Showing posts with label sydney. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sydney. Show all posts

Tuesday, 27 January 2009

Day 104 The story of Zippy

19th January 2009

Zippy

Day 104

Final day in Sydney today and I went for a stroll up to Circular Quay to take some pictures of my Zippy doll (from Rainbow) to put on the group 'Kelly and Zippy go travelling' on Facebook.

To explain, before I came away my friends Jennie gave me one of her Zippy toys to travel with. OK so maybe it doesn't make much sense. Anyway we have Zippy in Japan pictures and now Zippy in Oz pictures.

I'm looking forward to going to New Zealand but it doesn't feel real yet. Just chilling out before I leave tomorrow. At night I couldn't sleep so I sat in front of the TV. It was all quiet until these two people burst in. They were so good entertainment!

There was a guy from South Africa and a girl from America. Both were drunk.

The girl kept saying how everyone in the world in beautiful and we should tell everyone they are beautiful and we should all just be ourselves and love ourselves, etc, etc you get the idea.

The guy was chatting a lot of rubbish really then exclaimed that most people think he is a preacher and when the girl asked why he paused for a while and said, 'because I make people think and that is a gift'. God knows how anyone would be able to think if it wasn't for him. We have a lot to be grateful for for him giving us the gift of thought. Then they rolled a joint and went outside.

I'm going to miss random drunk people!

Day 103 Title shmitle

18th January 2009

Erm, no title

Day 103

So today I watched an episode of Red Dwarf at the hostel. There hasn't been much partying that I've been participating in since the incident hence much, much longer blog entries that go further than, 'Today I was hungover' and with my new spare time expand into something that looks more like an essay concerning new adopted attitudes towards life and conversing with drunk people - more specifically intoxicated young males.

In the hostel is where most of my time is being spent. Tonight I read my book (Tess of the D'Urbervilles) in front of the TV. A drunk Swede stood directly in front of me and started discussing Sydney. It was as if he had just been in a conversation with someone else who had just left so he was continuing the conversation with me. He just jumped right in there!

He was telling me the impressions of the city (not that I asked) then when he finished he smiled like a simple child, and walked off. Drink, eh?

Day 102 The mystery of the warm, wet dripping

17th January 2009

The mystery of the warm, wet dripping

Day 102

The Italian guy in my room snores. It is really loud, then sometimes he starts choking - then it's back to snoring again. Woke me up several times.

The I heard a big thud. The Canadian guy on the bunk above me fell out of his bed. Everyone woke up. He said he was ok but was moaning 'ow' as he limped out of the room to go to the toilet. We would have all been in stitches if we weren't so tired.

I went back to sleep but was woken up again. I heard something rustling and thought a rodent was in a carrier bag on the floor. I shook the bag to see what the noise was but felt that it was wet. Then I noticed it was a drip coming from the ceiling. It was warm water from something upstairs that was dripping on the carrier bag in big blobs and making the noise.

So I moved the bag and all my stuff to one side so it wouldn't get wet and went back to sleep.

In the morning, most people had left the room. It was just me, Vlad, Sarah and a big wet patch on the floor. I told them about the dripping and they looked at me funnily. I knew what they were thinking - they thought that it was piss, more specifically piss from the drunk Canadian guy in the bunk bed above me taking a leak from his bed at night - maybe to avoid falling out of bed again whilst trying to get down. 'It wasn't piss!' I said. It definately wasn't though, I knew for sure. We started to guess where the water had come from and wondered if one of the washing machines in the room above us had broken down and leaked in the night.

Later that day, Sarah went to put some washing on and noticed that the laundry wasn't in the room above us. Above us was another bedroom and they had no idea about anything leaking or being spilt in the night. They asked Sarah if it could be piss. I said that maybe a pipe burst in the night and that could be it. Housekeeping came in soon after and I asked them if the dripping and the water mark on the floor could be from a burst pipe. They said there were no pipes in the ceiling above. They said, 'are you sure it's not piss?'.

Oh man I know the difference between a slow drip coming from the ceiling and someone taking a leak. Maybe we'll never find out what it was, unless the Canadian guy says he urinated from the top bunk which will mean I definately don't know the difference. And also will mean I touched his urine.

I'm sure it wasn't though!...

Saturday, 17 January 2009

Day 101 Drunk Boys

16th January 2009

Drunk Boys

Day 101

I think I'm ready to leave Sydney.

Have not been drinking alcohol since the incident. At 10pm I went into my room and there was a party kicking off although 4 out of the 5 people in there I had never seen before (usually it's just the people who sleep in the room that are in there so this was quite odd). The tunes were pumping (good) but someone had spilt goon on my bed (bad).

