Obnoxious Girls and Rafting.

Today's theme is apparently obnoxious girls, but before I get into that, a few things I forgot to mention in the last blog. I saw minke whales while I was out diving. As I was swimming back to the boat after my awesome dive at Steve's Bommie, I was in about 4 - 5 meters of water, and all of a sudden to my left, what to my wondering eyes should appear! but a huge ass whale. Just cruising along. And there I was at about equal depth with it just staring at this huge mass of a thing swim ever so gracefully thru the water. How many of you guys can say you not only swam with whales, but dove with them? Huh? I bet not a one of you. :]

Also, as mother and father will remember from the Bahamas....apparently jelly fish LOVE me. I got attacked. My inner knees/thighs/calves are COVERED with stings. :( (super sad face). They itch and are red and puffy, and I have no idea why this always happens to me! Anyways!

Last night I went out with four guys, two from Scotland, two from England. The one british kid and I danced for a little while before I realized I needed to get some sleep for rafting! So we all walked back to the hostel, and Alex W. and I stayed up talking until about 1. His dad lives in Perth, AU, which is neat, and he's been over here for almost a year, and just applied for residency. He just finished his masters degree in "town planning" in Bristol, England, and apparently wants to work/live over here. (I can't say I disagree). So far my tally marks have AU at like 1039857561 and the US at like maybe 3.

Then....at f***ing FOUR IN THE MORNING. These two girls come into my room --- loud. drunk. obnoxious...and to make things worse....they TURN ON THE light. WHO DOES THAT? So I was awoken by bright lights and loud girls. Then I had to wake up (again!) at 6 am to go rafting. I made no attempt to be quiet.

Rafting was AMAZING. My group was a group of 5 + the rafting guide (Vinny). Two people from Belgium (who were awesome) and these two girls (who were obnoxious)....you now see why this was my day theme. THe girls apparently won the rafting tickets from winning a wet t-shirt contest or something like that....and didn't want to be there. They didn't paddle, they complained of being wet (hello....you're going white water rafting....), and from bruises, scratches (and yes...) broken nails...

I fell out of the raft on one rapid...it was the first time I had ever accidentally fallen out of the boat. All of a sudden I was half in the boat and half in the water, and I Just let myself fall. It was freezing, but wonderful at the same time. The Belgian guy (Rul) was quick to save me. All in all rafting was a lot of fun. I think we had the best guide, and we all had a laugh (even if sometimes it was at the two girls expense.) We're not cruel...we just didn't get why they were there. They each weighed probably 70 pounds and did nothing except complain. So we joked with them about crocodiles and such, and I think as the day progressed they got progressively quieter. Perhaps we all did. It was exhausting.

Now I'm back at the hostel. Going to go out for a drink and some dancing before coming back early and going to bed. I fly tomorrow to Adelaide and meet up with my frosh roomie from USC (annelise). Oh! Small world...my roomie for the night is this girl, Carly (from vancouver)...who lived in Annelise's buildling last semester in BRisbane...so we're all enjoying the strangeness this world sometimes thrusts our way.

Oh, and just to put things in perspective...every now and then (especially when I go to the bathroom) I feel like I'm back on the boat. And right now, as I type this long blog, I feel as if I'm rocking. I will take that as a sign to get off the computer. Hope all is well back home. Next time I talk to you I'll be in Adelaide.

Mom and dad, sorry I'm not really responding to your emails. This blog and other emails takes up most of my time, but I love both of you very much and miss you too.

Ps. the medicine I'm taking for my congestion sucks. It's all herbal crap (no sudafed or actifed in australia). So I'll do some more searching perhaps tomorrow for a pharmacy and see if they have some better stuff than the super market had. Okay, ! I'm off.

<3 :]