bula! i just wrote a whole lot of stuff and the computer lost it damn it!!
i was saying that fiji is great... the hostel is nice and there aree lots of english people so i have been talking to loads of them... some girls even left me a 3rd of a bottle of vodka when they left today, very nice of them! everyone in fiji is lovely! the locals are so ,laid back!
on thursday i went into the capital nadi (which is tiny!!) with two guys i met, tara and dan they are on a gap year before uni, we got invited to a kava ceremony. kava is the national drink here and the locals drink it almost constantly. it is made from the crushed roots of a kava plant which is in the same family as pepper plants, and they mix it with water in a big bowl. basically you all sit around in a circle on a straw mat and take it in turns to down a coconut shell of the stuff... i have read that it is seen as rude to refuse so i kinda had to but it is not nearly as bad as everyone makes out, though after 5 cups your mouth does go pretty numb! apparently in the villages kava addiction is quite a problem and if you drink enough of the stuff it can have the same properties as dope, which might explain "fiji time" ! nothing is rushed here... everything just happens when it does.. but i like that about the place...
yesterday i didnt do anything i just sat by the pool all day, i was doing all right but have actually got totally sunburnt on the tops of my legs and i'm not too happy about it... our hostel has a pool too so i had a swim. last night they had a band play and traditional fijian/polynesian dance here which was cool.
today i have so far done much the same, just being lazy before i go out to the islands tomorrow, that and the fact that i need for my sunburn to go down because if i got burnt again today i cant imagine how painful that would be!!oh and i've been bitten to buggery all over my poor feet, they have swollen up like 99 red balloons and it is both irritating and painful... the insect repellant that i was reccommended isnt helping at all and antihistamine arent stopping the itching... seriously, i'm close to my wits end!!
ok so thats basically what i've been up to, obviously i'm not going to have internet access on the islands (they even turn the electricity off at 10pm!) so i will have to update you when i am back at the hostel next sunday, i'm really looking forward to seeing the islands though as the beach here isnt too great, very dark fine sand, anyway i'm gonna go now hope everyone is good, am still missing you all
loads of love
xxxx
Awwww
I had a really nice day yesterday, i went and met Miranda who stayed in my room one night this week, she is english but has come to melbourne to do her PhD! we went to a very swanky hot chocolate cafe called max brenner. i had a hot chocolate where you have hot milk over a candle and add your own chocolate buttons which melt... it is like drinking liquid chocolate... yuuuuum!
then last night i went to see ross noble at melbourne town hall and it was exceedingly funny wish i could stay for more of the comedy festival... oh well... maybe next year! haha!
so that is all from melbourne... my spiritual home! i travel back to sydney tonight... and fly out to fiji on thursday woooooo!! cant wait!
loadsa love guys missing you all badly xxxx
then last night i went to see ross noble at melbourne town hall and it was exceedingly funny wish i could stay for more of the comedy festival... oh well... maybe next year! haha!
so that is all from melbourne... my spiritual home! i travel back to sydney tonight... and fly out to fiji on thursday woooooo!! cant wait!
loadsa love guys missing you all badly xxxx
Woooeeeee
so i finally got lots of pictures put onto a compact disk... 550 in fact, here are just a few of them! enjoy! miss you all lots xxxxxx
My trip up the great ocean road...
these are the pictures from that infamous trip...
on t'great ocean road.
the 12 or however many apostles... 8 i think... and some rubble cos one fell down not long ago...
that would be me at the 12 apostles. i have another picture like this one but i am not smiling and actually look like the most miserable cow in the universe, it is very funny actually.
it was quite windy and wet.
on t'great ocean road.
the 12 or however many apostles... 8 i think... and some rubble cos one fell down not long ago...
that would be me at the 12 apostles. i have another picture like this one but i am not smiling and actually look like the most miserable cow in the universe, it is very funny actually.
it was quite windy and wet.
Melbourne!
Melbourne!