One Canadian guy was trying to convince me to go out with them. I explained to him why I wasn't drinking and even showed him the huge cut running along the back of my head to which his first reaction was 'nice!' followed by trying to tell me that if I drunk some goon it would make my head feel better... and so the traveller's drinking habits are revealed - but not for me. You can keep your goon Mr. Canadian man. Enjoy your hangover while my head heals (the lump on it is scarily big).

Hoping no more goon would be spilt on my bed sheets I left them to their lil' party and went to watch the film 'Old School' with the other people in the hostel who had their own reasons for staying in on a Friday night. Needless to say, there weren't many of us.

Unluckily for me the Swedish guy who sat next to me on the sofa was drunk and had seen the film many, MANY times before and felt the need to show us how cool he was by saying the punchlines of the jokes in the film before they were due and laughing so loud while eating Crunchy Nut Cornflakes straight from the box. You know this is the guy everyone hates at the cinema.

When the film had finished, a really drunk American guy with a mohican appeared and sat next to me, helping himself to my bottled water before I had a chance to say, 'help yourself'. He demanded to know why I wasn't coming to the bar so I told him about my recent hospital visit to which he replied, 'but if you don't come to the bar we aren't going to be able to make out'. It was amusing but I wasn't convinced and declined the offer. He strangely shook my hand and staggered off.

Day 100 Rethinking Drinking

15th January 2009

Rethinking Drinking and my new Philosophy

Day 100

Well it's been 100 days of travelling! What a milestone.

After my recent trip to hospital though I have been thinking a lot. I'm thinking maybe I shouldn't drink so much. All these forgotten moments and hospital visits are a waste of time and money.

Ok, so lots of funny things happen and people laugh but what's the point if I can't remember any of it. Drink less = remember more. And NO GOON. Just say no to goon (really cheap boxed wine, an Australian thing). Alcohol in excess is bad and leads to bad things. My nose still hurts from the headbutting not long ago and now my head had the biggest, most painful lump on the back with a huge slash across it. It hurts but I suppose that is to be expected.

So after 100 days of travelling I have learnt so much about people, friendship and so forth. Also I have adopted a new philosophy - 'quality and quantity' (when I spoke to my sister on the phone about this she laughed but I'm being serious). The phrase is relevant to so many things in life - drink, food, clothes, dates.

It is scary to think about what happened the other night, but I've ended up in hospital before like the time I got hit by a bus or when I woke up in hospital in Portugal. All alcohol related. Well not just from drinking alcohol but from drinking in severe volumes. It's not good.

Although a lot of people find my stories funny and all, it's not worth it and almost always leads to truoble. Or in my case - hospital.

Day 99 The 'Hose Guy'

14th January 2009

The 'Hose Guy'

Day 99

My head hurts. Throbbing from the incident last night. People in my room were shocked about the whole thing and some were laughing about what I did when I was drunk. Vlad said the 'hose guy' thing was so funny and was laughing. I was confused 'what hose guy?' I asked. As I couldn't remember he told me-

When I got in the room I needed sme water so Vlad gave me his and I drunk it all, so Aimee gave me an empty water bottle and told me to fill it up in the wash room sink, as the kitchen was closed. A few minutes later, I came back in the room with no water in the water bottle but instead I was covered in water - all down my front! Everyone asked why I was soaking wet and I said that a man with a hose was walking around the hostel and spraying people with water. I said it happened a lot and he makes me angry. Everyone was confused and like, 'WTF? Who is this man?' so Aimee took the empty water bottle and went to fill it up herself. When she came back in the room with a filled up water bottle she was laughing. She was in the wash room filling up the bottle when a girl turned to her and said that some drunk girl just came in the wash room and tried to fill up a water bottle in the shower and in the process got covered in water!

Oh my God everyone was in stitches and I sat there giggling apparently. Vlad said it was the funniest thing he'd ever heard.

Day 98 Hello I'd like an ambulance please

13th January 2009

Kelly goes to hospital

Day 98

Had a nice chilled day and went to the quiz at Side Bar in the evening. Drunk a lot of goon with Aimee and Sarah.

To get to the point, I was out with a group of friends at about 1am ish and we were playfighting in the street when one guy grabbed my ankles and pulled them from under me. I fell back and cracked my head on the pavement. The playfighting stopped and I sat on the floor for a while, holding the back of my head. The guy kept apologising and I said that I would be ok then I took my hands from the back of my head and they were covered in blood.

I was in a lot of pain and they called an ambulance. The paramedics put a bandage around my head and took me to hospital. In the hospital, I was sitting around for ages so I spoke to the nurse on the front desk and she had a look at my head and was unsure if I needed stitches or not. She said I could go home but if the wound was still open in the morning I had to come back to have stitches.

