1st Wave

Great day today... got up early and went down to Surfer's Paradise for my first surf lesson. It went relatively good considering it was my first time. I was standing up by the end of it, before I got too tired. 2 hours was enough for me. After a burger by a great beach cafe I hung around to watch some F1 power boat races that happened to be going on that day. Pretty cool to watch in person.

Surfer's Paradise is an interesting place... People from Brisbane sort of despise it because it's been so commercialised. For example they're building the world's tallest residential building there (to along with the other hundred sky scrapers) that will be 80 stories tall.

I was pretty tired after the few hours in the water, but on the way back I decided to stop for a round of golf. I ended up catching up to a threesome of Japenese guys, hilarious to golf with. Their swings were awesome to watch, and everytime I hit a drive they would all ooh and aah in Japenese accents, it was awesome. Not that I hitting that impressively, but they liked it for some reason.

After getting home around 6pm and looking at my empty fridge I called up a friend and went to his place for a bbq. The food was excellent, and the 2 other couples he had over were pretty funny too.

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Driving in on the left side of road has gone relatively well. The main difficulty has come in navigating Brisbane roads. Street signs are optional as far as I can tell, so I've taken a few "long-ways" to places. But that's been alright too, I've got to see some suburbs I normally wouldn't have went to...