Pre-Birthday

Today we pretty muched chilled the whole day buy watching Weeds with Laura. Although we had talked about having Steve's farewell party, as he was going to the States the next day, and my pre-birthday party, cause I was leaving the next, on my birthday, to Falls Festival, I didn't feel like drinking - not even a beer - and Laura was on the same page with me.

Well things of course changed in the evening - Melanie and her boyrfirend Marty had come over when Mitch arrived from work with a bottle of Jack. "Hey, you gotta have at least a drink, I came here all the way from work to celebrate your bithday." Oh boy..

I was a freaking pro at pool, efore I had another of Mitch's heavily spiced JDs. Soon the booze was out (Mitch was super thirsty) and he and Darren left to get some more from Darren's house (who was going to the Stetes with Steve). I kept glancing at out cheap az Samsung's screen all the time to see how many minutes I still had as a teen. As I was in the garage - there's a sofa an people occasionally hang out there - with Nick, James and someone else, Steve, Laura, Melanie and Marty come there singing "Happy Birthday" with a cake filled with candles ! Awwwww, it was so sweet I could've almost cried If more intoxicated ! 8) I had no idea when they hd managed to get the cake since I was hanging out with Laura the whole day.

THE sink

Laura: "And the cake was only $1,69!" haha :D I hugged my two darlings (laura and melanie) and thanked them :) Never the less the cake was yummy. Later on, Mitch and Darren arrive with a 24-pack of canned JD. Mitch was DRUNK. He was walking around with no pants on :D We thought of taking advantage of the situation and Steve stold Mitch to "clean the sink". The sink hasn't been unclogged nor cleaned the whole time we have been staying here - a week that is - at least. The water and the dishes having been sitting there reaking of death, shit and diarrea I SWEAR. Well, Mitch being all drunk he starts to clean the sink spilling some of that shit water on the floor. He drops a plate that breaks immediately and SLIPS from the shit water landing on his ass :DDDDDD Everyone broke out laughing... IT WAS THE BEST DRUNK MOMENT :D
Mitch then proceeded into getting a mop and cleaning the mess he made carrying on to to "clean" the wall spreading that reakin liquidon the walls... oh boy :D So gross.

He then walks to the backyard and does what he apparently does a lot - gets naked :D:D:D He was trying to put on a show too but I guess he was too drunk. Finally he decides to dress himself and the night was ten times tamer all of a sudden. 8)

Barbeque & Shtorpidoes

Had such a pleasant day: one of the boys' friends was having a party so we were going there, but before, we were having a barbie. I went to the shop with the boys but OF COURSE they wouldn't let me pay for anything.. Not the food, not the salad nor the booze. At one point when we swiched from Coles to IGA I was racing Mitch who would pay for the plastic cups and straws. We ran over to the counter an with my card in my hand I told the cashier not to take Mitch's money. The cashier looked at us suprised and with a smile on her face. She was a bit confused and folded her hand - whoever would pay for first would pay. Of course the one with the cash is faster than the one with the plastic - Mitch paid. Well, at least me and Laura had bought a 30-case of beer that morning to even make up a bit of the expenses.. (:

The boys started barbequeing and the neighbours ventured over. They had 3 cute little boys that seemed to be up to no-good. :) While one was making the food, the rest drank beer, skateboaded and played cricket. I was soooo much better playing cricket drunk than sober! I hit like 7/10 times! 8)

Mitch n Darren SHTORPIDOIENG

Finally we did some shtorpidoes the boys had been raging about. A shtorpidoe is a bottle with a straw in it. You place the bottle on your lips leaving the straw out so that the air pressure flows the alcohol smoothly in your throat when you down it. There's also other variations to it: you can extend the straw and someone can blow in it while you are guzzing the liquid which will make the drink go down SUPER FAST. Usually it is better to do this with a cruizers or other juice-like alcoholic beverages.

After a while we had to go get some more booze and me and Laura had a lovely encounter with an old man. Ok, we were tipsy, and taking pictures with this carbord man :D::D:D Probably the most fun I've ver had at a supermarket..

