Sun Dec 12, 2004 8:25 am
Well, Here are my first 5 days in Australia
Hello Everybody A small update to you (Not that much happened here anyway)
The Flight from sydney to Tokyo was a pretty bumpy ride (we suffered a kind of light turbulence the whole flight) so sleeping wasn't really much good, but because I had three seats to my discretion (always fun those air services)
I managed to catch a few Z's. We arrived in the morning, so with the sleep I had on the plane I avoided a Jetlag. Our First hostel was really great!! Very modern, Airco in the room(!!!!) and lockers under the beds to stow your backpacks! We planned the first day for reconnaisance of the surroundings. We
are in the middle of sydney between skyscrapers and a 10 minutes walk
from Harbour Bridge, the Opera House and Sydney Harbour! The second day was for Orientation. Or to put it in other words, listening for 4 hours to very fast speaking Aussies. Luckily I have no mentionable problem keeping up with them. I don't know much about my own lingual progress, I can however tell you that its runnning nice and smooth. On the Orientation you got info about buying cars, Applying for social security numbers etc. It lasted for 4 hours but was a doozy with all the Other Dutch
the Group consist of a wide variety of people. Me, Peter from Haarlem,
Gerrit from Hilvarenbeek (Mad as a balloon that guy is
), Gonny from
Roosendaal en Charles from Amersfoort. We're sleeping in the same hostel, we
dine together, go out together etc. Ofcourse the group will desintegrate, but its awfully nice to have a group around you for the first few days/weeks
After the Base hostel we shifted locations to Maze (what's in a name?). a bit more down to earth (however bigger) And its bloody hot on the room.
Charles is on a different floor, the rest is all crammed into one room
together with two canadian girls. Friday we had info day about the trips we could make. because im planning to do the east coast, im thinking of doing a sixday trip to the Fitzroy Islands
(ofcourse i'll visit Fraser Island and the Whitsundays).
Yesterday we went to Bondi Beach with all the dutch who would be leaving on the 6th(also with the People who flew otherwise). Bondi
Beach.... Bondi Beach! beautifull beach, fantastic waves,
lovely weather all around! For the first time I had the feeling I was in Australia! sadly its raining cats and dogs now otherwise we would have had our supper on the beach. Now we just had to entertain ourselves with makig pancakes back at the hostel.
Here's some random info: I managed to obtain a ticket for the finals of the
Australian Open. It cost me about 75 Euro's.
Playing a game of soccer in Hyde Park was fun, Until it started gushing with rain. I'm very sure im gonna do a surf course.
Coming tuesday marks the bartender course.
slowly but surely im developing a Welsh accent.
Anton: did I mention I'm European already did its work
That's about it for this time!
Take of yourself, and eachother!
Vince
--
One brilliant man once said:
There is no place like 127.0.0.1
This is the first Transcript of his Traveljournal I received by mail today, it was in Dutch so I translated it to the best of my knowledge, so please excuse any problems with continuity in reading the story, thats due to the translating
in a week im expecting the next transcript, so ill keep you posted, here in this thread. Ill leave the thread open for discussions, if any spam occurs it shall be fortwith deleted, the decision of it being spam will be left up to the individual moderator's discretion.
Edited by - Locutus on 12/12/2004 11:52:28 AM
Hello Everybody A small update to you (Not that much happened here anyway)
The Flight from sydney to Tokyo was a pretty bumpy ride (we suffered a kind of light turbulence the whole flight) so sleeping wasn't really much good, but because I had three seats to my discretion (always fun those air services)
I managed to catch a few Z's. We arrived in the morning, so with the sleep I had on the plane I avoided a Jetlag. Our First hostel was really great!! Very modern, Airco in the room(!!!!) and lockers under the beds to stow your backpacks! We planned the first day for reconnaisance of the surroundings. We
are in the middle of sydney between skyscrapers and a 10 minutes walk
from Harbour Bridge, the Opera House and Sydney Harbour! The second day was for Orientation. Or to put it in other words, listening for 4 hours to very fast speaking Aussies. Luckily I have no mentionable problem keeping up with them. I don't know much about my own lingual progress, I can however tell you that its runnning nice and smooth. On the Orientation you got info about buying cars, Applying for social security numbers etc. It lasted for 4 hours but was a doozy with all the Other Dutch
the Group consist of a wide variety of people. Me, Peter from Haarlem,
Gerrit from Hilvarenbeek (Mad as a balloon that guy is
), Gonny from
Roosendaal en Charles from Amersfoort. We're sleeping in the same hostel, we
dine together, go out together etc. Ofcourse the group will desintegrate, but its awfully nice to have a group around you for the first few days/weeks
After the Base hostel we shifted locations to Maze (what's in a name?). a bit more down to earth (however bigger) And its bloody hot on the room.
Charles is on a different floor, the rest is all crammed into one room
together with two canadian girls. Friday we had info day about the trips we could make. because im planning to do the east coast, im thinking of doing a sixday trip to the Fitzroy Islands
(ofcourse i'll visit Fraser Island and the Whitsundays
).
Yesterday we went to Bondi Beach with all the dutch who would be leaving on the 6th(also with the People who flew otherwise). Bondi
Beach.... Bondi Beach! beautifull beach, fantastic waves,
lovely weather all around! For the first time I had the feeling I was in Australia! sadly its raining cats and dogs now otherwise we would have had our supper on the beach. Now we just had to entertain ourselves with makig pancakes back at the hostel.
Here's some random info: I managed to obtain a ticket for the finals of the
Australian Open. It cost me about 75 Euro's.
Playing a game of soccer in Hyde Park was fun, Until it started gushing with rain. I'm very sure im gonna do a surf course.
Coming tuesday marks the bartender course.
slowly but surely im developing a Welsh accent.
Anton: did I mention I'm European already did its work
That's about it for this time!
Take of yourself, and eachother!
Vince
--
One brilliant man once said:
There is no place like 127.0.0.1
This is the first Transcript of his Traveljournal I received by mail today, it was in Dutch so I translated it to the best of my knowledge, so please excuse any problems with continuity in reading the story, thats due to the translating
in a week im expecting the next transcript, so ill keep you posted, here in this thread. Ill leave the thread open for discussions, if any spam occurs it shall be fortwith deleted, the decision of it being spam will be left up to the individual moderator's discretion.
Edited by - Locutus on 12/12/2004 11:52:28 AM
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. The weather *can* exceed 30C here in Melb, but it was the unusual rain and humidity that have made the weather unbearable during the last week.
