Gillian and Tyson
I had that good old empty feeling again a couple nights ago when I had to say bye to Andrea and Renee. They are the 2 dutch girls I met on Fraser that are super cool and then hung out with them again in Byron Bay. I thought the feeling was tough last time, it was harder this time. I'm really going to miss Renee.
Fortunately to help ease the pain, yesterday I was able to hang out with a new friend I met at my hostel, a girl named Gillian from Montreal. It was funny how we met, we both haphazardly were waiting for a random hike to start at our hippie hostel. It's run by the same guy who performs comedy and music acts on the hostel stage.
He was planning to show us how to spear things and make sunblock from plants and other survival stuff like that but not enough people came to the hike, so he showed us how to start fires using the wood on wood method. I got a little bored with that, so then we joined a couple of german people playing beach volleyball. As you guys already know, I have a tough time passing up volleyball games if I'm offered, so I had to join them, and Gillian joined up soon after.
Gillian is just in Australia for a month before she heads to law school. She was really fun to talk to. Very talkative and lively. It's hard to get bored talking to people when you're traveling because everyone is so different and has a completely different past to talk about with you.
At the same time I met up with Gillian, I met a guy from Utah named Tyson. I spent most of today hanging out with him. He's actually in Australia because he works staff for a summer camp for rich kids that is in a different location around the world every year. After his sessions ended he is just finishing up visiting more of the country before he heads back home. We were planning to practice some surfing but the low tide was at 12:40pm, so we decided to just head to the beach to hang out and play some frisbee and wait to surf until later in the day.
We did play frisbee. Tyson is an excellent player. It felt nice to throw it around with somebody better than me, we really made each other run around all over the place. Good exercise for sure. There were a couple of Aussies that were playing football (soccer) so we joined them for a bit but then the balls of my feet started blistering and breaking on the sand because I haven't run so hard barefoot in a really long time, so I had to stop playing soon afterwards.
Tyson and I cooked spaghetti together. It was *really* good. Seriously, we gulped it down like a slurpee in the Sahara desert.
There's a big music festival called Splendour going on this weekend in Byron Bay, so there's a ton of Aussies that have come into town. The place is packed full of people. The supermarket feels like a ant colony inside. I sort of wish I was staying, but of course I can't. I have to get to Sydney to see my cousin and head out to Bangkok.
Fortunately to help ease the pain, yesterday I was able to hang out with a new friend I met at my hostel, a girl named Gillian from Montreal. It was funny how we met, we both haphazardly were waiting for a random hike to start at our hippie hostel. It's run by the same guy who performs comedy and music acts on the hostel stage.
He was planning to show us how to spear things and make sunblock from plants and other survival stuff like that but not enough people came to the hike, so he showed us how to start fires using the wood on wood method. I got a little bored with that, so then we joined a couple of german people playing beach volleyball. As you guys already know, I have a tough time passing up volleyball games if I'm offered, so I had to join them, and Gillian joined up soon after.
Gillian is just in Australia for a month before she heads to law school. She was really fun to talk to. Very talkative and lively. It's hard to get bored talking to people when you're traveling because everyone is so different and has a completely different past to talk about with you.
At the same time I met up with Gillian, I met a guy from Utah named Tyson. I spent most of today hanging out with him. He's actually in Australia because he works staff for a summer camp for rich kids that is in a different location around the world every year. After his sessions ended he is just finishing up visiting more of the country before he heads back home. We were planning to practice some surfing but the low tide was at 12:40pm, so we decided to just head to the beach to hang out and play some frisbee and wait to surf until later in the day.
We did play frisbee. Tyson is an excellent player. It felt nice to throw it around with somebody better than me, we really made each other run around all over the place. Good exercise for sure. There were a couple of Aussies that were playing football (soccer) so we joined them for a bit but then the balls of my feet started blistering and breaking on the sand because I haven't run so hard barefoot in a really long time, so I had to stop playing soon afterwards.
Tyson and I cooked spaghetti together. It was *really* good. Seriously, we gulped it down like a slurpee in the Sahara desert.
There's a big music festival called Splendour going on this weekend in Byron Bay, so there's a ton of Aussies that have come into town. The place is packed full of people. The supermarket feels like a ant colony inside. I sort of wish I was staying, but of course I can't. I have to get to Sydney to see my cousin and head out to Bangkok.
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