We left to Choppa' and Robbie's house where the party was at. Again, everyone was there: Choppa, Robbie, Nick, Steve, James, Mitch, Abigail, Emma, Darren and some people I didn't know. The boys were makign tats again... except that I guess James was being the tattoo artist instead of Abigail, the person with the real craftmanship... Dancing in the living room and playing curling at one point with Mitch in the kitchen, randoooom. I also finally got a gourp of people together to play a poor version of Flip Cup... Well, when you only have 5 people..

Christmas Day

Christmas Day. And Cristmas for pretty much everyone else if you're not from Finland, I guess. Woke up at 6 o'clock in the morning when Mitch came back from his family's Christmas dinner. Laura got up too and Mitch tried to teach her how to skateboard while I went back to sleep. When I finally woke up, the boys had started playing in door cricket once again in the hall way :D

Nick wanted Laura to be his designated drunk driver so Laura had an option of going with him to his family's Christmas. Instead Laura desided to stay in The Hatch with me, thank god, wouldn't have known what to do for the whole day if I would've had to stay there by myself (since all the boys were going to spend Christmas with their families)!

Getting ready for Christmas

Mitch was sweet enough to get his dad to drop off us some Christmas food! So nice of him, much appreciated ! We went to IGA's with Laura and got something to munch on. I got jellybeans for the first time in 3 weeks! YES, made it till Christmas! ;)

Our Christmas meal hahahahah

We had such a cute Christmas day with Laura! We just layed in our sofa bed the whole day in our sweat pants and hoodies that the boys were kind enough to lend us. Guess what we did the whole day? We had an O.C marathon hahahahaha :D:D:D: NOSTALGIC MUCH ?

James n Steve

Later on that evening James and Steve came back and accompanied us on our marathon that had been switched to the first season of Weeds. We also did a little "family trip" to the serve-O (gas station) to get some coke n candy. Good Stuff.

Christmas Eve Aussie Style

I CAN'T BELIEVE WE HAD MACCAS FOR X-MAS.

Maccas= McDonalds

So yeah. I wake up, drunk. Thanks for last nights clubbing. I don't think it's even 11 o'clock, but the boys are already cracking beers. It is Christmas eve after all! They offer me one but I declined insisting on having to eat first. After all I am drunk already, and I would like the sober up and fill my tummy with something before I start smashing beers and getting drunk again.

Mitch n Laura sunbathing

Mitch made me a vegemite roll as we were sun tanning in their lovely (beer bottle glass filled) backyard. I don't know why would would call a sämpylä a breadroll, but that's how they roll.. Although I don't find vegemite very pleasant, I've been eating a lot of shit, I usually don't, on this trip. Such as cheese. I HATE cheese (the one you put on your sandwich, the rest is fine as long as it's not goat cheese brrrr.) And I hate to admit, that I've been eating it here a lot. Even sandwiches with only cheese, tomato and sweet chili sauce. Shocking, I know. I will put end to this madness when I return home. We are backpacking after all, so you can't be picky (KRHM LAURA.........).

We get ourselves ready and me, Laura and Mitch hop in Steve's car. We drive to McDonald's (aka Maccas) and I get my well beloved breakfast which btw, was the worst two McDoubles I've EVER had. I crack a can of VB open and the day may begin! We drive to Steve's parent's house and get his dad to drive us to the beer garden. That was nice of him, since Steve's always the sober one that has to be the drunk driver. Good for him to get a day off. :) So we get to this beer garden and it's PACKED. Everyone was there: Emma, Abigail, Robbie, his girlfirend Nicole, Choppa, Nick, Mitch, Steve, Darren, Laura and a bunch of other people. The guys get a jugg and when I have my first glass, it hits me. EXHAUSTION. I really don't feel like sitting here atm. Just wanna go home and sleep. My body feels like it's dying. E-X-H-A-U-S-T-I-O-N. I don't know what to do with myself, so I go to the store with Laura to buy sun screen since the sun was up and about.

We had to walk to four different gas stations before we found sunscreen. Although I had sworn myself not to, I bought an energy drink (have been doing that too much lately). I was sure it would make me feel even worse but I was wrong ! After the 30 minute walk and a can of Mother, I was in full power again! Juggs, juggs, juggs, juggs, juggs. Had a blast.

