Avoca Lodge Randwick

I've finally arrived in Sydney after a long flight. Its much cooler here but still am wearing shorts and Tshirt. The hostel is great and its a 8 bed dorm so have met a couple of people already. Im going to meet up with a old friend from work tomorrow night so that will be good. Its a lovely day ...

... langs kysten av et enormt fjell og klippelandskap. Utsikten i området var vakker, spesielt de tolv apostlene som det nå heter og London Bridge. Dette er fjellformasjoner som står loddrett opp av sjøen og former et fint skue for alle som kommer og ser på. Jeg fortsatte min tur med å ta nattoget til Sydney, mitt siste stopp i Australia. Her har jeg tilbringt fire dager og prøvd å få Australia-oppholdet mitt i balanse, s ...

... around at the camp-ground to decide whether we should stay there the night, and at the nearby pens for the cattle and sheep, and in several sheds filled with swaying meat hooks and hung-up animal hides, and in the end sean was like 'yeah, we really should stay here' and i was like 'NO!' well, would you? cattle pens, meat hooks, hides? it all sounds like something out of a horror movie! as it happens, i lost the fight and so there we were, in the middle of nowhere, on a ...

... and there were some tombs or 'family vaults' which were the size of large sheds, the most recent date we saw was 1983. Got to Gordons Bay and instead of walking up the steep steps we thought we'd walk along the rocks and the bottom of the cliff to get to the Bay, we got about 3/4 of the way and came face to face with a massive flat rock face, and the tide was coming in so we couldnt just walk around the bottom of it in the water, so we had to turn back but took a break on ...

... bathrooms everywhere. Eventually, all of Brad and Esther's friends piled into the home and the two day festivities took place. I spent a good amount of my time on the tennis court, which was absurdly fun. The court even had a chair umpire seat and we would rotate playing games while someone umpired (lazily) and fetched balls (like Kramer at the US Open). Given it was a house full of 30-somethings, it was high class ...

On September 27 Court and I were invited to the Royal Randwick racetrack by one of my friends at work. He had passes to the Australian Jockey club, which gave us access to an indoor section of the track and great seats right at the pole. The Aussies really like to dress up for horse racing, pretty much all the guys in suits and the ladies in their best horse racing wear. The ladies also seemed to prefer feathers in their hair as ...

VIRGINIA'S DICTIONARY OF AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH AUSTRALIAN - AMERICAN arvo - afternoon biscuits/bikkies - cookies bloke - typical guy bond - security deposit bottle shop - liquor store brekky - breakfast buck's night - bachelor party bushwalking - hiking capsicum - pepper car park - parking lot caravan/campervan - RV champers - champagne cheers - thanks, you're welcome Chrissy - Christmas chunder - throw up after drinking too much course - major crook - very sick ...

... just like I had to do 4 years ago!), bringing the grand total of my checked luggage to 3. Fingers crossed they won't charge me the $100 fee for the extra bag at the airport. From there I got some sushi rolls, which I ate in Hyde Park, and then walked to Circular Quay where I got my traditional carrot cake and flat white. I headed to my final destination: my bench in the Botanic Gardens near the Opera House. As I anxiously ...

... student) Kong. For weeks he's been telling me that he was going to take me out to dinner when he'd saved up enough money from his new job laying tiles. I went along with it because I thought it was amusing, and I guess I figured it would never really happen. Then, last week he showed up at APC and asked me when I was free because he finally had the money to take me to dinner. Honestly I was a little worried about the whole thing because I know he has a crush on me and I wasn ...

Wow, it's been a long time since I've written an entry. My excuse? The past month has been probably the craziest and busiest of my life. So much has happened that I have no idea where to begin... Let's see, it all started off with my class dinner. I had been looking forward to getting to know my classmates better and hanging out with my funny, cool professor. I had no idea what I was in for! It started out innocent enough, with dinner at a Thai restaurant in Randwick. Not ...