Traveleena: Oz - the first encounter

Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Oz - the first encounter

Sunday, February 12, 2006

I'm Here!

Well, currently on the top bunk of my Hostel room in Brisbane…not too impressed yet with the hostelling life…we had a 3 share room yesterday and we were hoping to stay in Sufer’s Paradise tonight, however upon arrival we realized that it was just rainy and yucky ….so instead of the long day at the beach getting tanned that I had envisioned in my mind for the past four months, the day was a bust. We ended up coming back to Brisbane and I must admit that on a Sunday night there ain’t really much to do here. We got a six share room but just shared among the 3 of us which is pretty good. Its not that I'm unsociable it’s just that I’d rather not share my room with random people…theft is huge in places like this. I'm really not enjoying living out of my suitcase either…all in all this gypsy life aint for me – I need to have my own room where I can put all my products in an organized and color coded fashion.

The shopping has been great – I'm about to start embracing Aussie fashion but don’t worry I wont come back looking like a surfer. Billabong and Roxy aren’t really my thing – yet. I learned that a police station is called a “Police Beat” here…and there are Ibis’s walking around…in plural is that Ibi?? I guess Australians are as used to them as we are to squirrels wandering around. Yesterday night we went to South Bank, which is the man made beach in the middle of downtown Brisbane. It was pretty nice, but it just felt like I was in Toronto or something. It still hasn’t registered that I'm on the opposite side of the world…I really feel like I'm at summer camp or something. Except the shopping is much better and the accents are nicer. Well now my laptop is about to die….i’ll be posting this soon.