s of cheap wine and mid strength beer while wearing ridiculous costumes. The theme was Unpredicta-ball, so you go as something unexpected. One idea was for Union to collectively go as the theme 'sober', since that would be pretty unexpected, but nobody was really keen for that. My friend Laura and I went as the two unicorns from the Charlie Unicorn goes to Candy Mountain youtube video, here's the link to them if you don't know... what I'm talking about (theres 2 of them).http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=charlie+unicorn&search_type=
It's unexpected because at the end of one of the videos, Charlie gets tricked and gets his kidney stole, which is pretty unexpected, yeah? We wore party hats and taped candy to ourselves, it was pretty cool. We also got to go around talking in obnoxious unicorn voices all night! (really, you have to watch the videos or it makes no sense). Some other costumes were, the 412 bus, a snake charmer, babies, iPods?, natives, Vegas brides, the Spanish inquisition, and my favorite, a coat hanger. I was going to go as pregnant as the other half of the coat hanger costume, but we decided that was too horrible and it would be too annoying to go around with a ball or pillow under my shirt all night anyway. It was a really fun night, they drove us to the stadium where the Reds play (a rugby team for Brissy), and we rock u
p and the Socceroos are practicing on the field there. They are the Australian national soccer team that was in town to play Qatar, and it must have been weird for them to see a bunch of crazy dressed up uni kids get off a bunch of buses and be dumped in the middle of their practice. Was a great night, hung out with everyone, some people went way too hard on the alcohol and got really sick and had to leave early (a couple of my friends were home by 8:30, it was pretty funny, but we did leave at 6, so it's not too too bad I guess). After that was over, you could either go home on the buses, or some other ones were going to the city for the kickon at a bar out there, but most people went home in anticipation of the next day, known as 'recovery'. I went home and went around to all the floors in college with Rob and talked to everyone that was still up, but when we came back to our floor, Rob also got pretty sick and ended up passing out in the shower with the water on. I was hanging out in my other friend Tom's room that is across the hall from the bathroom, and we kept trying to get him to come out because he was lying over the drain and flooding the place and that water was coming out into the hall, but he would just be like, no! I'm fine, I'll be fine just leave me alone! And we kept trying to explain to him to either turn off the water or get off the drain, but it took him awhile to get around to doing it. Crazy times.The next morning, bright and early at 8a
m, everyone gets up and grabs some brekky and gets on the buses again to go to recovery. Some people really did need to recover and slept through their alarms and actually rested and slept, but the event of recovery was quite different. Probably crazier than the night before, we got dropped off outside this club in the Valley called Birdee Num Nums where they have a bar and on the weekends they open up their pool and jacuzzi as well. It's a sweet setup, there are all these high tables outside where you can hang out and then a bunch of people got in the water and it was just a ton of fun. We had a $10,000 bar tab, and amazingly went through it by 1pm. I think we got there at 9:30 or so and were kicked out by 2, so it was a fair bit of drinks to go through by then. Everyone brought sharpie pens and was writing on everyone else, and then the food dye came out too. People would put it in their mouths and just spit it all over and try to get as many people as they could, it was a very messy day. My favorite moment was when my friend Teiqua, who had been trying to keep her white shirt white all day and refusing to let us draw on her, got massively sprayed on by this guy with blue food dye in his mouth, and then she just turns around and whips out her makeup kit and starts messing with her face. Everyone else around looks just a total mess, and she is trying to touch up her concealer or something, it was hilarious. The Red Frogs peopel were also there, they come to events
and hand out donuts and water, they are some Christian organization that helps drunk people. I'm not sure why, I feel like there are much more deserving groups of people to be helped, but hey whatever, I'll take the free food. They were making pancakes and it was great. A guy there was playing guitar too and everyone was singing along with it, people got really into the 'Waltzing Matilda' song too, good stuff. I found out there was a backpackers connected to Birdee's (I had no idea before and we've been there a bunch of times), so my friend Marnie and I tried to go make friends with them. However, the minute we walked in the door, the receptionist girl came over and physically turned us around and pushed us out the door, saying, you don't belong here! We tried to say that she was being excessively discriminatory, and how dare she imply we were part of the group outside (but we had pen and dye everywhere, so that didn't really work). When we all had to go, it was really funny walking through the Valley on a Saturday afternoon with a bunch of drunk messy people, others on the street would come up to us and ask what the hell was going on. We finally made it to the train and got home and showered for excessive amounts of time (this weekend was not kind for the water restrictions for sure). It was an awesome couple days, a might sound gross in writing but was a lot of fun.Some other good things that have happene
