First few days in Brisbane, Australia

Above shot taken from the Citycat Ferry Brisbane, Australia

I am not even sure who this one should go out to since my thoughts have been all over the place! I have now been in Brisbane(Brissy, Brisvegas) for 4 days! The day I got in I met Krista who just got in as well, so we went exploring the city by using the the Citycat(ferry). The 2nd day was spent dong a walking tour, which was done by a hyper-active 20 year old with ADHD selling his city! Words often used were "Awesome", and "I win". It was highly amusing to watch him put on this show and get easily distracted by birds all the time. I tried to take care of some business but it was a complete fail! Lots of walking in three days and I think I finally got hit by jet lag.


The next night was spent trying to learn salsa, which had me thinking about Victoria and the nights we went swing dancing! Is everyone still going out to those? Total fail at learning how to do salsa! I am sorry but no matter what men will always look a little bit questionable when they are salsa dancing. After we went to an Irish pub( reminded me of good time in Calgary) and had a really good night there! There was a live band playing and they completly buthcherd some rock songs, they stopped soon after so it was all good. The music in clubs here is the Top 40 music which is played everywhere! After some drinks and fun dancing we headed back to our hostel. On the way back we met the British guy(on the left) in a toga! He looks like he had quite a good time!




Went and explored the art museum and kept wondering what kind of bull Thea would feed me to make me understand some of the art work. I would probably have believed some of it as well. I just could not understand any of them(example on the right) then I saw this quote at the end of the exhibit: "Painting and sculpture develop faster then their audience" . Which is pretty true after all the strange painting I saw.


Australia is amazing so far! People are very nice and friendly which just reminds me of Canada so feeling at home is easy at times.

Things that have happened:

1. Talked to an Aussie who speaks Hindi! - all I could do was stare at him
2. I met a person from New York and was greeted in a traditional New York fashion- not very polite and really just falls in to a stereotype of what New Yorkers are like. Kind of disappointing
3. Danced with some cute Korean guys - <3
4. Have met Swedish, French, German and a Dutch people
5. There is a really creepy look bird here that will attack you to get food(look below)
   

Brisbane by night

Actual entry written on September 19th,2010

To Moti-ram!

I land in Brisbane in an hour! It will be 7am in the morning here, while in Calgary it will be 2 pm on September 14th. I am in the future!! Are you impressed?! The flights were pretty uneventful and went by really quickly. I kept dreaming I was traveling with you, maybe because I have some of your items so close to me at this time <3! I am slowly realizing that I will be traveling alone and that scares me a little. I am sure I will meet people just like me though and it will all get better. I am hoping to meet people that can teach me a lot of things, show me around, and can go camping and climbing with. Woke up this morning to a beautiful red sun rise that puts me in a really positive mood. Tokyo airport was not as exciting as I thought it would be and not as dangerous as everyone was thinking either. I think the excitement was lacking because I was stuck in the International part. In other parts of the airport you get watch some performers do some tricks. It would have probably been more fun if I had some one along with me. We could have ooo-ed and ahhh-ed at the green pay phones or something ridiculous like that. I have to say I am disappointed, I figured traveling in to the future would be cool. I mean look at Back to the Future and Doctor Who, they definitely make it all look cool.

Anyway... I should pack my things up and get ready to be in Australia! Considering it’s almost the same as Canada there won’t be too many cultural differences. At the most there will be some funny accents,the use different words for certain things, and some funny saying. I have been on the plane for a long time and am landing in country where the main language is english, and it’s clean and there won’t any crazy diseases. There will be lots of deadly animals though 0_0!
I am off to gallivant across Australia!

theri choti behina
kitu

Actual Entry Written on September 15th, 2010

To the people in Victoria;

A little bit of a delayed entry but let’s see if I can put it all together!
- 2 minutes on to the ferry I am convinced my sister is going to kill me
- 5 minutes on the ferry I realize that she just needed fresh air
- 10 minutes on the ferry I see a lady walking around with a stuffed octopus(it looks like a Ood head from Doctor Who!!), so I had to talk to her about it!
15 minutes on the ferry it hits me that I won’t be seeing a lot of you for a long long time! Solution: stuff my face full of fries and try not to think too much about it.
Get to Vancouver and realize my sister has Calgary rage when driving. Solution: Put on my i-pod
Night time I realize I am going to a country where I won’t have people I can hug randomly. Solution: Massive panic text out

Get to Calgary quicker then possible. Yay speeding! Yay family! Yay friends! Yay speaking Hindi! Lots of time spent in Timmy’s catching up with friends and doing another round of good byes( oh boy!) Been here for a few days and my mind always wanders back to Victoria once in a while. So to the house with the purple bra, the kiwi’s, and well the rest of you. You are being missed! Thank you for an amazing year in Victoria. Learned new things and tried a lot of new things while I was there. Continue to be amazing and do some stellar things. Also keep me updated on the world over there.
Now I am off to lounge in the sun while I wait for my friend to show up.

Peace out Victoria!

Actual Entry written September 3rd, 2010

To the girl known as Order;

My thoughts wander your way as I think about the exciting day I have had today! Kaikelin(my roommate), Ruth and I went to the Salt Spring Island for the day. An Island that has even more hippies then Victoria. We had been talking about it for quite a bit and now it has finally happened.

The day started off nice and early with me being fascinated by a pretty moth, which after about five minutes I accidently stepped on and killed :(. Tragic way to start the morning and I was mortified by the whole thing until we got on the ferry and started heading for the Island. They have a market on in the center of town. Some amazingly delicious cheese and chocolate! We ate our way through the market and had a good time checking out some neat trinkets they had for sale. Ruth and I had made an attempt to learn Thai Chi in the park by following some people who had done it for years. Such strong yet delicately graceful movements are so relaxing for some odd reason. After Kaikelin introduced us to a neat restaurant called “The Tree House”. The mental image I had of this was a a giant tree with a restaurant up in the canopy. It turned out this restaurant was built around a tree! Which more sense then my own idea and looked very cool. Had some more delicious food along with some coffee and chit chatted the afternoon away. After wards we checked out a vineyard( vine tasting, yay!) and a lavender farm( really purple 0_0) .

On our way back home, I got a call from Mayhem about a BBQ. It turned out a trap to get us in to work on her backyard! We helped at little bit and then hid in the front yard till dinner was ready. Kind of mean but then again we weren’t expecting to work. I have found some pretty cool people to chill out with and am at this point baffling them with “beep-boop”.

Happy Belated Birthday to your little sister! Looks like you had quite a lot of fun! I will need more details soon-ish. So, this day has been dedicated to you. I found myself wishing you were here with us to enjoy this day. Miss you and see you soon!

Actual entry written July 31st, 2010

Pretty dry reading....

To all of you;

So in a short time, I will be starting my adventure travels. I am starting in Australia and going all around the whole continent or going to do my best to get all around it anyway.

This is created so I can keep you all in the loop of what's going on as I run around. Most of you already know I am pretty bad at keeping in touch with people. I live a province away and yet I have not spoken to most of you since the last time I was there. You think it would be easy, what with all the ways we have to stay in touch now ie:Facebook, e-mail, Skype, Messenger etc. But I am pretty bad for it so here is the new ways of getting letters!

The plan is to carry a journal with me and I will be filling it with letters dedicated to people out there reading this(ie: To my little crab) and letting you know what I am up to and keeping it interesting and random that way you don't get bored.

Things that will happen: You will all end with a nick name( if you don't already have one that is!). Hopefully my writing skills(I have none) and typing skills will improve. Maybe I will learn some HTML to make this blog look cooler!

* *this the second attempt at posting the first attempt was a little less dry I swears!**