Robbie's gf  Nicole, me, Mitch and Emma

By evening time I was smashed. Also the stupid security guard noticed my swaying and was about to come throw me out before my knight in white, Choppa, rescued me. Fucking hate Australian copps, bouncers and security guards. They are sooo ridiculous here. If you are buzzed, you can't get in at a club (back home you can almost crawl into a club and get in), the copps will snatch any open alcohol containers off of you if you are in public. And what was this security guards problem? Sure I was drunk, I admit, but it's not like i'm gonna cause any trouble? After all I was only standing on the dancefloor with my mates (and swaying). So stupid.

Mitch, Choppa, Steve & Laura

After this incident I entertained myself by telling some Aussies i'm from Zimbawe. They believed it. I wish I wasn't so drunk that I could remember the whole convo, cause let me tell you. I was on fire. I was telling them all about our Zimbawian Christmas traditions in full detail and describing how it felt so amazing to be in a culture so different. Man, I was trying my best not to laugh :D I can't believe they bought my whole bullshit story :D "I've never met a Zimbawian person".... yeaah. It's nice every once in a while to pretend your someone else. Answering the same questions for the three months gets boring, I tell you. "Where are you from?"

juggggs

After 9 hours of sun and beer, me and LAura decided we had enough and we got some random guy (he was someone's cousin or something) to drop us off home to The Hatch. But before that... Christmas dinner from MACCAS. Mom would be proud.

Nick n me

Laura went straight to bed but I had this drunken urge to skype with everyone. Even the people I never talk to. I remember calling jasmine and interrupting her Christmas dinner which was about to start and rambling nonsence to her. I could barely make words. :D Her family must've had an interesting time listening to that..

Steve and James came home. They had the munchiez and to my luck they had also got Maccas <3 MCNUGGETS. nomnomnonmnom. I watched "Charlie teh unicron" (yes, it's spelt that way) on youtube and I laughed so hard my laptop fell on the floor while I was trying to soothe my long lost hurting stomache muscles... Good night :D

Abigail

Party party party

Contiki reunion: from the left - steve, isaac, (me), dima, laura and josh

Damn it with these guys! They don't let us pay for anything! Steve wouldn't accept our $10 notes but instead ordered us some yummy pasta. ..I really hope to host him one day so I can return the favour. He has been such a good host through out the whole time (i'm actully writing this after our whole stay with them).

@ Next me, mitch, laura and choppa

Steve dropped me and Laura off at town and I was just major exhausted from all this drinking we've been doing non-stop. Didn't really feel like doing anything so I was glad that after purchasing our aussie flag towels we just sat down at a Chinease restaurant and shoot the shit with Laura. Well, we did actually have a good convo. I think we had this already in Fraser Island (drunk), when we had a MAJOR DNM, but never the less. Just talked about learning who your friends really are and realizing when it's time to stop even trying to be friends with someone. PS. I'm not talking about any of my present friendships. But yeah, good chat.

Laura mitch me

We headed back home, got ready and went to the Contiki Tour -reunion with Steve and Laura. I wasn't on the tour so I felt like it would be no fun, but luckily Isaac <3 was there! Also Josh who I met last summer (he and Laura's ex were in Helsinki at taiteiden yö, so I showed them the Helsinki night life) was there. After some beers I, Laura and Steve headed to Next, this kinda alternative music club, where the rest of the gang were. I think I got drunk. Thank you guys = free booze. Laura and Steve left earlier so I caught a cab with Mitch, Nick and probs James was there too.

Deadmau5 head & boomeranging

For some reason I had gone to sleep in Mitch's bed while he had slept in James' and so I woke up to Mitch -legit- crawling from James's room to wake me up :D wtf.

Steve was nice enough to take us to the city and show us around. Oh ps. We drove past the formula race track, but who cares. First off we wanted to get some show off hahaa-we-are-in-Australia-bitches! -pictures. Although Melbourne's esplanade beach was the worst i've seen so far in Oz, we managed to pull it off pretty well and thanks to Steve's photographic skills, we actually look like we are in some place really exotic, instead of a shitty crowded beach.

