Well, this week is over and it has gone pretty good at last. On Tuesday I delivered the first assignment, in a hurry but well, on wednesday I had the exam and I think I did pretty well too (although I dont like to say how I feel about an exam because I am so bad predicting ...) and yesterday we had a presentation! 20 min for me and 20 min for Dani (Thank God....) I started and at the begining I was quite nervous and I was talking incredibly fast ... Dani continued with the presentation and then I finished it with the last examples and this part was much better than the first one, I spoke slowly and as clear as I can and I am proud of the results (maybe the oral communication classes and the eurotop conference did some effect on me at last!!!) After that I went to Dani's place to have lunch. He cooked lentils (in spanish lentejas con chorizo) which was excellent (and he said it was his first time!!!!) and we went shopping for a bit, cause next week its the residence ball and we have to be fabulous, formal and fashionable jejeje I already have a dress but some people dont. Firstly we went to Bway shopping center where we didnt find anything suitable or cheap ... Then we went to paddys market (the chinese market, cheaper) and we found some clothes to him. I bought a jacket for the winter (very warm and was quite cheap!) and Dani bought a suit jacket, a pair of shoes, a sweater and a pair of jeans which fitted very good on him :P Then I came back home to sleep for a couple of hours, and as every Thursday night we went to Nude, where we found Ricardo, back from Fiji with a nice sun tan 5-days beard and short pants, and after Nude we obviously went to Side Bar.
So now lets go back to Tasmania again ......
Day 4 (April 11th)We left Lauceston to go up north to the natural parks. At first we stopped in a look out where we took the traditional group photos:
And then we went to a beach. That beach reminded me a lot of Abel Tasman park in New Zealand. Actually I had a video walking in the beach where I say "It reminds me a lot to New Zealand Carlos, lets see if theres any little crabs", do you remember Carlos? jejejeje It was a huge beach and nobody except us was there. We took loads of pictures and then we went somewhere else in the park.
Finally we took some photos of our shadows and guess who are them (jejeje no porno or cuucumbers in the beachhhh boys ):
And then we got to the cars
and continued the trip to the north (the last point of the day was stanleys nut). We stop for lunch near there and we took a little siesta (just ten clock minutes efficiently timed by Ricardo :P
And then we finally ended up in Stanleys nut, which was a very little town, as dead as all the towns in Tasmania but a cable car ? (I dont remember the exact word) that takes you up to the nut where you can have striking sights. We took the "cable car" to go up
After that we went to look for the hostel. Firstly we didnt have any night booked but we decided to change the night and spend it in Cradle Mountain National Park. It was a cozy YHA, in the middle of nowhere, and all the rooms where cabins. As I drove all the morning, it was Silvias turn so she took us to the YHA. The road was really tough, and there werent any signals! Thank God we had the GPS because we could have got lost very easily. While we were driving, we were talking about how many dead animals we had found on the road: wallabies, possums, rabbits ... Then ... Suddenly a big fat ass possum decided to cross the road in front of our car! crashhh!!! aaaaah!!!!! Silvia did really well and she hold the wheel thightly and we kept driving. We have murdered a possum ( a possum its like a bit fat rat, with the size of a small dog maybe). We where shocked, like cryin and laughing at the same time and 5 minutes later ... a wallabie decided to commit suicide and tried to cross the road in front of our car again! patapam!!! he left his life doing "la croqueta" ... poor thing ... Few minutes before arriving to the YHA the on fire car hit another wallabie, but it was kind of soft compared to us ... Once we arrived there we looked at the car and it was really ... mmmm ... you can imagine ... The Yha was really nice, and we stayed in cabins of four. We have dinner and we went for a walk (in pyjama) to the middle of nowhere. Then we came back, we drank a little bit more of lambrusco australiano (you can imagine ... ) and we played psychologist and the bottle and truth or dare (like if we were kids in a camp jejejeje) and we finally went to sleep. I slept really good that night! (maybe because of too much lambrusco! :P) That night we started a chemical experiment on Uri. Manu said that if you put your hand into water while you are sleeping you will pee. Uri said that he didnt believed it and offer himself to prove it. At the end he was right and he didnt pee, although our experimental team tried many times! He sleeps like a baby, nothing disturbs him (how cute jejeje there are videos too!!!):
Day 5 (April 12th)Our journey started in Lake Saint Clair, a really beautiful part of the Cradle Mountain National park, and we took a walk around the lake. It wasnt a really long walk but we stopped a lot to take photos and so.
