Schoolies

Schoolies are high school students that are on vacation for 3-4 weeks (even though it is called "schoolies week") and they have taken over Byron's Bay with their goon bags (cheap box wine that has fish guts in it). I learned last night that they all flock to certain towns at certain times... but they pretty much rule all the beaches. Check it out: http://www.schoolies.com/2010/ or also in the australian daily telegraph: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/schoolies-gone-wild/story-e6freuy9-1225957930162.

So schoolies aside, I'm having a great time in Byron Bay. It's a town where everyone walks around in bare feet and is either coming from or going to the beach. I had my first surfing lesson today and I didn't totally suck, yahoo! Tomorrow I'm going to try again and will snap some photos to post :).

Somehow with all the schoolies in town, I managed to get a room with 3 Irish the same age as me who were on holiday, a fun german guy who had lots of travel tips and 2 aussie girls. Oh and guess what else I found today?! A hoop school... yay. I'm going to a class tomorrow night. Can't wait.

Some new aussie words:

Swimmers - bathing suit
Sunnies - sunglasses
Wettie - wet suit
Singlet - tank top

That's all for now.

~Amanda