Amro's blog

2006/12/02

Irish Murphys Pub

If we got time during the week this is one place we went out to, spontaneously: Irish Murphys -- actually it was first time, (I was so busy with uni and I arrived late), but I think for the rest probably not. It's a nice pub, a cool place to chill out...have some drinks...nice conversations...watch sport games (NBA etc).

Pierre, Stine, Stine, Markus, Christine, Lea , Ian, Jeni and me.

Me, Stine, Markus, Christine, Jeni and Basti.

Just...

We just had fun.

2006/11/13

tour des chambres

Sorry, I am late again. These are pics from our Tour des Chambres -- it was a house-intern party in the beginning of Oct: Every flatmate had to think about a topic, and according to it decorate his/her room and get dressed up. As a matter of course, u had to prepare drinks and drinking-games. We had first dinner together and then we alloted each room.

Pierre as a typical french, Basti as a "Ballermann"-tourist and Jenni as a trucker.

Lea and Estelle were our Aussie-Twins.

I am so proud of this pic. Aloooha! Our hawaian-girls (both Stinas).
I was kind of an islander, tending to Cuba -- by the way next day I was told to had the best drinks: Mojito.:)

Ian was just blue -- like the guy in the 5th element.

Basti served us Sancria with typical German "Schlager"-music in the background. The decoration was cool, but he couldn't get the right wine...the Sancria was awful.

In the meanwhile the VIPs Beth and Bill (Ian's parents) joined us, they were here for 10days and stayed @ the hostel next to my house.

Definitely the best room: Hawai. The emptied the whole room and filled the floor with oat flakes.

Last but not least Christine. She was just USA and fuck Yeah!

Altogether, I remember we were all so wasted and happy,
but unfortunately our neighbours were pissed off.:(

stradbroke island

Last Sunday we went to Stradbroke island or "Stradie" - how the locals call it. It's a large sand island in Moreton Bay near Brisbane.

Arrival photo: Estelle, me, Lillian, Stina J. and Basti.

Yeah, guys, I am trying to get back to my old shape - here we go.

We split up and went to the "View Point". It was a bless.

Basti as a life-guard.

Awesome! I think the photo tells its own tale.

In the meanwhile Stina J. and Pierre played around.

At the end of course a group photo, but this time a little bit different.:)

The return with the ferry.:((( It was a great day.:)

2006/10/09

excuse

Hi guys,

I am sorry for not reporting what's going on for a long while.

...I had to finish my assignments and after that we had semester breaks
(which means I"ve got a lot of nice pics).

Unfortunately I am again stressed out, because of final assignments.
Therefore give me some days to put on new pics.

C u, Amro.

2006/10/08

brisbane's river festival

Anually at the beginning of September Brisbane celebrates its River Festival.
It took about 30min. It starts and ends with firejets and between that are a lot of fireworks all over the river. It was amazing!

A great shot of the city, before it started -- my flatmate Ian took the pic.

And this is how it started: 2 Firejets rushed over the river -- enjoy the video.

The Brisbane River was full with ships, which fired the fireworks. This picture was taken by a friend of Pierre.

surfers paradise

Surfers Paradise is one of world's most famous surf ressorts. I've been there already twice; it's only 90min away. I was impressed by the modern shopping arcades and the huge hotel buildings...but it's very touristic.:( However we had a lot fun.

Basti, Ian and me, somewhere in the shopping precinct.

Me, Estelle and Stanley straight ahead the beach's entry.

Basti and Ian borrowed bords surfed some hours -- I took this pic just after they finished.

...some nice birds joined us.:)

Nono (France: his real name is Arno, but everyone calls him Nono, because there is another Arno, we know) and me, before we returned back home.

2006/10/06

spring break (1): fraser and whitsundays

During the spring break we drove up to the sunshine coast. Our stops:

Rainbow Beach (1 night; we mainly got drunk)
Fraser Island (2nights) and
Whitsundays (2 nights on a sailboat) and
Airlie Beach (1 night).

We took a lot of pics, so it was not filter them. I'll plan to come up with a second part, including some videos and more pics...plz give me some time.

Fraser Island

Fraser Island is the largest sand island in the world. It is famous for its untouched natural beauty. Further it is famous for its Dingos -- a certain dog race. Before we were transferred by the ferry to the island, they showed us two movies, and every 10th word was Dingo...be aware of dingos...don't feed dingos...bla bla we saw no dingo at all. Fairly, I should mention that over 50.000 tourists yearly visit Fraser. OK, that should be enough info, if not visit Wikipedia.

Our info map: Very important info were the driving times.

A typical situation: Our truck brimming with everything you could imagine. We called it Mandy...she did good with us.

Basti planned the whole trip and he was our group leader, too. He did very good...germans are the best organizers.

Our first stop was at Lake McKinsey. Only one word: AWESOMEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! The water was so clear. Just to mention, on Fraser you should only swin in the lakes...never swim in the ocean, it's too dangerous... I've never seen such impressing and at the same time dangerous waves in my whole life.

Our first night we spent near to the shipwreck of the Maheno. In 1935 she was being towed from Melbourne to Japan for scrap metal when she was caught in a strong cyclone...and a few days later, she drifted ashore and was beached on Fraser.

Ooops! To this we had to get used. This was not our first and last moments, when Mandy got stacked into the sand. After some strokes , we could always manage to get her out.

On the 2nd day we drove up to the Indian Head. We had a gread viewing point. Pierre, Stina J., Ian and Stina K.

We could see: sharks, turtles , stingrays etc.

On the 2nd night Stina J. cooked us a great dinner.

Our 2 musicians: Ian on the harmonica and Steffen on the guitar.

On Fraser we could see many stars and a lot of shooting stars, too.

OK, it's time for a group photo. On our last day we again went to lake McKinsey.
Ladies: Jeni, Stina J., Stina K., Christine and Lillian and the
gentlemen: Basti, Jan, Pierre, Steffen, Ian and me.
Jan and Steffen (both german) joined us on Fraser.

Whitsundays

Whitsundays is a collective of continental islands (ca. 30) of various sizes off the coast of Queensland; somewhere suited between Townsville and Mackay.

We had the luck to be on a great sailboat with a nice crew (captain and 2 other guys). The ship 's name was Habibi (arabic: my love); the owner's origin is Egypt.

Stina K. on the toilet. Just to give you a slight impression, how it is on a boat: Narrow, narrow, and again narrow. I bumped my head, too many times.