Haven't checked in properly for a while now, spare time doesn't seem to come around often anymore! I worked every day last week as well as going to uni and everything else. But it feels good to be working and earning money, it'll make travelling feel well deserved.
It's week 10 at uni now, which means I have been in Oz for 11 weeks. Mum was definitely right when she said that time would start off slow and then suddenly speed up. This is the last week of uni before mid semester break. Siobhan, Amy and myself fly to Cairns on Friday morning! I can't wait. I can't believe I'll be diving in the Great Barrier Reef and cruising round the Whitsunday Islands in a boat; way too dreamy to be real life.
Everyone is beginning to book flights for when they travel after uni finishes and it's FREAKING ME OUT! First of all, my flight home is way too early. When I booked it I was told it would be cheap to change my flight, now they're telling me it'll be 250/350 quid! It is peak season though so I understand. Currently my flight is booked for 30th November, arriving in England on 1st December to kick start another month. I am starting to think I need more time though, so might be changing it to the 16th instead. I guess with a job now and my student loan coming through I can afford to do it.
At the moment all I have planned, in my head only, is to visit Fraser Island at the start of November, move onto Sydney and then Melbourne. By the time I'm back it'll be 30th November and time to go home. However if I stay longer, I would love to see Bali! Thailand and New Zealand popped into my head as well but I can't do everything.
I just can't quite keep up with life. I don't understand how it goes so fast. It's ridiculous! I just got here and I am filling out forms to terminate my residency in my college halls. I really do feel settled here now and have made a good group of friends, got myself a job and the latest news is... I've gone and got myself an Aussie boyfriend. It's a bit silly really, seeing as we both know I'm leaving soon, but you can't plan everything. He's the guy I mentioned in previous posts by the way; Mackenzie.
This weekend he took me on a surprise adventure to a beautiful National Park near Springbrooke. There's a spot called Natural Bridge which has amazing waterfalls like this:
I sort of felt like I was in Batman's cave. There really were Bats though.
Anyway it was such a nice surprise. Theres also a point called 'world's best look out', and it goes a little something like this:
The view is unreal! So peaceful too.
Macca also showed me a place called Sovereign Island. It is insane. I have NEVER seen houses so big and so over the top. Clive Palmer lives there and instead of a car parked next to his home, he has a bloody big boat. Every single property is worth over 1 million and every single car parked outside looks it too. I literally can't imagine how much money the people who live there have. I would love to know what they do for a living.
So although I might not be able to live there, we could afford to have lunch on the water. Australian's are so lucky they can do simple things like that whenever they want! It was so luxurious to look at a view of water and boats whilst eating rather than a motorway or whatever else you might see. I really did eat too much this weekend. How will I live without Tim Tams in the UK? They are these yummy Australian chocolate biscuits which come in about 5 flavours. I haven't met a single person who doesn't like them.
The ice cream places here are amazing too. There is a new place in Southbank called Nitrogenee which we went to and you watch them make the ice cream from scratch. Just picture blow torches, steam and white dungarees. Then theres Cold Rock which I still need to try. Baskin and Robins is another place which is insane. See why I'm concerned about the amount of food i've consumed? Thank god I'm a gym and chicken freak during the week. I don't know how I'm going to work around that when I leave campus though.
This post was a bit of a long one which I apologise for, but now you are all up to date with my Australian Adventure.
G'day!
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