Blogs from Surrey Hills, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania - page 8

A whirlwind 48 hours in Sydney started off with arrival into Sydney at 6:30am and an immigration/customs line like I've NEVER seen before! Took roughly an hour and 1/2 to get through this (and to declare my snacks, fortunately none of which needed to be taken)! Robyn met me and off went to her house just outside of Sydney for a quick freshening up shower and back into Sydney to start my day! Starting at her office right in the heart of the city, I strolled up Market St. (towards Sydney Tower and Hyde Park), and landed right in the Queen Victoria Building for a chai and a muffin. The chai so cleverly had a "sippy cup" lid which I thought was hilarious (probably b/c I was over tired from the 17 and 1/2 hr flight ... read more

Sorry guys, not much to update. Been relaxing in Sydney. Tom stayed here a few nights as he came to sydney from Wollongong where his uncle lives. Went clubbing a few nigvht but have basically been hanging out with FLicko, Emily and Lucy. I got a job at rebel sport, start monday. Rebel sport is similar to sport chek back home and I'm selling soccerballs, rugby balls, jerseys and skis. I went down to Bondi to watch the years biggesgt Rugby match and learned how the game is played as I never even knew back home. I'm supposed to learn about the different leagues and teams in order to sell shit. See how that goes :s. I think I'll stick to selling skis. Friday night is a big night on the town, I'm going clubbing with ... read more

The past two days have been excellent. Damn nice weather and lots of learning. Started yesterday with nothing to do so I decided to head down to Coogie beach. I went before with mark and had a delicious strawberry banana smoothie. The picture of just my feet in crystal clear water that everyone is jealous of is from coogie. Anyways, I met some guys who were australian but of Italian decent. The guidos are the same everywhere.. did I just say that?! Nah, they were alright, they buried their buddy super deep in the sand and I got a picture for him. I said id email it to him and he was all excited. Can you guess what hie email is? Ill give you three guesses. 1. Italia1001Grease@hotmail.com - nope 2. SUperGuido@hotmail.com - wrong. 3. Hot-Italian@hotmail.com ... read more

No pics on this one: just a quick update. Ive been surfing again which was absolutely amazing. I was getting up and starting to ahve the confidence to turn, CANT WAIT to try my skills as I backpack north. Ive been tlaking with m uncle about getting guitar lessons and hiring a guitar. We're going to ahve a sit down this weekend and more or les plan out werything I want to do. Last night I decided to get out and went to a movie then a comedy show.. soo funny. Two american guys. I learned that a kangaroo is the result of a T-rex's inability to touch his own penis and a rabbit came along to help one day and ther you have it. It was much better than that.... Today I have no idea ... read more

Ive spent the past few days with vera and ron, they are amazing hosts. They took me to all sorts of sights where I was able to get more beautiful views of the sydney area. They also took me to a provincial park where the sun came out over a beautiful setting of Lion Island and Palm Beach. Unfotrunately, all I really wanted to do was sleep; I was running on two crappy hours of on and off sleep. Apparantly Im allergic to something in the air near their house. I couldn't breath all night as my lungs had tightened up and all I could make was a wheezing sound all night. I felt terrible that as they showed me all this scenery, all I wanted to do was sleep or at best, breathe. By the ... read more