour was on the day me, nash and ovi went. It was very cool. Lots of people dancing on the floor and on the audience seating. However there was no airconditioning inside of Hordern Pavilion and therefore it was extremely hot. The laser show was just blazing. Awesome lightshow and the biggest Dj in the world, this was the best.

The concert (party) started at 9pm and ended at 3am, we stayed until 2:30 and then left a little early as there would be a huge crowd heading out at the same time. We lived like Kings yet again. We could have lived at backpackers, but if we just added 20 bucks each we got into a really really nice hotel, so we stayed at a 4 and a half star hotel. That was nice. Huge clean room, with several sofas and TV, a huge bathroom and bedroom. We lived in style that is for sure. However now I think I will have to find a job soon hahaha :)

Time to change lifestyle I believe and live like a student is supposed to...cheap that is :)
Now I am just going to relax for the remainder of the day and tomorrow I am going to find out where the gym is and get started on that :)

Moving In :)

2010-01-25T17:49:00.000-08:00

2 Morrow I am moving into the new apartement at UC here in Canberra. I will take some pictures to show what it looks like and believe that I will be able to upload them 2morrow, however I can not promise that I will have internet direct 2 morrow. I will have to set up an account etc on the school internet and I dont know how long that takes but it shud probably take around 10 minutes.

Yesterday was Australia day and therefore me, nash, Ovi and Simon went to academy. That was a lot of fun, but unfortunately as my small camera is broken I do not have any pictures from last night :(

Well now I´m off to pack everything which I will bring to the Uni 2 morrow. Have a good one everyone...

Cough almost gone ! ! !

2010-01-19T23:28:00.000-08:00

Yes, finally is starting to wear off. The cough which I have had for about 2 months is starting to wear off. This is great because now soon I can start working out as usual again. Plus O-week starts in about 1week and 4 days. O-week is the week where everyone comes to the Uni for orientation week. This is were I will meet a lot of people I hope :)

Nothing special has happened sincemy last blogg update and therefore this will be another short update.

Time to start doing something...

2010-01-16T19:24:00.000-08:00

Right now I am waiting or biding my time for Uni to start. I guess it is time to start doing something, so tomorrow I´m gonna go to the gym again and start my new workout schedule that I have constructed. Now I just have to find something else to do for the rest of the day...

Might go get some free ice-cream from Ovi and just hang around in civic for an hour or two. I still havent got rid of my cough but I will work out anyway cause now I can´t be bothered to wait any longer...It is getting very boring. Plus yes I am taking a STRONG cough medicin for my cough but its not really helping, so I might have to seek out a GP when I start Uni in 2 weeks. Ooooh starting Uni is gonna be fun cause now I haven´t had school or any work for 7 months or perhaps more...So now it´s time to start doing something again.

Douglas Shakespeare ! ! !

2010-01-09T01:14:00.000-08:00

To chill or to party? That is the question! by "Douglas Shakespeare"

Well this question is quite hard to answer actually, as there is a choice where either thing has to be given up for the other. That is how this problem would have been adressed in economics class, but now we are not in economics class anymore...now we are in the "Douglas Shakespeare" class of life. Therefore it is possible to get both without giving up either of the choices. First we go party untill 01:00 in the morning and afterwards we head back or chill at a bar, thus both are achieved and none are left out. There is also the possibility to do both at the same time, this is called "Chilled Partying" :) which sounds like a prettey good idea...

Thats all from the Douglas Shakespeare philosophy class today. Have a nice party night everyone...
(and for those who dont party, have a nice home chilling night)

Back in Canberra...

2010-01-04T01:30:00.000-08:00

Sensation White was awesome. Everyone dressed in white and looking fly. We were a lot of people going in our group, but I quickly lost half of the group and around 00:20 I lost nash and Tanim who I was with. So I headed off to the trance room and that was a lot of fun. Met lots of people and chilled with the rest :)...