We walked around St. Kilda which looked like a really pleasant place. That's where all the backpackers stay at and no doubt we would've stayed there too if it wasn't for Laura's Contiki tour -connections. We left Steve's car at the Crowne casino or what ever it's called, and took our chances at a slot machine. No luck there.

Steve was such a darling, and the bought us lunch ! Barry, the lovely Irish guy from Fraser Island, joined us, and we just had such a wonderful time. It was a perfect day: the weather was nice for once in Melbourne, the sun was shining, we were sitting at a terrace, having beer, food and good company. Felt like a summer day in Finland :) Oh and my parents called me. They were actually on the boat to Poland. Guess the house seems too empty without me so they decided to pack the car, grab Patrick, and head to our relatives ! haha just kiding :)

After lunch we walked around Melbourne's centre and I was annoyed, angry and terrified as fuck at the same time. There's nothing more I fear (except maybe heights... though heights can't kill you, unless you fall) than horses. I fucking hate horses. The reason is, that I can suffocate to death. So just my luck, motherfucking pieces of walking meetwursts were all over the place. Who the fuck uses horse carriages in a city anyways? Fuck this kind of tourism. Once in middle school I sat a meter away from this horse lovah girl who had her whip and riding helmet beside her, and that was enough for me to get breathing diffuculties... CAN YOU IMAGINE?`That's why I'm petrified of horses and resulted in holding my breath everytime we walked past a horse carriage. Although I have no idea how low my tolerance is and if it would affect me if I choose to inhale around these nasty devil of a creatures, I don't mind to find out. Fuck horses.

But where was I ? Oh yes... We went to a market. And finally got the last "thing to do", on my Australia-list, crossed over. Unless of course not seeing a (live) shark does count. I so really wanted to see one. Not get killed or bit or eaten while seeing one, but at least spotting a fin. Feel the adrenalin rush. We went to the Sydney aquarium with Laura but I wouldn't count seeing a shark if it's held in captivity. Besides, all those sharks were lame sharks. WHERE ARE THE GREAT WHITES MAN?

Kangaroo, Croc n Emu

But yes, back to crossing yet another thing off of my to do -list: we ate emu, kangaroo and crocodile with Laura! Kangaroo and Emu were DELISH! Croc was alright, nothing special.. But I wouldn't mind having a barbie with some kangaroo meat every once in a while... :)

Michael getting tattooed

We returned after 8 hours of manic city seeing (can't really call it sight seeing) and we came to a house full of people. The boys were having a barbie and they had asked some mates over. We met Choppa, Emma and her friend Abigail from England, only a few to mention. Emma is a tattoo artist of 6 years and she was tattooing Choppa's little brother, Michael. Michael was getting his mom's name tattooed on his ankle since Choppa already had their dad's name tattooes on his ankle. All this was taking place in the living room :D
Steve had bought a boomerang cause Laura wanted to try one, so all of us went to the field. There was also hmmm what's his name, the guy with the two muppets (or what ever those dogs are called) and the Deadmau5 head. Yes. He had made a deadmau5 head.....!! IT WAS FREAKING AWESOME. Just check out the photos. And if you don't know who Deadmau5 is, shame on you (google google). We were drinking beer and trying to throw the boomerang that had this ridiculously hard technique to it.. Steve was the only one to succeed.

me dressed up as deadmau5 feat. Steve's amazingly warm boy-hoodie <3 Lived in that thing & mitch's sweatpants for the whole week..


The boys put on this Austrlian movie about a convict called "Choppa". I think the movie was entertaining enough but I fell asleep as it was already two o'clock and I had had some beers.

laura n steve

Running Errands

Showing my love towards sharks at Ikea
ps. This would make a nice house warming gift in the future..

Melanie left us today ! Her boyfriend, Marty, came to pick her up today so they could spend Christmas with him and his family in Melbourne. But no worries, we'll see Melanie on my pre-birthday :)

We had errands to run, so after cleaning the van we drove to the city with Laura. We were supposed to drop off the van, but before that we wanted to buy a bowl from Ikea which would no doubt would be cheaper than having to replace the one we managed to broke.

