September 6

My class had a field trip today! We went to MovieWorld on the Gold Coast. It's called "Hollywood of the Gold Coast". Very cheesy. And like a miniature version of Universal Studios. With like 6 roller coasters. Lame. So I had to wake up early, go to the bus, called a few classmates to make sure everyone made it to the bus on time, and then we traveled for an hour. Once there, we were split and half the people went into a lecture, the 2nd half had a later lecture. I was in the 2nd group, so we immediately ran for the first ride! It was a Batman ride (like Drop Zone). Quite fun, but we immediately paired off into groups. I hung out with Manuel, Antonella, and Willy (the WINNING team for our awesome water bottles!) After we went on the Batman 2 ride, which was like a really janky version of Star Tours. We all laughed at it and were disappointed we wasted 20 minutes in line!

Then we had our lecture, which lasted an hour and a half!! It sounds like the company who owns the theme park really has their shit together and are great managers, but what was the point!? Anyway, by the time we got out, it was already almost 1pm and we only had until 3pm!! So we decided to forgo lunch to squeeze in some rides! We went to their version of Splash Mountain and got SOAKING wet. Then went over to Lethal Weapon (read: Top Gun!) That one was great, but hurt my head a little bit. Then over to Scooby Doo's Scary Coaster, but after waiting in line for 5 minutes, they were having technical difficulties, so we left. We tried to go to Superman, but they closed it, too! Very annoying. Then, we went back to Scooby Doo and found some other friends in line and cut with them. It was in the dark and kinda fun for being so silly. We got out just in time to head back to the bus, so I got a sandwich because I was starving and ate it on the way to the bus!

Had a good conversation with Andy and Willy on the way back to Brisbane about colleges in their own countries (Korea and Spain) and why they came here. When I got back to campus, I studied in the library for a bit, but my USB drive broke and needed to be reformatted and then refused to reformat, so I basically wasted my time. It sucked. Went home feeling a little defeated. Made some dinner and then worked on a group project until 1am. =(

Here are some photos from MovieWorld:

I love that I have met so many people of different nationalities. My favorite people are in the photo above: Jane (Thailand), Antonella (Italy), Willy (Spain), Andy (Korea), me (USA) and Manuel (Mexico). Not pictured is Hans from Taiwan!