Next week

I've booked a few things for my last week in Australia! A flight from Brisbane to Melbourne on the 11th, a day trip on the Great Ocean Road WITH HELICOPTER FLIGHT on the 12th and a flight from Sydney to Brisbane on the 19th. I'm flying back to Norway on the 20th. The day trip to the Great Ocean Road is way too expensive, even without the helicopter flight, but I want to see it, so I paid for it. Everything here's so expensive. The 2 days, 2 nights sailboat trip I had on the Great Barrier Reef a few weeks ago cost me 420$$$, the skydiving in Cairns cost 300$, and the tour I just booked for the Great Ocean Road costs 200$. Put hostels, restaurants and flights on top of that and you get a good recipe for getting broke. Very broke. But I love travelling, and I think experiences like these are money well spent, even though I wouldn't mind it if it was a little bit cheaper. When I google tours like these they call it "budget tours". Ha ha.

So now I'm just waiting for an answer from Aviv, a girl from Israel who's somewhere between Alice Springs and Adelaide. She will arrive in Melbourne on the 13th. I hope that we can have some fun together in Melbourne and Sydney, even though she has a broken toe, poor girl.

For this weekend I'm thinking of going to the cinema with Marte and Lene from my class and maybe to an amusement park called Dream World with Maria and Elin, also from my class. I think all of us need a break from the computer lab. Marte and Lene have been on the (fake) beach every morning since they came back to Brisbane this weekend, and I could've joined them if I wanted, but I just don't understand how people would want to lie on the beach when it's nearly 40 degrees outside. Pfff... My eyes run dry, my skin burns and my clothes feel like a wetsuit every time I go outside for a coffee or a meal. To go in and out of the computer lab is a big temperature shock! The difference must be at least 15 degrees celcius! I'd rather stay where I am, even when it means writing an essay.