So now I am back in Canberra and waiting for Uni to start or well I will start looking for a part time job for a short time, well see if there is anything available hehe. I dont know what else to write today, I cannot decide on what to say. Hmm maybe inspiration will come to me later tonight, well hmm....the end :)

New Years 2 Morrow...

2009-12-29T20:04:00.000-08:00

Tomorrow it is new year. It will be one of the best new years I believe, because we are going to Sensation White in Melbourne ! ! ! ! Do da party dance people....

I`m still in Brisbane counting down until my flight leaves for Melbizzie. Right now I`m watching a tv show about sharks which is not very interesting at all. ``The shark a fearsome creature of the sea...blablabla`` not very exciting at all. However I met a ``Free Internet`` girl today, it is one of those people on the streets here in Brisbane giving out free internet vouchers to backpackers. I have gone past her about 20 times and we started talking and talked for about 2 hours, which was quite nice. She was danish so we could speak danish and swedish even though I had hard time understanding some things.

Then I headed off to Subway for breakfast/lunch... I know not very healthy but anyway...Then I headed back to the Hostel and now I`m sitting here writing this blogg update. Hmm ugly fishes on the tv hahaha :) This has to be the weirdest blog update so far, as I`m writing what I am thinking. Hahaha you are getting an first time insight into my brain muhahahaha... Prettey kaotic isnt it??? Well anyway now im gonna check if the TV series are done :)... peace everyone and have a happy new year... and dont forget the new years promise. Mine is to learn Spanish or French fluently in one year... Its gonna be a hard one :)

I`m Back :)

2009-12-29T02:06:00.000-08:00

I had an awesome christmas on Frazer Island in Australia. Just outside Rainbow Beach. It was very very very sandy... and ofcourse nice. It was party everyday and all night... well not all the day but close enough. We saw some dingoes and they did not come close during the day, but during the night after cooking they came close, because they wanted our food. In the middle of the night I literally ran into one of the dingoes scavaging our campsite and got quite scared.

The people were very nice and somehow I ended up getting a haircut in the middle of the night by a german blonde girl. The cut wasnt that bad, but today I went to Toni and Guy in Brisbane and fixed it so now I have a Fauz Hawk, looks quite good I think...

Well I`m staying in Brisbane for a couple 1 more day and then I`m off to Melbourne for Sensation White for new years and it is gonna be awesome. It`s party everyday and night for meeee.... :) Thats all for this time... HAPPY NEW YEARS... 2 days in advance and Amanda in Sweden, Happy Birthday 2 days in advance... :)

Boat Trip ! ! !

2009-12-19T17:47:00.000-08:00

Just got back into town from the boat trip. It was real nice, lots of nice people and the skipper was a very aussie person. (The skipper is the captain steering the boat). Phil was the name of one of the crew on the boat and he was prettey awesome, a pure aussie. We sailed and snorkeled and slept in the sun on deck. Whitesuday was very nice, however it was not as I had imagined it. Most people say it is very beautiful, however I was not very impressed by the island or the reefs.

The sand however was very nice, 99% pure and therefore it was not warm at all even during the hottest hours of the day. I didn't drink a lot on the boat as it was BYO. However most people drank copius amounts of alcohol and were prettey drunk. We were all below 28 years old on the boat and that was really nice.

The funniest thing that happened was when this guy named Roman was looking for the outside sleeping madresses. The madresses for oustide use was stored right next to where the skipper slept, however when Roman was going to take a matress, he grabbed the leg of the captain. There are no light in the top cabin of the boat where the captain steers and therefore it was very dark and hard to see what was what. But it was still one of the funniest things that happened on the boat.

Heading out to mackers for a bit and then have and 9 hour wait until our buss leaves for Rainbow Beach. So tomorrow we will arrive in Rainbow beach and find a hostel and then just chillon the beach i suppose. Well have a good one and more updates coming up after Frazer Island or when something fun and interesting happens. Howdeyyyy ! ! ! Hoooooo ! ! !