After the lake, the information center recommended us to go to Montezuma falls, which was 1 hour away from where we were. We stopped to have lunch (fish and chips, I am starting to hate it ... ) and we arrived there. The rain forest was awesome, it remind me a lot of NZ (Te Anau and so) We walked for a bit, not a lot because there were just another hour of light, and we reached some kind of falls (I am not sure if they were the right ones ...)
Then, the light was sone so we went straight to the yha in Strahan, and it tooked a bit to find it even with the GPS! (Tasmania is really disconnected from the world ... seriously ...) The guys went to the groceries and bought some stuff to make spanish tortillas (tortilla de patatas) because we were fed up of doritos and sandwiches ... The tortillas were awesome! and then we played Doctor Love. I wont tell you what it is about ... Maybe some day we will play ;) and we went to sleep, our last sleeping night in Tasmania!
April 13th our last day in TasmaniaOur target today was to reach Russell Falls with enough light. We started quite well, we drove like for ages and we stopped in a national park (Mountfield) to have lunch). I ate a quiche and some salad, and we took some nice pictures of the lake
-Sarah like if she were in the catwalk (sexyyy ;))
-And me:
Then I wanted to stop in the road because I saw some nice signals and I wanted to take the pictures. They were so cuuuuteeeee!!!!
(Be careful with the wombats)
(and with the hedgehog? too)
Look at the road (your never going to find anything like this anywhere in the world)
And we took some more pictures with a signal of "be aware of the kangaroos/wallabies at night or you will crash" and our serial killer car!
Then we took the road again, Silvias time, I had some siesta meanwhile, and we arrived to Russell Falls. It was awesome, wonderful, whatever you want to name it. We didnt have much light of the day left but we went to see the falls from the bottom and from the top:
We came back to the cars when it was already dark. It was scary, cause all the animals started to show up and we were walking and watching some black things moving up and down and running but you couldnt see them clearly!!! In the car park we found another uggly possum like the one we murdered some days before
After that we went to Hobart to have dinner at Mures and spend the time until our flight which was at 6 in the morning. I dont remember many things about this night, not because I was drunk, cause I wasnt drunk, but I slept some big parts of the night. After Mures we went to some Irish pub which name was something with Murphys (like our scruffy Murphys) and then Silvia and me decided to go back to the cars and have some sleep with the blankets we stole :P
the others went to a bakery and then they returned to the car park and started to sing (I dont remember any of that). Then we had to go to the airport, I was so tired so Silvia drove there, and we continued sleeping there until the time for checkin in and returning the cars. We were like a zombie army, and we all sleep in the plane on the way back to Sydney. Once we arrived there we left Quique and Ricardo in the airport (because they were going to Fiji as everyone knows jejeje) and we came back home and slept from 9 am to 4.30 pm!!!
Next day we organized a post Tassie Lunch in Gumal rooftop, and Koldo (as the chef) Uri and Gordon (as pinches) cooked fish at the oven, and we had a wonderful Sunday!
Ok, thats all for now! I am still waiting of more photos and the ones of Sarahs birthday!!! It was a really nice trip guys, you are really great! I enjoyed a lot and I will remember it forever ;) Thanks, kisses
Asun
PS: Dont miss Min Ji 's video about Antonia and the pépinos!!! (in my picasa album)
PS2: I am going to grab some lunch because Ive been writing these post for about two hours!
