Saturday August 28th and Sunday August 29th

Saturday morning we had off, so my friend David and I went downtown to the Travelers at Work office to work on our resume and start applying to jobs.  The office is a great resource for backpackers to find short term work anywhere in Australia.  You can also check their online job site, which is where I found one of my jobs.  After job searching I met up with Mel, a younger girl in my sorority at Coogee Beach.  We talked for a while and I heard all about their Sydney Uni experience so far.  She is actually taking one of the same classes I took, and with the same professor! I should have brought back some of my papers for her, even though that is the class I did the worst in : (  After that I got some sushi with another friend from OzIntro, and the whole group showered and got ready for a crazy night out on the town!  We had the OzParty Bus for the night, and I had no idea what I was in for.  We had to pick a theme, so the boys picked neon, and thanks to Pi Phi and my new shirt Leanne got me in Hawaii, I had plenty of neon to wear.  The boys also bought some neon face pens, so we went all out in neon!

The bus came and picked us up right outside the hostel, and it was a rave on wheels! Techno blasting, lights flashing, and they crammed as many people as possible into the bus.  From there we went to Darling Harbor, to a bar called Wallaby, and we were greeted with fireworks shooting from a boat in the middle of the harbor.  It was perfect! I guess it was a Darling Harbor celebration or something, but we like to think they had the fireworks for us!  We went on to 4 more bars, Scary Canary, Scubar, Side Bar, and then The Gaff again.  It was a long night, and in between every bar we were dancing and sweating on the bus!  It was a very memorable night, and we took a ton of pictures, so I will share some here!

On Sunday, I woke up with little bit of a hangover, but I got myself up and moving and Chris and I went to Bondi Beach to sit and watch the waves and go to the market.  It was nice, but suddenly got very cold, so I headed back to Coogee to get ready for our final dinner with the OzIntro group.  We had dinner up in the Sydney Center Point Tower, which is the tallest building in Sydney.  The tower has four or five levels, and one of them is a a dinner buffet. The views were spectacular, especially at night.  It was fun for me to

try to point out all the different areas of Sydney.  But the height and the fact that the entire restaurant slowly rotates, so you get 360 degree views, I wasn't as hungry as I wish I was for an all you can eat buffet.  But I did try the Kangaroo! I never tried it last time, so I had to give it a go.  It tastes like dry beef.  Not the best meat I have had, but I am glad I finally can say I have tried Kangaroo!  The best part of the entire dinner was the dessert, I had amazing cheesecake and chocolate brownie.  But when we got back to the hostel, I of course had a tummy ache and had to immediately down some pepto!  That always happens to me, oh well, I had to indulge on my last night.  The dinner (not the after dinner) was the perfect way to end an amazing week.  I definitely recommend OzIntro to anyone that wants to meet amazing people, and do the most touristy things in Sydney.  I am so happy I ending up doing the program because it was one of the best weeks of my life!  But now I am getting ready for the real world, working and making more money so I can spend it on some more amazing touristy weeks around Australia.