quicksilver pro & future music festival

Wow, the past month has flown by so fast!  I remember my first day here was Valentines day!  Last weekend a big group of us went to Future Music Festival in Brisbane…and it was pouring…the whole day.  I managed to get my iphone wet (which is completely broken) and ruined my shorts, shoes and shirt.  Other than that, it was an awesome day.  I didn't want to take out my camera in fear of it breaking (the mud was up to my knees) but here's a video that someone took to show how muddy it was.

After the festival the 16 of us headed back to the hotel in a cab…which we completely ruined with mud.  We all took turns in the shower and ended up going out afterwards, and then slept with 16 people in one hotel room.  It was a little bit brutal, but we're all on a budget. The next day we decided we wanted McDonald's. Someone thought it was really close to our hotel so we started walking. Turns out it wasn't anywhere near our hotel and we walked about 2 miles with all of our luggage just for some fast food.

The weather is getting better day by day! I'm not sure if it has gone a whole day without raining yet but the rain hasn't started until 4 or so the past few days so we have been enjoying the pool while we can.

The Quicksilver Pro (a huge surfing competition) has been going on in Coolangatta at Snapper Rocks the past week and we went a few days ago.  It's probably my favorite beach so far!

Hippie van at snapper rocks

Snapper Rocks

Quicksilver Pro

Me, Rachel & Katie

Loungin on the beach!

It's been an awesome month and we just booked our mid-semester break trip to New Zealand!  We're going to try and travel around the north island for a week (skydiving perhaps?).  

School has been pretty interesting so far. Today a huntsman spider was crawling around on the podium while our teacher was lecturing and I had a little freak out (if you don't know what a huntsman spider is, go look it up). I have a presentation in an hour so I better go!

xx Michelle