Day 1

Arrived by 9 something am.  I keep spending so much money on food it’s ridiculous.  I am almost out of money already from buying family presents and eating.  Anyway, then we went to the pool at our hostel which is decent and hung out there.  I tried to get a tan which didn’t happen but at least I didn’t get burned.  We got sushi and walked around to get to know the place.  Yep yep.

Day 2

Everyone else went to their tour and I went to my white water rafting tour.  It was AWESOME!!!!  So tiring.  And even though I put sunscreen on twice, I still got burn so badly on the top of my legs and my hands.  I met a lovely family whom I was rafting with and our guide was awesome!  The family even offered to let me stay with them if I visit Victoria and bought me a usb stick with pictures from our day of rafting.  They were really nice, we had a great time together and I’m glad I met them.  Haha, the kid next to me on the computer sneezed and I said bless you.  I’ve noticed Aussies don’t say bless you, guess it’s more of an American thing.  Then like 30 seconds later because he had his headphones in, he says, “Thank you for blessing me!”  SO cute!  Anyway, I got back from white water rafting and was ready to go to my room, set my stuff down, and go to dinner.  Well, my room key didn’t work which was odd but a guy let me in.  He said I wasn’t staying there and him and his 7 friends were.  All my luggage was gone.  I figured there was a mixup and went downstairs.  They had me checked out even though I’m supposed to be here until friday.  And then they couldn’t find my baggage.  They called a bunch of housekeeping people and nobody could find it or knew where it was.  I sat and tried not to cry on the seats in the lobby because my vouchers were in my bags that proved I was staying there until friday.

The managers couldn’t find it.  The head person couldn’t find it.  Finally, almost an hour and  half later, a big bag with a bag in it was set in front of me.  IT WAS MY STUFF!!!!!  I almost cried with joy.  All my meds, my camera, my clothes, everything was back.  I had a flashback from the beginning of the semester when the airline lost my luggage so I felt better having it back.  Apparently the head housekeeper left on holiday today and someone screwed up and put it in a random storage place where they are not supposed to.  Then they gave me a 2 hour free internet card for my troubles and I got hand soap for the room and shampoo.  Now I have the 8 person room to myself until tomorrow night when everyone comes back which is nice.  I went to the night markets again to get things for people and check them out at my own pace.  I got a little lost but back fine in the end.  Was thinking of enjoying the drink specials but I will the following night or tomorrow night.  My legs are so sunburned it hurts and so is part of my hand.  I put sunscreen on twice but sitting in the raft all day really got me burned.  Regardless, a good day.  Pictures will be up when I get back from Cairns.  In the meantime, I must work on my research proposal (yeah I’m such a good student I’m working on my homework still even though I’m on holiday) and then bed because I’m exausted!  Cairns, I hope this trip gets even better from here.

Exciting things coming up:
+Leaving for Cairns early tomorrow morning until Friday!!!
+getting my piercing when I come back
+(hopefully, still working on it) having my research proposal done tonight so I can go to bed early and relax over mid sem.
+skydiving
+white water rafting
+seeing the great barrier reef!

I don’t take enough.  I take barely any.  I really need to start taking a lot more pictures for my memory scrapbook when I get back.

I tried on real steel boned corsets the other day. Almost bought one but I’m thinking of a movement corset so I can use it for dance too.

To the few people who follow my blog:

I felt like I was really holding a lot back in my posts and thus why I don’t even post very often.  I want to be able to keep content public for those of my friends without tumblr accounts.  I made a private journal attached to this one so if you would like the password to read my more personal posts, message me on tumblr or contact me some other way.

So I finally think I came up with a design that I really really like today.  Pretty sure this will be the one I get done.  Just gotta touch up and think about it a while before I get it done.  Excited!!!

were amazing.  Everyone looked so nice dressed up and had a good time.  We all had drinks and small appetizers on iplaza before leaving for the secret location of Sinkball.  When we arrived at the place for ball, we had more drinks and snacks before being let in.  The food was really good, much better than school food!  Everyone ate, drank, and was merry.   I loved the dress Pip let me borrow.  After ball, the busses took us to where kick off was.  More drinks, more dancing, more chatting.  Everyone was pretty gone at that point from the unlimited free wine, beer, and champagne that we had at ball.  I was unsuccessful at my attempts to get drunk but had fun regardless. 

Then I saw them talking.  Then dancing.

I became upset and jealous.  WIsh I wasn’t being honest when I said that.

I retreated to a corner by the other part of the bar trying to keep my chin up.  Pip left the guy she was dancing with to come help me and talk me through it.  Thanks to her, I felt a lot better and we danced together a bit.  It meant so much to have someone do that for me.  I felt better and could look at the situation more realistically and objectively and stopped jumping to conclusions and being my own worst enemy.  Pip and I came across a guy from Emmanuel and he joined us on the cab ride back.

Enough of that.  RECOVERY.

Holy shit.

We arrived at the secret location of recovery by 10am.  It was a topless bar.  The girls bartending were not wearing anything but skimpy underwear.  Everyone soon got their unlimited free beer and proceeded to put food dye in and spit at each other.  It got so messy, so messy so fast.  Soon even the bartenders had dye on them.  Upstairs was a shower area with a color changing shower head and a pole.  It was so much fun pole dancing, drinking, spitting, laughing, eating. Drunken debauchery.  I was so happy when spirits were on the tab it was amazing!  So many vodka lemonades.  Everyone was so happy and having a great time.  I was so covered in dye.  Even my one contact turned bright blue from being shot in the eye with beer+dye too many times.  After arriving back to IH much later, I passed out with a friend for a few hours and didn’t wake up until 7pm.  Now that I’m feeling mostly recovered, I think it’s time for some sleep since I didn’t get much.  I will miss this so much when I go back home.  Leaving in 3 months is going to be so hard, not looking forward to it.

It was a double birthday party last night and we all headed down to a pub I hadn’t been to.  There was a ton of us, at least 40 or 50.  Who can resist $5 jugs?  Got some jugs with friends, drank my vodka that I bought in my waterbottle, and hung out.  I had a lot of fun, although I talked myself in circles with one of the security guards when I was going back down.  I came up with a friend who was having a smoke, then they check your id when you re enter.  He said, “You look a little pasty there honey.”  I start freaking out with nervousness because 1. my contacts were extremely dry (naturally, this is the one night so far I’ve forgotten my contacts case and glasses) 2.  i remembered why I never wore the heels I was wearing.  They make my feet sweaty and weird so I don’t wear them when I’m going to be walking around. 3. I was realizing the alcohol was beginning to take effect.  Eventually he let me back downstairs where we all hung out more and talked and drank.

The 5 or 6 of us who took the taxi back together hung out in a friend’s room.  We went outside, smoked a j, and hung out more.  At some point, I went to relight it and the whole thing just burst into flame for a second.  I burned my hand and mostly a spot on my finger.  It kinda hurt but I didn’t care much.  We went back inside, watched a visualizer and talked and stuff.  Then I start to forget…

….but from what flashbacks I have, everyone left and went to go to bed.  I stayed with my friend.  Stuff happened, I ate pretty much everything I had when I came back upstairs, along with a few apples which I thought would help “even out” all the junk food.  I woke up early this morning from construction, still drunk, back to bed.  I woke up later, chip shards layering the floor and a bit of a mess of things.  I did however, put a band aid on my finger that I burned at some point, and folded the clothes I wore and put them back where they belong.  I had an awesome night, just sad when I found out what happened for the hour or so I just forgot.  Tomorrow needs to be a little more productive, at least I finished one assignment today.  And for now, that is all.  Pictures from the koala sanctuary up soon.