first few days...

G'day mates. Australia is dank. I love it here. The plane ride from LA to Brisbane was a piece of cake with the help of friends and a sleeping pill. Then the transfer from Brisbane to Cairns wasn't too bad, minus the fact that we lost our luggage on another plane and had to get it delivered to the resort we are staying at later that night. First night in Cairns we went to a brewery with the rest of the whole AustraLearn group and had a free dinner and my first legal beer. It was a good night. The next morning we woke up at 6am to head out to the Great Barrier Reef. It was lookin like a pretty ugly day until we got two hours out into the sea and deep into the reef. We went snorkeling and had to buy these SWEET suits to protect ourselves from the deadly invisible jellyfish they warned us about. The reef was beautiful and enormous. My favorite part were the amazingly huge clams that were at the bottom of the ocean. It was like straight out of a movie. Some of them were like bright vibrant colors of green and purple, and when you would dive down and swim next to them they would tense up. Crazy. That night was also suuuper fun. We decided to go out into town for dinner at this place called the Wool Shed. Just my luck, we end up going on ladies night where they promised guys in jock straps serving all of the ladies unlimited free champagne. I wanted out of there right when I read that but going with three girls, I knew that we would end up staying there. So we did. It turned out to be pretty awesome. Loud music, dancing on the tables, lights. AND each of the girls would go get some free champagne and bring it back to me and pour it in my cup. It was a beautiful thing. After that we went to another place called PJ's which was more of an expensive bar. We just sat down and started talking to some locals. They explained to us their hate for Americans, but by the end of the conversation, me and Molly convinced them that Americans aren't that bad after all. They even labeled us as "the coolest Americans yet." After that some of the group wanted to go back so we went, but we ended up going out again to this place called Gilligans. This place was DOPE. It was a full fledged club with fun music. Me, Jen, Molly, and my new facebook friend that I met, Luke, danced for a little over an hour till it closed at 2 in the morning. The last song was "Lean On Me." And the second to last song was that one that goes "we live from the land down under, blah blah thunder." Idk, it's from Kangaroo Jack. Watch it. It was a good night and a good song. Gilligans was soooo dope that we are going back tonight. It is supposed to be their biggest party of the year tonight, soooooo that's what's up over here. Oh and things are expensive as hell over here. Gas is 5 bucks a gallon and a regular size bottle of coke is 3 bucks. Cheers.

P.s. Pictures will be coming when I get a better internet signal.