Australia Day 2

Friday, February 13th-
With a laundry list of things to accomplish, we left the hostel by 9:45 headed for campus to attend two arrival information sessions that were back to back from 10:30-1:00. These sessions were a more or less a waste of our time but we did learn more about campus and what was at our disposal. We went to the library to do some apartment hunting but after an unsuccessful hour of internet searching we grabbed some lunch and then headed back to the room. With a few hours to kill before we were supposed to meet up with a family for dinner, Lauren and I decided to take a quick nap. What was supposed to be an hour power nap ended up being 3.5 hours and sleeping through our rendezvous with the family. The jet lag had finally set in. We felt terrible for missing dinner but it was more lack of communication than our overextended nap that messed us up, so plans were successfully made for the next night and we proceeded to get ready to go back out. A short bus ride later we found ourselves in the middle of Sydney city center in a place called The Rocks. There our mission was to find Alexis, my visiting friend who has spent the last 6 or so months teaching English in South Korea. We met up with her in a club/bar that was unlike any I have ever seen. It was 2 stories with 4 or more bars, an outdoor courtyard in the middle towards the entrance, and a dj in a glass box that was suspended from the ceiling. I ordered a drink that in Boone would cost around 5 or 6 dollars and when the bartender handed it to me and told me the price I must have looked like I saw a ghost fly out of my glass. 18 dollars later, I learned my lesson to always ASK the bartender how much a drink is before ordering. Needless to say, it was the only drink I had all night. With a few more excursions around the city, we made it back to our hostel fairly early with Alexis by our side. Our much-needed sleep was delayed by an accidental room lock-out, but all was well and we were fast asleep by 3.