I can't believe I left off at the Blue Mountains!
My experience had barely started at that point, but I'll try and write it all down in pieces, mostly for my memories sake. So an Australian friend, Jared, let us stay at his place in The Blue Mountains and showed us around.
After the Blue Mountains, we were invited later to go to The Snowy Mountains by our friend Pat. He's legendary. Anyways, we go there and he has the coolest house and the coolest doodle looking dog named Milou. We spent the weekend hanging out, eating weenies of sandwich bread and hiking the actual snowy mountains. It was about 10k's to the blue lake. It was amazing.
After this trip Kat, Caroline, Kasey and I began our spring break endeavors. We began our trip by going to Young to spend Easter with our friends and their families. Josh let us stay at his house and his whole family took us in and treated us as if we were their extra kids. They even got us all candy. Cadbury! Anyways, Our friends Josh and Sarah took us to these falls in Young, NSW and showed us all around. It was amazing. I got stuck on the side of a cliff. Anyways this trip was the one where I realized one of my friends was totally not crushing on me and was in fact driving in the lane, if you know what I mean. But I let him continue to pretend he liked me. It all came out later, and my goodness am I so happy for him. ANYWAYS. After our stay in Young Joshy drove us to the train station at around 4 in the morning. (Oh also his dad totally walked in on Kat in the shower, LOL) We went to Sydney and a girl that K,K and C met at surf camp met us at the Red Fern station and let us stay in her tiny, rather disgusting apartment. It was nasty. And four of us crammed into one double bed and managed to sleep while Kat cuddled me and Carolyn tried to punch me. It was lovely. We basically just explored Sydney and tried to find cheap places to eat.
The day came that we went to Fiji! FIJI. How cool is that? Super cool. It was amazing. We flew into Nadie, and stayed at a nasty hostel that smelled like pee. We met a funny South African (?) sky dive instructor though. He was about 7 foot tall and almost albino he was so fare. He told us about a really hot customer that had strapped onto him and she farted and he wanted to just push her out of the plane. He also greeted Carolyn by saying she looked like his next ex girlfriend. This guy was quite a card. The next day we hopped on a boat that took us to MantaRay Island. It was a three hour boat ride with stops at all the islands for little dinghies to come transfer the visitors. One boat full of Germans flipped. It was pretty sad to see their soaked cameras get dove for. Finally we made it to our island.
That boat ride was my turning point of coming out of my shell though, I asked them to turn on the wifi so I could tell my parents where I was and that I was fine. I also ended up texting my Aussie love interest, which was quite cute.
Fiji was amazing. We played this weird circle game where one person holds the other and you push a rock as far as you can without touching the ground inside of a circle..If that makes sense. So I met a Danish guy and he decided the way to win was to stand on my foot. Which would have worked if a seven foot tall lady didn't join last second. He also left permanent bruises on my foot. That's a thing. Permanent bruising. Anyways. I ended up catching a cold and going to bed early most other nights. But I did snorkel the reefs. The current in these waters was so strong that Michael Phelps would have stayed in the same place paddling. It was amazing. I also snorkeled with manta rays! One got so close to me that I could have touched it. I also did a tube sunset cruise which was a creepy dude taking all the hostel guests to a little cove area with a bunch of crappy floats and tossing us a beer or two we bought from the island. It was cloudy and cold.
Oh and the hostel! It was so cool and wooden and open. It was the only thing on the island. and each bunk had a nice little mosquito net. Quite cute if you ask me. We made a bunch of friends, and went on a village tour. There was about 200 people living in a village and island or two away from ours and that's where most of the hostel staff was from. I met people from Fiji, London, Denmark, and Norway!
Upon getting back to Wollongong we had many more adventures and I will go into detail eventually.
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