After the longest day ever! We ended up at the Brisbane City YHA hostel. We had to wait until 2pm to check in, so a bunch of us went in the pool, then to the transit station for lunch. After we got settled in and cleaned up we went to dinner at the Transcontinental Hotel. I had the chicken Schnitzel, and man was it delicious.
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| This is the outside of the hostel. |
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| This is my room at the hostel. |
Wednesday February 2, we went to Lone Pines Koala Sanctuary for the day and I got to hold a koala (i.koala.net/0202113396.htm ), feed kangaroos (see video bar), and see all kinds of other Australian animals. When we got to the sanctuary the first thing we did was have lunch. It was a barbeque. (I've learned that here barbeque just means grill.) It was really good, there was steak and chicken with salad and the absolute best cantalope I have ever had! After that I went straight over to the kangaroo area where I got to feed them! Then we went to the reptile show, where I touched a snake. Surprisingly they are not slimly like most people think, but smooth. Then we went to the koala holding area! It was so cute! When the handler took her away she grabbed onto my hair (not pulling it thankfully) like she didn't want to leave! After that we wandered around seeing all the different animals. I saw a cuckaburra, platypus, tasmanian devil, and a wallaby among many other things. And the last thing we did was go to the sheep dog, and sheep shearing show! The dogs were so cute, they made me miss my Niki dog.
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| Kangaroo |
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| Wallaby |
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| Tasmanian Devil |
On Thursday we went to Riverlife, first we had lunch and saw aboriginal dancing. I got to listen and see a guy play a didgeridoo. Then, we went kayaking on the Brisbane river. And just so you know there are sharks and crocs in there! We did a team building thing where we got all our kayaks in a circle and held on to each of the persons next to us. Then two at a time (across from each other) we had to run around on the fronts of the kayaks while in the water, and try to get the to the other side of the circle first. I'm quite proud to say I didn't fall in the water once. That night we had dinner at a Thai restaurant. It was really good. I really liked the green curry beef and the peanut chicken.
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| The ICMS AustraLearn group with the aboriginal dancers. |
On Friday we had our community volunteer day. We planted over 800 trees to replace ones that been washed away by the flooding. They had planned the whole day (from 8am-2pm) for us to plant about 700 trees, but we had planted over 500 in less than 30 minutes!
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| This me and my friend Lauren showing off our tree planting tools. We're ready to work! |
And today is our free day. I'm going to the farmers market in about 45 minutes, then packing and everything for our flight to Sydney tomorrow!
Hope all is well at home!
2 comments:
Are you going to bring home a didgeridoo???!!!
O I want to but my mom specifically told me I can't since it is so huge! =[ But if I can find one to fit in my suitcase I will!
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