FINALLY. I no longer have to door knock! Monday was officially my last day on the job so I'm freed from harassing people :). After work a few of us went over to a co-workers apartment, but it got a little too loud so we had to leave. Everyone was in a good mood because remember that Quarterly Cup competition I mentioned in the last post? We found out that night we ended up winning the whole thing, so the channel is having a huge party this Saturday in Brisbane. After I hugged everyone goodbye we went back to our hostel to get a good night's sleep because our bus to Brisbane was going to leave at 9:45 the next morning. I was a little nervous that I might not be able to get on the bus because I hadn't been able to book it. The website was messing up and when I called to do it they had already closed down their call center. I got up early the next morning and packed up everything then called them and was luckily able to book it just 30 minutes before I was supposed to get on it! Close one...
Brissy is only like an hour away from Surfers so the ride there was pretty relaxed. Although, when we arrived there was a little bit of confusion about the hostel...We are staying at a hostel called the Base Embassy and turns out there are two. The other one is just called Base Central but they are owned by the same people. Confusing. Anyway, they are only two blocks away from each other but we didn't really know where to get off so we got dropped off at the transit center which is way out of the way. So once we figured out we missed our stopped we were pretty gutted that we were going to have to walk across town in the scortching heat with all our luggage.
This actually turned out to not be that bad because in the process of everything I ended up meeting a fellow Texan from Dallas! We were stopped in the city center kind of looking around for our hostel and this girl on a bench called out to me and asked if I was American? How could she tell? I guess my Nike running shorts that every 3rd girl in the States wears along with my TEXAS shirt gave it away? Anyway, turns out she's from Dallas but went to the University of Texas. What a coincidence! I should have grabbed her number but the boys figured out where we needed to go and were in a rush to get there so I had to keep going.
After we checked in I decided to go walk around town and familiarize myself with everything. I went to the store, bought some ice cream, went in a few book stores etc etc...Brissy is pretty much just a big city with no beach. I'm bummed that there is no beach, but I actually feel pretty comfortable here already. We booked 3 nights in our hostel so we are hoping to find some work in the next few days. I think I'm just going to go walk around and hand out my resume to nearby shops and restaurants. I wouldn't mind sticking around here a little longer but I feel like it might be hard to actually save money here, so it might be wise for me to go to the Outback for a little while and save up there. We shall see.
Since we are all kinda slim on money we decided to stay in the hostel last night and mingle with fellow backpackers. There's a patio/hangout area on the second floor so we went there and met a bunch of people. Alot of them happend to be Australian and lived just an hour away, they were just there visiting some friends. Pretty cool though. I like meeting people from the area because they can give you heaps of advice on what to do and what not to do, so that was good.
Anyway, that's all I've got. I'll be sure to keep updating!
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