surf camp

Sorry i havent updated or even emailed anyone for a while, we went to surf camp for 4 days on monday morning and we were in a really remote area down a massive hill so there was no internet or signal at all.

Surfing is SO INTENSE. i dont think iv ever done so much exercise in my life!! after the first day we were all absaloutly knackered, every bone and muscle in my body ached, we were in bed by 8.30 on the first night, thats just how tiring it was! and the second night was meant to be the big crazy piss up night (we all trekked up the mega hill to this old peoples bowling alley- come - bottleo, it was so wierd) and we ended up playing this mental drinking game called tippy cups with these americans and these absaloutlely crazy metalhead swedish guys... but we ended back at camp by like half 10 haha. Every other day we ended up kipping between surfs, otherwise i dont think id have managed at all!

Tippy Cups, 1 - 2 - 3:

The first two days we had to surf IN THE RAIN.... can u believe it! It was still good though, i mean ur pretty much wet anyway so it doesnt matter and apparantly surfers love weather like that cuz the waves obviously get much bigger. By wednesday tho the weather was gorgeous and we all now have lovely tan lines on our arms and legs from the wetsuits. We were out in the water for 4 hours a day so we were pretty paranoid bout burning, and i had bought this suncream the other week that i thought was awful cuz it was proper white and just never rubbed in but the instructor told us it was actually like the best stuff u can buy - white zinc stuff, u just spread it on and dont rub in, so u look a bit of a knob with a mega white face, but theres no chance of burning. So by the third day we were all out there ripping up the waves with our big snowmen faces... i have some amusing photos ill get up soon!!

Surfing is actually surprisingly easy - i stood up in the first session! its hard to improve though... like, once uv got the knack its ok, but i dont think i got any better than that during the other three days. And its so rough on ur body, u have to use every single muscle, and worse than that the surf boards absaloutly rip up ur skin, i have rashes and bruises all over my body from being battered by the waves and scratching myself on the surf board. got whacked in the face a couple of times too and collided with steph once and ended up basically squashed underwater between her bum and the sand. not very nice. ooh also! from being battered around so much by the waves i think i must have inhaled tones of water thru my nose without realising, cuz at one point a couple of hours after a surf i was back in our hut thing and i bent down to pick something up, and a massive stream of water flew out my nose!! tell u something, saltwater makes ur nose run, we were all snotty as hell and monging out, but i knew my nose wasnt THAT runny. then it kept happening whenever i went in a funny position and it was pretty embarassing, it must have been draining out of my brain or something so im glad i got it out. that afternoon i had a little nap though, and i woke up and water was trickling out onto my pillow! blergh!!

Anyway, yesterday we got back to sydney and went to this 'porno themed' party which we were all pretty dubious about but the guys at surf camp said if we wore our surf camp tshirts wed get free alcohol and pizza so we thought what the hell, and it was ok we managed to get like 2 free jugs of beer and then more all night for like $7 dollars which is well cheap! the whole porno thing was a bit of a flop though, the only people dressed up vaguely sexual were the people that worked there and they just looked totally embarassingly cringey.

Today 7 of us moved into a house in Ultimo - which is an area just near darling harbour, and 5 mins walk from central station, its a really great place. The house is pretty massive, living with something like 16 other people i think... got a pool and stuff tho, its really cool. Have yet to meet all the people but they all seem cool.