Wollongong

A couple days ago I left Batemans Bay and went to Wollongong, a little college town south of Sydney. I got to the hostel, and it was this massive old Victorian era building. It was run by a family who also lived there and the backpackers staying there were nuts. It was party central. At night we all got stinko and then me, a pom and a kiwi went to a club for drinks and dancing. Earlier in the day I also won 5 bucks on the poker machines, woo. The club was kind of a meat market which was annoying, it was more fun just drinking at the hostel. The next morning I got up and the aussie, a german and I did jaeger shots. I couldn't refuse free booze. So before noon I had 3 shots of jaeger and a beer and was nice and buzzed. I checked out and met up with my host for the night from couchsurfing.com he is a really chill Swedish ranga and he took me around town and stuff. Around dusk we went to the ocean for a swim. There were definitely jellyfish in the water, lots of them were washed up on shore, but they weren't the kind that hurts. Swimming in the ocean at dusk was really fun, and the coast was really beautiful.

After that, we went to a brewery that I spotted on the walk down. They had pretty cheap beer, live music and it was nice and chill atmosphere. My host Simon new a bunch of people there so we got a pretty good sized group, and one of the girls from that group that knew Simon knew someone in the headlining band. I guess they were getting paid in beer and food, but the guy didn't drink so he just got pitchers and gave them out to his friends. I ended up getting a lot of free beer and pizza out of it. Pretty sweet! Then I watched the band and they were REALLY GOOD! I have seen a lot of live music since I got here but this band was amazing. It reminded me a lot of early White Stripes, so I bought there cd. It is a good listen! Afterwards we went back home and crashed. I woke up a bit hung over today and went to the bus stop and came to Sydney. I am staying in a hostel in a bad part of town tonight, then going to stay with someone from couchsurfing.com til Tuesday, then I reckon I will be done with Sydney again and head up the coast. I am thinking of going to the beach for a swim now. I have about a million pictures to put up on facebook sometime too. Dunno about the internet here though.