14 December - 15 December

2009-12-15T23:06:00.001-08:00

Magnum hostel on Magnetic Island is simply just amazing. It has . . . nothing. The kitchen does not have a stowe and if you want to cook or fry something then you have to use the barbeque located outside. If you want a towel it`s 1 dollar extra and if you want a pillow it`s 1 dollar extra and if you want a bedsheet it`s (what do you think???) 1 dollar extra. Kitchen stuff, such as a pot or a pan is available if you give them a 10 dollar deposit, so when you are done with the pot and give it back then you get the 10 dollar deposit back.

The rooms are very dirty and the shower is simply disgustingly amazing. It is amazing how the showers can be so dirty and worn down, it`s almost like a miracle. The internet is not available on wireless and when using the computers provided, it is not possible to open files which have been sent to your email. If one tries to open one then it says ``This function is not available due to security reasons``, it is neither possible to save the file to a hard drive or USB flash memory as the computers use this dumb security system.

13 December...

2009-12-15T23:05:00.001-08:00

We rented a car for this increasingly exciting and learningfull day. We almost went off the road a couple of times but after a while my travel buddy got a hang of driving on the left side of the road. We visited Cape tribulation and Mossman Gorge. Mossman Gorge was this very nice river coming down from the mountains and it is in the middle of the rainforest which makes the natural sceneries very beautiful. However the water in the river is a bit too cold for my taste, but it was a nice cool-off from the blazing sun and the humid weather. I took around 400 photographs during this day, I`ve still got to go through all of the photograps, which is gonna take a while.

Cape Tribulation is also very beautiful and it has a couple of very long beaches running along the shorelines. The jungle is very thick and it is therefore very hard to see more than a maximum 8 meters infront of you when traversing in the jungle. We saw a couple of ``jungle hens``(or thats what I call them, don`t know their real name) and we also came across a couple of big lizards and other birds. Sadly enough we did not encounter any dangerous snakes or other animal. Another sad thing was that we didn`t encounter any crocodiles on the beaches or at the end of the rivers, however we could have gone up a river, but that would have been too dangerous as tourists had done this before and gotten eaten by crocs.

Overall it was a very nice day and right now while I`m typing this, I am sitting on a greyhound buss going towards Townsville where me and Michael will be heading out to Magnetic Island. It is said to be a very nice place to visit, so we decided to have a look on our way down towards Airlie Beach and Frazer Island. The buss takes about 6 hours going from Cairns to Townsville and I have about 5 hours left and have no idea what I am going to do for the next 5 hours.

When we arrived at Magnetic Island, we had no idea of where we were supposed to go. However we got on a local buss which was 2 dollars. We met a woman on the buss who said she would show us where the cheapest hostel on the island was located. She left the buss early and me and Michael were left not knowing where to go, so we stayed on the buss until it reached it final destination which was Horseshoe Bay. Here we found a backpackers called Bungalow Bay Village. This hostel is the most expensive one I have stayed on so far, it was 28 dollars per night in a 8 bed dorm room. There are also cockroaches, spiders and other vermin crawling around in the room, which I had not seen at the other two hostel which were cheaper. The food is also very expensive on this island as the locals are able to charge very high premium prices due to the fact that there is no or very very little competition on Magnetic Island.

1 Day relapse

2009-12-09T19:57:00.000-08:00

Its a relapse deay today, we havent done anything interesting at all today. It has been raining the whole day and therefore it has not been very interesting. Me and Michael are leaving on a big fishing trip tomorrow at 7 in the morning. We are going to go fishing on a big boat for a whole day and then we will have to find a hostel in Port Douglas, as that is where the fishing trip is.

Michael is a nice person, but he has a little bit hard time to decide what to do and therefore I kinda have to tell him what we are doing. Its allright but a little annoying sometimes, because he can never decide on anything.

Michael...

