So, staying here in Campbell Town, about an hours train ride away from Sydney. The place we are staying at is "on res" as they say here, which is basically uni halls. Margot has been amazing host, sorted us out with beds etc and introduced us to the gang.
When we arrived, we hit the supermarket straight away, bought a load of pasta and sausages (a.k.a snags)...Then we went to the big alcohol shop to get some boxed wine (a.k.a Goon) as this is the cheapest way to drink in Aus. Its about 8/9 dollars for a 4 litre box of wine. When compared to the 40 dollars for a crate of beer, thats pretty good.
That night there was a special offer on at the "Tav" which is where all the uni people eat, so we tagged along...Chicken Schnitzel with chips for 6 dollars, and washed it down with a "Scooner" (no idea if thats spelt correctly) of beer. A scooner is basically a glass that is between a half-pint and a pint. All the guys here are really friendly...obviously we've been on the end of some banter as we are the only "poms" about.
Incase you havent noticed, everything has a nick-name in Aus.
Friday was BBQ day, so wacked the snags on the barbie and the Goon out of the fridge...was awesome just sat there all afternoon in the sun drinking and eating...not to mention playing ping-pong and pool. That night was the "Chill-out western" themed evening at the common room. This was basically a cowboy type do, where people dressed up, drank, and had a go on the mechanical bull outside. I had a go. I was rubbish. Good job I havent any plans on riding a real bull.
Was a great night.....eventful too...a highlight of which would be Chris getting into a very loud argument with a girls whose name escapes me....at 3am. It was something to do with American naivety...Either way it ended up in Chris getting very very red and angry. It was hilarious.
I slept on the sofa with a blow-up doll with Tashi's face stuck to the head. The picture is on facebook...brilliant.
(just to clear that up, I was fully dressed thank you very much.)
Saturday was Mardi-Gras in Sydney...a massive gay-parade for gays. Its quite gay. We were all going to go down and watch the gayness but it rained...The hour journey there and back didnt seem too worth it if we were going to get rained on (that is NOT a euphemism). So we stayed in and watched dvds etc.
Sunday was spent at one of Margot's friends uni houses...It has a swimming pool so we had a load of Goon and snags...Also played Killer which went down a storm yet again.
Watched 2 entire series of The Inbetweeners last night with the Aussies...They were lovin it. We were about to hit the hay when Me Myself and Irene started...we stayed up to watch it and went to bed afterwards, woke up at gone midday and have done pretty much nothing besides playing mario-kart and doing laundry...Oh Ive missed Uni life.
Tomorrow we are going to get off our arses and hit the blue mountains for a bit of a bush walk, meant to be very scenic...could do with the fresh air and exercise.
I apologise for the brief descriptions of events in this blog, but Im writing this on a MacBook and Im obviously not cool enough to work these properly yet.
We have the camper all booked up and ready to pick up on wednesday...43 days on the road...in a camper...with 3 other men...in the heat. NOT gay.
Anyway, I hope everyone is OK and Ill blog again when I can
See ya later poms
Jay
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