Gays and lesbians rule...!

On Friday afternoon Carla and I decided to check out Victoria Park, which is kind of like our backyard (2min walk from Geegal) and found out it´s a really nice park indeed. There´re quite many grass areas there for playing sports and games, a small pond, benches and a swimming pool. We were laying by the pool, getting in there every now and then to cool down and doing some reading for our classes. I think I´ll develop a habit of going to Victoria Park to do uni work so I can enjoy fresh air while I study.

There was a party at the Gumal roof top on Friday night. Tim bought us a bottle of liquor (something cheap, really sweet and Australian - tasted yummy with coffee :P ) and vodka. I´m glad Cameron joined us for the vodka because otherwise we would´ve been wasted. Well, we were anyways ;) This time it was Tim´s turn to make me drink. We started drinking at Geegal and walked to Gumal at around 10pm to spend a couple of hours on the roof top enjoying the beautiful view of night time Sydney. At mightnight (they´re pretty strict about ending parties in time, apparently because of some complaints last year) Tim, Moy, Cameron and I headed to central and ended up going to Star Bar. We had a blast dancing for hours! I can´t remember the last time I´ve danced that much. We had shots of tequila, which is always as exciting as it was the first time I had one when I was 18. Tim was dancing on a small table... At around 3am we walked home, stopping at this bakery for some chocolate pastries on our way, and played some card games in our flat. After Moy and Cameron left Tim and I kept talking till 6am. We were actually agreeing on more things this time.

This is how a girl is treated in Australia :P (Tim, I and Moy)

On Saturday I woke up rather early considering I had gone to bed so late and went to Bondi Beach with a bunch of people from Geegal. The weather was just perfect - sunny and so hot! Unfortunately we could stay only for a couple of hours because the Mardi Gras Parade was on that night. It´s an annual parade of gay and lesbian people and a big thing that as many as half a million people go to see. Most dedicated spectators go there hours earlier to reseve good spots. We didn´t leave until an hour and half before the parade was about to start (the more people you´re going with the more you have to wait for everyone to be ready). Despite of getting there late and standing at a wrong place at first Carla and I managed to get fairly good spots and see most of the parade just fine. It was lots of different groups - political parties, sports teams, work groups (police, firemen), religious groups - walking and showing their best in great costumes. Most groups had also decorated trucks following them and playing music. The parade was definately a thing not to miss!

Beach is an alright place for studying

Rugby team´s truck and motorcycles

A truck sponsored (?) by Ikea

Today I had a nice morning helping Denise with her photography assigment, as a model :) Then we went to a few travel agencies to ask for information about New Zealand and Fiji. I bought my flight tickets to New Zealand, which means I´m going for sure! I and Denise will fly there together on the 10th of April but I´ll have to come back a few days earlier to do a mid semester exam. It really sucks but the exam counts 30% of the grade so I can´t miss it. I also did to a body pump class. I wonder why I´m using considerably less weights here than I did in Finland even though the class is almost exactly the same, following the Les Mills concept. The only possible explonations I can come up with are that it´s either too hot (and humid) there or that we do a lot more singles. From one thing to another, I´m not doing well with my marketing case. I just noticed I´m not using the preferred kinds of references - journals and magazines instead of old books - and I´ve got too little theory. Well, I´ll keep writing it, trying to keep in mind one failure (meaning one low grade) isn´t going to completely ruin my studies.

P.S I´ve added a few pictures to some of my older posts from February.