2009-12-09T00:09:00.001-08:00

Today I`ve decided to continue my travel with Michael. He`s from Germany and is turning 25 on the coming Friday. (11/12/2009) We have decided to travel together as he is also heading down the east coast of Australia. He has to be in Sydney before new years day and I have to be in Brisbane before new years day. It was here in Cairns that our paths first crossed and now we will travel for 1 month together.

We have already booked a sailing trip for 2 days, close to Whitesundays and we`ve also gotten a 4 wheel drive adventure on Frazer Island booked. Tomorrow, Thursday, we are going to leave for Port Douglas and have a look at the rainforest and then we will start heading down the east coast of Australia towards hour final destinations.

The Shining Sun ! ! !

2009-12-07T16:26:00.000-08:00

The sun is shining yet again on this early tuesday morning in Cairns. Sitting outside the hostel, watching the birds hunt insects. The forecast for the day is; hot, sunny, humid and good. Today is the day that Fanny will arrive here in Cairns and it will be fun seeing her again.

Have met 3 guys here at the hostel, named Jakob, Lucas and Soren. All germans, but who isn`t german here in Australia? We went out last night and had a good time and met some fun people. It`s quite fun cause me and these guys have become good friends. They have all been in Australia travelling for more than 3 months. The fun part is that Soren and Jakob arrived in Australia on the same airplane and from that day on Soren has been following Jakob around, going where he goes and doing what he does.

I`m sharing dorm room with 2 germans and 1 french girl at the moment. They are nice people too, however they mostly speak german, so not as fun talking to them as to the other 3 guys who speak english when I`m around. I`m also out of clean clothes today hahaha, so now I`m gonna put on a wash.

For all those music lovers out there, check out the new song by ``Chris Brown - For Ur Love``

Back from Diving ! ! !

2009-12-05T15:52:00.000-08:00

It all began with the blood feud between Chris and Mel. (They were the diving instructors) They fought a vigilant battle between each other. Mel stuffed Chris`s BC (buoyancy compensator, the thing that helps you float) with fish food and the fight was on. Chris ended up being bitten by a big red seabass. Now it was payback time for Chris. He put eggs into Mel`s BC and Mel got bitten on the inside of her leg by a red seabass. But the fight didn`t end here. The next morning Chris woke up being completely white, Mel had put flower all over Chris in his sleep. However Chris filled Mels mouth piece with tobasco sauce, so they ended up being even in the end.

This was the short story about both my instructors on the Kangaroo Explorer. The diving was not very exciting in the beginning, as we were only allowed to go down with our instructors. However when we gained our open water license it became a much more joyful experience. Me and Brigida were buddies at first, (buddy is the person you dive with). We went around and we dove quite deep, about 26 meters down. There we encountered several small sharks, however the sharks didn`t like to be petted, because as soon as I got closer than 2 m they swam away.

Brigida was a fun person, always smiling and seeing everything on the good side, so it was fun diving with her. We also saw several huge turtles. When she left I was paired up with a guy from England, named Steven. While diving with him, we were able to pet a turtle, but the turtle didn`t seem to like it that much. Got very close to some sharks with him as well and we saw this huge murray eel out swimming, dark brown with black spots on it and about 1 m 20cm long.

I also did 2 night dives, but during the first one I got a bad torch, so I mostly followed the other peoples torches. However during the second dive I got a much better torch and therefore the second night dive was much more exciting. The most fun thing to do when diving during the night was to shine the light of the torch on a small fish and then one of the seabasses would come and eat it. Sadly enough we were only allowed to kill a maximum of 2 fishes per night dive...During the second night dive, my torch stopped working and so I was left in complete darkness, because my buddy had swam around a coral. He came back eventually and then we continued back to the boat.

Right now I`m sitting outside my hostel and waiting for the day to start. No idea what I`m doing today, but I will surely find something eventually. Cheers everyone and more updates will be coming other nights.