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Today was a bit of a down day unfortunatly :-( Knew I would have days like it though so am just accepting it wasn't great haha! Made the walk back to Wake Up and arrived at about 11. Had a shower (lovely showers there which is good!) and washed my hair then half dried it and put it up. Think my day was dissapointing as I had had a plan which didn't turn out. Had heard there was a surf festival at Bondi Beach and really wanted to go, the others had sounded up for it too. Thought we would be going at lunchtime and maybe be back at about 5 so I could pack and go online then get an early night. Anyway, the good part of the day was that it was a lovely lovely day. At 12 I started to walk to the bus stop. I stopped off on the way at the Ox Experience office to check I was booked on and check what time I had to be picked up.... 6am! Thought it was 7.15 for some reason so that was a shock! The girl was nice though and said I was definately booked on which was good to hear. I was planning to be brave and go ahead of the others to Bondi as they didnt know when they'd be ready and I really wanted to see the surf comp, but thought on the way I would look round some shops as Danielle had told me where some good ones were. By the time I got to the bus stop at 1 I got a text saying Ross had to drop some stuff at his firends, then him and Danielle would come and meet me, so I decided to wait in Hyde Park. I didn't mind at first as it was lovely and sunny but I wish I had brought a magazine or something! Thought they wouldnt be too long but hadn't heard from them after an hour... at 2 I got a text saying Ross was going to put some washing on then come down so decided I'd keep waiting.... It wasn't till 3 I heard from them again, saying Ross was going to meet back up with Danielle and James and they'd all come and meet me. It wasn't until 4 that I met them! Ross had got chatting to his friend and Danielle had been uploading photos on the computer then made lunch with James. So I definately should have gone down on my own earlier, but obviously it made sense to me at the time to wait for them. So yeah, got the bus to Bondi which seemed to take forever! Didn't get there till half 5 (I had wanted to be back at Wake Up byt then!) and it loooked lovely as always, but as soon as we got there the sun went in. Because I had been in the sunshine all day I was really really cold! Got down to the surf festival area ..... and it had finished. I was sooooooooo gutted. So we sat on the beach chatting but I was really cold and feeling pretty down. I was really worrying about getting on the Oz Experience - just thinking about how different it is going to be to Kiwi.... Rather then one gorup of people go somewhwere, stay, then all move on the same day with the same driver, one driver drives as far as he can each day and people get off and on along the way. So you don't bond as a group or with your driver, both which were what I thought made Kiwi so great. Also you are supposed to book your own accomodation which means going online everytime and having to decide where you wanna stay. This will be fine when I meet people but at my first stop, for example, I don't want to book in somewhere, the meet people who all say they've booked somewhere different. So I am blagging my first stop and going with everyone else and hoping there is space.... if people even get off at the same place as me! As there are so many random stops and only about 5 compulsory overnight stops people might be getting off anywhere! Don't want to keep making friends then losing them! Just hoping there will be nice people in my position that I can stick with and deicde what do to together. Wont let it stop me doing my own thing though (like not going to the beach early!) haha. Just feeling Kiwi Ex on my own would have been absolutely fine, but Oz is maybe the better one to do with a friend. Also, I am a bit worried becuase I have been with these guys since I got to Sydney and have become close to them so it will be the first time since I have been away that I will be properly on my own, apart from the airport and the flight to Sydney which weren't great haha! So yeah feeling pretty worried. Felt soo cold on the beach too, so was glad to leave at half 6. Got the bus back and said bye to Danielle and James which was sad, then I walked with Ross back to central station (he was staying with a friend nearby and its next to Wake Up) then said bye to him. Got to Wake Up, had a shower, dried and striaghtened my hair then went to the room and packed. Got into bed at half 7, set my alarm for 5.25 and read my book then went to sleep at 9.... Was woken up at 11 by people very noisely coming in and turning the lights on. When they realized I was asleep and remembered my early start they said sorry and they'd be going straight out so I didn't relax again as I was waiting for them to go. Couldn't have anyway, they are not really my sort of people, the 3 boys were really immature and going on and on about sex trying to be cool and the 23 year old was encoraging them big time. It was really really cringey and I felt like I was 14 again! Realllllly wanted to sleep but the two other guys (Josh, who I had walked to Wooduck with the other day and his brother) got back from a festival they had been too at 11.30 then they all didn't go out till 1!! Me, Josh's brother and the other guy in the room, Pete, didn't go out. When Josh's bro said he was gonna watch a film I thought I may aswell as it would keep me up anyway haha but i got bored so went to bed half way through. Get ready for a bad start to the next blog...
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