Sydney day 2

Okay, so today we were supposed to meet Claudia (our guide) at 9:30 AM. To manage that we got up at 8:30 – just to discover that the internet we bought the day before didn’t work. We really had to fix that because we wanted to meet two friends of mine who were in Sydney, too, and  by the time we actually got it working it was about 9:15 AM – and we hadn’t even eaten yet. We tried to eat as fast as we could, but right after we finished, the fire alarm went off and we got kicked out of the building. Although it turned out to be false alarm (thank pastafari), another half an hour had passed until we were finally allowed to go back to our rooms. That’s why we had a delay of about one hour, and that’s why I was one hour late to meet my friends from Germany. It was so odd to see people I usually only see at school and in classrooms here, on the other side of the world! Because of our delay we only had one hour left before they had to go somewhere (don’t ask me where, I have no idea), so we spent most of that time eating and talking and laughing… it was fun!

After they were gone we went to a wildlife park to see some koalas, kangaroos, emus and lots of other “Australian” things. But although, or maybe also because of, all the animals were so cute and it was exciting to finally see them in real life, it was horrible to see that they were all in cages, behind fences or somewhere in between a bunch of screaming, pointing, chatting, loud and ignorant humans. All the people just treated them like… things, like UFO’s or aliens.

The kangaroos and emus were able to run between us, but the kangaroos just stayed behind their wooden fence (can't blame them for that...). The emus on the other hand walked through the gates all the time and one time I got punched aside from the back by one! I thought that it was one of those really annoying kids that were screaming and crying all the time, so I was pretty surprised when I discovered who the “bad guy” really was... :)

After our trip to the park, we wanted to finish the sightseeing tour. We went to the Rocks, the “old Sydney”, and by the time we crossed all of it, I was so tired that I could have gone to sleep right on the floor. But no, first we had to eat something – which was good, because I was also starving. We went to a restaurant called “Pancakes on the Rocks”. 

I basically fell asleep right after I finished my pancake (which was really yum), but one of the waiters told me (or no, actually he told my friend, I was asleep already) that I wasn’t allowed to sleep on the table… so I dragged myself to the hostel and immediately fell asleep there.