Day 97 Fire alarm

12th January 2009

Fire alarm

Day 97

Not the best nights sleep. At 5am a fire alarm went off in the hostel. There was a moment we all woke up and waited for the first person to make a move, all silently hoping the alarm would be turned off but on realising that it was not going to be turned off anytime soon we made for the fire escape. There was so many people out on the street. The hostel has 7 floors of rooms with about 8 rooms on each floor. There was a load of sleepy travellers standing out in the street in their pajamas, not impressed.

Fire engines and fire fighters turned up, and it took ages for them let us back in. I have no idea if there was a fire or someone was smoking in their room but after half an hour of standing in the street they let us back in.

We eventually got back to sleep and in the morning had to check with eachother that it had not actually been a dream.

Today I'm tired.

Day 96 Hungover

11th January 2009

Hungover

Day 96

Hungover. Stayed in and watched a film.

P.S. Notice the correlation between me going on and partying and how much I write in this blog)

Wednesday, 14 January 2009

Day 95 Sydney Festival

10th January 2009

Sydney Festival

Day 95

It's the start of Sydney Festival today! This city has festivals all the time, seriously any excuse and a festival is on.

Tonight is a free show at 7 places all across the city. The first night of the festival is imaginatively called 'Festival First Night'. The guys from my room all went and we took a blanket and chilled in the Domain park drinking goon (very cheap boxed wine - 4 litres for 5 quid!) then went partying afterwards.

Day 94 Hungover

9th January 2009

Hungover

Day 94

Feeling Hungover

Day 93 Out

8th January 2009

Out

Day 93

Was going to stay in tonight. 'Was'.

Aimee (a girl from my room) and I went down to Side Bar for 'one' drink. Bumped into Roz and Rebecca in there and ended up staying out.

Day 92 Wake Up

7th January 2009

Sydney Wake Up

Day 92

Moved to Sydney Wake Up hostel today, it's massive!

Was going to have a quiet night in but ended up meeting some people in my room and going out.

Day 91 Museum

6th January 2009

Museum

Day 91

Today I went to the Australian Museum. It was ok, especially the 'Wildlife Photographer of the Year' exhibition they had on.

Chilled in Hyde Park for a while, and it's off to World Bar tonight. At the moment it's one night in, one night out. Got a load of free drink vouchers to use tonight! Gotta use them all up here in Kings Cross as I am leaving the area tomorrow to move somewhere more central to Sydney and be closer to the action (and away from the dodgy area that is Kings Cross where prostitutes argue in the street with eachother about whose patch they're on).

Tomorrow will be exactly 3 months since I left England. 7 months and 1 week left until I go back home.

Day 90 Hungover

5th January 2009

Hungover

Day 90

A little hungover this morning, but at least I didn't get headbutted last night.

Went to the cinema with Roz and Rebecca to see the film Marley & Me.

Day 89 Fish, Art, Dancing

4th January 2009

Fish, Art, Dancing

Day 89

Went to the fish market this morning with Michaela, Nicola, Lindsay and some Dutch girl from my new hostel whose name I can't remember and couldn't pronounce.

Then I went to the Museum of Contemporary Arts, which was great although a little random at times (e.g. headless manequins in African printed Victorian attire performing 'acts' on eachother). Arty.

Met up with Gemma, Katie, Rebecca and Erik in Side Bar at night for a few (quite a few) drinks and was the only person on the dancefloor.

Wednesday, 7 January 2009

Day 88 Swollen

3rd January 2009

Swollen

Day 88

Woke up and my nose was swollen, then I remembered that someone had headbutted me last night.

Was chatting to some people at the hostel and remember slightly what happened when I got back in (v. drunk) last night. Some guy at my hostel had taken a video of me on his phone last night and I watched it back. It was so funny! Can't really explain but it involved lots of random talk and ended with me jumping on a mans back in the street. The guy with the phone said it was the funniest thing he'd ever seen.

It made me so happy. I can't believe how happy I am recently, even though I'm hungover to fuck and my nose hurts.

Day 87 Ouch

2nd January 2009

Ouch

Day 87

Went to Sydney Aquarium today with Lindsay, Nicola, Michaela and Rebecca. Feeling so good today, I love Sydney and am having such a great time here.

Then at night I went to a bar in Kings Cross called Madam DeBiers and I was headbutted.

A crazy fat chick at the bar headbutted me because apparently I bumped into her.

Day 86 1st Jan 2009 - hungover

1st January 2009

Hungover

Day 86

So hungover this morning. Never mind that - last night was probably the best night out I've ever had. Carlsberg don't make nights out, but if they did...

Went to the cinema today with the guys from last night. No drinking today though.

Day 85 NEW YEARS EVE

31st December 2008

NEW YEARS EVE
Day 85

Everyone from my hostel shot off this moprning (as early as 6am) to get a good spot to watch the fireworks from. I didn't need to go though as have booked a CRUISE ON THE HARBOUR! How fucking mint is that? There's 7 of us going who were all on the surf camp. Check these pics-