Day 2! :)

July 12, 2010
It is now Monday! Crossing the international dateline makes you jump ahead a bit. I was surprisingly not jet lagged at all! That morning we boarded the bus and were taken to Rydges Plaza for a really good continental breakfast. Afterwards we had another informational session where they tried to scare us with the native animals of Australia. Hilarious! (Youtube Australia’s deadliest animals, it has a great song!) Then there was a presentation from Mojo Surf Company. I signed up for the big surf weekend in September! I get to learn how to surf!! 
After all the talking was finished all 53 of us piled back into the buses and headed off to Rainforestation. We attempted a group photo. Out of 53 people how many of them do you think had cameras? Lol. Our group split into 3 different groups. My group went with Ross to the Aboriginal presentation. The aboriginal people showed us the different types of spear throwing and talked about hunting techniques. Then we learned how they made didgeridoos and how to play them! My favourite part was when we learned how to throw a boomerang! Our guide told us the Aboriginals would throw 3 at once to bring down birds. I was the only lefty in the group, but I was the only one to have it actually come back to me! Hah! Beat that right-handed people!  After that we watched some Aboriginal dances. They were so cool. After the performance we had lunch at the café buffet. Passionfruit is absolutely scrumptious!  After lunch we went to have our picture taken with a koala. My koala’s name was Humphrey. He pooped on me, but he was still really cute! AustraLearn has an adopted 1 year old koala named Tim-Tam, which happens to be their favourite candy bar (or lolly). After Humphrey went back for his nap (they sleep 20 hours a day!) we went to pet and feed the kangaroos, wallabies, parrots, hold a boa, see some dingoes, fresh and saltwater crocs, and eat the butt of a green ant. Haha! It tasted like a green apple warhead. One crocodile there had a name that suited him quite well. Jack the Ripper was over 5 meters long and had killed his last 12 girlfriends! So now he will be a perpetual bachelor for the rest of his existence. After seeing the biggest crocodile ever we went on a tour of the rainforest in an Army duck. Basically a truck and boat in one! That was the end of our tour of Rainforestation. We loaded up the buses and headed back to the hostel and played a pickup game of volleyball with some of the others staying there. Dinner was on our own so a few of us went to a Mexican restaurant and then had to wait for-ev-er for the shuttle bus to come and pick us up! Went straight to bed when we got back because of the Jungle Tour in the wee hours of the morning! 