Australia
Sooooo.... I'm here! And though, I haven't had much time on my hands the past few days (including today, but meh), I should at least let you guys know how things are going here.
Day 1: The plane ride was long as hell! There were thunderstorms and tornado watches outside Dallas, so they rerouted my flight from DFW to LAX towards Austin, then back to LAX. So I arrived around 2 hours late at LAX, which sucked, since my connecting flight was 2 1/2 hours away. So I had thirty minutes to race from the terminal, and go through checking in, etc, all over again. When I finally got to my terminal, I had all of 10 minutes to call my mom and Wayne to let them know I was alright and getting on my flight. LAX to BNE was late as well. Something to do with the catering service, so we waited another hour at the airport, plus, turbulence forced us into staying in the air an additional hour yet. So when I got off the plane, it was ultimately 8am, when it was supposed to be about 6. Going through Customs and such took forever, so I finally got out of the airport nearly by 9am.
Day 2: Wayne met me at the airport. I hadn't slept more than 30 minutes on the entire 19-20 hour flight, and sadly, I was still not tired at all. He gave me flowers and took me through Brisbane to show me the city. It was quite nice. I loved the hillyness and such. It was super awesome! Anyway! I got home, unpacked a little, and got ready for my Welcoming Party at Trendy's house. Party was super fun. Trendy, Belinda, Chezae, Wayne, Gaj, his wife, Greg, Craig, and Paul all showed up, plus a few of Bel's friends. Had some barbeque and stuff and hot tubness. It was real nice. I went to bed pretty frekkin' early, though. Around 8:30pm (which, btw, would be around 5:30am Central Standard Time; which means I went 39 hours with no sleep).
Day 3: Left Trendy's place early, went home, took a shower, and left for Wayne's Mum's house where I was supposed to meet her, Jason (his brother) and Michaela (his sister-in-law). Spent good amount of time with them. It was a great visit. Unpacked some more that day and slept early that night.
Day 4: Met Zac, his son, kicked his butt at SCIII. Got my ass kicked too by Wayne a few times (*sigh*), and took them out to MacDonald's after (because karate had been cancelled). Also went to the shops that day and bought lots of foods. oh! and btw, metric system... SUCKS! and Australia doesn't have half the foods America does, plus anything American brand has awful import taxes tacked onto it...
Day 5: Went to Yeronga to get signed up for classes, but the international student lady was sick, so we had to reschedule. Spent some serious time at the mall (okay... it's not called a mall here. It's called a shopping center. A strip mall is a mall here. Oh! and it's got a grocery store in the shopping center! wth!?). Also met Amber, Wayne's daughter, and yep! went to bed early yet again.
Day 6: Went back to Yeronga, got signed up for classes. Wayne got his promotion, and found out today. It's greatness!!!
Anyway! I summed up as well as I could. Talk to everyone some more. :D
~Mel*
Day 1: The plane ride was long as hell! There were thunderstorms and tornado watches outside Dallas, so they rerouted my flight from DFW to LAX towards Austin, then back to LAX. So I arrived around 2 hours late at LAX, which sucked, since my connecting flight was 2 1/2 hours away. So I had thirty minutes to race from the terminal, and go through checking in, etc, all over again. When I finally got to my terminal, I had all of 10 minutes to call my mom and Wayne to let them know I was alright and getting on my flight. LAX to BNE was late as well. Something to do with the catering service, so we waited another hour at the airport, plus, turbulence forced us into staying in the air an additional hour yet. So when I got off the plane, it was ultimately 8am, when it was supposed to be about 6. Going through Customs and such took forever, so I finally got out of the airport nearly by 9am.
Day 2: Wayne met me at the airport. I hadn't slept more than 30 minutes on the entire 19-20 hour flight, and sadly, I was still not tired at all. He gave me flowers and took me through Brisbane to show me the city. It was quite nice. I loved the hillyness and such. It was super awesome! Anyway! I got home, unpacked a little, and got ready for my Welcoming Party at Trendy's house. Party was super fun. Trendy, Belinda, Chezae, Wayne, Gaj, his wife, Greg, Craig, and Paul all showed up, plus a few of Bel's friends. Had some barbeque and stuff and hot tubness. It was real nice. I went to bed pretty frekkin' early, though. Around 8:30pm (which, btw, would be around 5:30am Central Standard Time; which means I went 39 hours with no sleep).
Day 3: Left Trendy's place early, went home, took a shower, and left for Wayne's Mum's house where I was supposed to meet her, Jason (his brother) and Michaela (his sister-in-law). Spent good amount of time with them. It was a great visit. Unpacked some more that day and slept early that night.
Day 4: Met Zac, his son, kicked his butt at SCIII. Got my ass kicked too by Wayne a few times (*sigh*), and took them out to MacDonald's after (because karate had been cancelled). Also went to the shops that day and bought lots of foods. oh! and btw, metric system... SUCKS! and Australia doesn't have half the foods America does, plus anything American brand has awful import taxes tacked onto it...
Day 5: Went to Yeronga to get signed up for classes, but the international student lady was sick, so we had to reschedule. Spent some serious time at the mall (okay... it's not called a mall here. It's called a shopping center. A strip mall is a mall here. Oh! and it's got a grocery store in the shopping center! wth!?). Also met Amber, Wayne's daughter, and yep! went to bed early yet again.
Day 6: Went back to Yeronga, got signed up for classes. Wayne got his promotion, and found out today. It's greatness!!!
Anyway! I summed up as well as I could. Talk to everyone some more. :D
~Mel*