Hodge Podge - Part 2

After dinner we went back to the hostel and hung out. I played my first drinking game! It was called Yee Haw and was loads of fun! I tried some flavored beer (I managed to drink a glass' worth - on my honor - I drank beer!), received a cowboy hat and glow stick for the bar hopping to come over the course of the Saturday night! $30 through the hostel got us a free drink at the hostel and at each of 3 clubs we were heading to - we got free entry to each of them, too. Not a bad deal at all! Here we are at Cheer's hanging out and playing Yee Haw:



Me and Inge had an absolute blast with our hats and making faces. A favorite photo from the evening:



All the boys kept tipping their hats at me and Inge as they said, "Howdy, Ma'am." They're such gentleman! Rudy tipping his hat:



Actually, he was really into the cowboy hats, haha. We stacked all of ours onto his and he reminds me of the Mad Hatter (partly because I just read about the Mad Tea Party in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, haha)



Inge and I decided to give smoking a go with our glow sticks (by now she was getting a bit tipsy - I, on the other hand, only had a little to drink):



Adam, this next photo is for you! Here's a cowgirl kiss for you with love from Australia:



So that was the Gold Coast. Surfer's Paradise, overall, isn't that great if you ask me. Very touristy and just has a crazy vibe to it. It might have been my not being in the party mood towards the end of the evening when we were still bar hopping, or maybe not, but I didn't think the party scene was that appealing. I much prefer what I've experienced back in Brizzy to Surfer's. It's just a big hot spot for people who want to get absolutely slammed. Any way, it was still a great day, and I'm glad I went to check out Surfer's Paradise.

Sunday: unwind. Finished The Black Dahlia at this point. Started Alice's Adventures. I'm almost done with it now - I positively love it! Not sure what I'll read next. I've got a few in mind.

So uni (aka classes) started this week! I love the schedule I wound up with: Monday I have one class from 6-8pm. Nothing Tuesday. Full day Wednesday from 10am-8pm but I made it today and I'm sure it'll be just fine (better be as I can't juggle any of the classes around). Thursday I have an hour class from 9-10a. Nothing on Friday! Sweet! It's basically a 4 day weekend if you count most of the day on Monday!

German is going to be awesome. Technically it's my third language, not that I'm fluent, haha. I really like the class so far. I'm going to work really hard at it and hopefully will be able to hold conversations with all my German friends I've met here.

Project Management should be interesting. Sounds like my group project will be on making the taxi cab systems more efficient. It's more involved than what it sounds and I think with my group members it will be pretty cool.

Lastly, Australian Society & Culture is going to be great! It's light and will be really interesting as it's all to do with Australia! The teacher is great fun and I'm in looking forward to giving a presentation on food next week, haha. I'm in a group with a guy from Norway and a girl from Germany and we'll each talk about our homeland food and then give a few minutes on Australian food. Should be quite interesting to hear about all the differences!

Okay, time for random stuff! First off: new candies tried: Flake, Twirl and Fling.

I was wrong. When I originally posted that "Twirls are good. They remind me of Milky Ways. Yum." I thought they were something else called Twist, I think. Twirls are like Flakes but they've got chocolate confection in them. I am not a big fan of the confection stuff.



Wasn't a fan of the Flake Mint bar - the mint stuff wasn't in my liking.



The Fling was okay. I was expecting something more like a Twix but this was like dried pudding and the cookie from a Twix bar, but covered in chocolate. It was okay.



Inge and I watched Kangaroo Jack the other night. My grandparents gave it to me to watch since I was leaving for Australia and that's where the story is based. It brought on laughs and we enjoyed it.

Funny thing that happened to Inge and I through a conversation we had over the weekend. We were sitting by the pool at the hostel, dipping our feet in, and she was saying something about a word that meant nothing. She said to me, "you know, nothing, nada, squattly doodie." I took a moment and said, "Squattly doodie?" She said, "yeah. what?" I said, "It's funny you say that because we have a word that means the same thing but we say doodly squat." At that point her eyes widened and we burst out laughing because we realized that's the word she meant all along - it was quite humorous, but maybe you had to be there. Just in case you didn't have to be there, go ahead and say "squattly doodie." No, really, say it out loud. See? It is funny. = )

In other news: my ATM card is finally in and I'm no longer bound to the branch's working hours! This is a big deal as not everywhere takes a credit card. Still no Internet in the house. Ugh. Still no phone. Ugh. (But kind of nice not having to deal with it, haha.) Behind in my journal by 2 weeks. Ugh. I've been so busy everything. I need to slow down. Sweet - I have nothing to do tomorrow! I know, but my Thursday class doesn't start until week two! Hehe!

Time for some Ozzie slang:
*Bananabender - person from Queensland State (Queenslander)
*sammy = sandwich

And now I leave you with a question specifically for my readers: what has been the highlight of your day? Leave your response in a comment! It will make me so happy! My day's highlight was catching Adam online and Skyping with him for a bit.

All right. Until next time - cheers!

-Amanda