So now here i am in Melbourne, it is lovely here! i have been her for 2 weeks and am finally going back to sydney on the 15th april for to catch a plane to fiji. i'm seeing ross noble on thursday night too, dylan moran is here too but alas he is all sold out damn him! the weather is pretty rubbish as they are just getting into autumn here now but it was slightly warmer today, i guess it means i will enjoy fiji all the more, and besides, it feels like england, so thats cool in my book. melbourne is nice, i would like to live here...
a tram!
me up the rialto tower, check that view!
scary melbourne gaol!
the gaol is very scary because loads of people got hung in it and there are loads of ghost stories, also two of my roommates nearly got lockedin there last week as it was near closing time and they were in one of the cells and whoever was locking up didnt see them! gees that would be terrifying!
docklands park and the beautiful wind sculpture
that wind sculpture is utterly beautiful, i spent nearly an hour just staring at it, all of the prong things move round in the wind and at different speeds depending on how fast the wind is going, plus all the light bounces off the circular bits, and it makes a soft clanking sound when it moves, it is really mesmerising.
federation square
this shot is for rhiannon really as i first saw pictures of this building when she was doing her dissertation, so i wanted to show that i had been there, its an odd building, but i like it, i went to a museum there today but alas t'was closed, will have to go tomorrow...
fed square again
the cafe on the pier at st kilda
St kilda is nice it is like an old english seaside town and had loads of cake shops, when i ran away from marcus the dog boy, me and keef went to a cake shop and did scoff lots, it was great.
captain cooks cottage from the garden.
captain cooks cottage is a bit of a fraud really, it is an english house that apparently england gave australia "as a present" it isnt his actual house but "is thought to be" his parents house... its all a bit silly, still the garden is very pretty as you can see from the picture.
the obligatory ramsay street shot! haha!
unfortunately when i went to ramsay street they were filming so i didnt get to see anything at all... well i saw skye mangle from a distance... and the long haired one... and harold bishop... which was quite exciting, but not as exciting as i'd hoped...
The Wedding of the Century!
i know that some of you have seen some of these pictures already but i thought i would post a couple of mine because they are lovely, aw... much crying...
Beautiful Tory, Jason and Gavin (Tory's dad)
cutting the cake
Beautiful Tory, Jason and Gavin (Tory's dad)
cutting the cake
This is Sydney!
I'm sorry this has taken so long to get up and going, apparently my camera can hold several hundred photos, anyway... this be sydney!
awwww isnt it beautiful?!
and this be t'opera house!
t'opera house! obviously
however, i found out that the opera house is not in fact made of tupperware as i first imagined, but has weird little tiles on it that are beige! beige!! the most hideous of all colours, the reason being, if it actually was white, on a bright day it would actually blind people. also these tiles are supposed to have the mysical quality of being able to clean themselves... which i'm sure you'll agree is quite special.
the illusion, shattered.
t'operahouse once again, this time taken from the ferry!
and this be the harbour bridge... i walked up to the top of this thing...wudyabalieve it?!
this be bondi beach... it was a little overcast but being british we still instisted on having a paddle...
Gavin, Jan and Julie on Bondi
awwww isnt it beautiful?!
and this be t'opera house!
t'opera house! obviously
however, i found out that the opera house is not in fact made of tupperware as i first imagined, but has weird little tiles on it that are beige! beige!! the most hideous of all colours, the reason being, if it actually was white, on a bright day it would actually blind people. also these tiles are supposed to have the mysical quality of being able to clean themselves... which i'm sure you'll agree is quite special.
the illusion, shattered.
t'operahouse once again, this time taken from the ferry!
and this be the harbour bridge... i walked up to the top of this thing...wudyabalieve it?!
this be bondi beach... it was a little overcast but being british we still instisted on having a paddle...
Gavin, Jan and Julie on Bondi
flippin'ek
well i have had an eventful couple of days,
on wednesday i went on a 2 day tour on the great ocean road which was... interesting... the road itself is beautiful but the weather left a bit to be desired, lourne and apollo bay are great tiny little seaside towns and i really liked them...
however! we made and unscheduled stop at a waterfall which was bloomin beautiful, however some scottish guys decided that we should walk on the rocks up the river to another falls, this is all well and good however i only had my canvas pumps on which got soaked through and on the way back i stepped on a slippery piece of tree and fell with my bum in a hole, i subsequently have two massive bruises on my right knee and have buggered my back up something rotten, which means that whenever i move my right leg it shoots a pain up my back it also hurts to turn. thankfully one of the irish girls helped me up and i was ok for about 5 mins and then started crying, because i didnt think i'd be able to make it back up all the steps. after about 20 mins i decided to make a go of it but it bloody hurt.
worse than this though, was the fact that i was covered in mud, my shoes were written off and i felt like an idiot for crying in front of a load of people i'd only just met.
when we got back to lourne i asked if we could stop and i bought the only pair of trainers in the shop that would fit me, and cried at the woman who worked there, she was understandably a bit miffed about the whole thing, so i had these horrible bright white trainers, but at least they were dry. and actually they worked out at 16 squids so it wasnt so bad...
