G'Day Mates!
So after a lot of debating between Thailand and New Zealand we have finally booked Spring Break 2010 for... drum roll please..... NEW ZEALAND!!!! We will be going to the South Island of New Zealand from April 4-11th for what we are calling Spring Break even though it is Summer into Fall here. Almost everyone who is here on AustraLearn chose to do New Zealand and I think we are going to all rent RVs/Vans and do a lot of sight seeing and camping. Since it's only two weeks away, we should probably plan that out! I am sure we will next week.
As for this week, it was busy with classes and getting work done. Something none of us have done much of since December making it VERY difficult to get focused. Needless to say, we found time to party and get it all done. This past weekend (weekend 4) was even better than the last one in Byron. We went with Mojo Surf Australia to Spot- X to SURF CAMP for the weekend! Best money spent here!!
Friday night we left at 8pm, on a huge coach bus with pink and black Mojo Surf writing outside it. Carly was the driver and she was nuts. Amazing, and so bad ass. The funny thing is, we weren't told until we got to the bus that it was about to be a 5 HOUR bus ride to Spot X. Mind you, it's 8pm on a Friday night. So we all did what we could to enjoy the 5 hours- we slapped bags of goon and chugged from bottles. It worked. We had to pick up more people in Byron Bay and at that time we all needed to use the restroom, but classy as we are, we ended up peeing on the side of the road because the bathrooms were closed. Needless to say it all died down from there, we watched The Hangover for the 4 hours we had left from Byron to Spot X. When we finally got to Spot X we found out it is actually Arrawarra Beach, a place to put it simply in the middle of no where! At 2am when we first arrived, a guy name Wayne took us on a tour, I can barely remember it but I know 10 of us ended up in a bunk-like-shack-like sleeping quarter called Pipeline. We woke up on the first day for a great first surf lesson! Everyone got up and was able to catch waves. We were all so stoked! The surf instructors were cool, and very helpful with great advice. After a few hours in the water, we got out and went to the bottle shop in town. We had a second lesson that afternoon but it was during low tide and the waves were way too much for any beginner to handle. We ended that early and went in to shower and get ready for the night's festivities!
Once we were all showered and dressed with open bottles of passion pop, beer and bags of goon, the girls decided to take a walk on the beach. It was absolutely gorgeous. It's one of those times where we all look around and really need to pinch ourselves asking "do we live here?" and everything around us seems like a sight to see. I took the start of many artsy pictures on that walk. Later that night there were bands playing, a bonfire, and a very chill once-a-year- festival going on. It was pretty cool to see. The chairs around the band were made of surfboards and we all were drinking, laughing and dancing. A great time.
Our second day consisted of hangovers and sunburns, but was very worth it all. On our way home from Spot X that afternoon, we watched Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Wedding Crashers. We also stopped for 2 hours in Byron Bay. Of course, we didn't take the touristy look at it this time, we went straight to what we knew was good and had the time of our lives before the next hour long stretch of a bus ride. We even picked up treats at the 23 hour bakery! Five hours later, our sore surfed out bodies carried all of our bags back to the village and crashed for the night.
Overall, learning to surf, I'd call it an epic weekend. :) Definitely check out the pictures!
xoxo
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