01 - 02 april...melbourne

01 April---here is the journal i've been keeping while on semester break
like i said in my previous post, i'm not at home, so i can't upload pictures...you'll just have to check them out on facebook when i get back to sydney and upload them.

i left my apartment at about 5am this morning (after a lovely three hours of sleep). I caught the train to the Sydney Airport and then flew out at 7am. right off the bat i had travel issues (what do ya know!? pretty sure travel issues are the story of my life). we were in the process of descending to land in melbourne avalon airport when we had to quickly ascend because the weather had been poor and the tarmack was unsuitable to land on...so flew around for about an hour...then finally landed. then to my surprise...oh hey it looks like i've landed in the damn outback! last time i checked, melbourne was quite the large city. turns out, this lovely airport i landed in is SEVENTY km away from melbourne city...brilliant. so i had to catch the only bus that leaves this airport (did i mention it only had room for one plane to land at a time? yes...outback) and go into melbourne city. then i had to catch a tram to go back out of the city to st. kilda beach, to my hostel. so i finally got to my hostel, checked in (it's quite nice, looks like a good time)...checked out luna park (a bit unimpressive)...and now i am sitting at the beach. it is a beautiful day, but i'm tired as hell...perhaps relaxation time/a power nap.
CHEERS!

02 April---
Last night was hilariously great! i finally met the roommates at my hostel and they are fantastic fun. There's Cole from Denmark, Rory from Israel, Joe from...no clue, and the two irishmen Mick and Shane. it was ladies night at the hostel bar so all the guys wore dresses and we went down so they could get free champaigne.
you'll love these pictures when i get them uploaded ;]

today, i woke up a bit later...the dinner i had last night was undercooked, i think, and i felt really sick...even ralphed a couple times. :/ buuuut...i went out to the aquarium today for a few hours. it was amazing! i love aquariums! there were penguins, creatures from aussie rivers, the reef, JELLYFISH!, little sharks, and huuuuuuge stingrays, and other saltwater creatures :]
i even made a penguin friend! granted, he was a person dressed in a suit...
then i came back for a power nap and met our newest roommate Carmen from Germany. she's absolutely great! we went to dinner and then walked around on the beach for a while. she is so adorable and we had a agood time and took lots of photos. we came back to the hostel and met up with rory andd cole and went down to the hostel bar. after that, we went back to the room and met the other new roommate...bullocks!! i forgot his name...but he's from jersey. we all left to subway, because our dear israeli friend was hungryso we had a good laugh out and about. in thailand apparently when you try to buy something and you ask if it is the same thing and quality as the actual brand name they say, "yes. same same but different." hilarious. so we kept saying that about everything.

i'll update more later...i'm about to run out of time on my internet card :]
feel loved that i am paying to update you all with my blog!