17 Sept 2012, 11:01
R***!
Australia
Australia…. Initially, I was uncertain how I felt being there, my presence supporting another ongoing system destroying an indigenous population through processes that continue to distance the collective conscience from their humanity…but then I got to Melbourne, and we took turns driving over to Sydney, and in both places there were such delightful restaurants and cafes. So I ate Thai food instead of caring about the plight of the aboriginals who continue to suffer unmerciful injustices at the hands of the invaders (I could live in Thai food).
We did all the touristy “Best things to do in Melbourne, Sydney, Alice Springs, Cairns” but the highlight was eating a kangaroo burger in Victoria, Durras Lake North Holiday park’s population of kangaroos (below), and camping under the stars giving the sky dimensions in Cairns, for our rock tour.
Kangaroo burgers. (Who noticed the Joey?)
Trip Information you Wanted
Flight Information
Sunday, August 5th
Cairns – Ayers Rock
10:35-12:55
Qantas QF1859
Thursday, August 9th
Alice Springs-Melbourne
11:40-14:45
Qantas QF797
**On each flight we are allowed 1 piece of checked luggage weighing up to 23kg**
From Melbourne Airport to the Nunnery, we can take a Starbus shuttle from the Qantas Terminal. It costs $17 per person.
Lodging Information
Cairns Aug.2-4 (3 nights)
Traveller’s Oasis
8 Scott Street · Cairns, QLD 4870 Australia
Phone: 1800 621 353 (free within Australia) Outside: (+61) 7 4052 1377
Alice Springs Aug. 7-8 (2 nights)
Toddy’s
41 Gap Road, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia, 0870
Phone: 1800 027 027 (free within Australia) Outside: +61 (0)8 8952 1322
Melbourne Aug. 9-11 (2 nights)
The Nunnery
Phone: 1800 032 635 (free within Australia) Outside: +61 3 9419 8637
Lakes Entrance Aug. 12 (1 night)
Allambi Holiday Apartments
34 Carpenter St Lakes Entrance 3909 Victoria, Australia
Phone: 03 51551199
Bateman’s Bay Aug. 13 (1 night)
Durras Lake North Holiday Park
57 North Durras Road, P.O Box 410, Batemans Bay, New South Wales, Australia
**Do not take the South Durras turnoff. You do not have to pay the National Park entry fee**
Sydney Aug 14-16 (3 nights)
Backpackers HQ
174 Victoria St, Kings Cross, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Phone: +61 2 93564551
Melbourne: The Nunnery to Hertz Car Rental 1.6km, 21min
Sydney Hertz Car Rental to Backpackers HQ. 900meters, 13min
After Australia
Then I was running up and down corridors after returning from Australia, busy with: seminar preparation, English camps, contract signing ceremony (a popular Japanese style of wasting time), party at mine (two weeks ago, Friday)…so, exhausted I was. The day after the party, I went to Osaka to spend a week sleeping late, going to Spa World [hot springs where you get naked with hundreds of other men] and didn’t have to worry about preparing my own meals (I may tell you about that later).
Funny Weird Friend
H**** and I speak the same language (you’ll notice the number of photos of her I posted to Facebook of us in Australia).
She says things like: “I kidnapped her and forced her to play naked in the woods – a game I called ‘fairies’. And they found us at the church.” Here, in response to me saying “Tell me a story”, she was talking about a friend who was subsequently forbidden by her mother from ever talking to her again.
Drunk Make Out
I told X**** at the sayonara party in July (after we’d made out) that I couldn’t understand it…why this impulse whenever I was drunk when, sober, she drove me crazy? (She knows I’ll seduce her brother, but she’s a great kisser). She understood that to mean she drove me Beyoncé’s ‘Crazy in Love’. My words were unable to reach her across the chasm between us.
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