Australia: Bitches & Roses, and Superlatives

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Rose - to the weather (a given)
Bitch - to the fact that this is the rainiest winter they've had in 2 decades
Bitch - no privacy
Rose - tons of new friends
Bitch - leaving your new friends every few days
Rose - seeing those new friends at every step of the way
Bitch - very few Australians to meet
Rose - meeting all kinds of Europeans
Bitch - to the way the English say "pardon?" pronounced "p'd'n?"
Rose - to the way the English say everything else
Rose - the beach and my savage tan
Bitch - to doing very little but the beach
Rose - very easy to get around and things to do
Bitch - backpacker scene is way too organized
Rose - FRASER ISLAND/WHITSUNDAYS!!
Bitch - this place is NOT cheap at all
Bitch - never spending a night with fewer than 5 people in your room
Rose - Footy and Rugby games, State of Origin (even if it is fucking League)
Rose - never a single thought about Tha Sawx! (couldn't care less)
Bitch - showing up alone to new places
Bitch - having to leave as soon as I get settled
Rose - getting to keep moving on to the bigger and better
Bitch - everyone is the same: 22, English and in uni gap year
Rose - friendly people
Rose - Aussies
Rose - great excuse to get on Facebook
Bitch - hostels run too much like cold, hard businesses
Rose - hostels are like mini beach resorts
Bitch - not venturing away from hostels enough
Rose - Karaoke
Bitch - too many Canucks
Bitch - telling my life story over and over and over and over and over and over...
Rose - perfected my rollies
Rose - never a worry about hygiene!
Rose - shaving every 4 days, my hair growing wild and the fact that I can dry my hands in it
Bitch (and a Rose) - those dead sexy stinger suits!
Bitch (and a Rose) - getting fat and happy
Rose - seemingly being the only guy with greens
Rose - first hash since Rome
Rose - having absolutely no obligations to another living soul
Bitch - nobody having any obligations to me
Bitch - to Dave Alexander's grandparents for having Dave Alexander's parents who had Dave Alexander
Rose - to Samang. Just because.
Rose (and a Bitch) - meat pies... but I've had my last.
Rose - scuba diving
Bitch - my right ear still hasn't popped
Bitch - wearing the same clothes all the time
Rose - absolutely never needing to change my clothes or shower
Bitch - having lost my Melbourne pix
Bitch - my camera not working on Fraser Island
Rose - Whitsundays DVD
Bitch - ALOT of boredom
Rose - late night walk home on Maggi
Bitch - eating shit all the time
Rose - topless beach at Byron Bay
Bitch - same thing, different beach
Rose - skydiving!
Rose - koalas, 'roos and all the other crazy animals
Rose - Irish chicks
Rose - so much more of this country to see!
Rose - NO WORRIES, MATE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Best Place - Fraser Island
Best Beach - Whitehaven Beach
Best Beachtown - Byron Bay
Best City - Melbourne
Favorite Guy - That #$%&^*&, Aussie Dan
Favorite Girl(s) - Whitsunday Swedes (not to be confused with Swedish Bikini Team)
Hottest girls met - Swedish Bikini Team
Worst Place - Hervey Bay, man, did that place suck
Cutest girl made out with - Cape Trib Irish lass
Unsuccessful takedown attempt I'd like to retry - Pommie Helena from Airlie
Favorite Nationality (besides Aussie) - Pommies
Best animal - cute n' cuddly koala
Best Fish - Lionfish
Best Beer - XXX Premium (too bad it's only sold in the XXXX brewery)
Best Food - Skippy the Kangaroo steak
Best bushwalk - Mission Beach
Best Beachwalk - Cape Tribulation
Best Hostel - Main Beach Backpackers, Byron Bay
Worst Hostel - Tie: disease ridden Cheers in Surfers or Nazi Party Headquarters in Sydney
Best Sporting Event - Waratah's game, Sydney
Craziest activity - skydiving
Best Aussie Style - Queensland's shorts, combat shit-kickin' boots and Crocodile Dundee hat
Worst Aussie Style - Melbourne Mullet
Place to come back to see - Western Australia

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Comments

[anonymous]

i can't believe you ate multiples of someting called a "meat pie"