then we carried on our journey along a very bendy road which really hurt my back, went to apollo bay and had dinner and stayed at the yha there which is very special as it is only a few months old and has a kitchen straight out of ikea...
the problem was that from this point on i became "the girl who fell over" and i very rarely had conversation directed at me other than "how are you feeling now/how is your head?/how is your back? etc etc" which really annoyed me.
then yesterday we went along the shipwreck coast and saw the 12... or 8 apostles, and london bridge and all that stuff which was really amazing but it was sooo windy it made it a bit more spectacular though as the waves were really amazing and you can easily understand why its called the shipwreck coast.
then we came home... a 3 hour drive, it was very tiring.
when i arrived back i realised that i had left the key to my locker with my pack in it at apollo bay, so i had to call them and see if they had it, which thankfully they did or i would have had to pay $50, then the guy at reception said that he would use their skeleton key to upen the locker for me, but the key didnt work! so i have no clean clothes, just my jeans that were covered in mud and the stuff i was wearing yesterday, hopefully a tour leader is bringing the key in this morning but so far i have heard nothing. when i got back last night i just cried and cried because for the first time since i have been out here i have felt like things are beyond my control and it totally freaked me out to the extent that i wanted to come home.
i still feel a little bit crap, mainly because i'm having to wear dirty clothes, but i am feeling mostly better today, my back is still hurting but i guess it'll get better, i just have to kill time now until i can get my stuff... i am sorry that this is the first blog that i have posted and it isnt particularly jolly but i needed to write it down. i have at least filled my memory card now so i should have some photos soon! woop.
missing everyone lots
love, me xxx
on wednesday i went on a 2 day tour on the great ocean road which was... interesting... the road itself is beautiful but the weather left a bit to be desired, lourne and apollo bay are great tiny little seaside towns and i really liked them...
however! we made and unscheduled stop at a waterfall which was bloomin beautiful, however some scottish guys decided that we should walk on the rocks up the river to another falls, this is all well and good however i only had my canvas pumps on which got soaked through and on the way back i stepped on a slippery piece of tree and fell with my bum in a hole, i subsequently have two massive bruises on my right knee and have buggered my back up something rotten, which means that whenever i move my right leg it shoots a pain up my back it also hurts to turn. thankfully one of the irish girls helped me up and i was ok for about 5 mins and then started crying, because i didnt think i'd be able to make it back up all the steps. after about 20 mins i decided to make a go of it but it bloody hurt.
worse than this though, was the fact that i was covered in mud, my shoes were written off and i felt like an idiot for crying in front of a load of people i'd only just met.
when we got back to lourne i asked if we could stop and i bought the only pair of trainers in the shop that would fit me, and cried at the woman who worked there, she was understandably a bit miffed about the whole thing, so i had these horrible bright white trainers, but at least they were dry. and actually they worked out at 16 squids so it wasnt so bad...
then we carried on our journey along a very bendy road which really hurt my back, went to apollo bay and had dinner and stayed at the yha there which is very special as it is only a few months old and has a kitchen straight out of ikea...
the problem was that from this point on i became "the girl who fell over" and i very rarely had conversation directed at me other than "how are you feeling now/how is your head?/how is your back? etc etc" which really annoyed me.
then yesterday we went along the shipwreck coast and saw the 12... or 8 apostles, and london bridge and all that stuff which was really amazing but it was sooo windy it made it a bit more spectacular though as the waves were really amazing and you can easily understand why its called the shipwreck coast.
then we came home... a 3 hour drive, it was very tiring.
when i arrived back i realised that i had left the key to my locker with my pack in it at apollo bay, so i had to call them and see if they had it, which thankfully they did or i would have had to pay $50, then the guy at reception said that he would use their skeleton key to upen the locker for me, but the key didnt work! so i have no clean clothes, just my jeans that were covered in mud and the stuff i was wearing yesterday, hopefully a tour leader is bringing the key in this morning but so far i have heard nothing. when i got back last night i just cried and cried because for the first time since i have been out here i have felt like things are beyond my control and it totally freaked me out to the extent that i wanted to come home.
i still feel a little bit crap, mainly because i'm having to wear dirty clothes, but i am feeling mostly better today, my back is still hurting but i guess it'll get better, i just have to kill time now until i can get my stuff... i am sorry that this is the first blog that i have posted and it isnt particularly jolly but i needed to write it down. i have at least filled my memory card now so i should have some photos soon! woop.
missing everyone lots
love, me xxx
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