We're Bondies Now
This place is A-Maze-Zing. Seriously we got here after Australearn left us and 2 others at the Brisbane airport for an hour. We ended up taking a bus with a bunch of Bond students from Boston that were a lot of fun and call the liquor store a "packy". Weird. So when we finally got to Bond we were tired and it was raining but we we're too excited to let all of that bother us. Varsity Towers, where we live, is across the lake from campus and about a 7 min walk to anywhere else. Ally's room (which she has yet to sleep in yet) is on the 4th floor on the lake. It'll be a pretty nice make out spot on my balcony when she actually gets someone up there. The last picture is a view from Amanda's room of Surfer's Paradise which is party/nightlife central.
We christened Bond pretty fast when a combination of a late night two hour bus adventure and full bladders ended with us peeing in the lake. Luckily the event is heavily documented. Sorry no video.
We've gotten pretty settled in here and made a lot of really great friends. When we are not out exploring the wonderfulness of Australia we are usually doing 1 of 2 things: big parties in small rooms or watching Lost the best television show known to man. We finished the 1st season is 3 or 4 sittings. We could have done it in one but for the sake of health standards and fire codes we refrained.
Sign left on the stairwell to prepare the troops before viewing LOST
Kelly's Birthday Party...Ally not pictured for some mysterious reason.
Waiting for bus
After making a very large investment in two "push bikes" and all of the accouterments we now are fully free to go anywhere in a 10km radius. All of our friends here have bikes to so we have developed the "RIDE OR DIE" biking club/gang. It's pretty serious. All I can say right now is that graffiti and a website are in ROD's very near future. Check back for updates. Anyways, here's some of the women of ROD on the left. Kelly had the first "major" ROD injury with a gnarly foot injury. The verdict is still out on what it is but if looks could kill...
From left: Hulk, Cannibal, Pike. Kelly eats junk on an all too routine ride home from Burleigh beach house.
One secret we've found while here at Bond is the free bus and free drink trick. Bond puts on a lot of events that start on campus at the on campus pub, Don's. Everyone pays money to get into Don's and then after a few hours there are bused down to Surfers Paradise. We've discovered the time that the bus leaves Bond and have just gotten into the big group and jumped on the bus. They even hand us free admission and free drink coupons as we are getting on to The Drink, the local club in Surfers. So a it's a relatively free night and fun as well.
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