d lately was getting to go make a slip n slide out of the cricket oval outside Union during a couple recent thunderstorms. These were insane storms, there were 'severe warnings' ahead of time telling people to move their cars and to avoid driving, and hail was predicted in some parts. The first one that happened was at night, and we went out to the oval and put detergent all over the tarp that covers the middle of the field (for the cricket, its a special part of the oval that they keep hard so the ball bounces), and got to run and slide on it. Everyone had a blast except the cricketers that were watching us distainfully from the cover of the building a ways away. I think they called security on us a couple times but we didn't stay long enough for them to show up. It happened again a few days later and we went out and played soccer in the rain and then did the slip n slide again. Made for a very sore body the next few days, but was worth it.Also got to go on a biology field trip to the Australia Zoo, it's the one that you see on Animal Planet where Steve Irwin does all the stuff wit
h the crocodiles in the 'crocaseum'. It was a really nice zoo, all the habitats were really well put together and lots of plants everywhere, probably the best zoo I've seen. They were really touchy-feely with the animals, it was strange to see one of the keepers wresting around with the wombats or another one just pick up the Tasmanian Devil like it was a cat or something, they are all really tame looking animals. There are a bunch of crocodiles there too, mostly ones that have gotten into trouble with being to aggressive in the wild with attacking people or things like that, so if they get lucky, they go to the Steve Irwin Zoo instead of being shot. It was a cool field trip, would have liked to have some more free time, but we got to hear some cool talks from the keepers and feed kangaroos, so I can't complain.I also had another adventure in the valley on our last Thursday night out. We were out at Birdee's again strangely, and a lot of people from college were there, but I went to go use the bathroom at one point and when I came o
ut I realized that everyone I knew had gone home. I was like oh, I knew this would happen at some point, because I tend to wander around among different groups when we go out. I usually make sure there is always someone from college there to get a cab home with, but I guess they left without me noticing. Anyways, I went around asking randoms if they were headed to St. Lucia, but sadly none were, and then it was pretty late so the club kicked everyone out. I was standing outside wondering what to do next when all these Maori/Kiwi guys were like, come hang out with us! I'd been talking to them inside and they were pretty funny and I wasn't really sure what to do so I went walking with them around the city. We ended up just talking forever walking around and ended up at the casino, where this other Maori woman came out and started talking to them. They figured out that she was one of their aunties, but they had never met because this guy had about 200 cousins or something, just a massive family, but they started hugging and she was crying and it was this big family reunion. She came walking with us too, and she saw this br
uise I have on my back, and decided that I must be a victim of domestic abuse, and cornered me and got all up in my face asking who was beating up on me and saying she was going to kick their ass. I kept trying to assure her it was nothing, but she wasn't really listening, and then she took out her old lady spraycan perfume and sprayed me with it. It was strange. The rest of the guys rescued me and one of them made me take his earring for some reason. I told him that he should keep it, but he made me take it, so now I am stuck with 2 mismatched earrings and I look a bit funny, but I'll get a new pair soon enough. These guys told me I should hang out with their sisters when I go to New Zealand, they were all just so friendly. We then went back to the casino and all got a huge breakfast, it was really good food too, and after that it was about 7am and I took the bus home! The guys were pretty hardcore and actually went back to drinking because they knew a place down the street that started serving at 7am, what a nation of alcoholics. They said they didn't have work til 5pm, so had to do something in between. I personally would have chosen sleep, but I guess I'm just not as hard. Oh well.. Was a long night for sure, fun times and glad I got to get the bus home instead of paying for a taxi by myself, was about 20 times cheaper.
And now, it is study week and finals soon, I've already finished 2 classes that just had final assignment research papers, but got 2 more to go. Only 2 weeks left here, it's definitely strange that my time is almost up, the year has gone by pretty quick. Will definitley be sad to leave all the friends I've made here, they really are some of the most fun and just all around friendly and awesome people, and living at college is a pretty optimal situation with people around all the time to hang out with. BUT also looking forward to seeing all my homies in the bay and down in LA for sure, gonna be back home before all you people in the states know it, gotta get ready for a sweet winter break and last semester of college! Life definitely does go pretty fast.
Pix: ICC Ball, Aussie Zoo, oval in the thunderstorm
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