Tadaa! BOWL $3,95

As we were in Ikea we also decided to look for glögi, just to make Christmas feel a bit more like an actual Christmas, since +25, no snow and palm trees don't seem to do the trick... Wonder why. To ur dissapointment we only managed to find white glögi which wasn't even alcohol-free. And it cost $10 a bottle gashdggsjh. Well, what can you do? As we were standing in the line, two women in front of us started to talk to us.

Woman: "Hey I've never seen white glögi before!"
Me: "Neither have I. Usually we drink the red version back home."
"Yeah we too."
-my brain starts to think... glögi?? Australians??-
"What? I didn't know Australians drink glögi?"
"We are not from Australia"
"Where are you guys from.....?"
"Scandinavia."
"Where from Scandinavia......."
"Finland."
"Really?? ME TOO !"

These women had moved to Australia 36 years ago (lucky bitches) from Helsinki. They were at Ikea with their children and grand child. One of their childs seemed to understand Finnish, which was nice to notice. First we talked in English since it was more natural, but after I asked why are we talking in English, we continued our chat in our mothertongue. They guided us to ask glögi form Aldi, this Lidl-typed German shop they have here. We thanked them and wished them a merry christmas and a happy new year. Man I love randomly meeting Finns :)

(also looked at the cute kittens at the pet store)

Later on that day I told the boys I almost bought a kitten..
James: What would' you do with a kitten???Me: Love it.

We drove off to look for the Jucy rentals to which we were supposed to drop off out van... _THREE_ goddamn hours later we still hadn't found that stupid rental company in St. Kilda. t six o'clock we managed to finally get to it but we noticed that we should've dropped the van off 4 hours earlier................. AAARGH. Note to self: always read rental papers. We didn't have the slightest idea of having to drop the van off at a certain time, since no one told us that... Luckily the man Laura called was chill, and just told us to drop the keys at the nearby hostel.

Got slushies with laura

Got back to the hatch (the guys' place we are staying at) and drank some beers. We headed out to the field with Matt, Mitch, James, Steve and Nick to play cricket. Bloody cricket. I suck at it. I mean at everything there is possibly to do in it. I can't pitch, I can't bat, I can't catch for shit, I can't run and catch it from the air. Oh and did I mention the idea of the game was still a bit unclear for me?

One Manic Night in Melbourne

Arrived at 3 o'clock to "The Hatch".
Steve-o's house with a pirate flag swaying in the wind in front of the house.
Steve lives with two of his friends, Mitch and Nick, but they said that they have pretty much random house guests all over the time (now James seems to be living here too?). Also Nick's friend Matt (who can't make himself like beer wtf!) has been staying here since he's visiting Nick.

Matt, Mitch, Steve and Nick

The boys offer us a beer (Nick and Matt have been apparently drinking from 10) - "Guess I can have one".
Well.... it didn't really end in one beer.

First the guys were playing cricket INSIDE.... oh lord :D

Nick is CRAZY. He's got his friends to sign his leg and tattooed them on his leg.. insane
Oh, and he asked for us to sign his leg, so I guess we'll be doing that!

Then we started playing our card drinking game ("Crickey!" before drinking, "Meow" after every sentence... yeah gets you pretty wasted) and it was when Laura figured to ask whether they have a beer bong (yes) that she dared Melanie to do one. Melanie never having done one got half of the beer on her face.. :D Laura then showed how it's done and I followed doing my first beer bong ("was that it?").

Nick and me

All of a sudden everyone started smashing beer bottles in the brick wall... alrighty, the neighbors must love these guys!

So yeah beer bonging and then beer ponging.
Me and Mitch went into the store to buy cups and ping pong balls. But since they didn't sell those kinds of balls I figured we could buy some small christmas balls (that were exactly the size of a ping pong ball) and use them instead! And so we did.

Laura got a cut on her foot but Nick fixed it

The game was me n mitch vs. melanie and nick.
Melanie came up with pretty interesting ways of trying to get her opponents to loose their concentration while trying to throw the ball in the cup..

Everyone ended up being smashed and Melanie apparently did her usual emotional drunk scene and Laura was so tired she went to sleep (read: passed out).

Good night!