Ra-ra-random!

So I'm sitting here waiting for "Loose Change" to load. It's a documentary about how 9/11 was an inside job. We started watching it in Magazine Writing and it intrigued me. So here I am at midnight waiting for this silly thing to load. YouTube is no fun in Australia.

We went to Coolangatta on Friday and stayed over for the Quicksilver Pro Surf Competition, which was the next day. Let me preface this story by saying that I am deeply amazed at the friendships I have made on this trip. I've never been one to make friends easily or quickly, and usually it takes me a long time to open up to people and really form a strong connection. It's only on the rare occasion that I find someone that I immediately feel comfortable with. Here in Australia I have found about ten girls who get me in such a way that I feel like I've known them for 2 years instead of 2 months. I am extremely grateful everyday that this happened.

Having said that, sometimes, we get sick of each other, like any group of friends or sisters. Well, I think our trip to Coolangatta was a breaking point for that tension. It wasn't too damaging but there were definitely some tense moments. Some people take things too seriously, while some people don't take thing seriously enough. I won't elaborate because everything is fine now, but I just found it interesting that it took so long for us to want to choke each other.

Anyways. We got to Coolangatta and half of us went to the beach, and the other half walked around the town. After getting severely burnt after surfing and after finding out that Queensland has the highest rate of skin cancer in the WORLD, I have been very reluctant in going out in the sun, since I want to live past the age of 50. So Eleanor, Ashley and I got some great Greek food and explored the town, and then took a much needed nap.

We all got ready and went out that night. I found THE BEST sushi place in all of Australia and got Eleanor to actually eat some, though she despises fish. Most places in Oz are BYOB so we bought some beers to have with the food and ended up feeling pretty great. We went to the Hotel Coolangatta for a DVD release party of some kind and danced and had some laughs. Then we left pretty early because we were tired, but not before frolicking on the beautiful Coolangatta beach.

I woke up the next morning in a bed full of sand and learned that I had pushed Eleanor off the bed in my sleep. Then Ashley went unknowingly went outside and got absolutely reamed out by an approximately 1,000 year old German lady who said we made too much noise when we came in the night before. This is completely false. We came in and went to sleep. Ok, we watched Flashdance for 20 minutes. But I'm almost positive this lady never had grandkids to yell at, so she chose us to get her rocks off.

We left after that (we shut the door behind us as loudly as possible) and went to the beach to watch the competition. I felt pretty nasty. No sooner did we get there and learn that the competition had been moved to a another beach due to the wave conditions. A few of us played in the ocean on these wonderful rocks for awhile and then went home, so I missed out on seeing Kelly Slater and the other surfing world champions, but when it's 95 degrees out and you feel like you're about to die, you just want to get home.

Today was my day off, but I went to Robina to interview a youth pastor on abstinence until marriage for my Journalism Research article, bought a new bra, had volleyball, went to Don's for some fish, then say here with the girls and studied/giggled at Love, Sex and Relationships, which I guess they have a test in tomorrow.

I really am so grateful for these girls. I had a terrible falling out with some of my best friends at Northeastern last semester, and these girls have made those wounds heal up so much faster than they would have if I stayed at school.

Life is pretty good right now.